POTC: DMC DVD offer
posted by Jas, 11/28/06
Katlinn reports that with the release Dead Man's Chest DVD
Video Download: DMC DVD trailer
posted by Jas, 11/28/06
MyMovies.net has posted two clips Dead Man's Chest DVD ad, download both clips here
"Pirates" DVD sails away with record
posted by Jas, 11/28/06
Dead Man's Chest has plundered the UK record books to become the fastest-selling DVD of all time. Ka-Bloom has the screen captures here. The DVD will be released in the US on December 5
The second film in the trilogy, which went on sale November 20, sold just short of 1.5 million copies nationwide in its first week of release, accounting for one in four DVDs purchased in this past week. Disney said demand has been so great that it ordered one million extra copies from its plant in Mexico. The Johnny Depp smash beat out the previous Week 1 sales record of 1.4 million units set by "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" earlier this year. However, it falls short of the combined VHS/DVD record held by "Titanic", with 2.2 million sales in its first week. Disney said that if sales continue as they are, the DVD could sell up to three million copies by the end of the year. The film opened in July, ultimately taking in more than 50 million pounds. It earned $422 million (218 million pounds) in North America.
Win DMC DVD
posted by Jas, 11/13/06
Watch That '70s Show on FOX19 to win "Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest" DVD, more details
Nighy talks Pirates 3
posted by Jas, 11/13/06
The Guardian has an interview with David Hare with quotes from Bill Nighy who talked about shooting the final scenes of Pirates 3
It's a far cry from Pirates of the Caribbean 3, which Nighy finished filming just before he came here a few weeks ago. The final scenes were shot in the California desert in an aeroplane hangar 'the size of Old Trafford', on two specially built galleons. Nighy gets up to demonstrate the effects of the wind and rain machines that had him drenched in his pirate gear from seven in the morning to 10 at night every day. 'And behind you,' he explains, thrusting his bony figure forward in the imaginary storm, 'there are 120 stunt men beating each other up.' The whole thing was so absurd, he says, that at the end of a take the entire cast would dissolve into laughter.
Blessed new villain in Pirates 3
posted by Jas, 11/11/06
According to PR Inside, Brian Blessed will star as an arch enemy of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates 3, he says, "I have just been working on a big pirate film. "It's Pirates Of The Caribbean 3. I'm the new villain."
Swann song from pirate maid Keira
posted by Jas, 11/10/06
The Daily Mail reports that Keira Knightley doesn't want to be in any further Pirates sequels
Keira Knightley's swashbuckling days are over for good. The Oscar-nominated actress shoots her last scene today as pirate wench Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films and she has told the movie's producers that she doesn't want to participate in any further sequels. "I've been playing this girl since I was 17," Keira told me on the set of Atonement. "I'm 21 now and I'm onto very different things, but it's fun to try to invest Elizabeth with some rebellious spirit. "But what I'm doing in Atonement is very different. I mean, she is a grown-up woman!" Keira is far too polite to say, but I suspect that she won't be sorry to say goodbye to Elizabeth Swann.
Vote for DMC in Bafta Kids Awards
posted by Jas, 11/08/06
Voting for the Bafta Kids Awards is now open, click here to vote for Dead Man's Chest which has been nominated for Best Feature Film. Results will be announced on November 26.
Orlando's artwork on auction
posted by Jas, 11/06/06
Artworks by Orlando and Viggo Mortensen are among others to be auctioned off in a fundraiser.
The Los Angeles Ballet celebrates its much-anticipated arrival on the Southern California cultural landscape with a fundraiser on Thursday, November 9th at Bergamot Station. The evening will be hosted by Anjelica Huston and will feature a celebrity art auction including the works of Steve Martin, Orlando Bloom, Tony Bennett, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Bridges, Julie Andrews, Tommy Chong, Leonard Cohen, David Cowles, Tony Curtis, Gil Garcetti, Joel Grey, Buck Henry, Dennis Hopper, Martin Mull, Jane Seymour, Richard Schiff, the evening's host Angelica Huston plus some surprise works. The benefit will also spotlight the Company's talented new ballet dancers as they make a special introductory appearance. Full details
Ridley Scott proud of KOH
posted by Jas, 11/06/06
Pre-K reports that Ridley Scott mentioned Kingdom of Heaven in this short interview
When asked if he can tell when an audience will embrace one of his movies or not, such as "Kingdom of Heaven," Scott said: "You can never tell." "It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of," he said. "I think it was treated incredibly unfairly."
Jerry Bruckheimer talks Pirates 4
posted by Jas, 11/02/06
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer gave a brief update on Pirates 3 in an interview with Movies Online
Q: What have you seen in the poster for Pirates 3 that's got you really excited?
JB: We have Chow Yung-Fat which is really interesting and exciting. It's a thrill to be able to work with him. There's always new stuff. We've got an ending that's amazing. It's really a nice ride and it's still filming.Q: Is Keith Richards in it?
JB: He's in it. We finished him. He's filmed. He's got a small little cameo.Q: Is his head okay now?
JB: Apparently. (laughter) He was great to be with. He didn't want to leave. He was having the best time.Q: Is there going to be a Pirates 4?
JB: I hope so. I hope so if we could come up with a good story. I think we have a big jump on a story that we're going to do.Q: When I interviewed you for the second one, you said, 'Oh, we don't know yet.' With the latest one doing so well, it seems there may be a fourth one coming out?
JB: Yeah, we hope so. We hope so.
Orlando's Hottest Destinations
posted by Jas, 11/01/06
A short clip about the sexiest place on earth according to Orlando, download here
'Pirates 3' flies with more Dutchmen
posted by Jas, 11/01/06
Visual effects art director are working on between six and ten new creatures for Pirates 3
"We're actually working on between six and ten new creatures. They're additional Dutchmen," says Industrial Light & Magic's Aaron McBride, the visual effects art director on "Pirates." "We just got approval last week on some of the designs that we did. So yeah, [I'm] looking forward to developing those guys." These aren't any ordinary sailors, though. Each of Davy Jones's cursed seafarers exhibits physical deformities of an aquatic or nautical nature, such as the Dutchman Maccus, who has a hammerhead shark-style head or Penrod, who looks like a giant shrimp."A lot of the art we do here at the ILM art department is to kind of develop a look for the curse," explains McBride. "A lot of these were taken from the initial design pass that was done down in LA with [director] Gore Verbinski and his art department, including Crash McCreery. So what we tried to do was develop kind of a hierarchy to the curse, the idea being that the longer you serve on Davy Jones' crew on the Flying Dutchman, the more sort of encrusted you become, the more calcified, caked with barnacles and sea life."
"There's not a big, technological hurdle with those [new] characters, but there is an aspect to '3' that's a huge hurdle for the visual effects crew," adds Animation Supervisor Hal T. Hickel. "I can't really say what it is, but as big as Davy was for us on '2,' this other stuff is going to be just as big a headache for us on '3.'" The third time's the charm for the ILM crew, whose work on "Pirates 3" is progressing right on schedule. The team already has a quarter of the approximately 800 shots that require their expertise.
"We have about 200 shots right now that have been turned in to us," says Hickel. 'So we're cruising along. In an ideal world, all the shooting would be done and the edits would be at a great point where the running length of the film felt pretty good before the visual effects were really underway in earnest. But that's just not the world we live in ... so there's going to be overlap. But you know, Gore is delivering sequences to us pretty regularly ... so that helps a lot."
