Take this with a grain of whatever magical ingredient you have on hand, because this is a super rumor from a site we’re not too sure on, but there have been rumblings of Johnny Depp / Grindelwald news for sometime. Specifically, according to a report from The Blast, that the Pirates of the Caribbean star does NOT have […]
While things are going pretty well for Disney right now, there does seem to be some turbulent seas brewing for the proposed reboot of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. According to Deadline, who cite “Disney insiders”, the writing pair of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have departed the piratical revisit. The pair had recently had tremendous success with […]
Disney Chief of Film Production Sean Bailey has been chatting about the proposed reboot of Pirates of the Caribbean, explaining what it is exactly that the House of Mouse is after with revitalizing the 5-film property. First and fore most, there is still NO CONFIRMATION that Johnny Depp will return, or that he’s out. In fact, Bailey and […]
Sometimes Twitter is a wonderful place, thanks to personalities like Gail Simone. Today, the comic book writer took to her characters to describe her pitch for a film: The Oz/Wonka war. Okay, here's my idea. THE OZ/WONKA WAR. — GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018 Slugworth allies with the Wicked Witch of the West to capture […]
Readers of this are going to wonder- is it true? Is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as lackluster and joyless as the prior films? We can cut right to the chase and say no, that’s not the case. Crimes isn’t one of the best of the films, but neither is it terrible by any stretch […]
Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald is in theaters this weekend, and to help celebrate Hot Toys have revealed two new figures from the film. Newt Scamander will come with his suitcase, wand, interchangeable hands, a book, Nifflers, and a whole bunch more. Gellert Grindelwald will come with a jacket, wand a skull with detachable string, […]
We have a decent idea of what’s going on in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, but there are a lot more characters running around than there were in the first movie. Collider has a new list of character descriptions that tell us what these characters have been doing before the movie starts. There is […]
Because you haven’t gotten enough Kingdom Hearts III yet after years upon years of waiting, Sony’s PlayStation E3 Showcase included a new trailer for the game that confirms the return of Pirates of the Caribbean. It appears as if the game will use the At World’s End storyline for the Pirates world content — which means CGI Johnny Depp has […]
The Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer was revealed this morning, and LEGO has given us a treat and revealed the first set from the film as well. Grindelwald’s Escape, set number 75951, will feature 132 bricks and will retail for $19.99. It hits shelves, presumably with others from the film, on August 1st. LEGO and […]
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is no stranger to fan outcry, in fact she does her best via her twitter account to alleviate concerns of her followers as far as her universe is concerned. There was the very public outcry regarding Johnny Depp‘s continual presence in the Fantastic Beasts sequel amid allegations of various forms of unpleasant improprieties […]
I came up with the idea of the F*** It! List almost eight years ago, when I was going through some particularly rough treatment for cancer. For some reason, The Playbook of Awkward Attempts to Make You Feel Better seems to have a section in there that recommends your friends and family bring up the […]
On Thursday, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling issued a statement on the casting of Johnny Depp as Grindelwald, the villain featured in the upcoming sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Crimes of Grindelwald. Depp, who first appeared as Grindelwald at the end of Fantastic Beasts, was the subject of domestic abuse […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has issued a public statement on the casting Johnny Depp as dark wizard Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and its sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald. On Twitter, Rowling announced that she as saying “what she can” about the casting, directing readers to a statement posted on […]
Filming has begun on the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them today. While the J.K. Rowling-written film has yet to receive a title, other information is now known. Eddie Redmayne will return at Newt Scamander to go up against Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald while Jude Law joins the cast as a […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales may have made less than $70 million at the box office on its opening weekend, but it’s not the biggest bomb actor Johnny Depp has dropped this year by far. While introducing his 2004 film The Libertine at the Cinemageddon Stage at Glastonbury today, Depp joked about […]
Universal’s new Dark Universe kicks off this Friday with the Tom Cruise lead film The Mummy. The Dark Universe is a shared cinematic universe based around the classic Universal monster films and has four more reboots planned. Now Universal has added two more monsters to the list. In the works is Bride of Frankenstein with […]
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has had issues for a few movies now (arguably there hasn’t been a really good one since the first installment, The Curse of the Black Pearl). Moreso when one considers how many times you can find people that if you tell them that this is the 5th film in […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is another cynical and predictable entry into a series in desperate need of new direction. Director: Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg Summary: Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon. When the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out in 2003 it was a […]
In the “silly reasoning” file for the day, it seems that in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the villain was originally going to have been a female character. That would have been great, considering a relative dearth of women characters. In a recent blog post, screenwriter Terry Rossio commented: My version of […]