Impending Films

Impending Films

Alice in Wonderland Adaptation - Johnny Depp to play the Mad Hatter. Tim Burton has once again chosen to cast Johnny Depp in one of his films, this time as the Mad Hatter in a new adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". link

The Hippie Hippie Shake - Misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s from a Richard Neville book that is starring Sienna Miller.

Wax On, Wax Off. Sienna's nude body wasn't exactly "historically acurate", so she's got a computer-generated enhancement to reflect the look of the sixties. (Look at me being all delicate and shite.) Release date is this summer.

Dali & I: The Surreal Story (2009) with Al Pacino as Salvador Dali...? I'm sure he'll sell it like the big star that he is, but right now it's a little hard to imagine.

and all the Johnny Depp ones below... especially Shantaram. Synopsis: "A heroin addict incarcerated for a robbery escapes prison and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums." He seems to always get first pick at the good movies or now with his production company, Infinitum Nihil.

FILM --- RELEASE DATE --- CHARACTER
* Sin City 3 (2009) (in production) .... Wallace
* The Rum Diary (2009) (in production) .... Paul Kemp
* Dark Shadows (2010) (announced).... Barnabas Collins
* Shantaram (2009) (pre-production) .... Lindsay
* Public Enemies (2009) (post-production) .... John Dillinger
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (post-production)

Owned by his production company, Infinitum Nihil.
Sasha's Story: the Life and Death of a Russian Spy
The Affected Provincial's Companion
Rex Mundi
The People's Act of Love
The Articles of War
A Long Way Down
Inamorata
The Bomb in My Garden
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Shantaram
I, Fatty
Happy Days

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Next For Johnny Depp

Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural sudser "Dark Shadows."

Depp, who is coming off "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and who just wrapped the Tim Burton-directed "Sweeney Todd," is next expected to star in "Shantaram," a Mira Nair directed adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel that Depp, King and Plan B are producing for Warner Bros. Depp, King and WB are also mobilizing to make a film about the life of Alexander Litvinenko, with Depp poised to play the former KGB agent, who was fatally poisoned.

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Dark Shadows could be fun. And the Litvinenko story must be told; it may as well be Depp.

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Sunday Driving

A mixed-race, bisexual outsider who was socialized in the club culture of her small English town, Helen Walsh fled to Barcelona, Spain, at 16, where she worked fixing up prostitutes and johns before moving to Liverpool, cleaning up her act and sitting down to write a novel. Considered one of the raciest tales of British sex-and-drug culture since Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting," "Brass" has earned Walsh a lot of hype and, because it's so well written, possible staying power as well. Worth looking into. more »

Crystal Ball Stolen - The crystal, used as a tool by mediums and for curing disease, belonged to maverick philosopher, mathematician and astrologer John Dee, a consultant to Elizabeth I. Fine, comprehensive post with graphics by DW on Dee @ Invisible College; more »

Santa got drunk yesterday. He cursed. He smoked. He took off his clothes in public. It was Santacon, an annual gathering of nasty Santas, in which some 500 naughty Clauses marched through the city, shouting, drinking, raising gentle mayhem. Santarchy; more »

Roald Dahl's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory directed by Tim Burton is looking mighty nice. Film Pics; seen @ Jenn's

Sunday Quote - In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus

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The Naoto Hattori Gallery is definitely worth a visit. Hattori went to school in New York and Tokyo and as you see is a very talented artist and illustrator.


» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Casting Story
The Johnny Depp film, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, a remake of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, is holding auditions this Saturday in Asheville, NC, at Dillard's at the Asheville Mall from 3-7. The casting director is looking first in Western North Carolina before she searches elsewhere. The film will be directed by Tim Burton and begins filming in London this summer. Casting is for a 13 year old boy whose name is Mike Teevee, and a 10-12 year old girl, named Violet Beauregard; a southern girl who chews a lot of gum. [via: (I-never-miss-his-column) Paul Clark, Citizen-Times]

» Another word to add to my Cringe-Worthy list: "Old School" Unless you're referring to that aging institution where you spent much of your youth. When you hear two middle management white men say "That's old school", when referring to an old way of doing stuff on the job, it's way past time to get out the message for them to stop before somebody gets hurt.

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thanks to meg, I'll be sprucing up my html today. And tomorrow, and the next day......this site had 21 errors!

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My family built our house bordering on the 14th green of a golf course in Tennessee when I was young. Our father was a big golf nut. I learned to play golf at a young age, I followed 'Arnie's Army' on a course once and I still enjoy it occasionally. So I've been rooting for Annika Sorenstam as she makes PGA history.

Tim Burton in Talks to Direct 'Chocolate Factory'. Don't you just love his work? Chocolate Factory was made into the 1971 Willy Wonka movie. But it'll be great fun to see Burton put his spin on it.

40 Mistakes Men Make While Having Sex With Women
40) THANKING HER.
Never thank a woman for having sex with you. Your bedroom is not a soup kitchen. And do NOT under any circumstances leave a tip.


Still tweaking a new template I did for Robin. Frames suck.

Quote For Today
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ~J. B. Priestley

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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