PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
2
Pirates of the Caribbean
2: Dead Man's Chest is filming now in the Caribbean and Los Angeles, and
will be released in the summer of 2006, with Pirates 3 in the summer of
2007.
Cast of POTC2 so far:
Johnny
Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow
Orlando
Bloom - Will Turner
Keira
Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey
Rush - Barbossa
Chow
Yun-Fat - Cheung Po-Tsai
Martin
Klebba - Marty/stuntman
Bill
Nighy - Davy Jones
Mackenzie
Crook - Ragetti
Stellan
Skarsgard - William 'Bootstrap Bill' Turner
Naomie
Harris - Tia Dalma
Alex
Norton - Captain Sam Bellamy
Lee
Arenberg - Pintel
Max
Baker - Burser
Barry
McEvoy - Fitzgerald
Kevin
McNally - Gibbs
San
Shella - Leach
Bobby
Waldron - ?
Crew:
Director - Gore Verbinski
Producer - Jerry Bruckheimer
Executive Producer - Brigham
Taylor
Writers - Ted Elliott, Terry
Rossio
DOMINO24
Jan 05
Now in post-production. Distributors
Newline are scheduling an August 19th US release.
Credits:
Keira
Knightley - Domino Harvey
Christopher
Walken - Reality TV producer
Jacqueline
Bisset - Pauline Stone, Domino's mother
Mena
Suvari - Kimmie, assistant to TV producer
Lucy
Liu - Taryn Miles, FBI psychologist
Mickey
Rourke - Ed, Domino's boss
Macy
Gray - Lashindra Davis, half of hip-hop artist 'Peaches n Cream'
Shondrella
Avery - Lashandra Davis, half of hip-hop artist 'Peaches n Cream'
Mo'nique
Imes-Jackson - Latisha
Edgar
Ramirez - Choco, Domino's boyfriend
Melissa
Lee - Sorority Girl
Andy
Milder - FBI Agent
Other cast: Michael
Kuroiwa, Ian Ziering
Other characters: Edna Fender,
Locus Fender, Chuckie, Frances, Lester Kincaid, Carl Stein, Raoul, Paco.
07 Oct 04
Christopher Walken, Lucy
Liu, Mickey Rourke, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Edgar Ramirez, Mo'Nique
and Shondrella Avery have bee nadded to the cast.
15 Sep 04
Plotline: Domino is assigned
to solve the kidnapping of a reality TV show host, to be played by Melrose
Place and Beverly Hills 90210 actor Ian
Ziering. Filming locations in Las Vegas will include Valley
of Fire park and Stratosphere
Keira has signed to play Domino Harvey in a thriller-biopic 'Domino' for New Line Pictures. View the press release here. Domino Harvey is the daughter of 'Manchurian Candidate' actor Laurence Harvey, who gave up a successful career in modelling to live the exciting but dangerous life of a bounty hunter. More info hereand writer-director Richard Kelly discusses the movie here. Release is set for mid-2005. Harry Knowles has seen an early script, which was picked up on October 16th 2001. Read his review here.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Filming ended on October
1st and is now in post-production. Release is scheduled for September 23rd
across the US.
Cast:
Elizabeth Bennet - Keira
Knightley
Fitzwilliam Darcy - Matthew
MacFadyen
Lydia Bennet - Jena
Malone
Jane Bennet - Rosamund
Pike
Kitty Bennet - Carey
Mulligan
Mary Bennet - Talulah
Riley
Mr. Bennet - Donald
Sutherland
Mrs. Bennet - Brenda
Blethyn
Lady Catherine De Bourgh
- Dame Judi Dench
Mr. Collins - Tom
Hollander
tbc - Simon
Woods
Director: Joe Wright Producer: Paul Webster Co-Producer: Jane Frazer Screenplay: Deborah Moggach ('Close Relations', 'Tulip Fever'), then Lee Hall ('Billy Elliott'). Exec producer: Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin
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TULIP FEVER24
Jan 05
An email from Ruby Films
on September 20th confirms the project is still active, but when it will
get refinanced is anyone's guess. It could literally be years away.
THE JACKET
12 Feb 05
Official plotline: After
recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks
(ADRIEN BRODY) returns to his native Vermont suffering from amnesia. When
he is accused of murdering a police officer and committed to a mental institution,
a physician, Dr. Becker (KRIS KRISTOFFERSON), puts him on a controversial
treatment regimen in which Starks is injected with experimental drugs,
confined in a straight-jacket, and locked for extended periods in the body
drawer of the basement morgue. In his drugged and disoriented state, Starks'
mind propels him into the future, where he meets Jackie (KEIRA KNIGHTLEY),
and discovers that he is destined to die in four days. Together,
they search for a way to save him from his fate.
24 Jan 05
The Jacket's world premiere
was held at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on January 22nd.
US release is set for March 4th. UK release May 13th.
02 Sep 04 - Co-stars include Brad Renfro, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Daniel Craig and Kelly Lynch. The Jacket will get a limited release from March 11th 2005, distributed by new company Warner Independent Pictures. The first photo still gallery has appeared here.