ANNE IN WONDERLAND "Anne Hathaway … has signed for a role in Alice in Wonderland, which Tim Burton is directing for Disney. … The movie, which stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, will use a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the classic Lewis Carroll story. Hathaway is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen, who has an affinity for crying out, 'Off with their heads!'"
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Aging singer/actress Cher – still too cool for a surname – is in talks to play Catwoman opposite Christian Bale in the next installment of the Batman franchise. If the deal goes through, the gay icon will be skulking about Gotham with Johnny Depp, who's set to play The Riddler in the flick. It's the frailest and least intimidating cast of villains Batman's ever faced!
NICE GUYS "In an act of kindness, actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have donated the money they made for completing Heath Ledger's final film role to the late actor's daughter Matilda … The three actors played versions of Ledger's character, 'Tim,' in the film 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.' The stars were reportedly concerned with the fate of Matilda's future because Ledger had not updated his will at the time of his death to include his two-year-old daughter in it. So, they decided the money they made for filming should go to her … "
THIS IS GOING TO BE SOOOOOOOO TRIPPY "Johnny Depp is to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's new film, Alice in Wonderland. … This will be their seventh film together. The big-budget production is being financed by Disney, and will be shot in 3-D. Filming will start next year, with release slated for 2010."
The MTV Movie Awards were held last night, and I admittedly couldn't bring myself to sit through the hours-long crapfest. Just by looking at the pictures (after the jump), it's obvious I didn't miss much.
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SORRY, EVERY WOMAN AND GAY MAN IN THE WORLD "After 10 years of living as an 'almost married' couple, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis plan to make it official. Life & Style reports the couple, who already have two children together, will marry this summer."
That rumor that Johnny Depp, one of the biggest movie stars in the history of Hollywood and reclusive family man, is going to be the new poster boy for Trojan Magnums? Yeah, not true. Imagine that.
We hear word that some oddly popular event happened last night in Los Angeles. We're not really sure what it was all about, but we've got pictures of some of the self-congratulatory, insular men and women in attendance after the jump.
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• Rapey jerks aside, New York really is the best city in the whole world. [INO]
• Linday Lohan's competing against Johnny Depp for a film role. Who gets it? [DListed]
• Is it bad that we like the hotpants jumpsuit? [PS]
• Here's Paris Hilton being a spectacle for all the "Hahvahd" kids. [HT]
• Apparently Scientologists are very sensitive about people badmouthing their religion. Have you heard about these people? Scientologists? [ICYDK]
• The Playboy girls are at Mardi Gras, presumably to see what it's like when men masturbate to the real them, not just pictures of them. [CityRag]
• 50 Cent is going to interview Paris Hilton for some MySpace commercial disguised as journalism. Let's hope the notorious racist doesn't call him a nigger to his face. And if she does, let's hope he cares. [SH]
• Pretty sure Gwyneth Paltrow is seen here wearing what the kids call locs. Awesome! [DListed]
• Rachel Bilson's passport photo shoot finds her looking better than ever. At least she looks like a woman and not a victim. [HT]
• Go ahead and dress lie Catherine Zeta-Jones; just promise not to also be a calloused snake like her. [INO]
• Johnny Depp would like to be considered for the lead in Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland. Yes: Alice. Shark jumped. [ICYDK]
• New day, new Britney Spears diagnosis. [Yeeeah]
• She's finally given up, then? We thought she would never learn. [EBG]
• Margaret Cho won't cross the picket lines for BFF Ellen DeGeneres. Yay, principles! [Queerty]
One can't force the biggest movie star in the world to change his shoes, but: Where did he find that much mud in New York City? Is that imported French mud? If so, may we check it for truffles?
That kid's Halloweens are going to be so great your memories of pumpkin carving with dad will seem like child abuse.
• "You've got hate mail!" [Queerty]
• Marie Osmond is said to have faked fainting to attract sympathetic Dancing voters. Liar, liar, secret underwear on fire! [DListed]
• Twiggy's snapped off of ANTM. [EBG]
• What's independent or spirited about Zach Braff? [PS]
• Impossibly, someone's found a way to be worse than Victoria Beckham. [HT]
• Johnny Depp sports the Canadian tuxedo in London. [INO]
• John Cusack has signed on to play an angry, lovestruck American in China in a period drama. How exciting for fans of very specific story lines. [ICYDK]
• Brendan Fraser, please have some dignity. [Yeeeah]
• Anna Nicole Smith's last living child is not yet stricken with unbelievable grief and anger, but give it time. [CityRag]
In his new book on sexual facts, "Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies?" just out from HarperEntertainment, Mitchell Simons reveals that Clint Eastwood, David Duchovny, Bruce Willis and Jerry Hall gave up their innocence at 14. Topping them are: Johnny Depp, James Caan and Jon Bon Jovi, who were just 13. Don Johnson was a mere 12. And Sean Connery confessed, "I was 8, but I can't recall with whom."
Eight! Absolutely not! We call bullshit on people who say they lost their virginity before 12. Especially when said people "can't recall with whom." Perhaps Connery's partner lived in Niagra Falls.
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• Look where a career forged on the shoulders of a famous murderer gets a person. You're at the big dance, Shapiro. [Queerty]
• If poverty explains ugly, why is everyone in the favelas of Brazil at least an eight? Maybe just poor Americans are ugly. Or maybe wealthy Americans are just very ugly on the inside of their brains. [Gawker]
• David Copperfield's allegedly meticulous rape technique is unfathomably creepy. You don't trust magicians, people. [DListed]
• The Hills is soooooooooo fake. Stop watching it. [PITNB]
• Dick in a bag? [PS]
• It's not hot when she's been more naked on the job. That's a fact. [HT]
• Johnny Depp's a painter, also. Swoon, ladies. [ICYDK]
• Wait, did rehab actually work? Rehab never works. [INO]
• Grandmother Spears: "If they're boycotting your album, sweetie, they're not your real friends." [Yeeeah]
• Seriously, is everyone sure she didn't fall and hit her face? [CityRag]
Just two months after Mollygood venerated the memory of Cry-Baby, the Rockabilly masterpiece of John Waters and Johnny Depp, reports today declare that the musical will soon be making its debut on the Great White Way.
Are you ready for a Broadway standard called “Girl, Can I Kiss You With Tongue?”
That’s one of the numbers in Cry Baby, the next John Waters -film-turned-musical coming to the Great White Way, in March.
James Snyder, most famous for his turn as Yale Guy #1 on Gilmore Girls, will be playing the lead. Good luck filling shoes owned previously by a young Johnny Depp, Yale Guy #1.
Dressing up nicely for an event you could get away with attending in only a tricorne and a diaper is a very respectful gesture. That your fancy clothes are a touch big on you makes the effort also cute. This is the sartorial equivalent of baking cookies for your mother and slightly burning them.
After the jump, many more from the Venice Film Festival.
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Warner Brothers executives have asked Tim Burton to tone down the blood and gore in his production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, fearful that the movie's current violent cut will earn it an R rating.
"Tim’s not happy that the studio is asking for so many cuts to the cutting, as it were," someone connected to the film told the Daily Mail. "The thing is, the studio really likes the film and they want to make it accessible to as big an audience as possible - which means stemming the blood flow."
Because, really, how grisly does a story about a vengeful serial killer and his cannibalistic lover have to be? You mustn't frighten the children, Mr Burton, especially when they've money to spend. (That's what they mean when they say they want to "make it accessible to as big an audience as possible.")
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