Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall, this fourth Pirates film was captured in Disney Digital 3D this time. I’m sure On Stranger Tides will offer some laughs, and any Johnny Depp movie is usually worth the price of admission.

Penélope Cruz plays Blackbeard’s daughter, Angelica in the film. And Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) isn’t sure if she’s a legit love interest or a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. The movie hits theatres on May 20. So far, the film franchise has grossed $2.68 billion worldwide.

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The movie is loosely based on Tim Powers’ book, On Stranger Tides. Co-writer of the Pirates films, Ted Elliott says, “We wanted to do a story about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, and Tim Powers wrote a book about Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth… it just turns out that to do that story you would need that book.”

The director of the first three movies, Gore Verbinski will not be directing the newest movie. instead Rob Marshall who directed the new film Nine, will be stepping in. However, one of the few people returning for the film is Geoffrey Rush who plays Barbossa.

In an interview recently, Keira said of starring in the films, “It was a completely fantastic experience, and it was an amazingly large portion of my life, but I don’t think I need to go there again. I think that it’s done.”

You can expect to see the new movie in theatres on May 20th, 2011. You certainly can’t blame Keira and Orlando for not wanting to come back. There is a point where enough is enough…

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The trailer for Parnassus has been released and it was not even close to what I was expecting.  I will admit that I didn’t look into it too much and I basically forgot all about it.  It just sounded like it was going to be some obscure, crappy indie flick (I love MANY independent films, incidentally) that was patched up after losing the lead actor but what has been delivered appears to be somewhat of a fantastical masterpiece.

Terry Gilliam wrote and directed the film which tells the story of a traveling theater company that gives its audience much more than they were expecting.  I don’t know a lot about it but it does appear to have a darker feel to it although it reminds me of Big Fish and even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in some ways.  Anyway, check out the trailer for yourselves and tell me what you think!

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Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, aka the voice of Remy from Ratatouille, moderated the “Disney 3D” panel, kicking off Comic-Con’s first ever panel to show film footage in 3D. Special 3D glasses were handed out to everyone in attendance to make this possible.

The first 3D film Disney showed off was A Christmas Carol, the latest Robert Zemeckis “digital cinema” film, starring Jim Carrey. Carrey plays eight roles in the film, all of which you can see in the following picture. The one on the far right is Scrooge, far left is Tiny Tim, and the bottom three are the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. I’m not certain about the others.

We got to watch an extended scene from the film in 3D — the scene where Bob Marley’s ghost visits Scrooge to tell him about the coming spectral visitors he’s about to receive. We also got to see a bit of the Ghost of Christmas Past’s entrance. More than anything else, I was impressed with the incredible mood of the scene. It wasn’t rushed, moving slowly to build tension, and it really oozed atmosphere. I won’t spoil it for you, but when Marley’s ghost shows up, it’s more intense than any version of A Christmas Carol you’ve ever seen.

A brief fan Q&A session followed the screened footage. One fan asked if Zemeckis would ever return to live action films, to which he replied, “never say never,” but he’s happy doing CGI films right now because of the level of control they afford him over the working palette, camera movements, etc. Another fan asked if he was ever going to get around to doing a Roger Rabbit sequel. Zemeckis said that he had nothing currently planned, but he wasn’t opposed to the idea — and he promised that if he did do it, those characters would remain true to their 2D animation roots, and not be “dimensionalized” with modern technology.

Next up was Tim Burton, who was making his first ever appearance on stage at Comic-Con. (Oswalt explained that Burton has attended many times before, but this was his first time on a panel.) Burton showed us a short teaser trailer for Alice in Wonderland — which Oswalt was so enamored with, he insisted that we watch it two more times. It’s still being filmed even now, so there wasn’t a lot of finished footage to see, but what we saw was impressively trippy. Or as Oswalt put it, “Thanks, Tim. You know, I’ve always wanted to try PCP.”

At the end of Burton’s Q&A he surprised the audience by calling onto the stage his “imaginary friend, who keeps showing up in a lot of my dreams”: Johnny Depp! The crowd — already filled with highly excitable persons of the female persuasion due to the Twilight panel happening later on — went ballistic. People jumped to their feet screaming, cheering, and on and on. It was a bit of a letdown though, really, because Depp stayed on the stage for all of about one minute, and barely said two words. It happened so fast, it caught everyone off guard, including me. I switched on the video camera and captured most of it, though, which you can watch here:

The last film on the docket was Tron Legacy, aka the movie formerly known as Tron 2. The cast and filmmakers were all there and spoke a few words each, but the real highlight was getting to see concept art from the film, which depicts the digitized world of Tron as though it has continued to live on and evolve over the last twenty-some years since the first film. It’s repeatedly “upgraded,” if you will, and now is a state of the art digital wonderland. Familiar elements from the first film, such as the light cycles, return here, but are dramatically updated with modern sensibilities. Take a look:

It was also announced that Daft Punk is doing all of the music for the film.

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I think that casting for this movie is great.  Johnny Depp could definitely look like he comes from that time period and I am interested to see how he pairs with Christian Bale on-screen.  I’m also happy to see Channing Tatum being given a chance at a meatier role.  I think that he’s really been type-cast as a “pretty face” rather than a talented actor although I think his turn in Fighting could change that perception.  The strong cast is rounded out by French actress, Marion Cotillard, who won an Oscar for her performance in La Vie en Rose.

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