Wednesday, January 20

• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides To Shoot This Summer in Hawaii

  A press release for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 announced that production will begin this summer on the anticipated sequel and will shoot in Hawaii. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was pleased to return to the location.

  We've always sought out the most extraordinary and exotic locations for the Pirates of the Caribbean films and previously shot briefly on both Maui and Moloka'i for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Hawaii provides an amazing range of both land and seascapes, and we're delighted to return for On Stranger Tides.

  The release also confirmed that Rob Marshall (Chicago) will be directing the movie. On Stranger Tides recently switched release dates with Thor and will open May 20, 2011. Johnny Depp will return to play Captain Jack Sparrow, while the rest of the cast is currently unconfirmed.

  
  

  Posted 01/20/2010 by Ryan

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Rob Marshall | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Wednesday, January 6

• New Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Featurette

  A new featurette for producer Jerry Bruckheimer's latest action-adventure movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, recently aired on The Disney Channel and quickly made its way onto YouTube. While most of the footage has been seen before, the featurette does contain some new commentary from the set by title star Jake Gyllenhaal.

  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was directed by Mike Newell and also stars Gemma Arterton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Reece Ritchie, Richard Coyle, and Steve Toussaint.

  
  
  Next Showing: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time opens May 28, 2010
  

  Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time - Trailer

  Trailer for this fantasy action film

  Posted 01/06/2010 by BrentJS

  Related: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jerry Bruckheimer | Mike Newell | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Thursday, November 5

• Jerry Bruckheimer Has Received Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Script

  Collider caught up with producer Jerry Bruckheimer who confirmed that a script for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has been delivered, keeping the proposed production start date of spring 2010 on track.

  On Stranger Tides will be based on a Tim Powers novel of the same name, which follows a sailor who falls in with Blackbeard's quest to find the Fountain of Youth. Powers told The LA Times that Disney optioned his book almost three years ago, but he was sworn to secrecy. Powers thinks that his characters won't be used in the script but the Fountain storyline will be.

  I've watched all the movies several times, of course, and I think the clear thing they would use is the trip to the Fountain of Youth. My main character doesn't overlap with Jack Sparrow at all [in personality or circumstance]; they're totally different characters. I suppose they might overlap the Geoffrey Rush character Barbossa and Blackbeard. The only thing I feel certain they will hold on to is the Fountain of Youth since they telegraphed that at the end of the last movie.

  Pirates screenwriter Terry Rossio confirmed to Empire that the Fountain of Youth storyline would be used, along with Blackbeard. However, that may be all that exists from Powers' book.

  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. It's a brilliant and Tim Powers is an amazing writer — and it's a great title. It allows us to draw material from that universe and his expertise.

  I don't know if its proper to say it's based on it but there are enough common elements to think that the book had to be optioned to us to reasonably proceed along that story line.

  
  
  Next Showing: The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean has a July 8, 2011 release

  Posted 11/05/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Terry Rossio | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Wednesday, November 4

• Johnny Depp to Play Tonto in Lone Ranger Movie

  As long ago as March 2008, there was news that Jerry Bruckheimer was producing a live-action Lone Ranger movie and that Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were working on the screenplay. Not much else was heard of the project until rumors started circulating in May of this year that Jack Sparrow, himself, Johnny Depp, would be starring in the film as Tonto, the Ranger's Native American partner.

  In September, during a huge Walt Disney Pictures media blitz, Depp was officially announced to play Tonto. Recently, in a group interview in Santa Monica, Bruckheimer said that the project is still moving forward.

  Elliot and Rossio worked on that also with some other writers and with Johnny. So they're creating something that has a kind of true-to-the-western [feel], but adding other additional elements like we did with Pirates so it won't be just a straight-ahead western.

  According to some reports, the "additional elements" that Bruckheimer refers to may be the inclusion of some supernatural elements to the story, much in the same way Pirates incorporated historical and fantastical elements.

  As for who will play the title role of the Lone Ranger, Bruckheimer said that it's still up in the air.

  We're still creating a pretty wide net and figuring it out. It comes down to who is available when we want to make it. We have a wish list.

  
  

  Posted 11/04/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Johnny Depp | Ted Elliott | Terry Rossio | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Tuesday, October 27

• Jerry Bruckheimer Plotting Civil War -- Disney-Style

  Variety reports that Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of TV shows and movies including CSI: Miami and Confessions of a Shopaholic, is working on an adaptation of the popular video game Shattered Union for Disney. In this strategy war game, the United States is battling seceded states after a nuclear blast wipes out Washington, DC.

  Bruckheimer has brought in Ninja Assassin and World War Z scribe J. Michael Straczynski to pen the screenplay. Both are no stranger to video game adaptations. Bruckheimer produced Disney's upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which opens May 28, 2010, and Straczynski is also writing a Silver Surfer movie for Fox — good news for fans that thought the movie was dead.

  Since the movie is being made for Disney, should we assume Bruckheimer will make the nuclear explosion that destroys the Capitol and ignites civil war family-friendly?

  
  

  Posted 10/27/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | J. Michael Straczynski

Monday, July 27

• New Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Images

  

  Having failed to make a big push for its latest (potential) franchise at San Diego Comic-Con, Walt Disney is trying to create some buzz for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time by releasing new stills from the movie.

  

  Two of the stills feature ripped-up Jake Gyllenhaal and smoking-hot Gemma Arterton in action as Prince Dastan and Princess Tamina, respectively, while the other shot shows producer Jerry Bruckheimer behind the scenes on the set.

  

  Based on Ubisoft's popular line of video games, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is set in sixth century Persia and tells the story of how Prince Dastan and Princess Tamina must work together to stop the evil Nizam (played by Sir Ben Kingsley) from using the mysterious "Sands of Time" to destroy the world.

  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is being directed by Mike Newell and also stars Toby Kebbell, Alfred Molina, Reece Ritchie, Richard Coyle and Steve Toussaint.

  
  
  

  Prince of Persia Movie Update

  ReelzChannel talks to director Mike Newell.

  Posted 07/27/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jerry Bruckheimer | Mike Newell | Ben Kingsley | Gemma Arterton | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Friday, July 24

• Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Starts Shooting in April 2010

  

  Last week, Jerry Bruckheimer made an appearance on The CBS Early Show and announced a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, with Johnny Depp once again starring as Captain Jack Sparrow.

  Now, Comingsoon.net is reporting that the movie will begin production next spring. The online publication interviewed Oren Aviv, Disney's Head of Production, at Comic-Con yesterday, and Aviv broke the news.

  We're going to shoot Pirates 4 in April or May of next year. We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan.

  Aviv added that they will be shooting only one movie this time, in contrast to the previous two movies, which were shot together. The aim is for another trilogy that may take things in a new direction.

  It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger. The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters.

  One thing on everyone's mind is whether Gore Verbinski will return as director. No official word on that yet.

  
  

  Posted 07/24/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Gore Verbinski | Jerry Bruckheimer | Johnny Depp | Oren Aviv

Wednesday, July 22

• Sir Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia Revealed

  

  Only days ago, the first official still of Jake Gyllenhaal in action from Disney's upcoming movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was released. Shortly thereafter, Disney released two movie posters depicting the heroes of the movie: Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan and the sultry Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina.

  Now Disney has treated us to the first image of Sir Ben Kingsley as the antagonist Nizam, a wealthy nobleman who desires the "Sands of Time," a power capable of destroying the world.

  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Mike Newell. The film also stars Toby Kebbell, Alfred Molina, Reece Ritchie, Richard Coyle and Steve Toussaint.

  
  
  

  Prince of Persia Movie Update

  ReelzChannel talks to director Mike Newell.

  Posted 07/22/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jerry Bruckheimer | Mike Newell | Ben Kingsley | Gemma Arterton

Tuesday, July 21

• New Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Posters

  Walt Disney's latest action-adventure flick, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, seems to be gaining some momentum. Only days ago, the first official still from the movie, showing star Jake Gyllenhaal in action as Prince Dastan, was released and now Disney has debuted two posters for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced video game adaptation.

  Based on Ubisoft's long line of popular video games, Prince of Persia is a fantasy epic about a sixth-century prince and princess who team up to stop an evil vizier from using the "Sands of Time" to rule the world. Like Pirates of the Caribbearn, Disney has plans to make Prince of Persia into a tentpole franchise.

  Directed by Mike Newell of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire fame, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time also stars Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Toby Kebbell, Alfred Molina, Reece Ritchie, Richard Coyle, and Steve Toussaint.

  
  
  

  Prince of Persia Movie Update

  ReelzChannel talks to director Mike Newell.

  Posted 07/21/2009 by BrentJS

  Related: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jerry Bruckheimer | Gemma Arterton | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Wednesday, July 15

• Tons of New G-Force Clips

  The family comedy/adventure movie G-Force has assembled an impressive cast of voices for producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3-D movie. Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, and Tracey Morgan are amongst the voices talents behind the highly-trained, guinea pig spy force. A huge number of clips have just been released online. Watch one below or visit here to catch more clips and see interviews with the cast members.

  
  
  

  G-Force - Trailer

  Nicolas Cage Voices Speckles - Releasing July 24, 2009

  Posted 07/15/2009 by Ryan

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Jon Favreau | Nicolas Cage | Sam Rockwell | Penelope Cruz | Tracey Morgan | G-Force

• Bruckheimer Confirms Fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp to Star

  

  In an appearance on the CBS Early Show Tuesday morning, prolific Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer announced that there will be a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie and that Johnny Depp will once again star as Captain Jack Sparrow.

  Bruckheimer was on the show to promote his upcoming 3-D animated feature G-Force, which involves government-trained guinea pigs. We mean that quite literally, by the way. The movie features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Jon Favreau, Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, and Tracy Morgan.

  The 63-year-old producer was then asked about his other projects, at which point he mentioned Depp and the new Pirates movie. He also spoke a bit about his work on Disney's upcoming The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the movie adaptation of the video game series Prince of Persia.

  
  

  Posted 07/15/2009 by Rich Z

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Johnny Depp | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Wednesday, January 28

• Moviegoers Made to Shop for Prince of Persia Poster

  Movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer is playing games with his audiences -- betting that he can get chick flick fans to go on a movie poster treasure hunt.

  Bruckheimer's plan is to place images of his coming big-screen projects, easter egg style, within his February 13th romantic comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic. Included in the fun is video game adaptation Prince of Persia starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

  MTV reports that this will be the first time that Gyllenhaal will be seen in full-costume as Prince Dastan. The question is, will anybody in the theater care? While the featured flick is a fanboy favorite, how many gamers are also hot for chick flicks?

  There is, of course, the possibility they're on a date.

  
  

  Posted 01/28/2009 by Jim

  Related: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jerry Bruckheimer | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | G-Force

Friday, March 28

• Lone Ranger remake in the works

  Good news, kemosabes. Disney has announced plans to bring the Lone Ranger, the famed cowboy crimefighter with the least-convincing disguise ever, back to the big screen --Bruckheimer-style.

  According to The Hollywood Reporter, superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer will be producing the flick, said to be about the masked rider's origin story, for the Mouse House, with Pirates of the Caribbean scribes Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio tasked with writing the screenplay. First among their duties will be to find a way to turn outdated Native American stereotype Tonto into a hip, fast-talking sidekick with an arsenal of witty catchphrases. Hi-yo silver, dawg!

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

  
  

  Posted 03/28/2008 by reelz

  Related: Jerry Bruckheimer | Ted Elliott | Terry Rossio