Archive for April, 2009

Joe Jonas’ Acting Ambitions

Pop sensation Joe Jonas dreams of swapping music for acting and becoming the next Johnny Depp. The Jonas Brothers star admits he was bitten by the acting bug early on, as a kid on the Disney Channel, and loved making the band’s 2008 movie Camp Rock.

State promotes Public Enemies despite end to tax breaks

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Film incentive supporters are questioning why state government is promoting locations where the Johnny Depp movie “Public Enemies” was filmed when the governor wants to eliminate the tax breaks for filming.

A Johnny Depp in the making?

Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers has been talking about getting into acting. After recently being starred on the band’s 2008 movie Camp Rock, Joe Jonas has been thinking of expanding his acting repertoire and wants a career in the mould of Johnny Depp.

Wis. promotes film despite plan to end tax breaks (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Film incentive supporters are questioning why Wisconsin’s state government is promoting locations where the Johnny Depp movie “Public Enemies” was filmed when the governor wants to eliminate the tax breaks for filming.

Midwest hopes for ‘Public Enemies’ tourism

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Indiana-born John Dillinger: America’s most notorious criminal or Robin Hood of the Great Depression? You’ll be able to decide for yourself after watching “Public Enemies,” a movie that stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger.

Tears, emotions flow at group’s showing of ‘Gilbert Grape’

CHAMPAIGN – Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t show up on the panel. Nor did Johnny Depp. But their performances in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” – shown after the conclusion of the 11th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival on Sunday afternoon at the Virginia Theatre – left an indelible mark on the panelists who did talk about the […]

Americans fascinated by pirates

NEW YORK — We’re going through a crippling recession. The CIA is under fire over its interrogation techniques. And U.S. policy toward Cuba may be about to change. But the most-followed news story of late? A tale of pirates on the high seas.

Movies still spending big on summer films

Cost-cutting clampdown hasn’t hit marketing budgets HOLLYWOOD — You know times are getting tough in the movie business when an entourage of studio executives, instead of flying by private jet to Sacramento to attend a screening, is forced to ride-share to Chatsworth.

Americans fascinated by pirate story (AP via Yahoo! News)

We’re going through a crippling recession. The CIA is under fire over its interrogation techniques. And U.S. policy toward Cuba may be about to change. But the most-followed news story of late? A tale of pirates on the high seas.

"Nightmare" beginning for trio of actors (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Like lambs to the slaughter, “Twilight” actor Kellan Lutz, “Terminator” TV show star Thomas Dekker and Rooney Mara have joined the cast of the reimagined version of 1984 horror movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”