Johnny Depp to do live ‘Lone Ranger’ online Q&A

Johnny Depp is coming to Las Vegas to talk to fans about “The Lone Ranger.”

Johnny Depp is coming to Las Vegas to talk to fans about “The Lone Ranger.”

US star Johnny Depp will play notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in the film “Black Mass”, to be directed by Barry Levinson, the producers announced Saturday.

Actor Johnny Depp said Saturday he and Damien Echols, one of three men who claimed to have been wrongly convicted for 1993 satanic ritual murders, got tattoos to mark their special bond after Echols was released from prison last year.

Johnny Depp and his longtime French girlfriend Vanessa Paradis have agreed to separate “amicably,” a publicist for the Hollywood “A” lister said Tuesday.

QUITE without meaning to, we ended up watching two new Johnny Depp starrers last week. Not that we’re complaining—Depp’s movies ring our bells because they are more often edgy than trite and formulaic.

JOHNNY Depp has made a career out of turning outcasts, disfigured freaks and other oddball ogres into likable protagonists: Edward Scissorhands, Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, Sweeney Todd, and the Mad Hatter. Now, the actor is cast as the cursed vampire, Barnabas Collins, in Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the ’60s TV series, “Dark Shadows.”

In our recent interview with Johnny Depp, he lamented fan sites or pages devoted to Lily-Rose Melody Depp—his daughter with singer-actress Vanessa Paradis.

“I think Johnny Depp is extremely sexy, especially with his long fingers (which) can do many things,” said Eva Green – eyes afire with mirth and naughtiness – about her “Dark Shadows” co-star in a recent interview.
One of the films we’re looking forward to watching next month (it starts its Metro run on May 12) is Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows.” Film buffs who know that it’s “only” the film version of the “classic” TV vampire series may pooh-pooh it as just a campy distraction, but the fact that Burton is directing it, plus the stellar presence of Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter in its cast, are incentives attractive enough for us to put the vampire flick on our should-see list.

The way “The Rum Diary” director Bruce Robinson recounted it, had the private jet crashed off the West Coast, he and Johnny Depp would have exited this world… laughing hysterically. Johnny and Bruce, who wrote Roland Joffe’s Oscar-winning “The Killing Fields” and directed the acclaimed “Withnail and I,” were flying back to LA after location [...]
LOS ANGELES—A source close to Walt Disney Studios’ much-anticipated big-screen adaptation of “The Lone Ranger” starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer says the production has been shut down. The source says those involved are figuring out their next steps, and its possible filming could resume. The source asked to remain anonymous because they’re not authorized [...]

Some people think that stardom is a perpetual reward for the especially beautiful, talented and charismatic luminaries in our midst, but it isn’t. It’s a constant struggle to sustain that level of stellar success or, even better, to surpass it; otherwise, it’s a downward spiral for the hapless, clueless celebrity who’s become too comfortable with [...]