Johnny Depp

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rihanna on ‘Songs for Japan’ album

By mattwalker | March 27, 2011 8:15 am | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Selena Gomez | Leave a comment

Boy, that little Justin Bieber is really becoming quite the prankster.

Here’s the video of him pranking Willow Smith during her “Whip My Hair” song. And below is his impromptu prank appearance at Johnny Depp‘s Rango press conference in February. After Justin left, Johnny Depp asked the roomful of press peeps, “Aren’t we all Beliebers now?”

Guess JB has hit his pranking stage, along with his dating Selena Gomez phase and his cutting off his infamous hair phase. But he’s also hit his admirable help others phase. Justin, Rihanna, Madonna, and Lady Gaga are among the thirty eight artists putting together a Songs for Japan album. Bravo, guys! We’re so buying this album.

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Johnny Depp is already trying on his ‘Dark Shadows’ costumes

By mattwalker | February 23, 2011 9:27 am | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp | 4 Comments

The Dish Rag caught up with Colleen Atwood at the Costume Designers Guild Awards last night at the Beverly Hilton. Atwood, who won a CDG Award for her brilliant work on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland — starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska – told us that she had her first fitting with Johnny this week for the new Buton/Depp cinematic collaboration, Dark Shadows, a film version of the ’60s sitcom about a vampire named Barnabas Collins.

“It just had a fitting today, my first one, with Johnny, so I’m happy about that,” Atwood said. “It’s (Dark Shadows) gonna be really good. It’s a funny script and I think people are going to really like it.” She also said the film will still be as “campy” as the original TV show.

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Johnny Depp’s lady Vanessa Paradis packs the Orpheum

By mattwalker | February 19, 2011 3:27 pm | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis | 1 Comment

The Orpheum Theatre in downtown LA was  packed with hot and tres chic French hipsters on Friday (Feb. 18). They had all come to see  Vanessa Paradis, the beautiful French singer, who — before she became Johnny Depp‘s girlfriend and mother of his two children — was (is) a wildly popular French pop star who started singing at age 14 and then became a successful  model and actress (Netflix her in The Girl on the Bridge).

We’d seen Vanessa at Johnny’s side at various awards shows and Pirates of the Caribbean premieres. She is always beautifully ethereal. But nothing prepared us for her awesome, charming and sexy live performance.

Watch this video of her singing last night and you will totally understand why Johnny is devoted to Vanessa. We didn’t see Johnny there (he was spotted at her NY performance two nights earlier) but we’re pretty sure he was around, maybe backstage. We did run into Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer with his wife Linda, and he sang Vanessa’s praises a few minutes before the show began. BTW: Vanessa got three standing ovations and came back out three times to sing more for her French and US fans.

Michelle Pfeiffer to play Johnny Depp’s sister in ‘Dark Shadows’

By mattwalker | February 17, 2011 4:06 pm | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Burton | 4 Comments


It’s official. Michelle Pfeiffer is negotiating to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the matriarch of the Collins family, in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Dark Shadows, the cult 1960s gothic TV series. The role was originally played by Joan Bennett. Michelle will star opposite Johnny Depp, who will play vampire Barnabas Collins, her beleaguered brother. Pfeiffer, who played Catwoman in Burton’s 1992 Batman Returns, is expected to sign a deal shortly.

Rumors are that Helena Bonham Carter will play Dr. Julia Hoffman. Carter, his life partner has appeared in his last six films, including the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland.  This will be the 8th movie Depp and Burton have made together. The big question is who will play Angelique?

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Justin Bieber dances with Dish Rag’s Elizabeth Snead

By mattwalker | February 16, 2011 3:36 pm | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber | 1 Comment
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See, now this is when it’s fun to have your own blog. When Paramount sent me the Justin Bieber Jib Jab link, I could not resist making my own music video with the Biebs.

After all, having been 3 feet away from Justin on Saturday at the Four Seasons when he crashed Johnny Depp’s Rango press junket, I now have a better appreciation of this talented teen. I even got a few seconds of Justin Bieber on my flip cam!

Plus, Johnny Depp said he is a Belieber and shall remain so. So who am I to question Bieber Fever? Time to join the fun. Go to Jib Jab and make your own Bieber video.

Johnny Depp rides into Westwood for Rango premiere.

By mattwalker | February 16, 2011 12:06 pm | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, Movies | 1 Comment

Johnny Depp was dressed appropriately like a cowboy — even wearing a cowboy hat — at the premiere of his new animated western  Rango. Depp, who plays a chameleon with an identity crisis, didn’t arrive on horseback, rather a limo. Durn it. But instead of a red carpet, Paramount created a sandy desert scene, complete with cacti, tumbleweeds,  and weather-beaten shacks.

While Johnny signed autographs for hundreds of screaming fans outside the Regency Village Theatre, we talked with his Rango stars Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, James Ward Byrkit, who plays Waffles and a few other characters.  James revealed that director Gore Verbinski also did a few voices and so did the film’s production designer Crash McCreary.  And the film’s composer, Hans Zimmer, who has also scored all of Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies, explained his western score. Sadly, no sign of Justin Bieber, who crashed the Rango junket on Saturday.

How to describe this film? It’s very hard to convey.  The words animated western don’t cut it.  First off, you have never seen an animated film that feels this real, thanks to the talented dudes at ILM, Animation Director Hal Hickel and Visual Effects Supervisor Tim Alexander, who added so much dirt and texture to the movie that you can literally taste the dust in your mouth. You may be picking tumbleweed out of your teeth, it feels that real. Watch these clips and see for yourself.

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Justin Bieber crashes Johnny Depp’s junket: Part 2

By mattwalker | February 14, 2011 8:48 am | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber | Leave a comment

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Saturday afternoon, I posted a rogue video of Justin Bieber crashing Johnny Depp’s press conference for his new film, Rango. It was shot with my flip cam from my front row seat. Watch it here.

Now Paramount has released their official video of the historic Bieber and Depp handshake. And they have a much better view of the entire event than I did. Watch and Enjoy, Depp and Bieber fans.

Just before this happened, Johnny was asked by a reporter if he was a Belieber. Listen to his response here.

Justin Bieber, Johnny Depp shake hands: Universe still intact

By mattwalker | February 12, 2011 5:24 pm | Celebrity, Featured, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber | 3 Comments

At the tail end of Saturday’s Rango press conference with cinematic heart throb Johnny Depp, who walks in but the biggest pop star in the universe, Justin Bieber.

“Hey, man,” a surprised Depp said when he first spotted the Biebs walking towards him. Justin replied, “I’m a big fan of you so I want to support you. I  just wanted to say hi,” he added. “I heard you were in the building (the Four Seasons Hotel) .” Then he shook Johnny, Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin‘s hands and knocked knuckles with director Gore Verbinski.

The Biebs turned to the room full of open-mouthed journalists. “What’s up everybody.” adding, “He (Depp) is a Belieber and I’m a big fan of his.”

Ironically, earlier in the press conference Johnny was asked if he was a ‘Belieber’ and he acted as if he had never heard the word before but found it hilarious. Click here to listen to that exchange. After Justin left, Johnny took to the mike and said, “Who is not a Belieber now?”

Astonishingly, with the electricity of these two major sex symbols in one room and actually touching each other, the universe did not implode.

BTW: Depp took his kids Jack, 9 and Lily Rose, 11, — who are big Beliebers — to see Bieber’s concert in Miami last December.

Now read on to find out about the lizard image in the video.

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Channing Tatum plots to kidnap Johnny Depp’s wife

By mattwalker | February 5, 2011 1:34 pm | Featured, Johnny Depp | Leave a comment

Channing Tatum is pretty psyched about the possibility of Johnny Depp making a cameo appearance in the movie version of  the TV show “21 Jump Street,”  that will  star Tatum and Jonah Hill. And he’s willing to go to some pretty scary lengths to make it happen.

“Johnny has loosely said that he would like to do it ( a cameo) but who knows if when we go into production, whether or not he’ll be able to,” Tatum said at the LA junket for his awesome new action film, The Eagle,” directed by Kevin McDonald

Then Channing revealed his devious scheme to coerce Depp in doing the movie.

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