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Jerry Bruckheimer developing two Pirates of the Caribbean movies, one of which features Johnny Depp

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Moana 2 is capping off Disney’s 2024 with impressive numbers, and the studio hopes to return Marvel to regular form in 2025. But what about classic live-action Disney projects? We could see the return of Pirates of the Caribbean sooner rather than later. Disney’s live-action division, headed by David Greenbaum, wants to continue the iconic […]

Jerry Bruckheimer says new Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be a franchise reboot

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Seven years since the last Pirates of the Caribbean sailed into cinemas, and it has been choppy waters trying to steer the franchise back onto the big-screen. However, Pirates Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has provided an update on the future of the seafaring series.  While doing the press rounds for his latest film, The Ministry of […]

20 Years Back: The Films of 2003

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It’s time to take a journey twenty years back in time to look at the cinematic landscape of 2003… Another year passes and another anniversary comes around. 2003 was 20 years ago. 20 years!!! Take a stiff drink people and come along with me to revisit a cinematic year that was stuffed with so so […]

Video Game Review – Disney Speedstorm

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Harrison Abbott reviews Disney Speedstorm… Monetisation can be a touchy subject for gamers. Ever since the birth of this medium, shrewd businesspeople have been devising craftier and craftier ways to make our wallets that little bit lighter. In the late ‘70s, many arcade machines had their difficulty levels artificially inflated — so that they could […]

The Most Incredibly Annoying Movie Characters

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Tom Jolliffe looks at some of the most annoying movie characters ever… Cinema at its best delights and enthrals. For that to work, we need engaging characters we can get behind. There’s a problem though. Sometimes for an array of reasons, some characters just end up being incredibly annoying. It can be the cherry on […]

Jerry Bruckheimer says multiple Pirates of the Caribbean movies are still in the works

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It’s not easy juggling the amount of work a master producer like Jerry Bruckheimer does, which explains why some projects become long delayed. One of Bruckheimer’s recently delayed works involves at least two new Pirates of the Caribbean movies. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the producer addressed the fate of the two […]

Margot Robbie’s Pirates of the Caribbean film is dead in the water

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With Babylon and Barbie wrapped, Margot Robbie is busy lining up more projects to produce and star in, and while she’s still actively developing her Ocean’s Eleven prequel, another of her proposed franchise rejuvenations in the form of a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot is dead in the water at Disney.  Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – 15 Years Later

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Hasitha Fernando looks back at Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End at 15… Somewhere in the early 2000s Walt Disney Studios had an ambitious plan of developing a feature length film based on one of their most popular theme park rides – Pirates of the Caribbean. To achieve their goal, they had producer turned […]

Jerry Bruckheimer provides update on Margot Robbie Pirates of the Caribbean movie

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A while back Disney plotted a new course for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, one which had Margot Robbie at the wheel, taking the long-running blockbuster film series into uncharted territory with a wholly original new story. Now franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer has shed some light on what they have mapped out for the […]