Yo ho ho!  It’s the Pirate’s life for me!  Or maybe a viewing of this new entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean series instead.  It’s a rollicking tale of swash and buckle that peeks at what it must have been like to be a pirate in the days of old while still giving audiences [...]

After months and months of speculation and casting announcements, it seems that Disney, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and new director Rob Marshall are finally done with prepping the new Pirates of the Carribean installment and are ready to leave port with it. Walt Disney Pictures just issued a press release today stating that filming is finally [...]

Today, Disney announced that Sam Claflin has been cast in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment in the popular franchise.

It’s been about a month since Disney announced that Ian McShane (HBO’s Deadwood) and Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky, last year’s Broken Embraces) would be joining the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. McShane was immediately revealed to be playing legendary pirate Captain Blackbeard, the film’s central antagonist to Johnny Depp’s now classic [...]

Director Tom Hooper (John Adams, The Damned United) has been working on a period drama that focuses on the father of Queen Elizabeth II, King George VI. The film will follow George as “he reluctantly assumes the throne after his brother, Edward, abdicates. Considered unfit to rule and cursed with a nervous stammer, the unprepared [...]