It’s only been nine months since Amber Heard and Johnny Depp got married , but it seems like the couple is the subject of a new breakup rumor every week. Sources have claimed that Depp and Heard argue constantly . Amber has been accused of making bizarre demands, such as forcing Depp to sell his yacht because it was named after his ex. And of course, through it all, there have been rumblings that Heard only married Depp because he’s insanely wealthy from reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow 47,000 times. In a new interview with Marie Claire, however, amber sets the record straight, clarifying that her relationship is stronger than ever and dismissing claims of gold-diggery: “I try not to react to the horrible misrepresentation of our lives, but it is strange, and hard,” Amber says when asked about the tabloid rumors surrounding her relationship. As for the rumors that she’s with Depp for his sweet Disney cash, Amber spews some nonsense about how she “respects” Johnny’s money, but doesn’t need it: “You respect what it takes to earn [money], and it also gives you a certain resilience, because it minimizes this false notion that that’s what matters. “I know that to not be true, and I know I’m fine without it. That’s why maybe I’m so independent. I never expect anyone to give me anything—the notion of someone supporting me would be absurd to me.” Right. Look, Amber has a career of her own, and we’re sure she’s perfectly capable of supporting herself, but there’s a big difference between keeping a roof over your head and chillin’ on your own private island. We ain’t saying she’s a gold-digger, but the eight-figure bank account probably made her and Johnny’s massive age difference seem a lot smaller. View Slideshow: 23 Couples With Big Age Differences
It’s only been nine months since Amber Heard and Johnny Depp got married , but it seems like the couple is the subject of a new breakup rumor every week. Sources have claimed that Depp and Heard argue constantly . Amber has been accused of making bizarre demands, such as forcing Depp to sell his yacht because it was named after his ex. And of course, through it all, there have been rumblings that Heard only married Depp because he’s insanely wealthy from reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow 47,000 times. In a new interview with Marie Claire, however, amber sets the record straight, clarifying that her relationship is stronger than ever and dismissing claims of gold-diggery: “I try not to react to the horrible misrepresentation of our lives, but it is strange, and hard,” Amber says when asked about the tabloid rumors surrounding her relationship. As for the rumors that she’s with Depp for his sweet Disney cash, Amber spews some nonsense about how she “respects” Johnny’s money, but doesn’t need it: “You respect what it takes to earn [money], and it also gives you a certain resilience, because it minimizes this false notion that that’s what matters. “I know that to not be true, and I know I’m fine without it. That’s why maybe I’m so independent. I never expect anyone to give me anything—the notion of someone supporting me would be absurd to me.” Right. Look, Amber has a career of her own, and we’re sure she’s perfectly capable of supporting herself, but there’s a big difference between keeping a roof over your head and chillin’ on your own private island. We ain’t saying she’s a gold-digger, but the eight-figure bank account probably made her and Johnny’s massive age difference seem a lot smaller. View Slideshow: 23 Couples With Big Age Differences
Johnny Depp is still doing his version of a media tour to promote his upcoming comeback flick Black Mass, and as the 52-year-old clearly stopped giving a sh-t around the time that Hunter S. Thompson offed himself, it’s made for some interesting moments. First, Depp told a crowd of reporters that he killed and ate his dogs . Just a few days later, her offered to bone Jimmy Kimmel’s entire studio audience . Through it all, the eccentric star has quietly endured the usual criticisms about his behavior and appearance, including a bizarre Page Six rant that called Depp fat and greasy and speculated about his dental hygiene. It seems, however, that there’s at least one thing that Depp still takes very seriously. Apparently, if you trash-talk his kids, the last sight you’ll see is Captain Jack caving your head in with blunt object, savvy? Yes, for some reason, the topic of bullying came up during a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival, and Depp got very specific in his threats to any “boogers” who mess with his offspring: “I remember when I was a kid and I was little, like maybe 6 years old or something like that, there was a little horror at the school who was needling me or whatever, and I think I told my mom or something,” Depp told reporters. “I come home from nothing but hillbillies, and my mom said to me, ‘All right, here’s the deal: The next time anybody puts their hands on you, pick up a brick and lay them out.’…If somebody tried to bully my kid, if they didn’t destroy the little booger, I would,” There you have it. If you mess with the Depps, Johnny will reach into his hillbilly past and end you with a brick to the skull. The dude who wrote that Page Six hit-piece might want to invest in a helmet.
Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day – although, you’ve probably already figured that out from the many horrible pun-based jokes in your Facebook feed. (Our personal favorite: What kind of movies do pirates like? Rated Arrgh! ) Despite the lame gags it inspires, the holiday has special meaning year, as pirates have gotten a bad rap lately. Whether is’s the Somali baddies terrorizing Captain Philips , or the far less terrifying HBO-foes pirating Game of Thrones , the mere mention of the P-word is enough to shiver anyone’s timbers these days. 7 Best Pirates in Pop Culture 1. The Pirates! Band of Misfits This 2012 kids’ flick brought a slew of celebrity voices to the battle for Pirate of the Year. So we’ve decided to put together a list of the good, the bad, and the peg-legged to help remind you why the world fell in love with pirates in the first place. Sure, Johnny Depp’s swaggering, Keith Richards-inspired Captain Jack Sparrow helped kick off the pirate craze back in 2003, but even though that series has grown stale (if you haven’t seen Pirates of the Caribbean 4 yet, don’t bother), there’s still plenty to love about the badasses of the high seas. So check out the gallery above to relive some of the great pirate moments from the past thirty years of pop culture. Just remember: proper pirate appreciation is both a science, and an arrrrrt .
Lady Gaga’s recent foray into mermaid attire isn’t going over well with at least one person. Azealia Banks is not happy, claiming Mother Monster jacked her style. Lady Gaga-Azealia Banks Twitter Fight Gaga’s VMA shell bikini, various barnacle-chic street outfits and Twitter instructions to her fans have made her newfound love of the mermaid theme clear. Only Banks says it’s her theme Gaga is copping when she lists “acceptable attire” for her fans at the iTunes Festival as “1: Seashells. Item 2: Seahorses 3: Starfish” and so on. The rapper writes: @ladygaga hmmmm sounds alot like Azealia Banks’ mermaid balls. Of COURSE gaga wants to play mermaid again….. Pffft. Not picking a fight. Just all looks soo familiar…. To me. So far, The Little Mermaid and Captain Jack Sparrow have not commented, but apparently Azealia Banks felt a need to lay claim to maritime-themed attire. Speaking of Ariel, the 27-year-old Mother Monster responded simply but poignantly to Banks’ Tweets … with the following GIF of a true sea style icon:
Lindsay Lohan has escaped again. She will NOT be prosecuted for her alleged role in the theft of more than $100,000 in watches and sunglasses this month. According to the D.A.’s office, there is insufficient evidence to bring a burglary charge against the star, despite Lohan being the prime suspect in the caper. One key component: The D.A. feels Lindsay and Sam Magid, who owns the house that was allegedly burglarized, have had a “longstanding relationship.” Sam also did not identify the actress as a suspect and other witnesses “have refused to become involved.” Also, no suspects were found with stolen property. Case closed. Lindsay’s assistant Gavin Doyle, who was also considered a suspect in the theft occurring a week ago Sunday, will not face prosecution either, TMZ reports. “The District Attorney’s Office received no evidence that any jewelry, including watches, was taken,” according to a statement released by the office. “The evidence presented to us was valued at $6,400 and included $3,000 in cash, four pairs of sunglasses, an iPod and keys to two cars and a house.” The key here is that the initial theft complaint , which included $100,000 worth of watches and sunglasses, never made its way to the D.A.’s office. Most likely this is due to the fact that Sam was not ready to go to war against LiLo, who fingered Andrew Knight (son of Suge) for the pilfering. [Photo: WENN.com]
Countess LuAnn De Lesseps is standing up for herself… by saying she never lay down with a Johnny Depp-lookalike on the latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York City . On Monday night’s installment of this Bravo hit, Viewers watched the 47-year-old mother of two getting her flirt on with a Frenchman named Tomas who was dressed like Captain Jack Sparrow. “You have to make a special pirate introduction,” LuAnn Tomas. “I want to be special, not like your other pirate women.” LuAnn later knocked on Heather Thomson’s door, Tomas by her side, and then also placed a phone call the following day in which she seemed to reference a pirate booty call with the suitor. But, in light allegations that she cheated on long-term boyfriend Jacques, the Countess has released a statement to OK! in which she explains what happened. “What may have looked like infidelity on last night’s episode was in reality, a ride home and a tour of the house after an evening of fun on vacation eight months ago,” LuAnn said yesterday. “Do you think I would bring a man back to a houseful of housewives (and cameras) if I were planning on having an affair?” It’s a decent question. LuAnn says she and her man recently returned from a vacation to Lake George and are “united and happy.” Are you buying her tale?
There’s a lot of “auto” in Dax Shepard ‘s debut as an auteur. Shepard (who previously co-directed the mockumentary Brother’s Justice ) wrote, co-directed and stars in the action comedy Hit and Run ; he even cast real-life love Kristen Bell to play the role of his cherished girlfriend, but their romance is not at the center of this movie — rather, it’s the deep love between Shepard and the many cars that populate the film that drives Hit and Run . It’s only when these machines rev their engines that the soundtrack fills with sultry ballads and the camera switches to slow mo — all the better for us to admire the sleek undercarriages and sexy lines of the movie’s many four-wheeled stars. But this is far from a good thing. The movie’s human stars can’t compete with such auto-erotica; cartoonish characters and a thin plot are mostly vehicles to get from one stretch of highway to another, in a chase through the kind of cinematic America where fleabag motels have parking lots filled with easily-stolen luxury sports cars and roadways are always adjacent to abandoned airports that provide plenty of space for nifty driving tricks. Shepard stars as Charlie Bronson, a likeable guy living in a non-specific American everytown. Although Charlie doesn’t have a job, he does have a devoted girlfriend, Annie (Bell), and a bumbling U.S. Marshal (Tom Arnold, looking increasingly like a nerdy version of Meat Loaf) to watch over him. Charlie, you see, is in the Witness Protection Program, a fact that is supposed to prevent him from leaving his safe provincial town. But when Annie has the opportunity to interview for a big job at a university in Los Angeles, Charlie decides to chauffer her towards her dreams and away from his own safety. The fact that he decides to do this not in Annie’s inconspicuous sedan but rather in his highly noticeable 1967 Lincoln Continental (complete with expired plates registered to his former identity) is only one of many questionable moments in the thin plot. It’s the plates on the car that allow Gil (Michael Rosenbaum) Annie’s meticulously groomed and spiteful ex-boyfriend, to uncover Charlie’s former identity. And thanks to the wonders of Facebook, where one assumes all dangerous criminals have easily-searchable profiles, Gil is able to track down Charlie’s former bank-robbing associates and tip them off as to his whereabouts. The chase is on, with Annie and Charlie trailed by Marshal Randy and Gil, picking up extra characters (including a pair of extraneous cops and Beau Bridges in a cameo as Charlie’s father, who keeps a fleet of monster ATVs in his big red barn, of course) along the way. Will the baddies from Charlie’s former life catch up with him? Will Annie make it to her interview? Will she discover that Charlie’s story, of only being an innocent witness to a crime, isn’t the whole truth? Will they stay together in the face of shock revelations and inevitable car sickness? ( Will that ATV get to climb a giant staircase?? ) The movie kicks up no real tension in the search for the answers to any of these questions, and when plotlines do swing back around, they come with more of an “Oh right, remember that ?” than with a satisfying snap. One senses that the movie doesn’t quite have the chutzpah to be what it wants to be — a Fast and Furious -like sequence of balletic car chases — so it periodically halts to wedge in some romance. (The charming Bell and Shepard don’t have much to do but enjoy a lovely on-screen chemistry, a rarity for offscreen couples, that rises above their underwritten characters.) Jokes stay mostly in the range of the strictly puerile (naked old people!) with occasional forays into the mystifyingly icky (an extended joke has Charlie obsessed with the nationality of the man who raped Bradley Cooper’s bank-robbing baddie in the prison shower.) The talented cast is game and deserves better, especially Cooper, who is saddled with a dreadlocked fright wig that gives the impression he is performing all his scenes with a spongy blond octopus sitting on his head. But at least he gets to drive, swerving around in his little red car like he’s in a bumper car ring. From this we know his character is unpredictable but ultimately in control, because the movie’s most complete character developments come through the cars the characters drive. It’s a cinematic stand-in for masculinity that would make Freud proud: We know Arnold’s U.S. Marshal is a mess because he drives a minivan that he can’t even park competently (he also wildly fires off his gun all the time, in case one mishandled phallic symbol wasn’t enough). Dax Shepard’s Charlie, as befits the hero and the part played by the writer/director, gets the broadest spectrum of vehicles, from the kickass black Lincoln to a shiny ATV. It looks like he’s having a great time up there, getting to drive them around. If only he had brought the audience along for the ride. Anika Chapin is an NYC-based dramaturg and writer. She has contributed pieces to The New York Times , and blogs about theater and pop culture at http://bloggledygook.wordpress.com . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Holy Swashbucklers! Rumors are flying that Johnny Depp is considering a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean installment, and the speculation may be overheating. Some international papers including The Sun say the newly single star could make some rather unprecedented cha-ching — to the tune of £60 million (that’s about $95 million at current exchange rates). That would be some crazy treasure even the likes of, well, a pirate, could only dream of… But is the super-star actor worth the stupid money even if the rumors were only say, mostly true? Producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed in May that a fifth Pirates script was in the works. He told the Los Angeles Times that he could only make the pic with Depp on board. Who else could play Captain Jack Sparrow after all? “Hopefully, if this one does well, (Depp) will want to come back and play the character again,” Bruckheimer told the L.A. Times. “But it’s going to depend on the screenplay. It always does. He’s maniacal about not wanting to disappoint his audience.” Apparently, Depp is considering another round of Pirates , according to The Wrap. The site also noted last summer Depp cashed had cashed in with the franchise at almost $350 million at the time. OK, so Depp already owns a Bahamian island and likely could seize some more with his current Pirates war chest alone, but is he worth potentially the biggest pay out yet if he takes on a fifth installment? Here’s a breakdown of the franchise’s worldwide grosses: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tide : $1,043,871,802 ($250 million production budget) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End : $963,420,425 ($300 million production budget) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest : $1,066,179,725 ($225 million production budget) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl : $654,264,015 ($140 million production budget) Of course, these are theatrical grosses, never mind all the other tie-ins. So, is a mega-package, whether it’s a cool $90 million — or so — worth the payout? [ Source: The Wrap , Box Office Mojo , The Sun ]
With a brief personal scandal behind him, Johnny Depp can now return to what he does best: portray unique character on the big screen. From Captain Jack Sparrow to Sweeney Todd, no one does it better. Up next, according to The Hollywood Reporter , the Oscar-winning actor will anchor a live action movie about the life of iconic children’s author Dr. Seuss. It’s unknown what form the film will take, but Depp has “the potential to star as Seuss,” the article reads. Born Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss’ best well-known books include “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Cat in the Hat,” “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,” “Horton Hears a Who!” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” As for Depp, he’ll star in The Rum Diary , which hits theaters on October 28. [Photo: WENN.com]
