An entertainment blog by Adrian Gomez Print Email Comments Share Tweet + ! 1 By Adrian Gomez / Asst. Arts Editor, Reel NM on Tue, Apr 23, 2013 POSTED: 3:35 pm LAST UPDATED: 5:21 pm Johnny Depp is on his way back to New Mexico. Actor Johnny Depp will return to N.M. to film his next movie. The actor will star in the action sci-fi movie, Transendence. Transcendence is a visually arresting, original science-fiction thriller that explores the concept of identity and morality in the age of artificial intelligence. According to the New Mexico Film Office, the production will employ approximately 250 New Mexico crew members and more than 2,400 New Mexico background and principal talent. The production will begin filming late April though the end of July in and around Albuquerque The film will also star Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy and Kate Mara. It is being produced by Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, David Valdes, Marisa Polvino, Annie Marter and K...

23 April 2013 HANNAH DREIER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) To watch a snippet of The Lone Ranger is to empathize with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white man playing Tonto, one of the most famous American Indian stereotypes of all time, might work. Then again, trouble might be coming. In director Gore Verbinskis remake of the popular 1950s Western television series, Depp speaks in broken English, chants prayers, and wears feathers, face paint and for some reason a stuffed crow headdress. But he also loses the subservience that helped make the original Tonto, played by a Canadian Mohawk, such a problematic sidekick to the masked hero. The Disney remake has Tonto in the role of coach to John Reid, the idealistic law school graduate who finds himself out of his depth when he returns to his hometown and eventually becomes the Lone Ranger. Verbinski framed the film as a buddy picture with a zany Western edge Wednesday during a...

Only hours after a new trailer for "Lone Ranger" debuted online last week, the blogosphere flew into a tizzy questioning whether Johnny Depp 's portrayal of Tonto is racist. In the upcoming western, Depp's Tonto -- the sidekick to a masked Texas ranger played by Armie Hammer -- sports face paint and a headdress with a dead raven atop it. Some critics have taken issue with both Depp's costume and the fact that the role was not portrayed by a Native American actor. (For the record, Depp told Entertainment Weekly that in 2011, "I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line.... My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian.") But Depp's co-star, 26-year-old Hammer, is puzzled by the claims of cultural insensitivity. The actor turned up in Las Vegas with Depp last Wednesday to unveil 20 minutes of new footage from the film to movie theater owners at CinemaCon. Before being honored as th...

Johnny Depp The Lone Ranger Main Trailer Released The main trailer of Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming action-adventure The Lone Ranger is now available online. Watch below: From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski , the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films The Lone Ranger, a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American warrior Tonto ( Johnny Depp ) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice - taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption. The Lone Ranger also stars Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson and Helena Bonham Carter. Opening across the Philippines on July 17...

By MATT KEOUGH, IrishCentral Intern Published Sunday, April 21, 2013, 8:25 AM Updated Sunday, April 21, 2013, 8:25 AM Cork actor Cillian Murphy set to star alongside Johnny Depp Photo by Tumblr Irish actor Cillian Murphy will star alongside Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman in Wally Pfister's Transcendence, a film about a scientist whose brain is uploaded to a supercomputer in order to create a thinking machine. Depp will play the scientist and it is reported by the Irish Independent that Murphy will be one of the other two male leads. Murphy is no stranger to the cinematic genius, Wally Pfister, who will take his first shot at directing for the film. Pfister is an Academy Award winning cinematographer who set new standards with his work with Christopher Nolan in films like the Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception. Murphy had a role in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, and Inception, giving Pfister a familiar face to shoot. Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany and Kate Mara will also star in T...

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LAS VEGAS (AP) To watch a snippet of The Lone Ranger is to empathize with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white man playing Tonto, one of the most famous American Indian stereotypes of all time, might work. Then again, trouble might be coming. In director Gore Verbinskis remake of the popular 1950s Western television series, Depp speaks in broken English, chants prayers, and wears feathers, face paint and for some reason a stuffed crow headdress. But he also loses the subservience that helped make the original Tonto, played by a Canadian Mohawk, such a problematic sidekick to the masked hero. The Disney remake has Tonto in the role of coach to John Reid, the idealistic law school graduate who finds himself out of his depth when he returns to his hometown and eventually becomes the Lone Ranger. Verbinski framed the film as a buddy picture with a zany Western edge Wednesday during a teaser screening at the movie theater conventi...