‘Pirates 5’ - Keith Richards Returns, Christoph Waltz as Villain?

‘Pirates 5’ - Keith Richards Returns, Christoph Waltz as Villain?
B. Alan Orange - MovieWeb.com

A slew of interesting new details have come to surface for the impending sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which has Johnny Depp signed to return as Captain Jack Sparrow for a fifth time.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Keith Richards will return as the pirate Captain Teague, who also happens to be Jack’s biological father. The pair will team up to battle Captain Brand in a search for a mythical trident.

While Disney has not confirmed any of this, Django Unchained’s Christoph Waltz is reportedly interested in taking on the villainous role of Captain Brand.

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Paul Walker of ‘Fast and Furious’ Dead at age 40

Paul Walker of ‘Fast and Furious’ Dead at age 40
New York Daily News

Actor Paul Walker — a self-styled adrenaline junkie best known for his role in “The Fast and the Furious” movies — was killed Saturday in a fiery single-car wreck in Southern California.

The 40-year-old Walker was riding in a red Porsche GT about 3:30 p.m. when the sports car flew off the road and slammed into a tree in Santa Clarita, authorities and witnesses said. The car burst into flames.

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“I ran over afterwards, I was trying to find Roger’s son,” Torp said. “I found out his son had jumped the fence and gone over, he was trying to get his dad out. Paul Walker’s best friend was…

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‘Catching Fire’ Breaks Thanksgiving Records

‘Catching Fire’ Breaks Thanksgiving Records
Diana Drumm - The Playlist

Blazing at the box office, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” shot out the other tributes and made a whopping $74.5 million this weekend, part of an even more eye-popping $110.1 million for the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend (shattering the $82.4 million record set by “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”). 

Entering its second week, ‘Catching Fire’ has a domestic running total of $296.5 million and a worldwide total of $573 million (beating out the domestic $269.3 million and the worldwide $384.3 million of its predecessor “The Hunger Games” in its second week). Whereas last…

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