Hollyscoop – Let’s face it, Johnny Depp can do no wrong! Not only is he gorgeous, he’s also one of the most kind-hearted actors in the biz. Depp has vowed to help a 17-year-old girl fight for her life.

Sophie Wilkinson was critically injured in a car accident five months ago, which has left her in a coma. Since Johnny Depp is her favorite actor, her parents wrote him a letter asking for his help. Much to their surprise, Depp was so moved he vowed to help in any way he could.

Wilkinson’s father Andrew says, “We are looking for the key to wake her up, so we wrote to Johnny and he said he would do the recording in the voice of (his Pirates of the Caribbean character) Jack Sparrow.

“Only this week Sophie moved her right leg, which she has never done before. When we got home my wife and I were jumping for joy!”

We’re not surprised that Depp would contribute his time to help out a little girl. Just last year Depp almost lost his own daughter to E. coli virus, so having a sick daughter has been a touchy subject since.

Comment: That’s why he’s the most adorable man in the world, and that’s why I’m so proud to be his fan.

While most of the Region was still sound asleep in warm beds, some 75 area residents gathered under a bright moon in 20 degree temperatures early Monday in hopes of doing a little star gazing.

Movie star gazing, that is.

Actor Johnny Depp is playing John Dillinger in the biopic “Public Enemies” filming this week in the outlaw’s old haunts in downtown Crown Point.

By 5 a.m., a group of nearly 50 people gathered behind an orange snow fence across Main Street from the old sheriff’s house and Hall of Justice just south of the courthouse square hoping to catch a glimpse of Depp. By 9 a.m., the crowd had grown to a few hundred.

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Added some magazine scans to our gallery. Thanks to Part-Time-Poet and Hiro3 for scans

Also, I’ve added more Public Enemies set picture, this time from Darlington (Wiscosin) taken in March 19th/20th. Many thanks to Carasun, n2depp, AnaMaria, gruezgirl, Jules, lilyginny27 for posting or taking these pictures. Also, many many thanks to Michelle Martin and Elizabeth Herzog for the pictures taken in Columbus.

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Added a new batch of pictures from yesterday.

GALLERY LINK
- Public Enemies – Columbus set

Also, I will post here some links to articles about the production:

• Our Man in Columbus – Johnny Depp in Wiscosin
• Depp Movie Boots Business in Columbus
• Johnny Depp Begins Works on “Public Enemies”
• Fans Flock to Columbus to See Johnny Depp
• Public Enemies: Catching Up with Johnny Depp and David Wenham …
• Dillinger filming may begin Monday in region
• The Chase to see Johnny Depp
• Depp’s ‘Public Enemies’ begins filming in Columbus
• Hundreds flock to Columbus see filming of Johnny Depp movie

This photos represents our first glimpse of Johnny Depp in the role of 1930s bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s film PUBLIC ENEMIES. Filming began yesterday, March 17, 2008, in the small town of Columbus, Wisconsin, where crews have been busily recreating the ambience of 1933 along East and West James Street. One of Dillinger’s bank robberies will be staged at West James Gallery, a beautiful vintage building which, in Dillinger’s time, housed the First National Bank.

Added 15 pictures from yesterday at PE set.

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- Filming Public Enemies in Columbus

Lights, camera, action!

Filming begins today (Monday) in Columbus for the Johnny Depp movie “Public Enemies.”

It chronicles bank robber John Dillinger in the 1930s.

Historic Columbus, northeast of Madison, has been made to look like Crown Point, Ind. That’s where Dillinger escaped from jail while awaiting a trial.

Rubber cobblestone has been laid on the downtown streets.

Some of the buildings now have old-fashioned facades and awnings. Big crowds are expected today in a city with 4,500 residents.

Kate Lueders of the mayor’s office calls the transformation “magical.”

There will be at least one day of filming in Columbus and maybe more.

Filming is also expected in Oshkosh, Madison and Milwaukee — plus Illinois and Indiana — before production wraps up in July.

The filming will add an estimated $20 million to the Wisconsin economy.

It’s the first movie to receive new state tax filming credits which took effect in January.

newrichmond-news.com

NOTE: I’ve received some emails talking about the filmages, two girls saw Johnny. Did you saw him? Talk with us about this in this thread.

Warner Home Video are releasing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street on the 19th May 2008 for an RRP of £23.99. Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Johnny Depp) returns to London after being sent to prison, unjustly, by Judge Turpin. Sweeney opens a barber shop and vows to get his revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter.

Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney’s amorous accomplice, who sells “the worst pies in London.” With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin’s ward.

Special features:
Commentary By Tim Burton
Musical Mayhem: Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd Is Alive: The Real History Of The Deamon Barber
Sweeney’s London
Recreating Fleet Street
Grand Guinol: A Theatrical Tradition
Sketchbook

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk

Now city officials in Oshkosh have confirmed several scenes of the Johnny Depp film “Public Enemies” will be shot in their downtown this spring.

But nobody’s saying exactly where.

Director Michael Mann and about 50 department heads walked through the downtown yesterday looking at locations and figuring how to make Oshkosh look like it did in the 1930s.

That’s when John Dillinger was on his bank robbery spree that ended when he was shot to death in Chicago by FBI agents. Depp is to play Dillinger in the film.

The filmmakers have already started work to prepare for filming in Columbus, north of Madison.

Another filming location is the Milwaukee Historical Society, which once was a bank and still has a vintage vault.

wsaw.com

Johnny Depp wins in the Netherlands a Rembrandt Award for best fore-nor actor, also Pirates of the Caribbean has won one for best fore-nor movie also Keira Knightley has won one for best actress in Pirates 3. So, congratulations, Johnny!

Thanks Ilse Driehuis for the heads up!

Johnny Depp is holding auditions to find writers for his latest movie Dali, reports say.

The actor is keen to find the best possible script for the film, in which he plays Spanish artist Salvador Dali.

A source is quoted as saying: “He’s open to working with anyone – from housewives to pensioners – if the script is right.”

Al Pacino and Peter O’Toole are also in talks to portray the surrealist painter in upcoming movies Dali and I and Goodbye Dali respectively.

Dali died of heart failure in 1989, aged 84.

Source: DigitalSpy

NOTE FROM THE WEBMASTER: I’m receiving hundred of emails about this. I don’t have an address where the scripts can be sent, or if this news is really true. Any news on this will be posted on the main page.