Johnny Deep is set to become Captain Jack Sparrow once again when filming for the 4th installment of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is slated to start this summer in Hawaii but one cast member who is not coming back…Orlando Bloom. Bloom talked with the press while in Sundance and told them he was not slated for the new film.

What?! You can’t have a ‘Pirates’ film without having Will Turner! Before you go blaming Orlando it was Disney’s decision. Also not returning is Keira Knightly. In the last film, Will Turner was bound to the sea for 10 years but is Orlando Bloom that expendable now? They couldn’t have written him in the film? Here’s to hoping for Turner’s return in Pirates 5. (Oh you know Disney will milk this cash cow dry. )

As reported here last month Disney/Pixar’s 3-d animation ‘Up’ kicked off the this years Cannes Film Festival.

The low-key ceremony stuck to tradition as Huppert’s jury — Asia Argento, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lee Chang-dong, James Gray, Hanif Kureishi, Shu Qi, Robin Wright Penn and Sharmila Tagore — took their seats onstage.

The Palais red carpet sparkled with diamonds and a mix of celebrities that included actress Tilda Swinton, the L’Oreal spokesmodels and even French Cultural Minister Christine Albanel.

The opening ceremony, broadcast live by Gallic pay TV channel Canal Plus, was hosted by French funnyman Edouard Baer, who found plenty of material in the global financial crisis. The ceremony itself featured a montage of Huppert’s history with the Festival de Cannes and excerpts of films in the official selection.

As the lights dimmed in the Palais theater, Huppert talked about her vision for this year’s fest, reminding the audience that “We go to the movies to remember.”

Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour, the voice of the old man in the French version of “Up,” declared the 62nd edition of the fest officially open alongside Gallic actress Hafsia Herzi.

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‘Up’ is in U.S. theaters May 29th.

Yes two Disney post in a row! Before Princess Tiana is debuted Disney is releasing A Christmas Carol based on the classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge. To hype up the release (like Disney needs hype) A Christmas Carol Train Tour is set to depart for a cross country trek starting in Los Angeles’ Union Station May 22nd and ending in New York City’s Grand Central Station on November 1st.

Click here to see complete tour schedule,virtual tour and gallery. Disney’s A Christmas Carol opens in theaters November 6th.

In theaters December 11th, Disney is boasting this as not only the first African American princess but first classic animation movie featuring a princess in over 10 years. Princess Tiana will join the ranks of Snow White and Cinderella when the movie hits theaters at the end of the year. 2012 will see Rapunzel join the Disney Princesses as well.

The Princess and the Frog official poster and trailer were released this weekend and see a preview of Disney’s Rapunzel all below.

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Rapunzel Preview Picture

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For those who also wondered where Disney got most of the catchy tunes in there feature films from

A Spoonful of Sherman — Richard Sherman Chats About His Remarkable Career

“Chim Chim Cher-ee.” “I Wanna Be Like You.” “It’s a Small World.” They’re the songs that we all grew up with, the classics — and they were all written by Richard and Robert Sherman. The Sherman Brothers were truly a legendary Disney creative force, writing songs for TV, Theme Park attractions, and films — whatever Walt Disney required. And in 1990, they were formally inducted as Disney Legends, acknowledging their many accomplishments.

Now “the boys,” as they were known to their colleagues, are the subjects of a new documentary film by the same name. “The Boys” was a labor of love for filmmakers Jeff and Greg Sherman — cousins, and the sons of Robert and Richard respectively. In it, the cousins remember their fathers’ careers, and the distance between them in later years. It’s a wonderful and touching movie that has taken years to make the journey to the big screen at last.

In honor of “The Boys” — and “the boys” … — we sat down with Richard Sherman to discuss his amazing Disney career. Appropriately enough, we met in the very soundstage on the Walt Disney Studio Lot where some of the songs for “Mary Poppins” had been recorded, as Richard recalled.

He remembers Walt Disney well, as a remarkable boss to work for. “You had to be good — you couldn’t just be ordinary, you had to be incredible!” Richard laughs. “And everybody knew that, and everybody broke their butts to get stuff as good as they possibly could. And he’d look at it, and he’d say ‘Okay, that’ll work.’ “It was the highest form of praise any Disney employee could hope for — then later they might hear from a colleague that Walt absolutely loved what they did.

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Yes this will be giving this person the exposure she desperately wanted but it’s a perfect example of how Hollywood works and how people would sell their right arm for fame.  Let’s start from the beginning.

Upcoming actress and waitress Scheana Marie Jancan, who I assume got tired of waiting tables and waiting on that right script that would catapult her into stardom, decided one day to drop some more notable names to get hers out there. Last Wednesday Star Magazine announced that musician John Mayer has a new girlfriend moving on from actress Jennifer Aniston.  In the three days of admitting dropping this story to Star Magazine, Jancan couldn’t help but talk to whoever would listen.

If you were to be one of the fortunates to pick up Star Magazine last week you would have read that not only did Jancan admit to spending time at Mayer’s recording studio home you would have also learned she dropped  more famous Aniston’s name saying all of Mayer’s new songs set to appear on his new album out later this year are about Aniston. Juicy.

Interestingly enough Jancan was not only telling tabloids juicy details she was also dropping them on her twitter. While this was happening suddenly everyone comes to find out that Jancan has a stint on the new Disney show JONAS that premieres this Saturday on the network. Blogs also conveniently acquired pictures and video of her on the show. Coincidence? Of course not. Someone got paid overtime for this publicly stunt. Now everyone knows her name. Expect to see her in more stints soon.

Saturday Mayer decided to have a early work out in Santa Monica picking up some paparazzi on the way where he later told them that he didn’t have a girlfriend. Burn.

I did witness for myself how suddenly the JONAS preview that had been airing for a few weeks on Disney Channel has now changed to feature Jancan as the “Pizza girl”.  Also Buzz Tv today uncovered that a script to the “Pizza girl” episode is available for download if you can find it as it is hidden on the JONAS show official site. Obviously not that hard to find since Buzz Tv found it.

Was this clever pr from Disney or did they just see a open opportunity for free publicity? Even though Jancan’s stint doesn’t air until May 16th, she got what she wanted and Disney got free publicity out of it. Jancan even went as far as deleting previous tweets about what she told tabloids after all was said and done. Unfortunately while Mayer had to play the Hollywood game and deny it all to paparazzi, this had to be a valuable lesson to him; just because you have a mantel full of Grammys doesn’t mean you can’t get played by up and coming actresses. He’ll live through it but Jancan better watch out, she might actual be the one to end up on his new album.

So where is all the visual aid for this? Not to fear follow the link to see what she worked hard on promoting the past few days and check out some of her now deleted tweets. It’s fun to see how the story from admitting she went to Star to denying she did, to deleting the tweets altogether. Also how on the undeleted tweets she is just so exhausted from having to answer to the press. She’s already knows how to act as if she is famous. She even tried to follow Jennifer Aniston on Twitter.  Doesn’t get more Hollywood than that!

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