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Disney Second Screen: Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides is your interactive window to a new world of exploration, an all-access guide to everything Pirates. Explore and zoom in and out of over 1,300 galleries, scroll through interactive VFX Labs, discover new mythology, all at your fingertips. Sync Disney Second Screen to The Pirates Of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides Blu-ray™ for a whole new way to watch the movie. You control the journey. [links]
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Another nice feature is that you can take the special features with you on the go. While the app is designed to function en tandem with the movie, you can still access the entire database of pictures and video independently. Hypothetically, you could even download the app, look through the materials and then decide if you want to pay for the interactive portion, (i.e. the disc itself). This is key for me because it is a return to the user-friendly nature of Shareware and a sign of corporate media making inroads into the new norm of the Web 2.0 world.
It may seem small, but it’s pretty nifty. In the past, many DVDs featured large collections of extra material that were all but useless. For example, the DVD of SLC! Punk included a copy of the comic book that inspired the film, which was a nice touch since that limited run one-off was long out of print. However, because of technological limitations, the strip was impossible to read. Second Screen fixes this by using the iPad’s touch screen so that you can zoom in and explore the artwork on display.
Also, the interconnectivity element lets you watch the movie while perusing the pre-vis elements at your leisure, comparing them in real time to the finished product without interrupting the story. Of course, all the special features are still housed on the disc in the tradition menu and submenu format for piecemeal viewing.
How it works is this: you download a free iPad app, sync the devices and watch the movie. They set it up and had the movie playing in about three minutes during our visit and it seemed pretty simple.
Disney’s Second Screen feature is kind of like an update of New Line’s, “Infinifilm” series mixed with the typical dvd photo gallery. Instead of interrupting the movie with an on-screen button that can take the viewer into a special feature on a particular scene, the Second Screen technology links your iPad to your Blu-ray player and allows you to look at concept art, time-lapse photography, makeup tests and the like on your tablet. [links]
Disney is out ahead of the pack, using big-ticket releases like Bambi and now Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to introduce new ways to interact with the film and encourage consumers to buy, rather than rent. Read on to hear about the new, “Second Screen” technology. more
To bring the maelstrom scene to life, two huge ships as heavy as commercial jetliners were mounted on giant gimbals. The gimbals allowed the Black Pearl and Flying Dutchman to rise and fall to simulate ships caught in the storm's swirl. The end result is that actors playing the pirates didn't have to fake it as they scrambled around on the heaving ships' decks. Couple that realistic look with the artificial rain and wind in the hanger, and with the flying bits exploding constantly from debris mortars, and you've got one convincing hellstorm. The DVD feature does a solid job of conveying the massive project. here
TIRED: Depp's impersonation of Richards; squawking parrots; shooting monkey from a cannon; unskippable Disney commercial.
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So where did Depp get the idea to play it loose like that? From none other than rock icon and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. And in a hidden menu on The Curse of the Black Pearl DVD, you can catch an interview with Richards himself talking about the inspiration. On the Special Features disc, choose the option for the "Moonlight Serenade" Scene Progression. Keep pressing the down arrow until the skull's tooth turns gold, and select the tooth (press "Enter" or "OK") to watch the short interview. more
You have to pause the film to see it, but you can catch a glimpse of the Hidden Mickey after Jack Sparrow steals part of the map from Barbossa. When he's looking at the torn center section, Mickey's head is visible right above the torn shreds at the outer edge.
Continuing the Easter egg format they created in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Disney stuck a few hidden features into the Dead Man's Chest 2-disc special edition, too. Use Disc 2 for all of these: On "According to Plan," hit left twice and then click on the leaf that appears on the top left side of the screen to see a short featurette about the film's catering. (It's more interesting than it sounds, trust us.) To see a hidden Easter egg about Davy Jones, go to "Creating the Kraken" and press left, up, up. The grass at the bottom of the menu will light up. Click it to watch. here
Considering that the Pirates of the Caribbean films are based on a ride at Disneyland, the script writers had to pretty much come up with the entire story on their own. Some of the basics are there — it's about pirates, there are some undead skeleton pirate things, a bunch of caves, and that's pretty much it. But even though the characters and story we saw in the films are completely new, the writers didn't forsake their source material completely, and plenty of tidbits from the ride made it into the movies. [links]
Hodson is one of Hollywood’s go-to blockbuster writers, with credits that include Transformers spinoff Bumblebee as well as DC superhero projects The Flash, which now has Michael Keaton reprising his famous role of Batman, and Batgirl. [links]
In addition to collaborating on Birds of Prey, Robbie and Hodson together in 2019 launched the Lucky Exports Pitch Program, a new initiative aimed at getting more female-identifying writers hired by studios to write action-centric movies.
Longtime Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer is attached to produce both the Elliott/Mazin project and this new Robbie/Hodson project. [links]
Margot Robbie is setting sail with help from her Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson.
Margot Robbie and 'Birds of Prey' writer Christina Hodson are reteaming for a new, female-fronted 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie for Disney, with Robbie attached to star.