Wallpapers of The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie is to be the second feature length film in the VeggieTales series. It is set to release on January 11, 2008. The film is rated G by the MPAA.

Big Idea, Inc, the creator of the VeggieTales series, is producing the film. Starz Media (formerly DKP Productions and IDT Entertainment), who is the animation house behind all VeggieTales productions since 2002, will be doing the computer animation. The script is being written by Phil Vischer, and Mike Nawrocki will direct the film.

Vischer and Nawrocki were the co-creators of the VeggieTales series. Vischer will also be the executive producer under his current company Jellyfish Labs, and Big Idea’s David Pitts will serve as producer. The film will feature an original soundtrack by Big Idea’s Kurt Heinecke, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.

Big Idea has estimated that it will take $15 million USD to bring Pirates to the screen. Phil Vischer has stated in his blog that storyboarding is complete, and voice recording was complete in September 2006. The trailer of the film has been released with the 2007 film, Evan Almighty, another film about biblical stories which is also being distributed by Universal.

Three lazy misfits– Elliot, Sedgewick and George (Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape)- dream of the day when they can quit their jobs as busboys at the Pieces of Ate Dinner Theater and take the stage to star in the big pirate show. But with Elliot’s timidity, Sedgewick’s laziness and George’s lack of self-confidence, it seems as if the day to prove who they really are will never come.

However, when an artifact called a “HelpSeeker” arrives from the past, it sends the three back in time into a real pirate adventure, setting in motion a series of events that drags the trio back to the 17th century, where they face danger, their fears, and become unlikely heroes in a battle to rescue a royal family, including Princess Eloise and Prince Alexander, from an evil tyrant. In this story they each learn to be a real pirate, hero, and friend.

This is the first VeggieTales film to be distributed by a major Hollywood studio. The movie takes its name from a VeggieTales Silly Song of the same name. The song was covered by the Christian rock band Relient K in 2002, and that version of the song is being used in the trailers for the movie. This is the first major motion picture to be released by Classic Media and the second to be released by Big Idea.

For the first time Pirate Pa will wear his glasses for the whole movie. This is Universal’s first theatrically-released computer-animated film ever. This is Universal’s second theatrically-released feature-length animated film since 1995’s Balto, the first being the traditionally-animated Curious George.

This is Universal’s third theatrically-released feature-length film to be rated G by the MPAA since 1998’s Babe: Pig in the City, the first two were Curious George and Mr. Bean’s Holiday. The name of the dinner theatre is a reference to the pieces of eight, the historic Spanish currency in wide circulation during the heydey of Caribbean piracy.

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The Orphanage Film Wallpapers and Photos

The Orphanage (Spanish title: El Orfanato) is an upcoming 2007 film. It stars Belén Rueda as Laura, a woman who returns to the orphanage where she stayed for a period as a child. She purchases the house, with plans to turn it into a home for sick children.

Everything seems to going well for Laura, her husband Carlos (Cayo) and their son Simón (Príncep). However, the parents soon realize their son has an imaginary friend and horror begins to unfold.

The film is directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro. The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 20, 2007. It opened Spain’s Sitges Film Festival on October 4, 2007. The film is set to open in the U.S. on December 28, 2007. It will be a limited release.

The Orphanage has been chosen by the Spanish Academy of Films as Spain’s nominee for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The film has been nominated for 14 Goya Awards, including Best Picture.

Laura, with her physician husband Carlos, returns to an orphanage where she had lived as a child with plans of reopening it as a home for sick and disabled children. There are forces in play, however, to prevent this from happening.

Simón, their adopted son who has been living a fantasy life with invisible friends ever since moving into the cavernous home, disappears one day, leaving the grief-stricken Laura convinced that he was kidnapped by the strange old woman she’d earlier caught skulking about the grounds.

Months later, the desperate Laura agrees to have a medium explore the orphanage for metaphysical clues to her son’s disappearance, and the psychic later conjures up the very ghosts who’d been playing with Simón. Carlos is not as open as his wife and does not believe in the supernatural. Rather, he thinks his wife has gone crazy and begs her to leave the orphanage, but she refuses. She insists that she must stay and explore every nook and cranny of the creepy house until it disgorges its secrets.

Cast: Belén Rueda as Laura Fernando Cayo as Carlos Geraldine Chaplin as Aurora Montserrat Carulla as Benigna Mabel Rivera as Pilar Andrés Gertrúdix as Andrés Roger Príncep as Simón

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Strange Wilderness Film Photos and Wallpapers

Strange Wilderness is an upcoming 2008 comedy film. Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke (Steve Zahn) and his sidekick Fred Wolf (Allen Covert) host an ailing wildlife TV show “Strange Wilderness,” which is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter hatches a Hail Mary scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever – Bigfoot.

Cast: Steve Zahn – Peter Gaulke Allen Covert – Fred Wolf Jonah Hill – Cooker Justin Long – Junior Krista Allen – Krista Robert Patrick – Gus Hayden Ashley Scott – Cheryl Harry Hamlin – Sky Pierson Ernest Borgnine – Milas Jeff Garlin – Ed Lawson Kevin Heffernan – Whitaker John Farley – Mountain Doctor

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Nelly Furtado Wallpapers and Photos

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist, who also holds Portuguese citizenship.

Furtado came to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured her breakthrough Grammy Award-winning single “I’m like a Bird”. After becoming a mother and releasing the less commercially successful Folklore (2003), she returned to prominence in 2006 with the release of Loose and its hit singles “Promiscuous”, “Maneater”, “Say It Right”, “All Good Things (Come to an End)”, and “Do It.”

Furtado is known for experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres, languages, and vocal styles. This diversity has been influenced by her wide-ranging musical taste and her interest in different cultures.
Singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado heavily credits her ethnic background and childhood for spawning her creativity as a female and as an inspiring musician.

Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Furtado’s working-class parents, who are of Portuguese descent, instilled a hardcore work ethic during her upbringing. She spent eight summers working as a chambermaid with her housekeeping mother, quickly realizing what it meant to work for a living.

She turned to music for enjoyment, learning to play the guitar and the ukulele, and listened to mainstream R&B like Mariah Carey, TLC, Jodeci, Salt-N-Pepa, and Bell Biv DeVoe. Later, she delved into her older brother’s collection of Radiohead, Pulp, Oasis, Portishead, the Verve, and U2, pushing Furtado to fully embrace different musical genres, specifically Brazilian music and material by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Amalia Rodrigues.

Hip-hop was also a big catalyst in shaping Furtado’s musical appreciation. After high school, she headed to Toronto where she worked at an alarm company by day and experienced the music scene by night. She joined a hip-hop duo, Nelstar, and this opportunity led Furtado back to her hip-hop influences of De La Soul and Digable Planets. This allowed her to get comfortable with writing her own melodies and freestyle rhymes.

When Furtado started cutting loose at a local Toronto club during the week, her musical aspirations began to swirl. Brian West and Gerald Eaton, of Canadian funk-pop group the Philosopher Kings, were instantly impressed by her strong sense of performing and asked to produce her demo. During those sessions, Furtado created some of the moving work that landed on her debut for Dreamworks, Whoa, Nelly!, released in fall 2000. A headlining tour of the U.S. in spring 2001 sparked more interest from fans and critics, and a spot on Moby’s Area:One summer tour allowed singles “I’m Like a Bird” and “Turn Off the Light” to receive bigger praise. Furtado’s greatest achievement followed a year later when she earned four Grammy nods, including Song of the Year for “I’m Like a Bird.”

Folklore appeared in November 2003, nearly two months after Furtado gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Nevis. The record was a general disappointment, failing to capitalize on the success of her previous work. She didn’t return to limelight until summer 2006, with her third record, Loose. Produced almost entirely by Timbaland and boasting a much more appealing and timely style, the album earned significant attention, putting Furtado’s career back on the fast track. Lead track “Promiscuous” became an instant hit, earning her a number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Loose also topped the Billboard Top 200 album chart during its first week of release in later June 2006, becoming Furtado’s first-ever number one album.

In 2007, Furtado, Timbaland and Justin Timberlake were featured on Lil Wayne’s upcoming album Tha Carter III. Furtado also appeared in the video for Nickelback’s “Rockstar”. In September, 2007, MTV: Buzzworthy chose Furtado as the Artist of the Week, and gave an exclusive freestyle performance of “Going Away” with the Somalian-Canadian rapper K’naan.

On September 9, 2007, Furtado performed at the MTV Video Music Awards awards with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, where she sang “Do It” mixed with “The Way I Are”, “LoveStoned” and “Give It to Me”. In October 2007 Furtado was nominated for three MTV Europe Music Awards, and she won the “Album of the Year” award. After Furtado’s success in her third album, Loose, she released her first live DVD under the name Loose the Concert which included her greatest hits of 2007 and 2006 as a live videos such as “Promiscuous”, “Maneater”, “Say It Right” and “All Good Things (Come to an End)”. Loose has been used to advertise the newly released iPod classic appearing in commercials and even on the box.

On September 20, 2003 in Toronto, Furtado gave birth to a daughter, Nevis, whose father is DJ Jasper Gahunia. Furtado and Gahunia, who had been good friends for several years, remained together for four years until their breakup in 2005. Furtado told Blender magazine that they continue to be good friends and jointly share responsibility of raising Nevis.

Furtado began acting in school plays in middle school. She appeared on the episode “Some Buried Bones” of CSI: NY as Ava Brandt, a master-thief and victim of domestic abuse. She also guest starred on an episode of the day time soap opera One Life to Live, on which she performed some of her songs in a local club with Saukrates. Furtado participated in the hit Portuguese soap opera Floribella.

In June 2006, in an interview with Genre magazine, when asked if she had “ever felt an attraction to women”, Furtado replied “Absolutely. Women are beautiful and sexy.” Some considered this an announcement of bisexuality, but in August 2006, she confirmed that she was “straight, but very open-minded”. In November 2006, Furtado revealed that she once turned down US$500,000 to pose fully clothed in Playboy. In July 2007, it was reported that Furtado is engaged to Cuban sound engineer, Demacio “Demo” Castellon, who worked with her on Loose.

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Amanda Peet Wallpapers and Pictures

Amanda Peet has depicted some wildly offbeat—and often risqué—characters throughout her career. Born in New York, NY on January 11, 1972, Peet attended the Friends Seminary until she was 7-years-old, when her family moved to London.

Four years later, the family returned to New York where Peet continued her Quaker education before attending Columbia University where she earned a degree in American History. During her college years, however, Peet developed an interest in acting, taking theater coach Uta Hagen’s class junior year.

Her four year stay with Hagen prepared the actress for small parts on television and in commercials, as well as an off-Broadway production of Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing.” A short stint on “One Life to Live” (ABC, 1967-) soon followed, launching her career in earnest.

Peet continued landing television roles, including a two-episode arc on NBC’s “Law & Order” (NBC, 1990- ) in 1995 and an appearance the following year in “The Single Guy” (NBC, 1995-97). Prior to her regular starring turn in The WB’s twenty-something romantic comedy series “Jack & Jill” (1999-2001), Peet’s best-remembered TV role was likely that of Lanette, one of Jerry’s especially demanding girlfriends-of-the-week on a 1997 episode of NBC’s monumentally popular sitcom “Seinfeld” (NBC, 1989-1998).

That same year, she gave a disarming performance as the hippie-like Julia, a young concerned teacher and temporary guardian of abused child “Ellen Foster” (Jena Malone) in the moving CBS TV-movie adaptation of Kaye Gibbons’ novel. Before taking on the role of New York City’s somewhat unpolished new arrival Jacqueline ‘Jack’ Barrett on “Jack & Jill,” she disappeared from the small screen for a time to undertake several film projects.

Peet’s movie career commenced in 1994 when she filmed a featured role in the independent drama “Grind,” starring Billy Crudup and Adrienne Shelly. The film wouldn’t see release until 1997, so film audiences weren’t introduced to the actress until her memorable supporting role as Jennifer Aniston’s sister in “She’s The One” (1996).

The following year, Peet took on a featured role in the independent ensemble comedy “1999,” set at a New Year’s Eve party, then went on to appear as Donnie Wahlberg’s jilted ex-girlfriend in the gritty Boston-set drama “Southie” (1998). She impressed as co-star of the independent “Origin of the Species” (1998), and cut a surprisingly strong and sympathetic figure as an actress and aerobics instructor who is diagnosed with HIV in the formulaic drama “Touch Me” (1998).

Peet would next take a small and uncharacteristically malicious role as the bewitched Sean Patrick Flanery’s former girlfriend in the 1999 Sarah Michelle Gellar starrer “Simply Irresistible.” Her busy filming schedule from 1998 on led to a spate of late 1999-early 2000 releases featuring the young up and comer. Among them was “Body Shots,” a “Rashomon”-inspired ensemble piece chronicling different takes on a wild night by a group of eight young partiers. While the film was disappointingly executed, Peet’s performance as the down-to-earth Jane (again opposite Flanery) made the character especially relatable, and gave audiences a peek at her notable acting capabilities.

Peet continued her upward climb, breaking into higher-profile features, including her turn in the Jacqueline Susann biopic “Isn’t She Great?” (2000), starring Bette Midler as the popular novelist and socialite. She also starred opposite Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry as a dental hygienist with mob ties in the comedy “The Whole Nine Yards” (2000)—along complete with a stunning nude scene involving firearms that demonstrated her flair for comic timing.

The actress later reprised the role in the unnecessary sequel “The Whole Ten Yards” (2004). Not forsaking smaller independents, Peet acted in the suicide-themed black comedy “Jump,” which premiered at the 1999 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, then had a starring turn as a Nina, a blonde beauty vying with another captivating Nina (Cara Buono) for the affections of a writer (“Body Shots” co-star Ron Livingston) in the acclaimed 1999 festival-run feature “Two Ninas.” Something of a fixture on the independent film scene, Peet later starred in “Whipped” (2000), playing a woman simultaneously carrying on relationships with three self-absorbed playboys, much to their surprise.

The unfunny mega-dud “Saving Silverman” cast her as Jason Biggs’ gorgeous but shrewish fiancé who inspires his buddies (Jack Black and Steve Zahn) to go to absurd lengths to break them up. in 2002 Peet snagged secondary parts in a pair of watchable thrillers, “High Crimes” and “Changing Lanes,” before getting one of her best roles to date in writer-director Burr Steers’ seriocomic “Igby Goes Down,” in which she played Rachel, the icily beautiful but troubled young mistress of the distant father (Jeff Goldblum) of teen Igby (Keiran Culkin). She next appeared in the mysterioso hit thriller “Identity” (2003) as one of the group of seemingly unrelated people stranded at a roadside motel who realize they are being killed off one by one. Peet exhibited a tremendous amount of appeal in an underdeveloped supporting role in the romantic comedy “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003), playing the pert young girlfriend of an aging Lothario (Jack Nicholson) who against his will finds himself attracted to the free spirit’s tightly wound mother (Diane Keaton).

Peet had an amusing supporting turn as Will Ferrell’s career-obsessed filmmaker wife in writer-director Woody Allen’s “Melinda and Melinda” (2005), and delivered one of her most beguiling and well-etched performances to date in the romantic comedy “A Lot Like Love” (2005), in which she plays an edgy, romantically challenged aspiring actress who finds herself diverted every few years by his encounters with an earnest young man with ambitious plans for his life (Ashton Kutcher) who, though their timing always seems to be off, just might be her soul mate. She also had a nicely etched supporting turn in the political potboiler “Syriana” (2005) as the devastated young wife of an oil analyst (Matt Damon) whose family loss leaves him obsessed with helping an oil rich nation being fought over by many political corners.

That year Peet also earned strong reviews for her turn in New York’s Public Theater production of “This Is How It Goes,” Neil Labute’s play about an interracial love triangle that she joined just six weeks before opening night. Meanwhile, Peet started 2006 with a whimper, starring as the oddly adorable newlywed, Corie Bratter, in Neil Simon’s valentine to first wife Joan Baim, “Barefoot in the Park.” Critics admonished the Broadway production for being dated and unfunny, while slapping Peet’s wrists for trying to hard with her performance.

Returning to the small screen, Peet joined an ensemble cast for Aaron Sorkin’s highly anticipated, but ultimately disappointing behind-the-scenes look at a late night sketch show, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” (NBC, 2006-2007). Peet portrayed incoming network president Jordan McDeere, hired by the brass to save the network, especially the long-running “Saturday Night Live”-like show that has fallen into abject irrelevance. Cool, calm and whip-smart, McDeere’s solution is to rehire two fired producers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) while she does routine battle the network’s authoritarian corporate boss (Steven Weber).

“Studio 60” entered the fall season with high expectations, but the hysteria quickly died when audiences began tuning out in droves. Though the show was picked up for a full season, low ratings gave the impression that “Studio 60” might be off the 2007-2008 schedule. Hedging her bets, Peet returned to features to play a high-powered corporate attorney who quits her job to have a baby, forcing her underachieving, but loving husband (Zach Braff) to pick up the slack in the derivative romantic comedy, “The Ex” (2007).

In 2005, Peet appeared in the play This Is How It Goes, filling in for Marisa Tomei at the last minute after six days of rehearsal. In the same year, she also co-starred in the films Syriana with onscreen husband Matt Damon, and A Lot Like Love, with Ashton Kutcher. In February 2006, she was performing in Neil Simon’s Broadway production of Barefoot in the Park. Peet was a member of the cast of the television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which premiered on NBC on September 18, 2006. She starred with Matthew Perry, with whom she worked in The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards, and Sarah Paulson, with whom she co-starred in Jack & Jill.

In the show; Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Peet’s character Jordan McDeere was the newly-appointed president of the National Broadcasting System (NBS). In 2006, she also starred along with Dermot Mulroney in a Lifetime movie, Griffin and Phoenix, in which she played a terminally-ill woman living life to the fullest. Her most recent role was in 2007’s The Ex, a comedy co-starring Zach Braff in which Peet plays an attorney who stays home to raise a new baby. She will next co-star with Hilary Duff, Amanda Seyfried and Amber Tamblyn in Safety Glass, a film set around the Space Shuttle Challenger launch; filming will begin this fall. She will also play an FBI agent in 2008’s Untitled X-Files Sequel.

Peet married screenwriter David Benioff (whom she met on a blind date) on September 30, 2006 in New York City and gave birth to a daughter, Frances Pen, on February 20, 2007. The three live in Manhattan and Los Angeles.

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