Well-versed in crafting stylish, glossy images and particularly adept at creating suspense, film director Gore Verbinski made short films and worked on award-winning advertising campaigns – winning four Clio awards, one Cannes advertising Silver Lion, and created the Budweiser Frogs – before moving into film. While making a rather inauspicious debut with the family comedy “Mouse Hunt” (1997), Verbinski propelled himself into the upper echelon of film directors with “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003), a wild and fun return to a genre Hollywood had long ago
About a year ago, Hasbro sold the movie rights to several of its board games to Universal Pictures, ignoring the fact that making a movie out of a board game is a stupid idea. In times like these, Hollywood will take any ideas it
OK, there's good news. And there's bad news. Then there's better news. The good news is that no matter what, Gore Verbinski's next movie will take place at sea. The bad news is, it won't be with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the