2011 People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp Wins Favorite Movie Actor

People's Choice Awards regular Johnny Depp was a winner again at Wednesday night, January 5 prize-giving in Los Angeles. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star edged out "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson for Favorite Movie Actor a year after he was awarded the first Favorite Movie Actor of the Decade Award at the 2010 event. 

Pattinson also missed out on the Favorite Male Star Under 25 Award - toZac Efron. Other early winners includedTaylor Swift, who claimed the Favorite Country Artist honor and the Kardashians, who landed the Favorite TV Guilty Pleasure prize. 

Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Lynch were named the Favorite TV Comedy Actor and Actress and Adam Sandler received the Favorite Comedic Star award from his "Just Go With It" co-star Jennifer Aniston. 
"House M.D." star Lisa Edelstein picked up the Favorite TV Drama Actress prize and the medical program was honored as Favorite TV Drama, while hit shows "Hawaii Five-0 and William Shatner's "$#*! My Dad Says" were named Favorite New Drama and Favorite New TV Comedy. "Glee" was honored as Favorite TV Comedy. 

Queen Latifah hosted the show and was among the night's performers.Selena Gomez and Kid Rock also hit the stage.

2011 People's Choice Awards Winners in Movie

People's Choice Awards has once again hauled "Twilight" film franchise. After the first film won big at the same event last year, the annual awards show saw "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" leading the pack of winners this year.

The third installment of the vampire movie series was picked as Favorite Movie, beating other big hits like "Alice in Wonderland" and Inception". "Eclipse" also won over "Alice" and "Inception" in a competition to get Favorite Drama Movie kudo. 

The other gongs taken home by "Eclipse" that night were Favorite Movie Actress and Favorite On-Screen Team. Kristen Stewart took credit for the Favorite Movie Actress title, mumbling through her acceptance speech as usual. She was later accompanied by co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner when taking the later award.

Losing Favorite Movie prize, "Iron Man 2" was still able to score a kudo for Favorite Action Movie. "Toy Story 3" did not go home empty handed as well for it was named Favorite Family Movie.

Johnny Depp was the most shining actor according to People's Choice, winning Favorite Movie Actor over younger stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Pattinson and Lautner. Zac Efron was the most Favorite Movie Star Under 25, joined by Adam Sandler who celebrated that night for he won Favorite Comedic Star and his film "Grown Ups" was chosen as Favorite Comedy Movie.

The 37th annual People's Choice Awards held on January 5 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles was hosted by Queen Latifah. The show also handed out prizes for people's favorites in TV, music and some other categories.

2011 People's Choice Awards Winners in Movie:

• Favorite Movie: "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse"
• Favorite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp
• Favorite Movie Actress: Kristen Stewart
• Favorite Action Movie: "Iron Man 2"
• Favorite Action Star: Jackie Chan
• Favorite Drama Movie: "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse"
• Favorite Family Movie: "Toy Story 3"
• Favorite Comedy Movie: "Grown Ups"
• Favorite Comedic Star: Adam Sandler
• Favorite On-Screen Team: "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" - Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner
• Favorite Movie Star Under 25: Zac Efron
• Favorite Horror Movie: "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

New Behind the Scenes Video of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'

A new behind the scenes look at "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" has made its way out via Disney's Movie Surfers and now the video has hit the web. Featuring several scenes from the film as well as the making process, the snippet also includes an interview with Johnny Depp who says he enjoys filming every scene in the movie.

This fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie will present a standalone story of Depp's Jack Sparrow who will cross paths with a woman from his past, Angelica, but he's not sure if it's love - or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. Still, the two along with Sparrow's nemesis Blackbeard aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge on a journey to find the fabled Fountain of Youth together.

Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane joins the cast to portray Angelica and Blackbeard respectively. Jerry Bruckheimer still serves as a producer while Rob Marshall takes the helming duty. This upcoming action comedy movie will hit 3-D theaters on May 20, 2011 in the U.S.

New 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Photo Shows Blackbeard's Flag

Jerry Bruckheimer is once again giving a treat to "Pirates of the Caribbean" fans by sharing another photo from "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides". Posted on his Twitter on December 29, the image reveals a flag which could be seen on Blackbeard's ship in the film as he writes, "Blackbeard's flag flies high on the Queen Anne's Revenge mast."
Aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, Jack Sparrow will embark on a mission to seek the Fountain of Youth as ordered by King George II, joined by his nemesis Blackbeard and his love interest Angelica, who is also Blackbeard's daughter. Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Johnny Depp returns as the eccentric pirate, with Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz portraying Blackbeard and Angelica respectively. Rob Marshall directs this fourth installment of the action comedy series, which is slated to hit U.S. theaters on May 20, 2011.

Johnny Depp Does 'Rum Diary' to Fulfill Promise

 Johnny Depp is glad he was finally able to make a movie version of Hunter S. Thompson's "The Rum Diary" - because it fulfills a promise he made to the writer before his death. The Hollywood star met cult author Thompson "many years ago" and claims he and the writer discovered a long-lost script at Thompson's home, which they agreed to work on as a film with director Bruce Robinson.

The script Depp and Thompson discovered was published as "The Rum Diary" in 1998, but the movie project fell through because Robinson had decided to take a break from Hollywood. So Depp was delighted when the filmmaker revisited the proposal following Thompson's death in 2005, as he can finally fulfill his promise when the picture is released next year.

He tells Britain's Culture magazine, "Hunter and I, many, many years ago, unearthed this script in his basement. He thought it was pretty good, and we made this deal in the middle of the night that we'd make it into a film and produce it together."

"A year or two later, we'd had meetings with financiers etc. Our first choice to direct then was Bruce Robinson... (But) he didn't want anything to do with movies... Hunter made his exit, and I pursued Bruce like a bandit, a fiend, and we got him."

Depp famously played Thompson in the 1998 big screen version of his book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".