Movie News Quick Hits: Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp to Re-Team on 'The Lone Ranger'

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  • Curious to see what Julie Taymor’s ill-fated ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ musical looks like in motion? Facebook has a quick behind-the-scenes look at it.

  • Gore Verbinski will follow up his animated film ‘Rango’ with ‘The Lone Ranger.’ Jerry Bruckheimer is on board as a producer while Johnny Deppwill star as the Ranger’s sidekick, Tonto.

  • In an attempt to make the platform a more viable streaming competitor with the likes of Hulu and Netflix, Google is currently in negotiations to bring Miramax’s library of some 700 films to YouTube.

  • Prolific exorcist Reverend Thomas J. Euteneur believes that films like the **‘Harry Potter’ **and **‘Twilight’ **series glamorize evil, which opens up a window to possession for “many, many young people.” Interestingly, he also doesn’t like how ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ implies that a person can be possessed against their own will.;

  • In case you missed it, Pixar have made a rather extraordinary short film called ‘It Gets Better’ featuring many of its openly gay and lesbian artists reassuring troubled youths that life, well, gets better:

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