Depp’s attainment to surveillance Disney’s “The Lone Ranger” film wasn’t indeed all that shocking, of course. The actor has mostly showed adult as an unannounced guest during Comic-Con. Last year, he popped adult during CinemaCon to foster his film “Dark Shadows.”

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In a Disney movie, Depp stars as Tonto, a Native American who forms an doubtful partnership with concerned Texas Ranger John Reid (Armie Hammer), a.k.a. a Lone Ranger. Gore Verbinski directs.

Depp hardly spoken anything on theatre during a Colosseum — not that a throng seemed to mind, as fans hooted enthusiastically as he waved to a audience. “Armie is really high — that means we’re not small,” he said, station subsequent to his 6-foot-5 costar. “Anything to supplement to that, Armando?”

“No,” Hammer replied, and afterwards a dual exited a theatre and roughly 20 mins of formerly secret footage from a $225-million-plus prolongation began to play.

Exhibitors seemed to have a churned greeting to a new footage, that attempts to strike a tongue-in-cheek tone. After shutting down prolongation on a film in 2011 to work on shortening a picture’s budget, Disney has a lot roving on a still really pricey movie, that hits theaters over a Jul 4 weekend.

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On stage, studio arch Alan Horn pronounced he was mostly astounded by how few people in a attention seem to be fazed by a idea of a $200-million budget. It’s usually when he tells colleagues that $200 million could buy 600,000 dinners for 4 during one’s favorite grill with a bottle of booze that he gets a reaction, he says.

“Of course, not each film can work …. We ask for your support if we go by that. Not that we caring about money,” he quipped. 

Horn seemed during palliate in front of a auditorium, enormous that his new transition from Warner Bros. boss to Disney conduct was done elementary by remembering “bunny, mouse.”

He pronounced he shortly learned, though, that Disney was “different since it’s a usually studio that is in fact a formula …. The assembly might not know what they’re going to see, yet they know what they’re not going to see.” Part of that strategy, he added, includes releasing between 14 and 15 cinema per year — 8 of that are tentpoles.

The studio’s arriving slate, that includes Angelina Jolie as “Maleficent,” Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks” and George Clooney in “Tomorrowland,” was afterwards outlined. Horn also announced that a seventh “Star Wars” film will be expelled in summer 2015, followed by dual sequels in 2017 and 2019. In a years between those releases, spinoff properties from a “Star Wars” formula will strike theaters.

The film that arguably got a biggest pull during a presentation, though, was “Monsters University.” The charcterised prequel to 2001’s “Monsters Inc.,” out Jun 21, was screened in a entirety and got a comfortable accepting from a crowd.

The film follows a monster, Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal), who journeys to Monsters University, where he hopes to turn a “professional scarer.” But Mike fast realizes he’s not as frightening as his peers and teams adult with associate beast Sulley (John Goodman) to infer everybody wrong.

Horn, for one, was bullish about a Pixar Animation title’s box-office potential.

“They give us one solid of a film a year,” he pronounced of John Lasseter’s studio, “and they’ve had 13 smashes in a row.”

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