The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Heath Ledger’s ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ Premieres At Cannes

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is an important film for many reasons. First and foremost it has the final performance by one Heath Ledger, an actor who was taken away from us well before his time. It’s also a Terry Gilliam film, and they’re always intriguing. And then there’s the fact that Johnny Depp, Jude...
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‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ May Not Get U.S. Release

Any of you reading this in the United States, which I suspect is most of you, may miss out on seeing Heath Ledger’s final movie due to a lack of distributor in North America. Lionsgate has signed on to distribute the movie in the UK, but the Americans are proving to be a tougher market....
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‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ Struggling To Find U.S. Buyer

Heath Ledger can obviously currently be seen in every cinema around the world playing The Joker in The Dark Knight. And while his performance is getting rave reviews, and has helped the Batman film to become the biggest box-office hit of the year, it’s not the deceased actor’s last film. That honour goes to The...
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A CGI Heath Ledger May Now Star In ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’!

The plot thickens every day on the set of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. But it hasn’t got anything to do with the plot, which by now is set in stone, but about how Terry Gilliam will now manage to finish the film with his lead actor Heath Ledger sadly no longer with us. We’ve...
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Rumours Abound About ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’

We’ve already heard from a studio source about what may happen on Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus to keep the movie going despite the death of lead actor on the film Heath Ledger, but now new rumours have emerged which seem to indicate even more adventurous tactics. The studio source claimed last week...
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Johnny Depp To Replace Heath Ledger In Terry Gilliam’s ‘Dr. Parnassus’?

Kirsten wrote yesterday about how Heath Ledger’s premature death has left the films which he was involved in with various different problems. The chances are that The Dark Knight will still be released as expected, with the only things being changed, the marketing campaigns which heavily featured Ledger. Terry Gilliam’s latest masterpiece, The Imaginarium of...
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