21st of september 2004 Dear Johnny Friends, Even if you are not going to the first Johnny Depp Convention, there are things to check out on the web site. There are even some cute shirts you might want. www.deppcon.com UPDATES We are proud to give you the attendees the first update of a few of the guest speakers coming to DeppCon. This information will be out later today on our new update. So here it is first to you as mentioned in last week's update. First we have Louie Lambie. Louie was a member of the Lady Washington when she sailed to the Caribbean for the Pirates of the Caribbean film. He played a British seaman in several scenes. Then in the very last shot of the movie of Jack arriving back on the Black Peal, he was added to Jack's crew. Since Louie is an actual sailor, he 's the one you see start to climb the rigging in that last scene. Then we have Jerry Reyes. Jerry is a full time actor. He is currently filming a movie with Adam Sandler. Jerry was one of the members of Jack's crew. He travelled to all locations during the filming and he got to be in many scenes with Johnny. Both have been contacted for Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and will soon start preproduction in Los Angeles. Jerry and Louie will be doing full talks and Q&A about their filming experiences. They will also be demonstrating pirates techinques. They will discuss working with Johnny . They will show our convention goers some scenes from the movie and explain them in more details. This is not a treat to miss. We may even get a slight hint about POTC 2..... Photo opps and autographs will be available after the Q&A. Stay tuned for more information on this special event . You will recieve an additional email of photos of Jerry and Louie from the movie... Spread the world. It is not to late to have friends join us. UPDATES Larry Karaszewski ,one of the screenwriters of Ed Wood, has personally invited DeppCon to a special screening of Ed Wood. The screening will take place on Sunday Oct 24 at 4 p.m. There will be a Q&A afterwards with him and Scott Alexander ( the other screenwriter of Ed Wood ) . This screening ties into the upcoming DVD release of Ed Wood and is by invitation only. Larry and Scott met while roommates at USC college in Los Angeles. They became writing partners shortly after. They won the Golden Satelitte, The Writer's Guild's Paul Selvin Honory and the Golden Globes Awards in 1997 for the screenplay of People vs/ Larry Flynt. They were also nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for Best Screenplay written directly for the Screen for Ed Wood. They have written the screen play for the upcoming movie The Pacifier staring Vin Diesel in theaters later this year. They have recently announced that they will be writing the screenplay for an upcoming movie on The Marx Brothers. DEPPCON UPDATE : We have been invited to a special happy hour at the Viper Room during our Depp con convention. We will be in the down stairs part of the club which is Johnny's private area. Merchandise will be available to purchase .We are even getting some merch to give away at the convention. This event will take place Friday before doors open at the VR so we have a special visit. This event is for convention goers 21 +. Merchandise sales will be make available for those under 21. We will also have discount admissions for the evening shows at the VR all weekend. Special thanks to Mike and Sal of The Viper Room for being a supporting sponsor of Deppcon. We have been busy finalizing some nice treats for attendees from all the movie companies that Johnny has had films with. We are also checking the archives and finding some rarely seened TV apperances and movies by Johnny. We got old episodes of Entertainment Tonight, Johnny's guest appearance on the Tv show Hotel , Slow Burn and many more. These will be showned in our screening room though out the weekend. Then there is the POTC Interactive event. The details are : dressing up in your own character choice's garb is encouraged but not mandatory, creativity in creating your own version is appreciated but not necessary for those willing in spirit but lacking in time and imagination .We encourage you to dress the part of your favorite character, arrrrrh, be it a pirate, a class wench or be you the parrot, all adds to the fun of this here adventure...yo ho me hearties...dress up! DEPP CON UPDATE Depp con has signed on with Budget Rent a Car to be one of our official sponsors. Budget is offering a special rate for those of you needing a car during your stay at Depp con. They have standard cars or fancy sport cars what ever style you should desire. You can even pick up your car at The Hyatt hotel if you wish. Please check the Depp con website under the travel link for all the details. How to get to DEPPCON 2004!! 10-22 to 10-24 2004 The Hyatt hotel has also given Depp Con attendees free computer use for their stay at the convention. We know many of you spend lots of time on line. So rest assured that you will be able to check your email at any time. The Hyatt business center will arrange to have a computer set up that can be check for free at any time 24 hours for convention members. Just show you Deppcon name badge and you are all set. For attendees arriving earlier than Friday, just give you name. We will have a list with the business center as well. This way you don't have to worry what you are missing on line while in between breaks at the convention. We have our merchandise links set up on line. You will see a variety of Depp related merch including , Depp Con merchandise. We suggest that you place your Depp con merchandise now on line as all of it will not be at the convention. It can also make great gifts for friends and family who make not be able to attend the convention. Depp Con 2004 | CafePress Deppcon has music from The Kids and P that will be playing at various time during the convention. This is a good treat for those who may not have heard much of music. Last week we mentioned items for the movie companies that we are gathering. Here is an update on one: Disney has given us a few POTC related items . They will be used as door or raffle prizes. One of the items was only given out at promotional screenings for POTC and many people have never seen it..... We will announce more of these shortly. Also mentioned last week we have a special Viper Room trip planned plus our evening POTC interactive event. For more infor on these, check out the websites What's new link. We are also checking the archives and finding some rarely seened TV apperances and movies by Johnny. We got old episodes of Entertainment Tonight, Johnny's guest appearance on the TV show Hotel , Slow Burn and many more. These will be showned in our screening room though out the weekend.