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Orlando Bloom was at the TCA summer press tour to promote a forthcoming big-budget fantasy drama for Amazon. However, while the SVOD service teased some crew news on the TV adaptation of Lord of the Rings, Bloom was on stage to talk up Carnival Row. But Bloom did reveal that Peter Jackson was prescient during the…

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office says there’s no truth to claims the Republican abruptly left an interactive Comic-Con exhibit hosted by Amazon Prime, after learning he would be portrayed as an "immigrant." The brouhaha started when Carnival Row star Orlando Bloom said during a Friday panel on the upcoming…

Amazon has set an August 30 premiere for its Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne-fronted fantasy drama Carnival Row. The SVOD service has also posted the first, short teaser for the series, which comes from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham and Legendary Television. The eight-part series is set in a Victorian fantasy…

Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom is the latest A-list actor to sign up to read a children's bedtime story for the BBC. Bloom, who is set to star in Amazon’s Carnival Row next year, will read We Are Together, written and illustrated by Britta Teckentrup, as part of CBeebies' Bedtime Story strand. The story…

EXCLUSIVE: Eventually released in China much later than anticipated, the Orlando Bloom-starring S.M.A.R.T. Chase was not the big box office winner its producers desired. But Shanghai-based Bliss Media has come out the victor in a long BTS legal battle over the pic. Almost two years after Stateside-set Das Films sued…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo, and Orlando Bloom have signed on to star in Needle In A Timestack, the latest film from John Ridley.  In addition, BRON Studios has boarded the project as a producer taking over after Miramax was originally attached. Oscar-winning Ridley is directing the pic…

In his first major TV role, Orlando Bloom has been tapped to topline Amazon’s eight-episode straight-to-series fantasy drama Carnival Row. The Lord Of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean star also will serve as a producer of the series, from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham, Paul McGuigan and Legendary Television. Ca…

After his surprise visit to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland in California last month, Johnny Depp gave Disneyland Paris a jolt on Sunday as he disembarked in front of a galleon moored at the park’s Castle. Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (or Salazar’s Revenge as it’s…

Will Turner is back in the latest promo for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Returning to the franchise since the third film, At World's End, Orlando Bloom reprises his role as Captain of the Flying Dutchman. The last time audiences saw Turner was when his heart was carved out and placed in the Dead…

Alex Walton and Ken Kao's BLOOM will sell international on Unlocked, the thriller directed by Michael Apted and based on a screenplay by Peter O'Brien. Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom star with Noomi Rapace. Lorenzo DiBonaventura is producing with Georgina Townsley and Erik Howsam. Silver Reel will finance and…

The Cannes Film Festival will wrap with Jérôme Salle’s noir thriller Zulu on May 26. The Pathé, Lobster Tree and M6 Films co-production stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom. Shot on location in South Africa, it’s based on the award-winning novel by French author Caryl Férey. Whitaker and Bloom play Cape Town cops…

Orlando Bloom will star opposite Condola Rashad in a modern revival of William Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers with a racial twist. "They could have been any number of different ethnicities," director David Leveaux told the New York Times, referring to his casting choices. "The two actors I wanted to be…