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The Pirates! Band of Misfits

This be an upcoming 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation. It be directed by Peter Lord n' co-directed by Jeff Newitt. The film be release on 27 April 2012, in US. The Pirates! will feature the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant.

The film is based on the first two books from Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! series, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling. It is Aardman Animations' first stop-motion clay animated feature to be released in Digital 3D. If ye like Monty Python, ye will surely like this funnly film. Ye can view the film trailer, arrrrrgh!

 

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This be arrrr 17th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Apr 2012. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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The Adventures of Tintin features Pirates

Speilberg loves pirates, so he has enlisted Pete Jackson to help him craft the WW2 era comic book into a 3D animation. The story be based on comic series by Belgian artist Herge. Tintin, a young journalist buys a model tallship named the Unicorn, based on a 17th century treasure ship captained by Sir Francis Haddock and attached by Red Rackham the pirate. There is a good ship battle between the two ships. The movie has been getting good review, but I haven't seen it yet.

TinTin Movie Trailer

 

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This be arrrr 14th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Jan 2012. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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A Pirate's Life Reality Show

This be a documentary-based reality show about The MacKay Pirate Family, Golden Age pirates living in modern times, and their pirate mates. Unlike their raping and pillaging ancestors, these modern-day pirates are focused on giving back via art, entertainment, culture, charity, and living history. Icarus A&E's most recent reality creation, Knights of Mayhem, will air on National Geographic in Fall 2011.

A PIRATE'S LIFE will highlight the exploding sub-culture of pirate reenactment enthusiasts through the day to day lives of “The MacKay Pirate Family” and the community they’re a part of which is made up of talented swordsmen, marksmen, sailors, artisans, artists and musicians. We’ll prominently feature many of these fine Rogues who, like the MacKays, actually make their living from the pirate life and are focused on giving back to their communities through art, entertainment, culture, charity, and living history.

 

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This be arrrr 12th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Nov  2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Treachery n' a Dead Man's Promise

One of my good maties from the Port of San Diego, Oderlesseye, send me a DVD he crafted. This be a fun short 30 minute DVD of a classic Ninja vs. Pirate saga. The video will premiere at the event. This year Pyrate Daze is donating to the Heartfelt Cardiac Project and the OC Fallen Firefighters Fund. Friends of Cindy Warner aka Willoughby Caught will be given a website address where cash gifts can be sent to her to help her cancer recovery. Ye can find out more from: Oderlesseye's website.

I hope that this little project might impire more pyrates to make their own video instead of relying on the East Indian Mouse Company to produce Pirate Movies. So if ye so, let me a copy n' I be happy to review it fer ye.

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This be arrrr 9th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Aug 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Neverland TV Mini-Series

The live-action project is a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic novel Peter Pan. It was written and directed by Nick Willing, and the story "centers on Peter (Rowe) who, along with his pals of young pickpockets, have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a magical orb which transports them to another world - Neverland. Filled with white jungles and imposing cities formed out of trees created by Dr. Fludd (Dance) and inhabited by a colony of tree spirits led by Tinker Bell (Knightley), this mysterious realm welcomes unknown friends and enemies snatched from time. These include power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel) and her band of 18th century pirates who search for the answer to eternal youth, a secret guarded by a Holy Man (Trujillo). As the fight to save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland."

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This be arrrr 8th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Jul 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Pyrates TV series by Ridley n' Tony Scott

This 10 to 13 episode TV series be based on historical events, Pyrates be described as a gritty portrayal of the men and women who pulled off the largest heist on pirate history -- the capture of the Spanish silver fleet in 1628 -- sparking the golden age of piracy, a time when there was greater honor amongst thieves than those who hunted them. FX and Fox International Channels teamed with producers Graham King and Gale Anne Hurd for 17th century pirate drama Port Royal. The limited series be set fer the summer 2012. The series be created by Law & Order/Numbers veteran Barry Schindel, with Stephen Hopkins (24) on board to direct the first episode. Indie producer Ensemble Entertainment is producing in association with Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Prods (Gladiator)

When I did my research on the capture of the Spanish Silver fleet of 1628, from the Battle in bay of Matanzas, it was a Dutch VOC squadron action off the Cuban coast, not a buccaneer action. There might of been some Dutch Privateers invovled, but it mostly seemed like a regular naval battle during the Eighty Year war.

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This be arrrr 7th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Jun 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides

Well ye be a lubber if ye didn't know about this one. Be prepared fer a grand summer of pyrating. Make sure you have all yar gear fer the night of May 19. Love o' hate the Pirate of the Caribbean movie series, it does help float all the pirate boats, which be good fer the pirate community in general. This one is about the Fountain of Youth, (which is about a mile down the road from my store) n' mermaids (wait until you see the 2012 Hot Pirate Babe Calendar).

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This be arrrr 6th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for May 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Two Different Treasure Island Re-makes in the Works!

Warner Bros. be workin' on another film version of the classic pirate tale Treasure Island in the works – one which will “modernize” the novel in the same fashion as the recent Sherlock Holmes film. Appropriately, Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram is working with Warner Bros. on this new “updated” adventure film, which will be based on a script by relative newcomer Michael Gilio.

SyFy n' RHI Entertainment be takin' on a new television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Treasure Island. This television movie be off to a great start with the casting of Elijah Wood as Ben Gunn, Donald Sutherland as Flint, and Eddie Izzard as Long John Silver. Toby Regbo will play Jim Hawkins and Phillip Glenister, Rupert-Penry-Jones, David Harewood and Keith Allen have also been cast in Treasure Island. The project set to film in Puerto Rice and Ireland.

While there have been almost a dozen Treasure Island films produced over the years, the one that most people remember is the 1950 Disney film which starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. It was Disney‘s first completely live-action film, and the first screen version of Treasure Island made in color.

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This be arrrr 4th issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Mar 2011. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

 

May 20 be the date when POTC4 be landin' at a theather near yar shores. Ye can watch themovie trailer, this one be about Blackbeard, his daughter n' the Fountain of Youth, which be about one mile from my shop in St Augustine, but Disney decided to shoot it in Hawaii instead.

 

Gasparilla Pirate Festival be the largest pirate event with over 400,000 attendin! It celebrates the apocryphal legend of Jose Gaspar, supposedly a Spanish pirate captain who operated in around Tampa, Florida. I be takin' thee formal group portraits of four scurvy krewes.

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This be arrrr 3rd issue of the Pirate Fashions Newsletter for Feb 2011 when we were still located in St Augustine, FL. In transfer the old website to the new one, we had issues transferring the newsletter. So we be reposing the feature article into this blog instead of losing all the past newsletters.

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