We can all think of a video game that somehow, beyond all sense and rationality, made it from the little screen to the big, and we usually wince when we recall them. The list of films based on video games is arguably one of the most excruciating compilations of film fails. So why do people keep on trying? And why do they always suck?

The first teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has been released. Come have a look-see!

Certain of their pending success, Disney jumps the gun and preps Pirates 5 and 6.

Horrible acting is a curse. It’s shameless, bland and just downright ridiculous – these are the Top Ten Worst Attempts At Acting!

Long ago, no one wanted pirates on land. All they did was cause trouble, stealing your silver and seducing your girlfriend. So who, in the name of the Jolly Roger, allowed a pirate into a primary school? Captain Jack Sparrow can claim he was invited all he wants, but I know his plan. To entice all the school children into joining his pirate crew so that he can become the greatest plunderer on the Seven Seas.

Johnny Depp is in London to film part of the next in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.

Swashbuckling star Orlando Bloom has wed his fiancée Miranda Kerr. The babyfaced star, who sashayed onto our screens in 2002 playing dead-eye elf Legolas, married Australian underwear model Kerr at..

The chairman of Pinewood Studios, Michael Grade, has come under attack from investor Crystal Amber regarding its plummeting profits.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has had its budget cut! Pirates 4 will be made for a completely pathetic $200 million, rather than the juicy $300 million the last film, At World’s End, had to play with. Disney’s new chairman Rich Ross “wants to be mean and lean and cost effective,” according to Pirates 4 producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Many scenes, including an action sequence set on a frozen river Thames, have been cut as a result. But Bruckheimer says of the removed scenes: “the audience will never miss them”.

It’s been confirmed that the National Treasure franchise is to get a third installment. Legendary producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean) has hired Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro, writers of the upcoming Prince of Persia movie, to pen the third film in the franchise.