Johnny Depp is eyeing his Hollywood comeback with Penélope Cruz! Depp and Cruz are reteaming for 'Day Drinker,' a thriller that Marc Webb will direct for Lionsgate. The film marks Depp's most high-profile attempt to mount a Hollywood comeback following the many controversies that arose from his messy divorce from actress Amber Heard.
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00:00Johnny Depp is eyeing his Hollywood comeback with Penelope Cruz.
00:04Depp and Cruz are re-teaming for Day Drinker, a thriller that Mark Webb will direct for Lionsgate.
00:10The film marks Depp's most high-profile attempt to mount a Hollywood comeback,
00:14following the many controversies that arose from his messy divorce from actress Amber Heard.
00:19The actor, in recent years, starred in the French period drama Jeanne du Barry last year
00:24and directed the period indie Modi Three Days on the Wing of Madness
00:28that just played at the Rome Film Festival, but those were not commercial plays and were made
00:32with European backers. The action film follows a cruise ship bartender who meets a mysterious
00:38day drinker, only for both of them to find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly
00:42and connected in unexpected ways. Drinker will mark the fourth time that Depp and Cruz have
00:47worked together, after Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides, and Murder on
00:52the Orient Express. For more on this story, head to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment
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