Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of _Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest . Gore Verbinski does not like publicity. He has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife and his two sons. He resides with his family in Los Angeles, California.
Winner of 4 Clio Awards and one Cannes advertising Silver Lion.
Creator of the Budweiser frogs.
Was guitarist of punk band, The Daredevils, with Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and Josh Freese of The Vandals.
Was guitarist in punk band, Little Kings.
Was brought in to take over the last 18 days of shooting on The Time Machine , as director Simon Wells was suffering from "extreme exhaustion". Wells returned for post-production.
Ranked #79 on Premieres 2004 annual Power 100 List. It is his first appearance on the list.
Was a 1987 graduate of the prestigious UCLA film school
His Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest holds many box office distinctions, such as: fastest film to reach $100M (in just two days), most tickets sold in a single day ($55.8M worth), and largest sum earned in seven days ($196M total and counting). The blockbuster sequel also reached $200M in eight days, tying the industry record.
In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $37 million.
One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS in 2008.
Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl .
His paternal grandparents, Pauline Jachimowicz and Benjamin Verbinski, were Polish immigrants.
The tape is something that is promised throughout the movie, so I felt,it was important that there was enough there that resonated. And yet,in our movie, they have to also serve as clues. So we had the burden of,just creating something that felt abstract but then also had to work in,a concrete fashion and also had to be justifiable from the story about,the child.
The tape had to sort of function on three levels. It had to be,disturbing on its own, and it had to provide a series of clues, and,then it had to also have some resonance to the author . . . in the movie.
So you kind of have to celebrate that but at the same time try to,reinvent it where you can.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in. .
