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| | Brad Pitt talks dirty in new Chanel No. 5 ad campaign teasers: sexy or meh? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, we covered the Women?s Wear Daily exclusive on Brad Pitt?s Chanel contract, and how the new ad campaign would be dropping on October 15th, and how Brad probably got paid somewhere in the vicinity of $7 million for the campaign ? a figure that many of you took issue with. You know that Nicole Kidman got much more than that when she became the face of Chanel No. 5, right? She was reportedly paid $12 million for her appearances in commercials and the print campaign. But I digress. WWD said that Brad?s Chanel commercial would ?feature Pitt speaking in a way that the viewer assumes he?s speaking to a woman ? and then it?s revealed that the addressee is actually the scent.? I wrote, ?It might be kind of sexy. The commercial sounds like it?s just Brad talking dirty to a perfume. Which is kind of funny, and it could be really great.? Well, the teasers have come out, and it?s pretty much Brad talking dirty to a perfume:
It has potential. It could be good. I know this is going to become about how TOTALLY AWFUL Brad looks (?) and how ?Jennifer Aniston had him when he was hot? and all of that middle school stuff ? most of which I disagree with strenuously ? but can we all just admit to ourselves that Brad actually has a great voice? He has that Missouri drawl, it?s sort of Southern and low and it makes me tingly. His voice has improved over the years. I remember when it was a lot higher.
These are some photos that some people claim are part of Brad’s Chanel campaign. They’re nice photos overall, so enjoy.
Photos courtesy of Chanel, Bolero Mag.
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| | International Poster for Brad Pitt's "Killing Them Softly" Released | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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In preparation for its October release, a new international poster for the crime comedy "Killing Them Softly" has been unveiled.
The Andrew Dominik film is adapted from a George V. Higgins novel and is set in New Orleans. The story follows professional enforcer Jackie Cogan ( Brad Pitt) who investigates a heist that occurs doing a high stakes, mob-protected, poker game.
Also joining Brad in the cast are James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, Bella Heathcote, Vincent Curatola, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Linara Washington.
MTV recently spoke with up and coming actor McNairy, who plays one of the thieves in the movie, about how the movie relates to today's audience though it was based on a book written and set in the 1970s.
He said, "It's definitely got a political backdrop in the book, and [Andrew Dominik] has obviously modernized it and brought it up to speed with the McCain-Obama times and the Bush administration and all that. In the book, it's set in Boston. We made it in anywhere in industrial America. It's not specific as to where we are. There's an Australian in the movie with an Australian accent. I have a Boston accent. I think Brad's got more of a Chicago accent. It's a whole group of different people in this industrial world."
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| | Brad Pitt in cowboy couture on the UK set of 'The Counselor?: hot or busted' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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At first I thought Brad Pitt was wearing a normal suit in these photos. But he?s not. It?s a Western-style suit, but it?s still kind of beautiful on him. Like, Cowboy Couture by Tom Ford or something. That?s one of Brad?s strengths ? he makes most outfits look like Tom Ford, even when they?re a hokey ?cowboy? costume. These are photos from the London set of The Counselor, that Ridley Scott movie in which Michael Fassbender plays the lead guy. We had Fassy photos (from the London set) last week ? go here to see the Fassy-goodness. Fassy was going commando under HIS suit. I don?t think Brad Pitt is going commando under his.
The Counselor is based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, and the film is being directed by Ridley Scott. Scott got this film a really quick turn-around, it feels like. The project was announced, and suddenly Fassbender was attached and Brad was rumored to play a supporting part and there were even casting rumors for Angelina Jolie too. But the Jolie casting didn?t happen, unfortunately. The cast now includes Fassy, Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem (this is Javi’s second McCarthy adaptation since his Oscar-winning performance in No Country For Old Men), and John Leguizamo. This is the second time Fassy has worked with Ridley ? they did Prometheus together. This is also the second time Brad and Ridley have worked together ? Thelma & Louise, remember? It?s funny to me that Brad is basically playing another cowboy-hustler in this movie. I haven?t read the McCarthy book (yet), but this is basic plot: ?A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.? Fassy is the lawyer.
Should we talk about Brad?s hair? He?s dyed it. And he?s got a ponytail. And it looks greasy. This is basically what my hair looks like at the gym. He?s not really giving it to me here, but I do like him in this shade of blue.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Getting ready to jet off to his next destination, Brad Pitt was spotted getting on a private jet in Kassel, Germany on Friday (June 14).
With his long hair pulled back into a messy ponytail, the "Fight Club" stud rode into the airport in a black Audi SUV wearing a white shirt unbuttoned exposing his chest with light grey pants and before climbing into the jet he took a few moments to greet and take pictures with airport staff and the boarder police.
Just a few hours before catching his flight, Brad was spotted at "Documenta" in Kassel which is an art-exhibition that focuses on modern and contemporary art.
On a personal note, Pitt recently reiterated the fact that his and wife-to-be, Angelina Jolie have yet to pick a time for their upcoming nuptials, telling press, "We truly have no date. I'm still hoping we'll figure out our marriage equality in the States before then', Pitt said referring to the debate in the US over same sex marriage.
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| | Brad Pitt's Revvin' Good Time in London | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Possibly looking to add to his motorcycle collection, Brad Pitt stopped by a Honda Goldwing specialist bike shop in London, England on Wednesday (June 13).
After looking around the store, the "Fight Club" actor posed for a picture with a staff member of HGB Motorcycles while offering up a wee smile through his large sunglasses that he wore with a grey sweater and light colored slacks.
On the business front, Brad's latest film, "World War Z" - which he is producing and starring in - has become a bit of a nightmare causing the release date to be pushed back from December of this year to June of 2013.
The zombie film is said to follow a U.N. employee who is racing against time and fate as he desperately tries to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.
Apparently, the trouble with the film started when Brad hired Marc Forster as the director - who has little experience with effects - because he was forced to work with a more seasoned team leading to several conflicts, according to sources with ties to the production.
Brad will now work with the team to do as many as five weeks of complex reshoots starting sometime in September for "World War Z" which is now said to be costing more than $170 million.
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| | Is Brad Pitt's film 'World War Z' going to be a $170 million disaster' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These photos just popped up at Fame/Flynet, and I became enchanted by them immediately. According to the photo agency, ?Actor Brad Pitt visits a Honda Goldwing specialist motorcycle shop in London, England on June 13, 2012. The Hollywood actor posed with staff of HGB Motorcycles in Ruislip during the brief visit.? Is it just me or does Brad look really sexy here? It?s the hair – it looks sort of blown-out, but it?s not girlishly fluffy. It?s an interesting length on a man approaching 50 years old, but Brad really makes it work. All I really needed was one of these photos, the idea of ?motorcycle shopping? and I had already formed a little sexual fantasy involving Brad, Michael Fassbender and a motorcycle ride in the English countryside. Mmmm? English country threesome. Nice.
Brad is keeping the long hair for a little while longer, at least. You know why? Because he has to go back and film even more scenes for World War Z. WWZ filmed for months and months last year, all over Europe. It was the neverending film shoot. And now the ending has been rewritten and Brad has to go back to work AGAIN and do reshoots – although the time estimate on the ?reshoots? is five to seven weeks, which is more like half a film production. And even then, it might be a disaster:
Forget sometime scary-skinny near-missus Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt has some real ZOMBIE problems! AS The ENQUIRER reported previously Brad had been producing a zombie thriller ?World War Z? which seemed destined for a big money making franchise. But now, sources say, not only is the film A STINKER with its release date pushed back to 2013 but the tawny Brad may be to blame.
?Can we take this genre movie and use it as a Trojan horse for sociopolitical problems, and what would the effect on the world be if everything we knew was upside-down and pulled out from under us?? Brad told The Hollywood Reporter last January, as he seemingly had classic disaster flick ?The Poseidon Adventure? on his mind ? but substituting flesh eating denizens of the brain snarfing undead for Shelley Winters.
But a source now told THR that Brad?s film is now ?a nightmare from top to bottom?.
The troubled production dragged on for months as a novice SFX director battled with the cinematographer and the logistics of shooting all over economically ravaged Europe took its toll. Meanwhile Brad and his producing partner were busy prepping a small indie film that preemed at Cannes, ?Killing Them Softly?.
By the time they were ready to re-focus their attentions on the zombie flick ?the disaster was already well in the making,? the production insider divulged.
Yet a Paramount exec said ?The footage from this film looks fantastic, but we all agreed it can have a better ending. Getting the ending correct is essential, and we are in that creative process.?
But Brad is positive his zombie apocalypse gore fest will garner kudos, ?I know my boys are going to like it.?
[Via The National Enquirer]
You know who did the script rewrite? Damon Lindelof. The man who screwed up Lost and bungled the Alien reboot, Prometheus. So? expect a three-hour opus in which Brad Pitt wanders around talking about faith versus science, basically. Beyond that, Indie Wire reports that director Marc Forster was unprepared to helm such a massive, big-budget film, and the whole disaster is already costing the studio more than $170 million reportedly. Let?s hope Brad The Producer can begin to rein in some of this BS.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Brad Pitt announces plans to produce an epic Marilyn Monroe bio-pic: good idea? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I remember hearing something about Naomi Watts playing Marilyn Monroe months (years?) ago. I never realized that the Monroe project that Watts was attached to was a film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates? Blonde. I read Blonde several years ago, and while I was blown away by Oates? take on Marilyn, the book is incredibly dark and the portrait of Marilyn is that of a very tortured, confused, mentally deficient woman. I?m just saying – the book (at 700 pages) doesn?t lend itself to easy adaptation, and even if you manage to wrangle a decent script, who would you even get to play this dark version of Marilyn? Well, Brad Pitt is up the task. I mean, Brad?s not going to play Marilyn, but he has signed on to produce the thing:
Marilyn Monroe has been everywhere lately, from the fictitious musical on “Smash” to the 2011 Michelle Williams movie? But she could be getting another treatment if Brad Pitt and Andrew Dominik have anything to say about it.
The A-list actor has come aboard to produce the filmmaker?s long-gestating drama about the blond bombshell. “We’re going to get this one done,” Pitt told 24 Frames in a joint interview with Dominik. Pitt said it’s unclear whether he would take a role in the movie as well (suggestions welcome on who he should play) or simply produce. Pitt’s been on a bit of a producing hot streak lately: His company, Plan B, was behind two best picture nominees in 2012 (“The Tree of Life” and “Moneyball”).
Pitt and Domink collaborated on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and the upcoming hit-man movie “Killing Them Softly.” “Blonde” would mark a shift from those hard-boiled genres; it would look at an imagined inner life of the iconic actress, an inner life first imagined by Joyce Carol Oates, who wrote an acclaimed 2000 novel on which the film would be based.
Oates’ “Blonde,” which also got the TV mini-series treatment a decade ago, has been in feature development since at least 2009, when Dominik began writing a script based on the book. Soon after, the foreign-sales company Wild Bunch began peddling the project. But it’s back on the front burner thanks to Pitt’s interest and to some new financing possibilities. Dominik wouldn’t comment on the specific progress of the project, but said that shooting it in January or February of 2013 was not out of the realm of possibility.
When it was first incarnated with Wild Bunch, Naomi Watts was slated to play the lead part of Marilyn. But that was a long time ago, and it’s unclear at this point if the filmmakers would continue in that direction.
It should be noted that “My Week With Marilyn” was hardly a blockbuster performer: It grossed $14 million and garnered mediocre reviews. But that film covered only a small slice of the actress’ life. And, in any event, expect a different kind of film from the Australia-based Dominik, who departed from convention with both ?Jesse James” (a non-Western Western) and “Killing Them Softly? (which turns the hit-man movie into a meditation on capitalism). Meanwhile, interest in Monroe continues to grow with the 50th anniversary of her death approaching on Aug. 5.
Since coming on the scene with his cult hit ?Chopper? in 2000, Dominik hasn’t exactly worked at a feverish pace. He took seven years to make “Jesse James” and five for “Killing.” “He’s got a terrible habit for writing things on spec,” Pitt said with a good-natured smile, implying that the rights issues on “Blonde” may have bogged it down too. (Dominik wrote his first draft on spec, that is, without locking down rights.)
But Pitt’s brand of surfer-boy intellectual and Dominik’s auteur intensity clearly combine for a kind of chemistry, with both of their collaborations yielding solid reviews. Pitt said that “I think ‘Jesse’ is going to be the film I’m most proud of when I’m done with this [acting] thing.”
Frustrated by the meager box-office for “James,” Dominik hopes that “Killing,” which hits theaters in September as a Weinstein Co. release, rekindles the industry’s interest in the pair’s work.
“I wanted to make a $15-million movie. I wanted to make a movie that was cheap and could make its money back, because I’d like to keep working with Brad and I’d like us to have more expensive playdates than the last one,” he said. “I would like to make someone some money.”
Generally, he said, he struggles with the balance between passion and pragmatism, which he said may be why he’s made just two movies since “Chopper.”
“I’d like to make movies, man,? he said. ?But I don’t want to just make movies. I want to make the movies I want to make.”
[From The Los Angeles Times]
Brad has turned into one of the most interesting producers out there – he?s not just looking to produce the films he acts in (although he does that too). He?s shown a real interest in up-and-coming talents and working with ?difficult? directors and ?difficult? source material that others often avoid. While I think that Hollywood should just let Marilyn rest in peace (instead of trotting her out every year on the cover of Vanity Fair), if you?re going to do a real Marilyn bio-pic using Blonde as the source material, I might be interested. Of course, I really didn?t think Michelle Williams? Monroe was all that special or award-worthy, so the Marilyn mantle is still up for grabs. Somebody tell Lindsay Lohan to sit down.
Conspiracy theory: a few years ago, there was a rumor that Angelina Jolie might play Marilyn in some other film. I wonder if Brad would be interested in producing another film for his fiance? Hmm?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt Premieres 'Killing Them Softly' at Cannes | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He?s always a festival favorite, and Brad Pitt was in fine form as he attended the 65th Cannes Film Festival premiere of his new movie ?Killing Them Softly? today (May 22).
Joined by his costars, the ?Mr. and Mrs. Smith? star looked dapper as he worked his magic on the fans and paparazzi outside the Palais des Festivals prior to the screening.
Making for quite the site to be seen, other celebrities packing the glitzy red carpet included a red hot Irina Shayk and her model gal pal Karolina Kurkova, as well as Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Sean "Diddy" Combs, tennis ace Novak Djokovic, Kelly Brook, Alec Baldwin, Cassie, Michelle Rodriguez and Jeremy Irons.
When asked if he was concerned about the level of violence in the film and its affect on his kids, Brad explained, "Not at all. Violence is an accepted part of the gangster world. I'd have a harder time playing a racist than some guy who shoots another guy in the face."
Pitt added, "Ever seen them butcher a cow for hamburger? It's incredibly brutal and violent. We live in a very violent world."
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| | Brad Pitt goes solo at Cannes premiere: is he boring without Angelina Jolie? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yay, my internet is back. Huzzah. As I discussed in those halcyon hours before Verizon decided to murder my soul, Brad Pitt told reporters earlier today in Cannes that Angelina Jolie had not come with him for this very special Cannes Film Festival extravaganza. Apparently, Angelina is hard at work, and by that I mean ?she?s boning her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton in his leathery sex shack, of course.? Sigh? I would like to see her other ex-husband?s leathery sex shack. Do you think Jonny Lee Miller has a sex shack nowadays? A question for another day.
So, with Angelina nowhere to be seen, here are some photos from the Cannes premiere of Killing Them Softly, which was produced by and stars Brad Pitt. I can feel Brad looking at Ray Liotta and thinking, ?Sure, he?s a nice guy. But I wish I had a bony hip to clutch and fondle right about now.? WHY DIDN?T ANGELINA COME?! Brad?s tux is meh. From the just-released photos I?m looking at, he didn?t take off his sunglasses for the premiere either. Probably because he looks really old without sunglasses.
Everyone is talking about the very violent content of Killing Them Softly – it is a mob movie, and I believe Brad plays a hit man. During the photo call, Brad was asked about making violent films, and whether he was bothered by playing such a violent character. Brad said, ?Not at all. Violence is an accepted part of the gangster world. I’d have a harder time playing a racist than some guy who shoots another guy in the face. Ever seen them butcher a cow for hamburger? It’s incredibly brutal and violent. We live in a very violent world.” Um? what? Whatever, Brad.
PS? Kelly Brook was at the premiere. Her dress is meh, but she looks like she could be Brad?s type. Did I just write next week?s tabloids? ?Angelina fumes as she catches Brad in the arms of British glamour model, Brad cries, ?The Engagement Is OFF!??
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt: 'Killing Them Softly' Photocall in Cannes | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He?s always been easy on the eyes, and Brad Pitt was looking fine at the photocall for his new film ?Killing Them Softly? in Cannes, France today (May 22).
The ?Fight Club? hunk was joined by Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy, and Ben Mendelsohn as he hammed it up for the paparazzi as part of the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Pitt stars in and produced the flick, which is described as ?a hardboiled crime film featuring heavy doses of President Barack Obama and a backdrop of the economic crisis.?
During a recent interview, Brad noted that the movie was conceived ?at the apex of hte mortgage loan debacle.?
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