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OCT
23
Angelina Jolie reportedly spent two nights with Akala in a London hotel' (update)
Added 56 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie reportedly spent two nights with Akala in a London hotel' (update)
For months now, the British tabloids have been trying to make one particular story happen. That story? ?Angelina Jolie is dating British rapper Akala.? Nevermind that Akala seems to have a long-term partner, Chanelle Newman, who is also in business with Akala. Nevermind that Angelina seems to be friends with both Akala and Chanelle. Akala has stepped out to support Angelina frequently in recent months he went to Venice when she was there to premiere Maria. He?s also come out to support Angelina in LA and other cities, and he went to the BFI London premiere of Maria late last week too. Well, because Akala walked the carpet at the London film festival and because his friendship with Jolie is well established, now the tabloids claim that Jolie and Akala spent two nights together in London.

Angelina Jolie?s rumored romance with British rapper Akala is reportedly heating up. The ?Maleficent? star, 49, reportedly snuck the 40-year-old musician up to her hotel suite at The Corinthia in London last week, sources told the US Sun Monday.

?The pair spent Wednesday and Thursday night together inside the hotel and did not leave,? the insider shared, explaining Akala joined the actress two hours after she arrived. ?Akala was snuck out of the hotel via one of Angelina?s cars on Friday ? a couple of hours before the [British Film Institute] premiere for her new movie,? the source added, referring to Jolie?s forthcoming movie, ?Maria,? which was showed at the London Film Festival.

?They are using separate cars and secret entrances to keep their relationship under wraps, but it?s the real deal,? the insider continued.

The ?Eternals? star and Akala both attended the film festival, though they were photographed arriving separately. After the premiere, they cozied up for a romantic dinner at the exclusive Soho House, per the outlet. Reps for Jolie weren?t immediately available to Page Six for comment.

The ?Girl, Interrupted? star and Akala have been romantically linked since May 2024 when the latter attended the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica alongside Jolie and her daughters Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18. The singer, most recently, accompanied the ?Mr. & Mrs. Smith? star to a party at her Atelier Jolie art room in New York City on Sept. 28. That same week, Akala also tagged along to the premiere of ?Maria? at the New York Film Festival hosted at Alice Lincoln Center?s Tully Hall. While InTouch reported that the duo had been seeing each other for at least a year, a source told People in August that they are not dating.

[From Page Six]

Yeah, I have no idea. For months, I?ve believed that the tabloids were making mountains out of molehills, not to mention being disrespectful towards Chanelle. But who knows. Given the way Akala has been showing up for Jolie for months now, it does feel like more than a friendship. I?ll also say that given the way Akala has been showing up for Jolie, it feels like his situation with Chanelle might be different than ?they?re together/they?re partners.? Like, if your boyfriend/partner is flying all over the place to support Angelina Jolie, that?s probably a red flag? I really don?t know.

Update: People Mag has a new story emphasizing that Angelina & Akala are just good friends. This whole thing is so strange.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.

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OCT
20
Angelina Jolie wore Dolce & Gabbana menswear to the BFI London Film Festival
Added 58 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie wore Dolce & Gabbana menswear to the BFI London Film Festival
Angelina Jolie stepped out on Friday at the BFI London Film Festival premiere of Pablo Larrain?s Maria. Pablo was there too, and they looked like they were about to do an artsy remake of Ocean?s Eleven. I?ve been trying to keep track of how many festivals Angelina has attended this year so far: Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, now London and soon the AFI Fest in LA. All of this is ahead of the December release date a limited theatrical run and a big premiere on Netflix. Fingers crossed that Netflix puts some money in this Oscar campaign.

As for Angelina?s look in London? it?s interesting because she eschewed the sack dresses she?s favored in recent years, and she went for a much more old-school look. Back in her 20s, Angelina rarely wore dresses. She was all about leather pants and menswear. In London, she wore a three-piece tuxedo suit from Dolce & Gabbana?s menswear collection. Maybe she?s doing this with some kind of agenda, but my first thought was ?of course she?s wearing menswear, all of the women?s suits these days are absurd.? Women?s suits have giant shoulder pads or puffed out shoulders or too-long sleeved or weird darting or terrible collars. Jolie was like? no thanks, I want a normal suit jacket. I like this look from the hips up the pants are not great. But I like the boots.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival always encourages would-be Oscar-campaigners to make the trek to shill their movies by the beach every awards season, usually in late January or early February. It will be the same next year, and Santa Barbara really wants Angelina to come out. So they?re giving her an award the Maltin Modern Master Award, named after film critic Leonard Maltin. Maltin told Variety: ?Angelina Jolie makes bold choices, both as an actress and as a director. She sets the bar high in both disciplines and always comes through. I look forward to reviewing her career with her in Santa Barbara!? That should be really nice.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.

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SEP
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Angelina Jolie wore a simple, elegant white dress to the NYFF 'Maria' premiere
Added 78 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie wore a simple, elegant white dress to the NYFF 'Maria' premiere
Here are photos of Angelina Jolie at the New York Film Festival premiere of Maria, the Pablo Larrain film where she plays Maria Callas. Angelina arrived with her three oldest kids (all of them adults): Maddox, Zahara and Pax. It?s great to see Pax out and about he recently crashed his motorbike in LA traffic and was hospitalized for several days with ?complex trauma.? It looks like there are faint scars on his face, and his wrist is still in a brace. Zahara must have flown up to New York from Spelman College in Atlanta. I don?t know if Maddox has finished college yet. I love that they all came out to support their mom. As a survivor of the Brangeloonie Wars, I remember so many anti-Jolie people predicting that her kids would grow up to hate her. Looks like the kids have grown up to be well-adjusted and thoughtful, and they adore their mom.

I don?t see an ID on Angelina Jolie?s dress it looks vintage-y to me, but it might be something custom-made from Atelier Jolie, you never know. People are saying that Zahara is wearing one of Angelina?s old dresses, which is possible. Zahara and Shiloh have both done the same thing for other red carpets. I think those are Angelina?s two fashionista daughters, while Vivienne is all about normcore and little-old-lady dressing. Maddox and Pax were both suited up and both of them looked really nice. After the premiere, I think Angelina hosted a party at Atelier Jolie. She did the same after the Tonys too.

Last week, Angelina reportedly ?dropped? her FOIA request into the FBI records of the 2016 plane incident. As many of you pointed out in yesterday?s comments, it?s more than likely that Angelina ?dropped? the request because she got what she needed from the FBI, and/or she got enough documentation to use in her divorce case AND her countersuit against Brad over Miraval.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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Angelina Jolie dropped her FOIA request into the FBI's records of the 2016 incident
Added 79 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie dropped her FOIA request into the FBI's records of the 2016 incident
In April 2022, Politico and TMZ reported that Angelina Jolie had filed (as a Jane Doe) for the FBI?s records on their investigation into the 2016 plane incident. The 2016 incident was the game-changer for Angelina. That was where a likely blackout-drunk Brad Pitt terrorized and assaulted Angelina and their children for hours on and off the plane. In 2022, Angelina was technically getting a Freedom of Information Act request, but really, she was trying to piece together what exactly happened with the FBI investigation and why the FBI didn?t file any charges against Pitt. Angelina did manage to get her hands on some of the partially-redacted records, including the FBI?s records of Jolie?s own statements to them about what Brad did to her and the children. Many of those records were then FOIA-requested by media outlets who then published their own coverage, much to Team Pitt?s chagrin. Well, long story short, after two years of trying to figure out why the FBI didn?t charge Pitt with any crime, Jolie is now dropping it.

Angelina Jolie is ending her legal battle against the Department of Justice and FBI over documents connected to the alleged 2016 plane incident involving her then-husband Brad Pitt.

Under the anonymous Jane Doe,? Jolie, 49, had requested in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2021 that FBI documents about the incident be released to her. Court documents obtained by PEOPLE indicate the Maria star dropped the case on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

The highly redacted documents Jolie had been pursuing detailed an allegedly drunken altercation on Sept. 14, 2016, between Pitt, 60, and his then-wife ? which came days before Jolie filed for divorce, ending a relationship that began in 2005.

Their children were reportedly present for the alleged conflict on a private plane that had caused the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services and FBI to investigate Pitt. A source said at the time that Pitt became verbally abusive and physical with one of their kids, which he denied. Later in 2016, the FBI closed its investigation with no charges against Pitt and DCFS also concluded its investigation, concluding no findings of abuse.

Amid the ongoing legal battle over their French vineyard Chteau Miraval and wine company, Jolie responded to a 2022 lawsuit from her ex with details of the alleged incident, including that Pitt had choked one of the children and struck another in the face. A source close to Pitt told PEOPLE at the time, Its incredibly sad that she continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an event that happened 6 years ago, adding in completely untrue information.?

[From People]

I don?t know why she dropped this, other than she was tired of being stonewalled by the FBI and she likely achieved some of her goals anyway. It?s also worth noting that back in 2022, Jolie/Jane Doe?s lawyer told Politico that Jolie had been trying to get the FBI records for years without having to file a FOIA action, and the FBI stonewalled her that entire time too. It feels like Angelina has her suspicions that something went down between the FBI and Pitt and both parties are doing the most to cover it up.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Backgrid.

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Angelina Jolie wore Tamara Ralph & wept during the 8-minute ovation in Venice
Added 109 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie wore Tamara Ralph & wept during the 8-minute ovation in Venice
Hands on your knees, Angelina Jolie! Angelina stole the show and perhaps the hearts of all Italians last night in Venice. Pablo Larrain?s Maria got its splashy Venice Film Festival premiere on the second night, and the reception was rapturous. Every critic who watched the screening has raved about the film and Angelina?s performance. If the critics have their way, she will be guaranteed an Oscar nomination and she?s likely the front-runner to win. They?re calling it a career-best performance from Jolie. They?re saying she?s the only one who could have played Maria Callas. They?re saying Angelina is one of the few movie stars left in the world.

Angelina?s look at the premiere was dramatic? for beige. Truly, the most dramatic beige I?ve ever seen. Angelina?s gown is a custom look from Tamara Ralph, one half of Ralph & Russo. Jolie used to wear a lot of Ralph & Russo back in the day, and I kind of love that she went back to Tamara Ralph. She paired the gown with a faux fur stole and Cartier jewelry. Earlier in the day, she wore a Cartier brooch, a vintage piece which once belonged to Maria Callas. Perhaps her brooch at the premiere also had a Callas connection. I would assume that Angelina?s blood-red lipstick is courtesy of Tom Ford Beauty, since she recently became the face of the beauty company.

After the premiere, Angelina and Pablo Larrain received an eight-minute standing ovation. Angelina cried, she was so moved by the reception. The critics have been moved as well I?ve seen a couple of critics admit to weeping at parts of the movie. Basically, Angelina has fully achieved goddess status this year. Italians camped out overnight for a glimpse of her. One man sang in Italian to her at the photocall. Journalists were asking for her autograph. One of her fans has brittle-bone disease and he asked to be transported by gurney to the premiere so he could possibly meet Jolie. She dutifully stopped, knelt down and spoke to him. She really is Saint Angelina now.

Angelina Jolie weeps through an 8-minute #Venezia81 standing ovation for ?Maria,? which will be a major Oscars contender. pic.twitter.com/PMiu4RWJ09

Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) August 29, 2024

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Angelina Jolie looks radiant in Saint Laurent at the Venice photocall for 'Maria'
Added 110 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie looks radiant in Saint Laurent at the Venice photocall for 'Maria'
Here are some new photos of Angelina Jolie today at the Venice Film Festival. This is from the photocall and daytime promotion for Pablo Larrain?s Maria, which stars Angelina as Maria Callas. The world premiere is this evening and I hope Angelina brings the drama! I don?t have an ID on this dress, but she wore Tom Ford to an event last night. Meaning, she?s not just wearing pieces from Atelier Jolie for this promotion, and mama?s got a new Tom Ford Beauty contract, so who knows. This doesn?t look like Tom Ford to me, but I wonder if she?ll wear that label at the premiere. Update: this dress is Saint Laurent.

Meanwhile, there was some concern that Angelina might run into Brad Pitt, who is also scheduled to appear in Venice to promote Wolfs with George Clooney. Venice organizers have arranged it so that the two exes who are currently suing each other will not come into contact:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will avoid any awkward run-in this week while promoting their movies at the Venice International Film Festival ? as programmers have taken extra precaution to keep the embattled exes apart. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera said the fest took special care to keep the famous exes? films from overlapping on its schedule.

?Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday [Aug. 29], and she will leave right after with [?Maria? director] Pablo Larran? for the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Barbera said. ?So Brad will arrive only on Saturday, to Venice. There is no way that they can cross each other at the Lido,? the famed island on which the fest takes place.

A source tells us the Hollywood stars did not request that the fest space out their films.

?Neither asked for that, they were wise enough to realize,? said our source.

[From Page Six]

Good. I wouldn?t blame Angelina if she did ask for a special arrangement to be made, but that probably didn?t happen. Once the festival realized that Angelina would show up (her first time in years), they did all they could to make sure that she?s being treated appropriately.

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the week, Maria did not have an American distributor and there were some concerns that no one wanted to invest in a smaller-budget Oscar-bait drama. Well, Netflix has now picked up Maria! I hope they do a theatrical release, but I?ll be fine if this goes straight to streaming too. I feel like Netflix is perfectly willing to put some money behind Angelina?s Oscar campaign. Speaking of, we don?t have a trailer for Maria yet but they did release a clip. I?m already obsessed.

#angelinajolie seen at #venicefilmfestival2024 wearing #tomford silk candy kaftan pic.twitter.com/7LICft1n8c

R.B.N (@rbnjo) August 28, 2024

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Angelina Jolie wore a trench at her Venice arrival & she?ll be honored at TIFF
Added 112 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie wore a trench at her Venice arrival & she?ll be honored at TIFF
Here are some photos of Angelina Jolie arriving in Italy ahead of the Venice Film Festival premiere of Maria. She stars as Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain?s latest biographical film. Angelina wore a ?short-sleeve trench coat? as she arrived in Venice, and Vogue is obsessed with the summer trench and her Mulberry boots. Fingers crossed that Angelina doesn?t promote this film in a variety of sack dresses. Meanwhile, it?s looking pretty certain that Angelina will also go to Canada for the Toronto Film Festival. Not for Maria, but for the film she directed, Without Blood. Not only will she premiere Without Blood at TIFF, she?s also receiving the TIFF Tribute Award. Good!

Angelina Jolie is set to receive the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning actress will be honored on Sept. 8 at the TIFF fundraiser, while also bringing her latest film, Without Blood, to Toronto for a world premiere. Written, directed and produced by Jolie, Without Blood is a war drama based on the Alessandro Baricco novel of the same name and tells the story of a girl?s quest for revenge and healing during a time of conflict. Salma Hayek Pinault and Demin Bichir have lead roles.

Jolie will be feted alongside fellow trophy winners Amy Adams, Jharrel Jerome, Cate Blanchett, Mike Leigh, Durga Chew-Bose, David Cronenberg, Clment Ducol, and Camille and Zhao Tao. TIFF Tribute Award honorees tend to have films in Toronto?s official lineup.

Jolie also brought her earlier films First They Killed My Father and The Breadwinner, which she executive produced, to Toronto for launches.

[From THR]

Jolie fans, I really hope that we have an amazing fall and an amazing awards season. I don?t have a sense of how Without Blood will be received, but the early buzz on Maria is that it will be an awards contender. I think Angelina will probably promote both films concurrently, and it will help if Without Blood gets some critical buzz too. So many red carpets! So many capes and sack dresses! I?m so excited. As for this TIFF award? yeah, they pass these out like candy, but still, it?s nice. I?m glad she?s being honored.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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VF: Angelina Jolie gives a 'defining, crowning, staggering performance' as Maria Callas
Added 112 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
VF: Angelina Jolie gives a 'defining, crowning, staggering performance' as Maria Callas
Pablo Larrain?s Maria will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, reportedly on Thursday. This is Angelina Jolie?s first starring role in several years, and her first period drama in more than a decade. Maria also marks the third film in Larrain?s trilogy of ?tragic and famous women,? following Jackie and Spencer. Angelina plays Maria Callas, the American opera singer who mostly worked and lived in Europe as an adult. Callas also famously had an affair with Aristotle Onassis and he treated her very badly. Well, Vanity Fair had a great ?awards insider? exclusive with Larrain, and this is doing so much to get people hyped for the film. Some highlights:

How Larrain approached Angelina: Pablo Larran had met Angelina Jolie a few times over the years, and hoped one day to make a movie with her. In 2021, just as he?d wrapped post-production on Spencer, his disorienting portrait of Princess Diana, the Chilean director had found just the project?his next English-language movie. ?I talked to Angie and said, ?Look, I?d like to make a movie with you. I won?t tell you what it is, but please go and see Spencer,?? he tells me. Larran rented out a screening room on the Paramount lot for Jolie to see the movie, featuring Kristen Stewart in an Oscar-nominated turn, and awaited Jolie?s reaction. She watched, called him up, raved and raved, and told him she wanted to work together. Larran did not hesitate in his reply: ?Would you play Maria Callas??

She took a few days to decided to do it: Jolie was taken aback. She took a few days to think about it. She had just been asked to portray one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century by a filmmaker known for creating emotionally intense, unrelenting, and dreamlike character studies. By the time she said yes, though, she?d fallen in love with the idea?. Larran, who grew up going to the opera in Santiago with his mother, immersed himself in Callas?s voice and devised a ?musical map? for the film, with her work providing the movie?s entire soundscape. And Jolie began her own training, which lasted over six months in total?and resulted in a defining, crowning, at times staggering performance.

The bulk of the movie is set in ?70s Paris near the end of Callas?s life: ?She became the sum of the tragedies that she played on stage,? Larran says. ?The movie is about someone who, after dedicating her life to the audiences around the world that would listen to her, decides to find her own voice, her own identity, and finally do something just for herself.?

Jolie?s performance: Jolie?s approach to her character is simultaneously heartbreaking, erratic, and imposing, displaying a cellular kind of understanding of Callas?s desperation to reclaim herself before it?s too late. ?This is the greatest diva of the 20th century, and who could play that?? Larran says. ?I didn?t want to work with someone that didn?t have that already. I needed an actress who would naturally and organically be that diva, carry that weight, be that presence. Angelina was there.? He describes her preparation as ?very long, very particular, very difficult.? She worked on posture. She studied breathing. She developed an accent befitting a woman of both the world and another plane of fame. Then came the voice lessons.

Angelina?s voice is mixed with Callas? voice: Yes, that really is Angelina Jolie singing, although not just her. Larran and his star worked closely with Oscar winner John Warhurst (Bohemian Rhapsody, the upcoming Michael), who as Larran puts it has ?dedicated his life to actors who sing in movies,? to create innovative, synthesized recordings. Over months, Jolie learned her subject?s cadence and her signatures. Eventually, she got to the point where she?d hear the operas in an earpiece while singing them herself. Larran and Warhurst would record Jolie?s performance, then mix it with Callas?s. ?You always listen to Angelina and you always listen to Maria Callas,? as Larran puts it. ?When we listen to Maria Callas in her prime, most of the sound is Callas?90%, 95%?and when we listen to Callas older and in the present, almost all of it is Angelina.?

Larrain didn?t give Jolie many notes: A few weeks in, Larran stopped giving Jolie instructions. The best direction was silence; the best note was no note. ?It was so truthful, we just kept rolling and let her do her thing,? he says. ?She can let you in when she wants, and she can create a distance where she wants. It?s a dance of vulnerability.?

[From Vanity Fair]

Larrain really has become something of a self-styled ?women?s director.? Kristen Stewart and Natalie Portman raved about working with him and he is known for creating a lot of artistic intimacy with his leading ladies and giving them space and time to do their best work. All of which to say, I hope Maria is as good as VF makes it sound, and I hope Angelina gets a real awards campaign. It?s been a while since she?s been part of an awards-bait film. One cool thing is that if she does end up doing the whole awards season rigmarole, she?ll probably wear a lot of fashion from her sustainable Atelier Jolie line.

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Angelina Jolie is the new face of Tom Ford's revamped lipstick line
Added 116 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie is the new face of Tom Ford's revamped lipstick line
Look at this! Angelina Jolie is the new face of Tom Ford Beauty, specifically representing their lipstick line. Angelina has done high-profile ad campaigns before, and she?s currently the face of Guerlain perfume (and she?s godmother to Guerlain?s Women for Bees program). I?ve always wondered if Angelina has gotten significant beauty-contract offers for years and she?s turned them down for various reasons. But this year, she?s got an Oscar-bait movie (Maria) and she probably wanted the money from a lucrative beauty contract, so here we are. WWD had the exclusive and I found the business side of this fascinating:

It?s full steam ahead for makeup at Tom Ford Beauty, starting with a renewed focus on lip and a top-tier spokesperson. Angelina Jolie, the brand?s first-ever celebrity face for beauty, will front Runway Lip Color, which rolls out globally in full distribution in September with 18 shades ? 10 existing, eight new. It replaces the existing Lip Color lipsticks franchise. The refresh also entails Runway Lip Pencils, available in eight shades. Prices range from $46 for the pencils to $62 for the lipsticks.

The push comes at a pivotal time for the business. An SEC filing from parent company the Este Lauder Cos., which acquired Tom Ford for $2.3 billion in 2023, noted that in the fiscal year 2024, ?net sales [for makeup] from Tom Ford decreased, primarily driven by lower net sales from the lip subcategory.?

The health of the business depends on getting lip back on track. It is among the largest categories of the business overall after fragrance, and the largest of Tom Ford?s makeup offering, said Guillaume Jesel, the brand?s president and chief executive officer, who assumed the top slot last year after nearly a decade working on the brand.

Ford departed the company last year, and was succeeded by Peter Hawkings as the helm of its creative leadership. Hawkings announced his departure last month. Jesel declined to comment on the search for new creative talent, but did say, ?together with the creative director and the licensees, we have to uphold [Ford?s] vision.?

Jesel?s mandate is ?to continue to run Tom Ford as a united brand across verticals and unify the strategy, the brand codes, the innovation across fashion, beauty and eyewear,? he said. ?We need to attract world-class talent, and that means in the creative product development and marketing.?

To that end, Jolie?s campaign, lensed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, echoes Ford?s own work as an auteur. ?In terms of the celebrity aspect, the connection of film is something that?s been there naturally. Tom is a filmmaker and he shot a lot of his own photography,? said Jesel. ?The connection to film and the cinematic aspect of the visual imagery that he created for this brand set it aside from anyone else and has been integral to our DNA.?

In the visuals, Jolie sports hero shade Scarlet Rouge. ?It?s a beautiful color and texture,? Jolie said via email. ?A good red lip needs little else. It?s worn with intention. That was part of the discussion.?

Her appeal mimics the wide net Jesel is casting with the relaunch. ?She appeals to a broad demographic, and she has global appeal. We are branded very internationally, and are well diversified around the world. And her appeal to Gen Z is very interesting,? he said.

In September, stills of the campaign will roll out, followed by a film in October. ?Lip is a category that is used in public, and when we talk about makeup, we talk about the power of transformation for makeup and finding a different persona in yourself,? Jesel said.

[From WWD]

Basically, the Tom Ford brand needed a huge star to reboot their Beauty line and Angelina is a global star who tested well across several demographics. ?Her appeal to Gen Z is very interesting? I?ve noticed that too. Younger people who didn?t grow up in the Brangaloonie Wars see Angelina as a cool person and a ?mother.? It probably helps that she?s actually a mother to several Gen Z kids. Also: once you see it together, you?re like, oh, right, Angelina has some of the most famous lips in the world, how has she never done a lipstick campaign before now? I?m looking forward to the ?film? too I wonder where they filmed it. For some of her Guerlain campaigns, she got them to film at her home in Cambodia. I wonder if this campaign is more LA/Hollywood/vamp.

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JUL
23
Angelina Jolie will premiere 'Maria' in Venice & 'Without Blood' in Toronto
Added 147 days agoSource: CeleBitchy
Angelina Jolie will premiere 'Maria' in Venice & 'Without Blood' in Toronto
It?s just been announced this morning: Angelina Jolie is going to Venice!! I mean, I hope she?s going to Venice, because Pablo Larrain?s Maria has been accepted into the Venice Film Festival?s in-competition line-up. Maria is Larrain?s latest bio-pic of a famous and complicated woman, this time Maria Callas, with Angelina starring as Callas. Maria will compete against Todd Phillips? Joker: Folie Deux, Pedro Almodovar?s The Room Next Door, Luis Ortega?s Kill the Jockey and many others. I seriously hope Angelina gears up and shows up in Venice.

Unfortunately, there might be some complications in Venice. Venice organizers have also added Jon Watts? Wolfs to their out-of-competition line-up. Wolfs is the dumb buddy-comedy starring that ratfker George Clooney and his good buddy Brad Pitt. The Hollywood Reporter previewed this potential situation last month, that Clooney would want Wolfs to premiere in Venice and the two premieres (Wolfs and Maria) would cause some issues. The festival better do everything to ensure that Angelina gets prioritized and that the two premieres are several days apart.

Meanwhile, some more film festival news for Angelina: her directorial effort, Without Blood, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Without Blood stars Salma Hayek and Demin Bichir, and Angelina directed it before the actors and writers strikes last year. So we?ll get Angelina in Toronto too! What a year.

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