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| | Angelina Jolie covers Marie Claire: 'I could get pregnant again' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We don?t have access to the new photos of Angelina Jolie at last night?s screening for In the Land of Blood and Honey – you can see them here. Jolie wore a black velvet(y) suit that wasn?t very flattering or anything. But! We do have new photos of Jolie in a spectacular white coat, just out and about in NYC, and I?ve also included a preview of Jolie?s Marie Claire cover shoot for January. Plus, there are about twenty million new stories about Angelina too. It?s ANGELINA WEEK. Here are some highlights:
*Two nights ago, after the premiere of ITLOBAH, Brangelina, Julian Schnabel, Jason Lee and Brad?s parents all partied at the Standard Hotel?s Boom Boom Room. Page Six claims: ?Angelina kept it in the family and hung with Pitt and his mom, Jane Pitt, and dad, Bill Pitt, until about 1 a.m? Jolie was overheard joking that the family should ?take their holiday photo? from the spot [on the hotel roof], with its sweeping views of the city.?
*Angelina told People Magazine that she adores Brad?s parents and ?It means everything? I couldn’t be standing here without them.” The Pitts told People that they were ?very proud? of Jolie and they admired her ability to do everything well, especially ?being a really good mom.?
*BABIES. Note the cover line on Marie Claire - ?I could get pregnant again.? Hmmmm? Will Jolie get knocked up again? Will she adopt again? When asked if she would consider adopting a Bosnian baby, Angelina apparently stuttered out, ?There?s, I, you know, it?s not something that?s, uh, that I?ve thought of.? But the NYDN notes, ?she did say she was working with SOS Children?s Villages to help support a Bosnian child through sales of the film?s soundtrack, ?and in other ways.?”
*Angelina commented about the lawsuit against her filed by Croat journalist James Braddock, who claims that he basically owns the concept of women being raped in POW camps. When asked, Angelina said: ?It’s par for the course. It happens on almost every film.? Angelina did say that “There are many books and documentaries that I did pull from. It’s a combination of many people’s stories. But that particular book I’ve never seen”.
*Angelina might work with director Luc Besson, and it might come sooner rather than later. Deadline reports:
Angelina Jolie is in talks to star in an untitled big-scale movie written and directed by Luc Besson. Besson currently has The Lady in the Oscar mix, but this film sounds like a closer cousin to early Besson efforts like The Professional, La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element.
I?m told that there are serious talks going on for Jolie to star next spring in a dramatic thriller that is rooted in true scientific elements. Besson?s EuropaCorp developed it and will co-finance, and negotiations are already underway with a studio for domestic distribution. The Besson film would be Jolie?s next as an actress, and it would come before she teams with director Ridley Scott on a historical epic about Gertrude Bell that The Constant Gardener scribe Jeffrey Caine is currently rewriting. I?m told there?s a high likelihood that both films will land at the same studio.
The latter film is an epic adventure about a British aristocrat who helped define the current Middle East and the borders of Iraq after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. She became a seminal figure in Middle East politics during the run-up to WWI, acting in roles that ranged from archaeologist to diplomat, photographer and spy. Jolie is also moving quickly on Maleficent, the Linda Woolverton-scripted revisionist take on the Sleeping Beauty tale for Walt Disney Pictures, and she is getting closer to playing medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the Fox 2000 drama based on the Patricia Cornwell novel series. Kario Salem has turned in a script he wrote in close collaboration with the author, based on her bestselling novel series.
[From Deadline]
Angelina working with Luc Besson? That could be interesting and weird and maybe even great. Why is it that she?ll sign on to this weird action/sci-fi, but when she was offered a bajillion dollars to make Gravity, she was all ?NO!?? I still don?t understand that.
Photos courtesy of Fame & The Fashion Spot.
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| | Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's Bloomberg Tower Tryst | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Continuing forth with her east coast "In the Land of Blood and Honey" press blitz, Angelina Jolie headed off to the Bloomberg Tower in New York City on Tuesday evening (December 6).
The "Salt" actress kept warm in a white jacket overtop her beige frock as she shuffled towards the Big Apple locale to meet up with partner Brad Pitt, who was spotted posing for pictures with fans outside the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper.
And while Miss Jolie is certainly excited about the upcoming December 23rd release of her directorial debut, she recently ran into a bump in the road - as a lawsuit has been filed following allegations of copyright infringement from a Croatian journalist.
According to reports, reporter James Braddock claims that "In the Land of Blood and Honey" violates copyright of his 2007 book ?The Soul Shattering.?
With the suit having been filed in Illinois on Friday (December 2), Braddock alleges he met with one of the producers of the movie, Edin Sarkic, back in 2008 to talk about the possibility of taking his work to the big screen - though nothing transpired from that point forth.
Feeling betrayed, James is now seeking statutory damages and an injunction against the film.
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| | Angelina Jolie in Newsweek | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Angelina Jolie’s disembodied head and hands haunt this week’s Newsweek, where she talks about the new movie she wrote and directed, “Land of Blood and Honey.” I couldn’t get over how much she looked like Malificent from “Sleeping Beauty” in these pics. I was gonna say, “Just cut the black around her head into the shape of horns and you’ve even got that headdress thing she wears,” except then I read that she’s actually gonna be playing the titular role of Maleficient in an upcoming movie. However by then it was already too late to think of something else to say, because I was out of Wild Turkey. BRB.
Newsweek pics plus some of Angie with Brad Pitt and his parents at last night’s premiere:
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| | Angelina Jolie & Brad disagree about the death penalty: 'It's a fun debate' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some photos of Angelina Jolie yesterday in NYC. I really like this brown dress on her, honestly. I think this would have been a much better premiere look than the black sack separates that she ended up wearing. Angelina?s style strengths are 1) Coats and 2) Business attire. She does pretty well for herself if she?s just choosing suits and business-like dresses. I?m also including some photos from the premiere too, because I just can?t get over how hot Brad looks and how much he wants the Oscar this year.
Anyway, there?s still a ton of Jolie news to cover, because that?s what?s happening this week – All Jolie, All Week. This is how she promotes films nowadays. Yesterday, we had a preview of Jolie?s ABC News interview with Christiane Amanpour, and now ABC has released the full interview:
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Why she wrote the script: “I was thinking and meditating on these international themes of violence against women, lack of intervention, and how human beings are changed and warped by war, and how some people come out stronger and some people are truly broken,” Jolie told “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour, who covered the Bosnian conflict in the 1990?s. “There’s no safe way to tackle these subject matters, but I think the important thing is to discuss them and tackle them. This is our generation’s war. ? this was, you know, the worst genocide since World War II in Europe,” she said. “It was– ‘what were we all doing?’ And ‘did we do enough’ and ‘why do we not speak about this enough’ and ‘why I don’t know enough about this?’ And so I wanted to learn. I felt a responsibility to learn.”
How it felt to be behind the camera: The actress said it felt “bizarre” to play the role of the writer and the director, but added that it was “great not to be in front of the camera.” Jolie said “writing is the hardest because it feels the most exposed. When you’re an actress, you use somebody else’s words and you can always blame the director and the director can say the editor,” she said. “But the writer is the one that kind of sits alone in the room and writes what they think is important, funny, historical, topical.”
She doesn?t think the film will be a hit: “We did it because we felt this is a war that isn’t talked about enough,” Jolie said. “I know it’s a hard film to sit through, but it’s two hours to sit through something that’s very hard, and these people lived through it for many, many years, and it was many, many times worse than any reenactment could possibly be. And I feel like it’s a gift and a duty to sit through two hours of what they lived through.”
On home-schooling the kids: “I’m being very careful with their schooling, we’re home-schooling especially when it comes to history, to make sure it’s not one country’s point of view of their country,” Jolie said. “Because it has to be very balanced and they have to learn about their country so they can form their own conclusions.”
On adoptions: “I look at them and think what their birth parents must have gone through, what their birth grandparents would have done through, and so I feel connected to it,” Jolie said. “It’s a gift when you adopt a child from another country. This whole country enters your home.”
She and Brad disagree about the death penalty: “I won’t say whose side anyone is on, but it’s the one, the thing nobody brings up at dinner because nobody wants us to go off on each other,” she said. “But it’s fun. It’s a fun debate, you know? It’s a good– you want to be able to have — to respect each other’s views and to not be exactly– we’re not identical. We have– we have strong views.”
The future: “I don’t feel needed in a position of being an actor. I feel like I’m needed at home as a mom, and I’m hoping that I’ll find other things,” Jolie said. “I’d love to be able to write or direct or work on and produce more projects about issues dealing with situations that I feel passionate about.”
[From ABC News]
Oooh, she and Brad disagree about the death penalty? I?m guessing that Brad is against the death penalty and Angelina is for it. And I would LOVE to see them fight about it.
One last thing – Patricia Cornwell just confirmed in a new interview that Angelina is still attached to play Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell said, ?We?re still in the early stages of production. She?s attached to the project but all the other pieces need to fit together to make sure everyone?s happy with it ? but it?s looking hopeful that everything will fall into place soon.?
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | Angelina Jolie Stole James J. Braddock's Story | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Angelina Jolie is being sued by a Croatian journalist who claims she pilfered the story behind her new movie “In the Land of Blood and Honey” on from a story he wrote back in 2007. Radar Online says:
As an example of the similarities between the story James J. Braddock published and the storyline of the film, the lawsuit states:
“The Subject Work?s main female character is subject to continuous abuse and rape by soldiers and officers in the camp. In addition to being raped continuously by soldiers and officers, she is forced to become a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives. The Motion Picture?s main female character is also subject to continuous rape by soldiers and officers in the camp and subsequently becomes a servant at camp headquarters.”
Braddock has also named GK Films, the L.A.-based production company which financed and is releasing the film, and several other entities.
He’s demanding a jury trial asking the court to award him damages.
Of course she stole his story. Stealing is what Angelina Jolies do best. She stole another woman’s husband, she then stole that same man’s balls, effectively stealing from what she had already stolen. Why would her movie be any different?
Where’s the power of Greyskull when you need it:
PHOTO SOURCE: Fame Pictures
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| | Angelina Jolie in black sack separates for 'Blood and Honey?: lovely or boring' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jesus, how great does BRAD look? That was my first thought when going through these photos of Angelina?s big NYC premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey. Brad isn?t wearing a g–damn pair of sunglasses, nor is hiding behind some gross beard. He?s relatively well-groomed (for him), he?s wearing a nice suit, his hair is sexy length, and he looks clean. He must really, really want an Oscar, right?
As for Angelina? it was her night, and she looked? okay. I was going to make a big deal about her sack dress, but she?s wearing sack separates – a Joseph top and a Ralph Lauren skirt. I mean? black sack separates, covering up her bust and her figure for the most part. I?m so tired of this look on Angelina. This time last year, she was wearing a gorgeous, white, fuzzy Versace gown to the premiere of The Tourist. I just wish Angelina?s default style was slightly better. Her jewelry is OFIRA – which surprises me. Angelina designed her own jewelry line full of 1970s-style topazes – why not wear some of those?
I?m including photos of Angelina with Brad?s parents, Bill and Jane. Bill and Jane were with Jolie all of Monday as she promoted her film in interviews, and then she posed with them on the red carpet too. Personally, I think Jane Pitt and Angelina get along really well – they seem to enjoy each other, genuinely. I?m not so sure about Bill, though. He seems grumpy, but that might have nothing to do with Angelina. Also posing with Angelina: director and artist Julian Schnabel. Do they know each other? Oh, and James Haven was there with his girlfriend.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt: "In the Land of Blood & Honey" Premiere! | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for her directorial debut, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took to the red carpet premiere of "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in New York City tonight (December 5).
Looking like the portrait of perfection in a pair of black ensembles, the Hollywood power couple took time to pose for a few snapshots before heading inside the Big Apple School of Visual Arts.
Once inside Brangelina worked the press area alongside one another with the lovely "Wanted" star also taking turns alongside Pitt's parents, Bill and Jane, as well as her movie's stars, Zana Marjanovic and Goran Kostic.
As for the film itself, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" reveals a love affair between a Serbian male and a Bosnian female during the 1992 Bosnian War.
Set for a December 23rd here in the States, the movie was made in both English and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language.
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| | Angelina Jolie won't marry Brad: 'Once you have six children, you?re committed' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yes, another Angelina Jolie story – I covered her Newsweek cover story here. There are new photos too, but we don?t have them. You can see La Jolie in white here. She?s going to be on Nightline tonight, and ABC News has released a short clip of her interview with Christiane Amanpour, which I?ve included below. I actually laughed a little bit at the quotes that got released. Christiane asks Angelina if she and Brad will ever get married, and as Angelina is describing how the kids ask that too, Angelina says: ?I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a big cake.? That really speaks to her as a mom, right? She knows her kids, and it?s not like the kids even really understand ?marriage? – but she knows they understand CAKE. I imagine Empress Zahara would be all, ?Yes, we want cake. And gelato. And PONIES.?
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She says: ?I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a big cake. They have asked, yeah, because … people get married in the movies. Shrek and Fiona are married, you know? We’ve explained to them that our commitment, when we decided to start a family, was the greatest commitment you could possibly have. Once you have six children, you’re committed.”
I?ve said this before, and I?ll say it again – I don?t think Angelina would mind marrying Brad. I think she kind of wants to have a real ceremony and everything, and she might even be encouraging the kids? questions about it, and Brad is the one who doesn?t want to go down the aisle.
Screencaps from Nightline, additional pics by Pacific Coast News.
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| | Angelina Jolie on Newsweek, approached filmmaking like a UNHCR mission | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As I updated yesterday on that Angelina Jolie post, Jolie covers this week?s Newsweek. I kind of love the photos, even though I?m not quite convinced that a weekly news magazine should be doing glamour shots of a actress for the cover. That?s not a cut on Jolie – that?s a cut on Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and the Daily Beast). Anyway, The Daily Beast has released the full Newsweek article, which you can read here. Here are some highlights from the piece (which is very complimentary to Jolie and the film):
Jolie?s approach to her humanitarian work: ?When I go somewhere, I am always willing to learn about it. I get briefings, I read books, I talk to people,? she said. ?But mainly I try to go somewhere to bring awareness, to come home and pick up the phone and call someone and try to get something done.?
She brings the same approach to filmmaking: She told me that when it came to the technicalities of making a film, ?I wasn?t afraid to ask the DP [director of photography]. And I listened to my cast, most of whom lived through the war. I listened to their stories and tried to incorporate it into the work.?
Lack of real-time awareness of the Bosnian War: How could a woman who was only 17 when the conflict in Bosnia erupted in April 1992 have so perfectly captured the horror of a war that focused largely on indiscriminate and brutal attacks on civilians? She is honest when she says, ?At the time, I had no idea of the extent of the agony.? But her work as an ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees exposed her to the plight of the Bosnian civilians and how the aftermath lingers on. The women who were raped in the infamous eastern Bosnian ?rape camps? are still suffering from the emotional and traumatic fallout; it was an especially sensitive point for her.
No offense: ?The people felt as though the world had forgotten them,? Jolie said. ?It was a time of great pain, and I wanted to depict how courageous people were?without offending anyone.? The Bosnians desperately wanted help, from anywhere, anyone?but no one came. Even now, too few people know what happened there. Perhaps it takes the star power of someone like Jolie to remind them of this incredibly complex, bloody conflict. ?It was made to remind everybody of the war?but only a small group of people will really understand,? she admitted.
The film is partially improvised: ?It was half script, half improvisation,? Jolie said of some of the scenes, and she relied heavily on local staff. ?The white shirt that the leading character wears throughout,? she mused at one point. ?It stayed white through the rape-camp scenes?and it bothered me. We kept talking about that white shirt.? She also shows characters longing for food, for contact with the outside world, for books, cinema, poetry?all the things that existed before the war.
Writing the script: These journeys gave Jolie the experience to write the script for In the Land of Blood and Honey, which took ?about a month, then it went through a lot of revisions, Brad read it, people read it,? but the actual technicalities of directing must have been daunting.
Approaching filmmaking like a UNHCR mission: There is no red carpet in Libya or Sudan. She still packs her own flashlights, notebooks, and waterproof gear. She made Blood and Honey with $13 million and a lot of humility. She approached it the way she does her job for UNHCR, like a student. ?When I go on a field mission, I get multiple briefings, including from the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations],? she said. ?And I took a course on international law. So I did the same thing I did with missions. I studied.? For the film, she ?read a lot of books about the war. I talked to a lot of people, I watched, I listened. I just wanted to tell the real story.? She repeated what she has said several times: ?I wanted to be respectful of people.? If she did not know something, ?I asked.?
About her kids: During dinner, she talked with love and passion of her family, how she is educating them in their own languages and cultures, how she loves to fly around the world but how hard it is to be separated from them when she is away. She talked of how someone ?who never was a babysitter? knew how to take care of Maddox as a 27-year-old single mother. ?I didn?t know whether to give one bottle or 30 bottles,? she says, laughing, of her son?s infant days. ?I called my mother.?
Angelina on her mom: ?Her goodness had a huge impact on me,? she said. ?Sometimes I go into hotels now and bellboys ask me about her. My mother used to write them notes when their children were born or christened. She was just that sort of person?everyone loved her.?
[From Newsweek/The Daily Beast]
The entire article is very good, and I recommend reading it when you have a chance. It was written by Janine di Giovanni, a reporter who covered the Bosnian War, and has been a war correspondent in several conflicts. She did a lot of research
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| | Angelina Jolie is being sued, and she took the kids to see 'The Muppets' in NYC | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some new photos of Angelina Jolie taking three of her kids to see The Muppets in New York City. I guess only Shiloh, Zahara and Pax wanted to see The Muppets? Maddox was all, ?I?d rather see Arthur Christmas, y?all. I?ll sit this one out.? And Vivienne and Knox are too little for Muppet movies, I suppose. I don?t really have much to say about these photos – Angelina looks pretty, and it?s totally unnecessary for her to be wearing shades, considering it?s dark out. I love the body language of Zahara and Pax, though – Pax is wearing a shark mask, and he must not be able to see, so Zahara is all, ?I?ll show you the way, my brother.?
Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie is getting sued in federal court. Croatian journalist James J. Braddock claims that Jolie ?stole? the story for her film In the Land of Blood and Honey from an article (and book) he wrote about a woman who was subjected to rape in a POW camp.
Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing the story behind her new movie, In the Land of Blood and Honey, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
In legal documents filed in federal court obtained by Radar, Croatian journalist and author James J. Braddock (aka Josip J. Knezevic) says an article he wrote and published in 2007 is the basis for the film, which was written and directed by Jolie.
The film is a fictionalized account of an unlikely love story between a Serbian soldier and a Muslim woman during the Bosnian War. Brad Pitt was often on location when Angie was working, taking photographs of her at work.
As an example of the similarities between the story he published and the storyline of the film, the lawsuit states:
“The Subject Work?s main female character is subject to continuous abuse and rape by soldiers and officers in the camp. In addition to being raped continuously by soldiers and officers, she is forced to become a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives. The Motion Picture?s main female character is also subject to continuous rape by soldiers and officers in the camp and subsequently becomes a servant at camp headquarters.”
Braddock has also named GK Films, the L.A.-based production company which financed and is releasing the film, and several other entities.
He’s demanding a jury trial asking the court to award him damages.
In the Land of Blood and Honey opens December 23.
[From Radar]
This guy has a website too, and a really long essay about Angelina Jolie and how she just stole everything from him – go here to read his rather insane rant. God knows, I?m accused of playing favorites when it comes to Angelina (it?s true – she?s one of my favorites), but this guy doesn?t seem to have much of a case, by his own admission. He claims that Angelina took his articles and books and CHANGED them into a ?banal love story? that would be impossible during the war?? Which means that she didn?t copy his story, she created her own story which is set partially in a POW camp. This guy doesn?t OWN the concept of POW camps. He also doesn?t help his case by claiming that Angelina is just like a Serbian aggressor in 1992. It seems like this guy is just pissed off at the world and hoping that Angelina will just shell out some hush money.
Angelina is in New York ahead of the premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey, which will be happening this week. Will Brad be there? What will she wear? Will she field questions about this lawsuit?
UPDATE: Angelina covers the new issue of Newsweek too, via ET:
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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