Jolie-Pitt Love

Ever since the project was first announced, there has been much speculation about Angelina's involvement in this Clint Eastwood directed film. Now for the first time Jolie goes on the record regarding her role in The Changeling:

“I’m looking forward to a film I get to do with Clint Eastwood. It’s so cool. And it’s a great script,”

About working with Eastwood Jolie had this to say:

“An amazing chance to work with an amazing man, a hero of mine.”

When asked about the Oscar winning director's approach to shooting, she replied:

“I’ve heard it’s great. I’ve heard it’s very quick. You’ve got to get your stuff together and get ready because he doesn’t linger…which I think is wonderful. He expects people to come prepared and get on with their work.”

“The Changeling” will mark Eastwood’s first return to the director’s chair since his one-two punch in 2006 of “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.” No word yet on whether Eastwood will appear in the film.

The Changeling is set to begin in Los Angeles in October. (SOURCE)

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Angelina Wants to Save the World
'A Mighty Heart' is the story of Mariane Pearl's unquenchable spirit. It's not a bad description of the actress who plays her, either.

June 25, 2007 issue - Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to dress actors in Pakistani police uniforms, hand them AK-47s and stand them in the dirt courtyard of a Muslim school in India while children were in class. Still, that gaffe would have been fast forgotten if the film being shot on campus, "A Mighty Heart," weren't about the murder of Jewish American journalist Daniel Pearl by Muslim extremists—and weren't starring Angelina Jolie. When parents showed up that Nov. 16 afternoon to pick up their kids, the gates were closed to keep out the paparazzi who had surrounded the school, their telephoto lenses aimed like rifle scopes. The parents became anxious, so the school opened the gates, and the paparazzi flooded in with them. The film's security guards tried to hold back the crowd. A scuffle ensued. No one was injured. But the following morning, two of Jolie's bodyguards were arrested for intimidation. Unnamed sources in local newspapers claimed that the white British guards had shoved parents and kids and called them "bloody Indians" and "bloody Muslims." "People advised me that this movie was politically dangerous," Jolie says. "I thought maybe I shouldn't touch this. Maybe it would do more harm than good." Just like that—in a perfect storm of post-9/11 tensions and celebrity-obsessed media culture—a minor event had escalated into an international incident, and Jolie had gone from being the most famous star in India to its most famous racist.

The next morning, her bodyguards in jail, Jolie is in a 21st-floor hotel suite on the western edge of Mumbai, where she's set to shoot her final scene of "Heart" as Pearl's widow, Mariane. It will not happen. Jolie, wearing a wig of dark curls and brown contact lenses, sits cross-legged on the floor with four of her fellow actors. Her body is still, but there's anger in her voice. "We've become so eager to accuse people of being racist, but I would rather they make up almost any other story—about me sleeping with someone, anything—but that," she says. "It's not only a crazy accusation, but it's the most insulting thing you could say about me, that I would employ someone who would be disrespectful to someone's race or would harm a child. They take care of my kids." On the other side of the city, Brad Pitt, one of the film's producers, has gone to the police station to try to get the men released. Plans are in the works for him to be interviewed that evening by Barkha Dutt, a.k.a. "the Indian Oprah," to de-escalate the situation (Hollywood's version of fighting fire with fire). Jolie sighs. "People can just hate back and forth, and I understand my own country's irresponsibility with our foreign policy sometimes, but can't we please try to be open-minded, and see that there are some of us who are trying?" Within an hour, the hotel management will shut the film down. Protesters have threatened to surround the building. Jolie's square-shouldered security guard appears by her side and tells her, under his breath, "We need to move you now." Calmly she gathers her belongings, and then turns to a NEWSWEEK reporter. "OK," she says with a smile. "Let's run!"

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As a way of thanking Angelina Jolie for the tremendous exposure they received after she wore Bochic jewelry to this years Golden Globe Awards, Bochic will be donating the jewelry she wore to USA for UNHCR in support of World Refugee Day, recognized each year on June 20th. In addition to her work in film, Angelina has become well known as a humanitarian, particularly in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

"To have one of the most beautiful women in the world wear Bochic jewelry to the Golden Globes, was of course very special for our company. For a long time we have admired Angelina's commitment to charitable causes, and we are very happy to be able to support her work by donating the jewelry she wore - especially to an organization like USA for UNHCR,” explains David Joseph, Bochic's President and Co-Founder.

The pieces will be auctioned by charityfolks.com, a leader in online auctions benefiting charitable organizations, with all proceeds going to UNHCR programs in Chad for refugees from the Darfur region.

The Bochic necklace and earrings worn by Angelina to the Golden Globe Awards is a vintage-style suite of rose cut diamonds set in 22K gold.(SOURCE)

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When "A Mighty Heart" opens on June 22nd, it will mark Brad Pitt's sixth credit as a producer on a feature-length film. Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the brutal Pakistan murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter/bureau chief Daniel Pearl, the much-anticipated drama stars Pitt's wife Anjelina Jolie and Dan Futterman as the two married journalists.

Pitt, the 43-year-old star of this week's number one grosser, "Ocean's Thirteen," has already racked up a fairly impressive producer's score card, with the Oscar-winning "The Departed" and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winning doc "God Grew Tired of Us" under his belt. Pitt also had a hand in "Running with Scissors," which overcame dim notices to notch an Oscar nomination for Annette Bening, and Mike White's quirky indie dramedy, "Year of the Dog," which opened in April to generally favorable reviews.

"What I appreciate the most is getting to be part of a project that normally we wouldn't be right for," said Pitt before a gathering of press at last month's Cannes Film Festival, where the Michael Winterbottom film premiered to acclaim. "I was very taken with Mariane's story the moment it first appeared on CNN. Through the producting conduit, get to take part in these kind of films, see them to the end, find the right people, make sure things stay on the rails. It's a really interesting side to filmmaking itself. You don't have to be in front of the camera."

Pitt was emphatic in his choice of Winterbottom to helm the film. The eclectic British director is perhaps best known for "Welcome to Sarajevo," "24 Hour Party People" and "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story." But it was "The Road to Guantanamo," his dramatization of a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay prison for two years and then released without charged, that sealed the deal for "A Mighty Heart."

"We felt he was the best storyteller for 'A Mighty Heart.' He's a citizen of the world, he's focused on these issues. It was really going to achieve some kind of love story: it's done in flashbacks. To achieve that its got to be successfully created in whiffs and smells and instances.

"The moments that he did that in 'Guantanamo' that really spoke to me was when he focused on the boys in their normal habitas, their normal lives at a pizza parlor. We were able to understand who they were at home, without ever having to play it out or make any kind of grand punctuation.

"Another thing I appreciate about Michael's films is, he follows a life. He doesn't create the life, or set the life. It's a really raw approach to filmmaking that really applied itself to the journalistic nature of this film."

In addition to "A Mighty Heart," the actor-slash-mogul has at least eight other producing projects currently in various stages of genesis, including "Dirty Tricks," a Nixon administration drama that features Jim Broadbent as President Nixon, Sharon Stone as Pat Nixon, Meryl Streep as Martha Mitchell and Pitt as White House Counsel John Dean.(SOURCE)

Here is a clip from the film which opens June 22:

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Being one of the most famous men on earth comes with its share of problems. You can't take your kids to the playground. There are no romantic sunset walks on the beach. And that backyard barbecue? Forget about it. The simple pleasures just evaporate. Like, say, sneaking a smoke while waiting for your buddy George Clooney in a villa outside Cannes. ''Sorry about this,'' Brad Pitt says, contorting his body into a mess of angles and elbows to hide behind a low wall and light up. ''Actually, I'm less worried about the paparazzi catching me than someone, ahem, who doesn't know I still smoke once in a while.'' (Sorry if we blew your cover, dude...but Angie's a forgiving woman, right?) Welcome to life on Planet Celebrity, which today finds its capital at the Hôtel du Cap in the hills near Cannes. The 1870s estate — cash only, absurdly opulent, and set high above the Mediterranean Sea, where dozens of paparazzi boats prowl —is the temporary home to more than a dozen stars during the 2007 Cannes film festival. But the Big Two, the ones who really matter, are the man currently huddled in the corner like a wet lemur and the guy running late to the interview. So what do two men who so completely embody the modern American male ideal have to say? For the next hour, over club sandwiches and gazpacho, they will talk about their new movie (Ocean's Thirteen, in every theater near you on June 8), their new lives (with family and without), the nature of stardom, and how to school youngsters in basketball. But for this one precious moment, Pitt just puffs away, extinguishing the cigarette only when Clooney —immaculate in a white linen shirt and khaki dress pants — dashes in, fuming at his friend.

GEORGE CLOONEY: [To Pitt] You bastard!
BRAD PITT: What?
CLOONEY: I did all these interviews right after you. And all the reporters told me, ''Brad said you did the movie for the money''!
PITT: [Laughs] I did. Believe I said it was all for the cash.
CLOONEY: Brutal! [Laughs] How ya doin'?

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Good, thanks. So I've heard that you guys call this movie Ocean's Thirteen: The One We Should Have Made Last Time.
PITT: Credit where credit is due. That was [director] Steven Soderbergh's line.
CLOONEY: Steven actually wanted to bill it that way, but I don't think the studio was so thrilled with that. It f---s up the boxed set.

But it does get to a legitimate point, which was that people weren't so fond of Ocean's Twelve. Other than for money, why make another one?
CLOONEY: You know, more than anything we wanted another crack. We wanted to go out on a stronger note — and we felt like we had a great way to do it, which was revenge.
PITT: I thought you're a pacifist, George.
CLOONEY: Well, the movie really is a cry for peace.

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Sorry for the lack of updates. Real life calls! I know of at least five people who read this blog so I guess I'm apologizing to them:) anyway on to this Time Mag article:

The day after the young Czech paparazzo Dalibor Puchta was memorably arrested after trying to photograph Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie from a garage near the sleek villa the couple had rented in Prague, neighbors are out indulging their evening routines.

"We have never seen so many dogwalkers around here," quipped store manager Sabina Dankova, 35, sipping coffee and dragging on a cigarette outside her house. Proud of having Hollywood's most glamorous couple as temporary neighbors while Jolie was in town to film her next action flick, Dankova sounded a solemn note: "I hope [the paparazzi] do not bug them too much, so they do not move."

Contrary to her wishes, the Czech tabloids happily reported that Jolie flipped out after Czech shutterbugs found ways to photograph the family in the privacy of their temporary home. Such images would cause problems for any American gossip sheet silly enough to run them, but in the Czech Republic they are perfectly legal.

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