Angelina Jolie - Tomb Raider

I haven't done anything here in awhile, so why not get the ball rolling with the obligatory Angelina Jolie/Tomb Raider pic?

You know Tomb Raider came out in 2001, but she is still referred to as "Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie" in a lot of news stories.
Of course now with her filming the Disney movie "Maleficent", you wonder if all that will change.

Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp - The Tourist Updates

The debut poster for Columbia Pictures comedy-drama -thriller "The Tourist" was released this week.
The poster has a close up of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and carries the tag line, "It all started when he met a woman,".
The film is was directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and is a remake of the French film by Anthony Zimmer.



Interestingly, Tom Cruise was once set to play Frank (Johnny Depp's character), but he pulled out, was replaced by Sam Worthington, and then Johnny Depp
You may recall that Cruise was originally supposed to be the lead character in "Salt" and when he pulled out, Angelina took over the role.

If you havent seen the trailer yet, here it is...



You can check out the film's website here:
http://www.thetourist-movie.com/


Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp - The Tourist Updates, posted to http://angelina-jolie-pitt.blogspot.com/, on October 2nd, 2010

Angelina Jolie Not In Gravity

I mentioned back in March that Angelina Jolie would probably not be going ahead with her role in Gravity.

Well it looks like I was right, because the role is now rumored to be going to Natalie Portman.
Gravity is Alfonso Cuaron's $80 million dollar "3D survival story" about two astronauts (a male and female) who are stranded after a disaster leaves their space station inoperable.
The male lead is reported to be Robert Downey Jr.

Oddly enough, Robert Downey Jr. plays Iron Man in the very successful films, and Natalie Portman will be playing Jane Foster in the upcoming Marvel movie, Thor.

According to reports, even after Angelina originally turned down the role, Warner Bros. still tried to get her, making a second offer.
But she still said no.

Gravity is supposed to start production at the end of January 2011, but with Angelina definitely saying no, the project might be in jeopardy, even with Robert Downey and Natalie Portman.




Angelina Jolie Not In Gravity, posted to http://angelina-jolie-pitt.blogspot.com/ on September 9th, 2010

Angelina Jolie - Salt Opens Today

I first mentioned Salt back in August of 2008, and now almost two years later we finally get to see Angelina Jolie's completed project.

Salt opens today but yesterday, Angelina, director Phillip Noyce, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and co-star Liev Schreiber showed up at the Salt panel at Comic-Con in San Diego.
I think this may have been her first Comic Con appearance.

So far critics have been fairly positive about the films....
Rotten Tomatoes reports that 56% of 95 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.9 out of 10.
Metacritic gave it a rating score of 64 based on 34 reviews.
Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter liked it, as did Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert and Karina Mitchell of CBS News.
Both said it was cartoony violence and action, but it worked.
Oddly, a lack of CGI seems to be praised quite a bit.
Avatar backlash?

So now everyone seems to be looking forward to The Tourist (with Johnny Depp) and Cleopatra is already generating a lot of buzz.




Angelina Jolie - Salt Opens Today, posted to http://angelina-jolie-pitt.blogspot.com/ on July 22nd, 2010

Angelina Jolie, Salt and Cleopatra

So just a few weeks before Angelina Jolie's movie "Salt" comes out, the FBI busts 11 alleged Russian spies.
Coincidence?
A PR agents dream?
Are my conspiracy buddies right and Hollywood really IS part of the "Shadow Government"?

Well who really knows, but what I thought may have started out as great PR for the film looks like it may be falling kinda flat as the FBI desperately tries to keep their case from looking like a joke.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/02/russian-spy-ring-fbi-evidence
After all...Salt isn't a comedy.

Too bad they don't have time for a re-write and work Anna Chapman in.
Oh well.

If you haven't visited the official Salt site yet, here it is...
http://www.whoissalt.com/

But even if Salt can't cash in on the retro Cold War feel, Angelina still has several projects in the pipeline.

Of course the next one up is The Tourist with Johnny Depp.
Then she'll be reprising the voice of Master Tigress in the sequel to Kung Fu Panda, titled Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom.
Following that, she'll start work on Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life, based on the book by Stacy Schiff, in which Angelina will play Cleopatra.



Angelina Jolie, Salt and Cleopatra, posted to http://angelina-jolie-pitt.blogspot.com/ on July 2nd, 2010

Now It's Angelina Vs Megan Vs Zoe?

Well it looks like the Angelina Jolie / Megan Fox thing wasn't going anywhere, so now Hollywood has added another name to the mix.
Zoe Saldana.


In case you don't know who Zoe is, she first caught everyone's attention as Lieutenant Uhura in the re-booted Star Trek.
Then she played Neytiri in the blockbuster (which kinda seems like an understatement) Avatar.
Recently she starred as Aisha in The Losers.
But it seems her being considered for a role as an assassin in the upcoming film Colombiana is what sparked all this.

Okay, really...I don't see it.
I mean yes she is (maybe) playing an assassin in a film and they are comparing that to Angelina in Mr and Mrs Smith.
But really Angelina was an assassin in Wanted.
Now if Zoe were taking over her role in Wanted 2 or play Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot (which would have a really cool Julie Newmar/Eartha Kitt feel to it), I could maybe understand it.
But how many women in Hollywood have played assassins and not been compared to Angelina?

I guess the Megan Fox thing wasn't going anywhere (like her career) and Hollywood needed something new for the gossip mills.

But until Zoe starts getting a lot of tattoos and adopting kids, (or stars in Wanted 2 or Tomb Raider), or wins an Oscar or two, just let it go.

Now on a more Angelina related note, you can go to http://dayxexists.com/ and take a look at the preview of the immersive online game based on Angie's upcoming movie Salt.

All About Angelina Jolie - Screamingangie1's Channel

I don't know if I have mentioned it before, but there's a channel on YouTube that has as many Angelina Jolie trailers, interviews, behind the scenes clips and pretty much anything else Angelina related you want to see.

It's Screamingangie1's Channel "All About Angelina Jolie" and the channel not only has the latest "Salt" info, but also some info from "The Tourist" as well.

So basically, anything Angelina related in the news is gonna be there.

Like for instance, here are some stills from The Tourist in a nice little five minute video.....



You can see this and more like it at Screamingangie1's Channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Screamingangie1

Angelina Jolie - The Tourist, Wanted 2 and Serena

You probably noticed that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt missed the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.
Well they were in Italy were Angelina is shooting her new movie The Tourist (with Johnny Depp), and rather than blast across the globe for the ceremony, Brad and Angelina decided to stay in Italy and take the oldest kids to the director's house (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) to celebrate one of his kids' birthdays.
By the way, The Tourist is set to be released on February 16, 2011.

So with Salt in the bag, and The Tourist filming...what's next for Angelina?

For one thing, it looks like Wanted 2 will have to continue on without her because she has passed on that project.
Well not really continue, when Angelina passed on it, that pretty much killed the sequel.
And it was rumored that she would show up in the space-thriller, Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón, but it looks like that is a no go as well.

Two projects that are getting some attention are the film adaptation of Ron Rash's novel Serena, about the ambitious wife of a North Carolina timber baron.
The film may be directed by The Wrestler's director, Darren Aronofsky.
Does that mean Angelina will come to NC (my home state) to shoot?
Probably not, they'll probably film it in Vancouver...

Another project is a film adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's Dr. Kay Scarpetta books.
Well not really an adaptation, from what I hear it will be an original story focusing on a younger Scarpetta before the books start.
Did you know that Patricia Cornwell lived in NC for awhile as well?
Hmmmm...

And in tabloid fodder news, in the new book by Jenny Paul, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The True Story, the author says that Angelina Jolie had an affair with Mick Jagger twice.
The first time was in 1997 when Mick was married to Jerry Hall, and Angelina was married to Jonny Lee Miller.
At that time, Angelina appeared in the Rolling Stones 1997 video “Anybody Seen My Baby.” which you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElOXKt0v7-A

And the book goes on to say that they hooked up again in 2003, after Angelina divorced Billy Bob Thornton.

Angelina Jolie and her Lips.

In the category of "Gosh I'm glad that all the world's problems are fixed so let's devote all our time and research to stupid things" we have a company in the good old US that has developed lip-reading software that can rate lips on a 10-point attractiveness scale.
No it wasn't drunk frat boys.
It was actually a "lipologist" (?) named Dr Kendra Schmid and it's called the Baileys Lip Attractiveness Software.
(I wonder if I can get it as a Firefox add on?)
Anyway, the reason why I've even mentioning it is because of the rankings.
You know how Angelina's lips are supposed to be one of her best qualities?
Not according to scientific (::snicker::) study.
No, the best lips in the world belong to....
Italian actress and fashion model Monica Belluci!
I can see that.
She got a perfect ten.
Next up was....
Scarlett Johansson!
Still no Angelina.
Third place was...
Halle Berry!
Still no Angelina?
Fourth place was....
Beyonce!
Awww c'mon!
Yes Angelina came in a paltry fifth place.

No Angelina / Jennifer Brawl Last Night

No, this is not how Angelina was looking at Jennifer last night.

Well the Angelina Jolie / Jennifer Aniston catfight didn't happen last night.
Not that the Oscar producers didn't try to play up on it.
Jennifer and Jack Black (Angelina's "co-star" in Kung Fu Panda) introduced a segment and Jennifer looked nervous, and they kept cutting to Angelina's face.
Angelina was either smiling gracefully of laughing at Jennifer's nervousness. It's gonna depend on who you ask.
But even though Angelina and Jennifer didn't get into a knock down drag out brawl, Brad and Angelina did snub Ryan Seacrest again!
What has he done to them?
Do they hate E! that much?
Or Ryan?
Or is starting to turn into a running gag?

It was a disappointing night for Brangelina fan's everywhere.
Not only was there no brawl, but the Brad Pitt movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" only won awards for Best Makeup, Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects.
Okay I say "only"...heck, that's three more than I've ever won!
And Angelina's movie "Changeling" was totally Oscar free.
Even "Kung Fu Panda" lost.

Oh well, there's always next year.

Angelina Jolie has bought her seven-year-old son a knife

I can't wait to hear the outcry that this will probably start........

Angelina Jolie has bought her seven-year-old son a knife.

The actress, who adopted son Maddox from Cambodia in 2002, wants him to learn how to defend himself and understand the responsibilities of carrying a weapon.
She said in an interview with W magazine:
"My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12. And I have already bought Maddox some things. "We take him to a special shop.
We also talk about samurais and the idea about defending someone as good. We talk about everything. "I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to it. I suddenly wanted to."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2008-10/14/content_7103981.htm

Maybe enrolling the kid in martial arts would be a better start.

Angelina Jolie - First Films

At the age of 14, Angelina Jolie started working as a fashion model.
Finesse Model Management signed her and she modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London.
During that time, she also appeared in several music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"), and The Lemonheads ("It's About Time").
At the age of 16, Jolie returned to theatre.
She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them.
Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Angelina realizing that they were both "drama queens".

While her brother attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Angelina appeared in five of his student films. But her professional movie career really began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. She starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller.
The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than her co-stars and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight."
The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.


Angelina in "Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"