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