Marvel Wants Angelina Jolie To Direct Captain Marvel?
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- Published on Sunday, 08 February 2015 18:50
- Written by Comic Book
OK! Magazine reports in their February issue that executives at Marvel Studios were very impressed with Angelina Jolie's Unbroken and have offered her $20 million to direct their first female-led superhero movie Captain Marvel.In addition to admiring Jolie's work on the biographical war drama about Louis "Louie" Zamperini, Marvel desires Jolie because they want a woman's touch on Captain Marvel. “Having a female director is a priority for them,” explained their inside source.Jolie is said to be keen on Marvel's offer. “She never thought she’d be in such huge demand as a director, and to be courted by Marvel after the Sony fiasco is a huge pat on the back,” their source added. That last part refers to leaked emails in which producer Scott Rudin made some unflattering remarks to Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal about Jolie, like calling her a "minimally talented spoiled brat" and "a camp event.”
I do find it hard to believe that Marvel would fork over $20 million to Jolie when she has only directed two films so far, no matter how well directed they are. The other being 2011's In the Land of Blood and Honey.Whoever Marvel brings in they will have a lot of pressure placed upon them to make sure Captain Marvel is a hit. Let's face it, Marvel Studios doesn't have the film rights to a lot of their best female superheroes. Captain Marvel is their female version of Superman. The former air force pilot can fly and is super-fast, super-strong, invulnerable and has energy projectile powers. It is vital for Marvel to prove that they can make a female led superhero movie work. If it did, it would open the door for even more of Marvel's female characters to get their own solo films as well.Captain Marvel is scheduled for release on July 6, 2018.
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Angelina Jolie protests child marriage
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- Published on Saturday, 07 February 2015 17:41
- Written by Washinghton Times
Superstar and human rights activist Angelina Jolie speaks against child marriage in the new issue of Ms. magazine, editors said Friday.Miss Jolie has taken a stand against the “child bride” practice, citing data that finds as many as one-third of girls in developing countries are forced to marry before age 18.These child marriages not only force girls to give up on their dreams and drop out of school, but endanger their very lives when they’re expected to become young mothers,” said Ms. magazine’s editors.The new article will also profile Miss Jolie’s partnership with Ethiopian filmmakers to raise awareness of child marriage in a 2014 film, “DIFRET.”The movie title has multiple meanings, including “courage.”The film recounts the horrifying 1996 story of a 14-year-old Ethiopian teen who spurned a man seeking to marry her; he retaliated by kidnapping and raping her. She escaped with the man’s gun and used it to kill him when he came for her again.The teen was arrested and charged with murder, which carried a death sentence for her.After a lengthy trial, a court decided she acted in self-defense and set the teen free.“DIFRET” has already won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Although the film was initially banned in Ethiopia, it has since been shown there as well as in theaters worldwide.Ms. describes itself as the first national magazine “to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public.” Since its founding in 1971, Ms. has been associated with leading feminist icons including Eleanor Smeal and Gloria Steinem.
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Power double date! Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt 'have Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling (along with baby Esmeralda) for lunch at their LA home'
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- Published on Thursday, 05 February 2015 05:04
- Written by Daily mail
This couple isn't known for hanging out with other celebrities too often.But according to Star magazine, Angelina Jolie, 39, and Brad Pitt, 51, had new parents Eva Mendes, 40, and Ryan Gosling, 34, over for lunch at their sprawling Los Feliz mansion in Los Angeles recently.Brad and Ryan have been getting to know each other ahead of shooting their film The Big Short.Also along for the visit was Eva and Ryan's new baby Esmeralda, born in September 2014.'Brad and Ryan have become really close buddies,' a source told the weekly.'And Eva has been a huge fan of Angelina's for years. She was dying to meet her.'Also there was the Jolie-Pitt clan that is made up of Shiloh, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Vivienne and Knox.'They relaxed for a few hours while the kids played,' added the insider.The Big Short, which also stars Christian Bale, is based on The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which Michael Lewis wrote.Adam McKay is writing the screenplay and directing.The story is about the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010.Pitt will produce with DeDe Gardner through their Plan B banner. Production start date is unknown, according to Variety. Pitt's Plan B company has already made 12 Years a Slave and Selma.Ryan has been filming the thriller The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe.
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Class Act Angelina Jolie Wrote the Most Amazing Email to 'Fifty Shades' Director Sam Taylor-Johnson
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- Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2015 11:52
- Written by Marie Claire
In the latest issue of Porter magazine—covered by a very vernal-looking Natalia Vodianova wearing the world's prettiest lip stain—director Sam Taylor-Johnson says Angelina Jolie, who was reportedly also in the running for the Fifty Shades gig, is a very gracious lady."I got an email out of the blue from her saying good luck on your journey," Taylor-Johnson says. "I thought that was incredibly sweet of her."Rumor has it the charm school graduate expressed interest in acting in the film adaptation of E L James's hit book too, so maaaybe Taylor-Johnson was moved enough to offer her a part? Maybe it's the best-kept secret of the decade, and we'll all be pleasantly surprised on Feb. 13? (Please, please, please, please.)On a not-so-warm-and-fuzzy note, Taylor-Johnson says she and James butted heads over the creative direction of the movie."We would have proper on-set barneys, and I'm not confrontational, but it was about finding a way between the two of us, satisfying her vision of what she'd written as well as my need to visualize this person on screen but, you know, we got there."So everything is still cool, because even though making Fifty Shades wasn't all together-forever buddy-buddy-ness, we've got two strong-minded women resolving their differences to make a bunch of other women very, very happy. That's a win in our book.
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Angelina Jolie is most admired woman in the world!
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 11:14
- Written by Daily mail
Director, humanitarian and mother-of-six beat Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton and the QUEEN in global poll.Angelina Jolie has beaten the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton and even the Queen to be named the most admired woman in the world.According to a new poll of 25,000 people, the actress, director, mother-of-six and UN special envoy was most worthy of respect internationally.However, the YouGov study found that Brits still voted Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II into the top spot nationally - just pushing Judi Dench into second place.Angelina, 39, has just directed Unbroken, a critically-acclaimed film about the Second World War and has been travelling around the world visiting war zones since 2001.In second place was 17-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Talban and won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.The youngest Nobel laureate, Yousafzai is an advocate for education and women's human rights in her native Swat Valley in Pakistan, after blogging for the BBC beginning at age 11.Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, rounded out the top three. The poll was conducted across 23 countries, with each nation producing different results.The Queen was widely admired along with Michelle Obama, who came in fifth and surprisingly Celine Dion who took the sixth spot, ahead of Oprah Winfrey at seven and Julia Roberts who was eighth most admired woman.Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi came in at nine, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel was tenth most admired globally.The list shows how many people regard celebrities more highly than politicians.And close behind Merkel are Taylor Swift and Beyonce Knowles at 11th and 12th place. India's Sonia Gandhi is 13th, just in front of Jennifer Lawrence.Kate Middleton comes in 15th in the worldwide results but in the UK she was voted sixth, just after Helen Mirren (fourth) and before Aung San Suu Kyi. For UK voters, the SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made it as the ninth most admired woman, behind Ellen DeGeneres at eight and Julia Roberts who was voted into tenth place.And when it comes to the men, Bill Gates took top honours as the most-respected man internationally, while Stephen Hawking was voted first by Britons.Prince William was more admired than his brother, coming in in fifth place (after Richard Branson), while Harry was eighth most admired.David Beckham was tenth while Nigel Farage was 11th.
| MOST ADMIRED WOMEN (WORLD) 1. Angelina Jolie 2. Malala Yousafzai 3. Hillary Clinton 4. The Queen 5. Michelle Obama 6. Celine Dion 7. Oprah Winfrey 8. Julia Roberts 9. Aung San Suu Kyi 10. Angela Merkel |
MOST ADMIRED WOMEN (UK VOTES) 1. The Queen 2. Dame Judi Dench 3. Malala Yousafzai 4. Dame Helen Mirren 5. Duchess of Cambridge 6. Aung San Suu Kyi 7. Angelina Jolie 8. Angela Merkel 9. Hillary Clinton 10. Michelle Obama |
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