Newlyweds Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie continue extended working honeymoon in Malta as they head off on family boat trip
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- Published on Saturday, 20 September 2014 09:56
- Written by Daily Mail
They've been enjoying a lengthy family honeymoon since tying the knot in a private ceremony in the South of France last month.And Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been planning plenty of fun-filled days out to keep their six children entertained during their stay on the island of Malta.The Jolie-Pitt clan squeezed in a boat trip on Thursday in between filming for their new drama By The Sea.It seems the gang were set for a low-key time at sea, with Brad opting for an eye-catching orange fedora and a leather jacket.Angelina covered up in a simple all-black outfit, comprising a long-sleeved top and a maxi skirt, which she teamed with ballet flats.The children - Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox - looked excited about their outing as they clambered on board the boat.The A-list actors, who met on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005, are famously hands-on parents and ensured their children took centre stage at their wedding.Angelina let her kids decorate her wedding dress, walking down the aisle in a gorgeous white satin gown and long veil that featured colourful hand-drawn doodles.She told HELLO!: 'I wanted the kids to be a part of everything including the dress because that's our family; that represents the way we live our life together.'The couple eschewed recorded music and instead Angelina entered to Here Comes The Bride hummed by Brad, the children and the 20-odd guests.Sons Maddox and Pax proudly walked their mother down the aisle, while Zahara and Vivienne tossed petals as they lined the path, and Shiloh and Knox acted as joint ring bearers.Brad and Angelina have barely taken a break since the August 23 ceremony on the grounds of their sprawling Château Miraval estate.They have already begun work on their new film By The Sea, which will see them re-unite on screen for the second time.The area is in lockdown after the couple paid local businesses to close up shop to provide them with complete privacy as they start filming.They have also reportedly rented out 12 villas around Mgarr ix-Xini Bay for everyone who is working on the movie, setting them back a cool $230,000.
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Angelina Jolie signs on to direct biopic 'Africa'
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- Published on Thursday, 29 January 2015 11:01
- Written by Inside Movies
Angelina Jolie has only just offered a first look at her next project By the Sea, and her upcoming biopic Unbroken hasn’t yet hit theaters. But already the busy actor/writer/producer/director has lined up her next project.Jolie has signed on to direct and produce Africa, which is written by Oscar-winner Eric Roth, whose last film was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close before he delved into television with projects like Luck and House of Cards.Africa is another biopic for Jolie, and will tell the story of Kenyan politician and paleoanthropoligst Richard Leakey, who battled with elephant poachers to protect the animal’s population in Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, Leakey made it a priority to combat poachers while he served as the head of Kenya’s Wildlife Conservation and Management Department.Skydance Productions will be behind the film, which is a change of pace for the company currently producing Star Trek 3 and the Terminator franchise revival Terminator: Genisys.Unbroken, which tells the story of Olympic athlete Louis “Louie” Zamperini, who became a prisoner of war during World War II, will debut on Dec. 25. Unbroken‘s cinematographer Roger Deakins will join Jolie on Africa.
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'Angelina Jolie effect' on breast cancer screening endures
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- Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 10:41
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The "Angelina Jolie effect" on referrals for genetic counselling for breast cancer risks was immediate and long-lasting, a new U.K. study suggests.The Hollywood celebrity announced her decision to be tested for the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene and subsequent double mastectomy, to reduce her risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of her family history, in May 2013. The announcement fuelled publicity about breast screening.In Thursday’s issue of the journal Breast Cancer Research, British investigators say referrals first increased by 2.5 times and remained around nearly double their previous levels through October."The Angelina Jolie effect has been long-lasting and global, and appears to have increased referrals to centres appropriately," Gareth Evans, a professor of clinical genetics at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention in Manchester and his co-authors concluded.There were concerns the increase in appointments for screening after Jolie’s announcement might have been from "worried well" patients coming back for another test. But Evans said, in fact, many were women who were already overdue for screening. Similarly, researchers in Toronto told a breast cancer conference earlier this month that the effect seemed to increase awareness and referrals for women who were truly at high risk for hereditary breast cancer.The U.K. researchers pointed to other examples of female celebrities who spurred increased use of health resources, such as higher colonoscopy rates after Katie Couric’s colorectal cancer awareness campaign on The Today Show in 2000 and Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis in Australia.Jolie’s announcement likely had a bigger impact than other celebrity announcements "possibly due to her glamorous image and relationship to Brad Pitt. This may have lessened patients’ fears about a loss of sexual identity, post preventative surgery, and encouraged those who had not previously engaged with health services to consider genetic testing."They concluded that education of the general public is important in increasing awareness of, and improving access to, familial cancer services.
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Newlyweds Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt buy luxury yacht for 250 million pounds
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- Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 04:13
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly spent 250 million pounds on a luxury yacht.They plan to spend a further 2,00,000 pounds to have the luxury vessel fitted to their own specifications.The floating palace will be decked out with the finest Italian marble and woodwork by Italian boat-makers Rizzardi. It will even feature technology that can interfere with digital cameras to fend off paparazzi, reports mirror.co.uk.Meanwhile, Brad, 50, and Angelina, 39, are in Malta shooting a film together after marrying in a secret ceremony in France last month.
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First Look: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt swept away in romantic drama 'By the Sea'
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 September 2014 05:03
- Written by Inside Movies
“But no man moved me till the tide /
Went past my simple shoe /And past my apron and my belt /
And past my bodice too / And made as he would eat me up /
As wholly as a dew…” Whether or not this poem by Emily Dickinson, published under the title By the Sea, served as inspiration for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new film of the same name, the spirit seems to match up with its story of a woman caught in an undertow of passion and rejuvenation while visiting a seaside village with her husband. By the Sea is the first onscreen collaboration between the newlyweds since they first met on 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Jolie not only stars but also wrote the screenplay and is directing and producing. Along with these exclusive images, Entertainment Weekly has the first details of the romantic drama, which has been kept under wraps until now. Although Pitt and Jolie just tied the knot themselves on Aug. 23 after a nearly decade-long relationship, this is how they’ll be spending their honeymoon—exploring a marriage that’s collapsing on itself.Set in France during the mid-1970s, Jolie plays Vanessa, a former dancer, and Pitt is her husband Roland, an American writer. As they travel the country together, they seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper (War Horse and A Prophet‘s Niels Arestrup, pictured below) and hotel owner (Richard Bohringer, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.) “I chose to set By the Sea in the 1970s, not only because it is a colorful and alluring era, but because it removes many of the distractions of contemporary life and allows the focus to remain squarely on the emotions that the characters experience in their journey,” Jolie said in a statement to EW.In other words, it was a time when it was still possible to escape your everyday life without so many methods of staying connected or distracted. In this story, she says a different kind of social networking takes place.As a kind of found-family is assembled amid these maritime dwellers, histories are shared—some joyful, some mournful—and the couple are swept up in their stories, changing the way they look at each other.
The film will be Jolie’s follow-up to the World War II-era survival drama Unbroken, due in theaters Dec. 25, and will be her third directing project since her debut with 2011’s In the Land of Blood and Honey.Universal Pictures will release the film, although no date has been set, and studio chairman Donna Langley said she signed on to make By the Sea after finding Jolie’s script so provocative. “I was struck by the fact that she and Brad are willing to bring such a brave endeavor to screen and take audiences on this raw, emotional journey that’s simultaneously of its moment and surprisingly timeless,” she said.Pitt will be co-producing the film with Jolie, and among the film’s other crew will be editor Patricia Rommel (The Lives of Others); production designer Jon Hutman (Unbroken); and costume designer Ellen Mirojnick (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). The executive producers are Chris Brigham (Inception), Holly Goline (Unbroken) and Michael Vieira (Unbroken).Cinematographer Christian Berger, an Oscar nominee for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, said he will be employing mostly natural light for By the Sea, using the Cine Reflect Lighting System he developed to channel existing light using a series of reflectors that create a warmer, less distracting environment. “It changes the method of working on set for the director and the actors, and in this film enhances the period and atmosphere,” he told EW.The film began shooting in Malta on Sept. 8, and will continue through mid-November.
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