Angelina Jolie's 'Salt' Sequel Hiring 'Prince of Tides' Writer
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 06:47
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
Becky Johnston is in negotiations to work on the follow-up to the 2010 spy movie for Columbia Pictures. Columbia Pictures is still working to put Salt back on the table.In a move signaling continued interest in a sequel to the 2010 Angelina Jolie spy movie, the studio is in negotiations to hire Becky Johnston to work on the script.In the original, Jolie starred as a CIA officer who discovers she is a Russian sleeper cell agent with a mission to assassinate the U.S. president. Salt grossed $293.5 million worldwide, so Columbia in 2011 hired the movie’s credited writer, Kurt Wimmer, to pen a sequel.Earlier this year, however, reports surfaced that Jolie didn’t think his script was up to snuff and had not committed to the project, which is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash. Johnston's hiring caps off an almost year-long search for a scribe who could reconceive the script with a take that satisfied all parties.UTA-repped Johnston is a left-of-center choice for the project as her most notable credits are the character dramas The Prince of Tides (1991), which starred Barbra Streisand, and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), which starred Jolie’s fiance Brad Pitt.Johnston did work on Wonder Woman as well as Brad Bird’s San Francisco Earthquake project 1906 and has the Colin Firth-Emily Blunt drama Arthur Newman awaiting release next year.
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Angelina Jolie's Ex, Billy Bob Thornton, Wants An Invite
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- Published on Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:17
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Hey, Brangelina -- Billy Bob Thornton wants an invite to your wedding, and he'll come bearing gifts! Well, kind of. In an interview with TMZ, Thornton, who was married to Angelina Jolie from 2000 to 2003, said he'd attend Jolie's wedding to Brad Pitt if he was invited."I don't go out of town much, but yeah, you never know. I'd be happy to. I'd be more than happy to, absolutely," Thornton said.As to what he'd get them for a wedding present, Thornton complained that he never knows what gifts to buy for his friends."You going to get them a gift card?" an onlooker asked."A gift card, yes," Thornton replied.Jolie and Thornton have remained friends since ending their marriage in 2003, during which they famously wore vials of each other's blood. Watch the video above for more on Brangelina's potential wedding guest.
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Angelina Jolie revisits Syrian refugees in Jordan
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- Published on Friday, 07 December 2012 11:56
- Written by Telegraph
Angelina Jolie meets with Syrian refugees in Jordan who had fled from conflict in their home country. UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie travelled to the Jordan-Syria border to meet frightened and exhausted Syrian refugees who had just completed the perilous crossing to safety in Jordan.The Hollywood actress met a family who moved from Damascus to their home town of Daraa four months ago but decided they should flee to Jordan.This family is joining tens of thousands of others who have already fled to Jordan and surrounding country.Jolie returned to the camp on December 6 to meet more refugees and the family she talked to before.Nearly half a million Syrians fleeing intensified fighting have been registered in neighbouring countries since the conflict began.
Hundreds of thousands more are unregistered, but are expected to come forward for help in the next few months as their resources are depleted.Since the UNHCR special envoy's last visit in September, the number of registered Syrian refugees in the region has increased by more than 200,000 and in Jordan alone by nearly 50,000.The sprawling Za'atri refugee camp north of Amman has doubled in size.Angelina Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, made a donation of $50,000 dollars for the purchase of family tents for refugees.
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Angelina Jolie Wanted Jennifer Lawrence's 'Silver Linings Playbook' Role
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 19:38
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Angelina Jolie wanted to be the leading lady in hit comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook, according to filmmaker David O. Russell.Jennifer Lawrence has been tipped for an Academy Award for her portrayal of promiscuous Tiffany in the movie, but Russell thought the 22-year-old star was too young and he had other "major actresses" in mind, including Jolie.At a screening for TheWrap.com, he explains, "Quite frankly, (Lawrence's audition) was like a formality. I didn't think she was really a contender. We had three very serious contenders (already). We had a lot of major actresses in town interested in the role, from Angelina Jolie to some other big stars, because it's a dimensional role for a young woman. Jennifer we frankly thought was too young."The Hunger Games beauty went on to win the part after auditioning over Internet phone service Skype, while Bradley Cooper was recruited to play her love interest, but Russell admits he considered a number of other A-list stars during the casting process.He adds, "I wrote it with Vince (Vaughn) and Zooey (Deschanel) in mind, because I love Vince's cadences... And then Mark Wahlberg, who I love and made three movies with, there was a moment where he was going to do it. That didn't work out... and it was out of my hands... I originally wrote it for other people."But as Matt Damon very graciously said to me about the Christian Bale role in The Fighter - which he was originally intended to play, 'It just goes to show, the right people play the right role at the right time.'"
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Angelina Jolie talks about plans to quit acting
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 December 2012 11:16
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Angelina Jolie said in an interview on Saturday she plans to quit acting in the future to spend more time with her family.Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague sat down with Cathy Newman from Channel 4 News in the U.K. to talk about war-zone rape. Jolie is a UN (United Nations) Special Envoy and feels strongly about helping victims of sexual violence.While being interviewed, Jolie talked about her plans for the future, including her plans to quit acting and focus on her family."I think I'm going to have to give up acting as kids hit the teenage years because there is going to be too much to manage at home," she says."But I have enjoyed being an actress and I’m so grateful for the job... I will do some films,” Jolie continues. “I'm so fortunate to have the job. It's a very lucky profession to be a part of and I enjoy it. But if it went away tomorrow, I would be very happy to be at home with my children."When asked if she felt her humanitarian work is more rewarding than acting she said “of course,” later stating she hopes “to be a part of the world in a positive way.”Jolie has gone on various mission for the UN, first starting as a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 and now as a Special Envoy according to the UNHCR. Jolie and her partner actor Brad Pitt are currently engaged, but Pitt says there is no set date yet as we reported. The couple have six children.
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