Returning Down Under! Angelina Jolie due to make Australian comeback for world premiere of biopic Unbroken next month
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- Published on Thursday, 09 October 2014 03:57
- Written by Daily mail
She spent six months on Australian shores filming World War II biopic Unbroken.And now that the film is complete, it has been announced that Angelina Jolie will be returning Down Under for the world premiere.The Hollywood heavyweight, 39, will be back in Sydney on November 17 where she will be joined by the film's lead actor Jack O'Connell and Japanese star Miyavi, announced the Today Show on Thursday. The news comes a fortnight after the Academy Award winning actress hit a roadblock for her next directorial project titled Africa. Issues subsisting between two once-married producers involved in the film is apparently threatening to put the whole thing in jeopardy, according to Hollywood Reporter.Meanwhile Jolie's Australian directed film Unbroken, which stars O'Connell, Miyavi, Garrett Hedlund and local actor Jai Courtney, has been completed unhindered by setbacks. On Wednesday Courtney described working under Jolie's direction as 'fantastic'. 'She's got a wonderful creative voice,' the Spartacus star told the Huffington Post.'It was literally one of those cases where it was like, "I don't care what I play, I just want to be a part of this movie".'It is based on the true story of WWII hero Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who joined the Air Force in 1941 and became stranded on a raft for 47 days after his plane was shot down. He survived only to be captured by the Japanese. Zamperini himself passed away on July 2 at age 97, one week before the official trailer was released.
Jolie paid tribute to the American veteran following the news of his death, describing his passing as 'a loss impossible to describe' via a statement. 'We are all so grateful for how enriched our lives are for having known him. We will miss him terribly,' she said.The Maleficent star and her husband Brad Pitt based their big family in a huge Vaucluse mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs when they arrived last November for six months for the prolonged filming of Unbroken.The brunette stunner admitted that she and Pitt felt so happy in Australia when she relocated her six-strong brood, that they had even considered an Australian wedding.'It crossed our mind when we were there,' she said in an interview with Channel Seven's Sunrise at the time.'I loved Australia. I loved everything about it: I loved working in Australia, I loved the crew, I think its the most extraordinary place to make films and to spend time.' The couple have since tied the knot in at their French chateau in August.Unbroken is set for release in Australian cinemas on December 25.
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Infuriate Malta Locals With Outrageous Movie Demands
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- Published on Sunday, 05 October 2014 14:50
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are making everyone in Malta mad.The newlywed superstars are shooting "By the Sea" on the Mediterranean island, their first on-screen collaboration since "Mr. and Ms. Smith." Jolie is the writer and director of the 1970's-set love story.Local divers aren't feeling the love, however. According to The Sun, the movie crew "has cordoned off areas for filming on the island of Gozo, which is packed with diving centers, and many owners fear the closure is harming their business." "Brad and Angelina started filming in August and originally the Prime Minister said the bays would be closed for a few days. Now they plan to be there till November," sniffed Donna Hayler-Montague, owner of the Bubbles Diving Centre in Gozo. "Our high season is September and October so they've taken over the bays in that season. It is quite dramatic for the diving community. We are asking for compromise. We have offered not to take phones or cameras along." Prior to stomping on Malta's local businesses, Jolie and Pitt went bowling with their five kids—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox—at Lucky Jack's Bar, Grill and Bowling in Victoria, Gozo."All of the kids were present, along with three security guards," an eyewitness recently told E! News. "They spent about two hours at the bowling alley. Everyone was really happy and the kids were joking around with one another."Jolie then ditched the kids and jumped aboard a Maltese Navy ship."She was very kind and gracious," an insider said of Jolie's visit to the ship. "She listened to what everyone had to say and was very interested... Angelina looked amazing as always, she was dressed very simple but classy. She was happy and radiant. She [Jolie] looked really good."
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Maleficent Deleted Scenes Reveal More Creepy Pixie Behavior
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- Published on Saturday, 20 September 2014 21:24
- Written by io9
The parts of Maleficent we actually enjoyed were when Angelina Jolie went full villain. The rest, not to much. Specifically, we weren't fans of the odd, slapstick pixies whose backstory has been fleshed out in these recently released Maleficent deleted scenes.These deleted scenes are from the soon-to-be released Maleficent DVD (Nov. 4th). What they reveal is more Angelina Jolie in full mischievous fairy mode and the tiny pixies being big creeps. Apparently they sent in random guys from the castle to kiss Sleeping Beauty while she was asleep. Weird.
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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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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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