The Jolie-Pitt Foundation today announced a donation of $150,000 to SOS Children’s Villages – USA. The donation is given in recognition of National Adoption Day, which celebrates adoptive families and highlights the needs of the over 100,000 children still waiting for adoptive families in the United States. SOS Children’s Villages play a vital role in the healing and stabilization of foster care children, and constitute a critical step along the way to family reunification or adoption for many children. SOS Children’s Villages provides loving, stable homes to children around the world whose biological families cannot properly care for them. Founded over 60 years ago, SOS operates over 500 Villages in 130 countries including Illinois and Florida in the US. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donation will provide the supplemental long-term financial support needed for a family of four foster children in an SOS Village in the US.

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From the Desk of Terrence Malick….

We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, JACK, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.

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“Extra’s” AJ Calloway caught up with Brad Pitt, who flew in from Budapest to attend the NYC premiere of his animated comedy “Megamind” — and the jet-setter talked about where the Jolie-Pitt clan plans to spend Thanksgiving.

“I’m not really sure where we’ll be for it, but yeah, it’ll be overseas. We’ll whip up a turkey somewhere,” Pitt laughed. They did celebrate Halloween a few days ago, and Pitt said he dressed up. “I was sort of a bunny.”
He, Angelina Jolie and their six kids are pretty used to traveling around. “We are like a military mobile unit.” Brad was excited for his two sons, Maddox and Pax, to see “Megamind,” in which Pitt voices Metro Man, the superhero of the film, who also wants to be a singer.

Does Pitt sing for his family? “Oh no! I want them to be influenced by a proper singer. That’s one talent I do not have.”

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And the writing was on the wall yesterday. Pitt dancing around a new shiny toy that is Andrew Dominik‘s new project, the crime caper “Coogan’s Trade” with a possible impressive cast that may include Casey Affleck, Javier Bardem, Sam Rockwell and Mark Ruffalo (plus he’s interested in another project called, “The Gray Man”). Anyone paying attention all along knew that this news had to smell like bad news for the long-gestating “The Lost City Of Z.” And yup, it pretty much does.

The adventure tale was being excitingly billed as a “Lawrence Of Arabia”-style epic and now had Inferno Entertainment’s Bill Johnson and Jim Siebel on board alongside Pitt and his Plan B shingle with buyers at Cannes “flocking to the project” earlier this year. The thought was at the time, principal photography could commence as soon as Pitt completed his turn on “Moneyball” which shot this summer.

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Brad Pitt is negotiating to star in and produce Cogan’s Trade, a comedic crime saga that re-teams Pitt with Andrew Dominik, who directed Pitt in the gunslinger role in the 2007 Western The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. This time, Pitt will play Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game held under the protection of the mob.

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