Brad Pitt is coming back to New Orleans, and he’s bringing his Steve McQueen-directed adaptation of the Solomon Northup memoir “Twelve Years a Slave” with him. Filming is set to begin in late June.
Brad PittActor Brad Pitt signs autographs at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Local homeowner Pitt will return to New Orleans this summer to star in and co-produce an adaptation of ’12 Years a Slave.’

Based on Northup’s experiences as a free black man who was kidnapped in New York in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana, the project had been rumored for several weeks as considering Louisiana as a shooting site. That was confirmed today (May 4) with its inclusion on the latest state-issued listing of film and TV projects shooting, or preparing to shoot, in-state. (See the full list below, along with contact information for prospective crew members.)

It is scheduled to shoot in New Orleans for 7 weeks, beginning June 27.

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PS. Added some rare pics, hope that makes up for my lil time off

Brad Pitt Is the New Face of Chanel No. 5! Yes, it’s a scent for a woman, but if ever there was a man pretty enough to render that particular point moot, it’s Brad Pitt.

Proving yet again that his musky appeal knows no bounds, E! News has exclusively learned that Angelina Jolie’s better half has signed on as the new face of Chanel’s signature No. 5 scent.

Reps for neither Pitt nor the perfume house have commented on the new partnership, but a source tells E! News that the actor will be shooting his first perfume ad in London sometime this week (the superstar family has set up their most recent homestead in the UK).

And for his endorsement troubles, Pitt will be bringing home some serious bacon for the Jolie-Pitt clan, with his paycheck for the spot somewhere in the seven-figures.

The Chanel No. 5 ad will be released overseas sometime later this year. Makes scents to us.

Read more. Thanks Anu. This is thus far uncomfirmed but a harmless rumor. Keep you updated.

FYI. Sorry for the non updates, I got quite ill after my return from Ghana. Luckily, we didn’t really miss anything newsworthy.

The Hunger Games starlet may take the lead role in the big-screen adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle: A Memoir, which had a record-breaking stint on the New York Times best-seller list for a memoir, reported Deadline.

She is expected to portray the author, a gossip columnist who had a difficult childhood with her “dysfunctional but vibrant” family in the upcoming drama, which is being written by Marti Noxon.

The rights to the 2005 book were originally picked up by Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt’s Plan B productions, but it is thought that Lionsgate now has the rights.

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Walter Salles’ On the Road, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy and Michael Haneke’s Amour will join Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard and David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis for a trip to the 65th annual Festival de Cannes.

Also screening in the competition are Holy Motors by Leos Carax and more U.S. titles such as Jeff Nichol’s Mud, The Angels’ Share by Ken Loach and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly with Brad Pitt and Ray Liotta. All in all, U.S. filmmakers will have a strong presence in Cannes this year.

Dominik’s mobster film Killing Them Softly will bring Pitt to the Croisette for the director’s follow-up to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. And Nichols’ presents his anticipated follow-up title to Take Shelter, a coming-of-age drama set in Arkansas that stars McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.

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