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Moneyball location update
Scenes for the upcoming “Moneyball” movie will be shot at Oakland Coliseum sometime in July, though details are still being hammered out. The movie, based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, will star Brad Pitt as General Manager [Continue..]
Basterds Win Best Actor Award
Quentin Tarantino’s film, ‘Inglourious Basterds, which stars Brad Pitt and is due in theaters on August 21, took the award for Best Actor, for Christoph Waltz’s performance. Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or, went to German director Michael Haneke’s ‘The [Continue..]
Brad arrives in Cannes
As the sea along the Cote D’Azur shimmered in the sunshine, Brad Pitt arrived to add some further sparkle to his familiar springtime haunt, the Cannes Film Festival. Pitt, 45, was spotted Saturday at the Hotel du Cap, having lunch [Continue..]
The William A. Pitt Court
Drury University broke ground Friday on the O’Reilly Family Event Center and revealed that Springfield’s Pitt family has donated $600,000 to pay for the center’s Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design Gold certification. The 65,000-square-foot center will be the first [Continue..]
Tarantino reflects on ‘Basterds’
Quentin Tarantino is so high on the Cannes experience that he worked at a breakneck pace to shoot and edit the 165-page epic-sized WWII drama “Inglourious Basterds” in eight months. And when the writer-director bows his film on Wednesday, he [Continue..]
Brad Pitt Selects More Architects 4 “Make It Right”
Architects from eight firms, ranging from a young New Orleans collective to world-renowned Gehry Partners, currently are racing to finish schematic designs for Make It Right. In mid-March the organization, founded by actor Brad Pitt to rebuild 150 houses in [Continue..]
Inglourious Basterds Website
The official website was updated with lots of goodies! Quotes, pictures, soundtrack and others. Be sure to check it out. • Official Website.
Moneyball mention
From an interview with director Steven Soderbergh on Moneyball. CS: So I’d guess that “Moneyball” is more serious? Soderbergh: No, it’s gonna be funny. I think it’s gonna be dramatic, but I think it’s gonna be funnier than people expect. [Continue..]
Inglourious Basterds premiere
The movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20th. Prior to that there will be a photocall and pressconference. Brad is expected to attend. Thanks Rita and Gina.
Tarantino’s new film: ‘Bunch of guys on a mission movie’
PARIS — “This ain’t your daddy’s World War II movie,” Quentin Tarantino said with a grin, standing on a street corner here that had been scrubbed of 21st-century signposts to become the set of Inglourious Basterds, his new film about [Continue..]
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ on a mission
When Quentin Tarantino was just a video store clerk filled with filmmaking dreams, he and his pals shared a shorthand for the against-all-odds mission movie they would someday make: “This will be our ‘Inglorious Bastards!’ ” Tarantino and his friends [Continue..]