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Jolie winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

family
November 18, 2013

In an emotional night, Angelina Jolie became the youngest ever winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award on Saturday.

Also taking home honorary Oscars at the fifth annual Governors Awards were Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin (who choked up during his acceptance speech), and Italian costume designer Piero Tosi, who was unable to attend.

“My family, my love, your love and support make everything possible,” said a clearly emotional Jolie, 38, who attended the event with fiancé Brad Pitt and eldest son Maddox. “Mad, and your brothers and sisters, there is no greater honor than being your mom.”

Marcheline Bertrand, who died of ovarian cancer in 2007, was never far from Jolie’s mind on a night that honored the actress’s humanitarian efforts with the UN Refugee Agency, Doctors Without Borders and Global Action for Children.

“My mom loved art,” said the actress, who flew in from directing Unbroken in Australia. “She wanted for [brother James Haven] and I to have the life of an artist.”

Jolie added, “She believed nothing would mean anything if you didn’t lead a life that was of use to others.”

Read more. Beautiful speech. Brad attended together with their oldest son Maddox.

Director of Brad Pitt Film Apologizes for Shooting War Scenes on U.K. Memorial Day

Fury
November 13, 2013

Filmmaker David Ayer, currently shooting Brad Pitt starrer Fury in the U.K., hit the headlines this week after filming war scenes featuring extras in Nazi uniforms on Remembrance Sunday, Britain’s equivalent of Veterans Day.

Ayer took to Twitter to express his “heartfelt apologies for any disrespect on Remembrance Day” after pre-dawn explosions and Nazi scenes were filmed in an Oxfordshire village for his film.

Ayer, himself a veteran, said “it was an honor” for him to be making a film in the U.K.
The director also posted a picture of a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington Cemetery in the U.S. with his apology.

BP Gallery Update

BP Gallery / candids / Sinbad: Legends of the Seven Seas
November 13, 2013

• x080 Candids (2013).
• x002 ‘Sinbad’ Promotional Photoshoot.

Thanks Pittfary.

David Fincher’s ‘Black Hole’ Back On At Brad Pitt’s Plan B, Slate Also Includes New Film From Taika Waititi

plan b
November 8, 2013

Not to be mistaken with the 1979 Disney film turned upcoming Joseph Kosinski remake, author Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” remains one of the great adaptations lying in wait. Published between 1995 and 2005, the highly acclaimed graphic novel drew attention from Hollywood immediately, with Paramount snagging the rights and putting Alexandre Aja to direct and the team of Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman to pen a script. In 2008, David Fincher replaced Aja as helmer, but Gaiman and Avary drifted away shortly thereafter. The project has since become another “what-if?” scenario; one of Fincher’s “lost projects” we hoped he would one day return to. And now looks like Brad Pitt and his production company Plan B is helping to make that happen.

Looking to the future following their Oscar contender “12 Years a Slave,” Pitt’s label Plan B has laid out an ambitious slate of projects (via THR), including the Andrew Dominik-directed Marilyn Monroe biopic, “Blonde,” an adaptation of Michael Hastings’ book “The Operators,” and most notably, a revived version of “Black Hole” with Fincher still attached. Burns’ book follows a group of Seattle teens in the 1970s who contract “The Bug,” an incurable sexually-transmitted disease that causes shocking mutations among them all.

Robert Pattinson Joins Benedict Cumberbatch in James Gray’s ‘Lost City of Z’

plan b / The Lost City of Z
November 8, 2013

Robert Pattinson Joins Benedict Cumberbatch in James Gray Lost City of Z

David Grann’s acclaimed book serves as the basis for the movie, which Brad Pitt is producing under his Plan B banner

Robert Pattinson will join Benedict Cumberbatch in James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z,” an individual familiar with the long-gestating project has told TheWrap.

Brad Pitt was initially attached to star in the adaptation of David Grann’s acclaimed book, though he’s now strictly producing the film through his Plan B banner along with Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Anthony Katagas.

Read more. That takes Brad out of the cast for WWZ part 2, as I call it.

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