Angelina Jolie 'buys Brad Pitt £250k ring'

Angelina Jolie has reportedly bought Brad Pitt a £250,000 ring for his 47th birthday.

The actress hopes that the ring will also act as a wedding band if plans for them to marry in February go ahead, according to the Daily Star Sunday.

A source said: "The band has each of their children's names on it and Angie's on the top. This is a family wedding band to symbolise Brad isn't just married to Angelina but to the family as a whole. It was described as absolutely exquisite.

"She told me there are mystical references to his 47th birthday that have also been engraved on the band and the family all have their own interpretations of what the band means to them and what 47 means to them."

Jolie will apparently throw a party for Pitt at the couple's home, where the whole family will present him with the ring.

Johnny Depp 'loved exploring Venice'

Johnny Depp has revealed that he enjoyed exploring the city of Venice while filming The Tourist.

Speaking to AFP, Depp noted that he often found himself walking around the famed Italian city each night after work had wrapped.

"My experience of Venice really happened between 10pm and 2am when the streets closed and I was able to walk around and experience the poetry of Venice, the ghosts of Venice, all those wonderful dark alleys," he said.

The actor further explained that he was able to draw on the city's mystique to inform his performance in The Tourist.

He remarked: "For an actor being able to film within the confines of that magical city certainly helps.... The city's magic shone through completely."

Earlier this week, Depp insisted that he is "floored" to have been nominated for two Golden Globe awards.

Avoid Jolie, Depp's 'Tourist' trap

What's served under a label promising first-class Champagne tastes like last night's prosecco in "The Tourist," a zero-chemistry pairing of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp that opens in theaters Friday.

Staggeringly misjudged in virtually every department, from the wannabe effervescent script to Depp's dopey hairdo, the Sony release stands as an object lesson in the perils of succumbing to the siren call of big-time Hollywood filmmaking for a foreign director with one art house hit behind him. The studio's publicity machine will work overtime to drum up some initial business, but "Tourist" will fall into a trap of its own making.

After receiving near-universal acclaim and a foreign-language Oscar for his 2006 debut feature, "The Lives of Others," a quietly riveting suspense drama set in East Germany, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who grew up partially in the US and speaks perfect English, was inundated with offers from all quarters but wanted to choose carefully. After such a long delay, for him to have finally settled on this trifling romp over the rooftops and in the canals of Venice is stupefying to say the least and will give plenty of ammunition to the small band of detractors of his earlier outing.

Embalmed in makeup and elegant gowns that puts one in mind of Loretta Young and employing a reserved English accent that allows no possibility of genuine emotional expression, Jolie plays Elise, the object of much male attention in the opening scenes, which is no surprise even though the men in question are all surveillance experts intent upon following her every move in the hope she'll lead them to her criminal lover, one Alexander Pearce. After she receives a note instructing her to take a morning train from Paris to Venice, the chase is on, and she knows it.

With every guy on board keen for Elise to sit next to them, she instead gloms on to the scruffy, rather forlorn-looking Frank Tupelo, a mild-mannered math teacher from Wisconsin. Baffled and unnerved by her attentions, Frank is thoroughly unequipped to partake in the kind of witty, insinuating dialogue expected in stories of train-bound intrigue. Not that Donnersmarck, having revamped previous scripts by the estimable Julian Fellowes and Christopher McQuarrie, has written any. But it's woefully clear from their first scene together that, not only is there nothing clicking between the stars, but that the entire enterprise is madly artificial and silly, that whatever games are being played here are not going to be fun.

Donnersmarck, along with his multitude of producers, must have dreamed that, with two of the most glamorous and best-looking stars in the business, he had a shot of making a modern Hitchcock romantic thriller along the lines of "The 39 Steps," "To Catch a Thief" and "North by Northwest." Well, dream on. No one here evinces the slightest feel for that sort of sly sophistication. Instead, we get tiresome scenes of the hapless Frank, who's presumed to be the much sought-after Alexander, being pursued by goons of a Scotland Yard contingent led by Paul Bettany and by those of a gangster tycoon (Steven Berkoff) from whom Alexander stole a fortune and who you'd believe to be Russian but for his British accent.

Least accountable of all is the growing affection Elise seems to be feeling for the ineffectual Frank. Or is she pretending? One minute she invites him into her sumptuous suite at the Danieli, the next she makes him sleep on the couch. After telling him to go home and dropping him at the airport, she then dances with him at an elegant ball. But no matter as the film manages to build nary a trace of interest in either character.

Looking puffy and unassertive, Depp never has registered less effectively in his entire film career. For Jolie's part, the nature of her role doesn't allow her to show her hand to anyone, severely limiting the extent of characterization. This is where wit and lively banter would come in handy, but this is more difficult to appropriate from old movies than is format.

Surely Donnersmarck did not set out to remake Death in Venice, but artistically, that is what has been achieved.

Jolie torments, Pitt smiles at ‘The Tourist’ premiere

Angelina Jolie enticed in an ivory Atelier Versace angora gown at the premiere of her latest film, The Tourist.
She was accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt.

She accessorized with matching Salvatore Ferragamo pumps and spectacular rectangle earrings by her personal jewelry designer Robert Procop.

Her hair was styled half up half down with a heavily teased top and peek-a-boo bangs.

Speaking to the media at the premiere about her makeover in the film, Jolie said, "I had never played a lady... really... before... I had played a version of a kind of a girl... something really tough, or something cool."

"I found it a big challenge to play someone extremely European, elegant, little bows and little pink. It was all very foreign to me," she added.

Speaking about working with co-star Johnny Depp - who looked dapper at the event in a 3 piece pin stripe Polo Ralph Lauren suit - Jolie said they both had seen and liked each other's films but had never met before.

"And we met and we talked about kids for the first hour and France for the second and had a good laugh. We really enjoyed working with each other in the film and I hope that comes across," she added.

The film is due in theaters on December 10.

Brad & Angelina Take Their Kids To Big Apple Art Shop

At New York art supply store, the famous couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took their twin kids, Vivienne and Knox at Lee’s Art Shop for a visit last Saturday in Manhattan. This place is considered as the all-time favorite place of the family.

Angelina dresses herself beautifully as usual, while Brad was handsome and friendly. Also, the twins look amazing and adorable having the sweetest faces on earth. Photographers were reportedly restrained at bay by a bodyguard, who prevented the paparazzi to go near into the store for the family’s picture.

As reported previously, these famous couple together with their cute little angels went for a ride in the waterways of Paris for Pax’s seventh birthday celebration last Sunday. The family was seen riding a boat down the river of Seine last weekend.

We all know that definitely, Brad and Angelina’s kids were admired by almost all people. No doubt these kids were followed by various paparazzi just like their famous parents. That’s what happens when two of the big stars in Hollywood get married and yield kids that are also admired by many people.

Angelina Jolie Reaches out to Bosnian Critics

Angelina Jolie finally made a move to issue a statement regarding the constant rumors of her against some critics in Bosnia where she is supposed to shoot the first film she’ll be directing. The said Bosnian critics have tried their best to block the Oscar winner from shooting the film on their country because of its complicated plot.

Angelina, on the other hand, said that there is only person who is against the film but that the majority of the citizens, the cast of the movie, the president, and the prime minister have been very supportive of her project.

The ruckus started when a group of female victims became upset after they’ve learned that Jolie’s still untitled film will be about the story of a Bosnian Muslim woman who fell in love with the Serbian solder who raped her during the conflict of the 1990s.

Even though this news proved to be nothing but just a rumor, it caused enough stirrings that the Bosnian minister decided not to issue a film permit, saying that the film does not have enough paperwork. This did not last, however, because the permit was reissued a few days later.

Jolie announced that she will spare time to talk to the Bosnian critics in person to smoothen out the problem.

How Angelina Jolie And Johnny Depp Met Each Other?

Hollywood filmmakers must have been eagerly waiting for the golden opportunity of bringing the two superstars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie together in a movie. However, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck became the first lucky one to cast them in his upcoming film 'The Tourist'.

It's surprising to know that these two popular stars have never met earlier before they started working together in this film. Both the stars were called together to discuss on the action thriller movie and that is when 'The Pirates Of The Caribbean' star Johnny Depp met the 'Mr and Mrs Smith' star Angelina Jolly for first time.

Usually, when two actors meet for the first time, they discuss work or their films but Jolie and Johnny bonded over their similar interest, their kids. Both of them are very close to their children and that helped them to bond well. In fact, Jolie says that she could approach Depp easily because she saw photos of his lady Vanessa Paradis and their children in his Hollywood office.

The 35-year-old actress, Jolie, is a self claimed big fan of the 47-year-old Johnny. Angelina added that she has watched Johnny Depp starrer 'Alice in Wonderland' several times along with Brad Pitt and her kids.
Their mutual admiration is sure to reflect in 'The Tourist' and we hope it becomes one of the biggest hit of 2010!

Jolie wins permit back for Bosnian film

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has won back a permit to shoot parts of a film in Bosnia after a government minister saw the script, a local producer said on Monday.

Permission to film had been withdrawn last week, with the government citing incomplete paperwork.

"I can now start preparations for the shooting, which I had to stop last week," Edin Sarkic, an executive with the movie's Sarajevo-based Scout Film, said.

"It's a big thing for Bosnia that such a mega, mega star is coming to Sarajevo."

The Oscar-winning actress is shooting the film in Budapest. Her production company said it was a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian Muslim woman who meet on the eve of the Bosnian 1992-95 war, which killed 100,000 people.

The outgoing culture minister of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation, Gavrilo Grahovac, has now approved the filming after being given a script and a list of locations, his ministry said.

Last Wednesday, Grahovac had canceled a permit.

That decision, made after he met an association of female victims from the Bosnian war who had objected to what they said were details of the plot, caused a public outcry in Bosnia.

Bakira Hasecic, president of the Women Victims of War association, had urged Bosnian authorities to ban the shooting of the film, saying the script distorted the truth about female war victims.

Jolie has said the film would not meddle in politics and has tried to reassure the victims about its content.

"There are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters and that will be revealed once the film is released," she said last week. "My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film."

Bosnian filming should start in November, Sarkic said.

Jolie wants to meet Bosnian victims

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie said Friday that she wants to meet a group of war victims to clear up any misunderstanding after Bosnia revoked her licence to film this week.

Her licence to shoot scenes in Sarajevo and the central town of Zenica in November was cancelled when the Women Victims of War (WVW) association complained after media reports the film would depict a love story between a Muslim victim and her Serb rapist.

"I have great respect for all the work of the WVW association ... and I would like the opportunity to speak with them to personally clear up any misunderstandings about this project," Jolie said in a statement issued through the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, in Bosnia.

She added that part of the reason to make her first movie as a director was to remind people of what happened during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and to give attention to the survivors of the conflict that left some 100,000 people dead.

"My hope is that people will hold judgement until they have seen the film," she added.

Bakira Hasecic of the WVW, whose members are all wartime rape victims, said Friday that she would gladly meet with Jolie.

"We would like her to show us the script so we can see if it contains elements that falsify history and the truth," she said.

Hasecic has not seen the script yet and the WVW complaints were based solely on the press reports.

A local production company working with Jolie on the project said Thursday that they had sent the script of the as yet untitled movie to the culture ministry of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Federation.

Edin Sarkic, a representative of the company, was confident they would get their filming license reinstated and insisted that the film was not a rape love story.

On Friday Sarkic said he had not yet heard back from the ministry since he submitted the script.

"They told me to be patient," he said, adding that he was "reassured that things will be worked out".

"It would be a shame for all of us on the project and the local crew in Sarajevo, if unfair pressure based on wrong information were to prevent us from shooting in Bosnia," Jolie's production company for the project GK Films said in a separate statement Friday.

International organisations have estimated that thousands of women were raped during the 1991-95 Bosnian war that was sparked by the break-up of the communist federation of Yugoslavia.

In February 2001, the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia convicted three Bosnian Serbs of crimes against humanity and war crimes after they were found guilty of rape and forced prostitution of Bosnian Muslim women in the southeastern town of Foca.

The verdict marked the first time an international court had ruled that rape was a crime against humanity.

Jolie, one of Hollywood's highest paid actresses, has hired mostly local Bosnian actors for the English-language movie and will not appear in it herself.

The 35-year-old, who most recently starred in the spy thriller "Salt", paid a surprise visit to Sarajevo in August when she called on Bosnian leaders to speed up the return of thousands of refugees from the civil war.

Angelina defends her controversial movie-in-progress

With her first directorial effort underway and generating controversy over its alleged content, Angelina Jolie advises critics not to jump the gun and to "[with] hold judgment until they have seen the film."

The yet-to-be-titled movie, a love story currently shooting in Hungary, focuses on a Serbian man (Rade Serbedzija) and a Bosnian woman (Zana Marjanovic) who meet on the eve of the country's 1992-95 war and the effect the conflict has on their relationship.

But once stories arose in Bosnia-Herzegovina that the film's love story concerned a Serbian rapist and his Muslim captive, objections were raised by the association Women Victims of War, who accused the film of presenting "misleading history."

Their objections reportedly helped prompt Bosnia's culture minister, Gavrilo Grahovac, to revoke Jolie's permit to shoot in Sarajevo.

She further advised, "There are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters, and that will be revealed once the film is released."

Calling the situation with the permit "a purely technical matter," the movie's production company, GK Films, announced in a statement: "We are obliged to reapply for the permit to shoot Angelina Jolie's directorial debut with the appropriate government offices in Sarajevo now that the final script is available."

Media also quotes GK Films as saying, "The stories about the film which have recently been circulated are incorrect."

Jolie barred from Bosnia shooting

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Thursday battled to convince Bosnian authorities to allow her to film a war-time love story after they revoked the license to film her directorial debut.

Sarajevo's Scout Film which works with Jolie on the movie said it had submitted the script to the culture ministry of the Muslim-Croat federation after claims it involved a relationship between a rapist and his victim.

"I brought them the script and I am waiting for a positive response as soon as possible, I hope even today," Scout Film's Edin Sarkic said.

War victims were outraged after reports in local media that it described a love story between a Muslim victim and her Serb rapist.

"They no longer have the authorisation to shoot in Bosnia. They will have it if they send us the script with a story which will be different from what we have been told by people who read it," Gavrilo Grahovac, the Culture Minister of the Muslim-Croat federation -- one of the two entities in post-war Bosnia -- told Bosnian radio Wednesday.

Sarkic said that there was no storyline involving the rape of a Muslim girl by a Serb captor, whom she later falls in love with.

"Of course I deny that. It is not in the script," he said.

He added that he spoke to Jolie's production company about the trouble in Bosnia and "they are confident that things will be worked out quickly".

Jolie has already started shooting the film in Hungary and was planning to continue it in Bosnia with scenes in the capital Sarajevo and the central town of Zenica.

The reports about the plot have prompted widespread criticism from victims of wartime rapes.

"Among thousands of testimonies by women raped during the war, there is not a single one that tells of a love story between a victim and her rapist," said Bakira Hasecic, head of the "Women Victims of War" association in Sarajevo.

"We will not allow anyone to falsify our pain," she told Agence France-Presse.

International organisations have estimated that thousands of women were raped during the Bosnian war.

In February 2001, the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia convicted three Bosnian Serbs for crimes against humanity and war crimes after they were found guilty of rape and forced prostitution of Bosnian Muslim women in the southeastern town Foca.

The verdict marked the first time an international court had ruled that rape was a crime against humanity.

The revoking of the film licence has however been criticised in some quarters with actors who rarely get a chance to work with big-name directors attacking what they regard as censorship.

Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, the culture minister for Sarajevo canton who is himself a well-known actor throughout the former Yugoslavia, said he was shocked by the decision.

"Is this how we thank Angelina Jolie ... for treating a Bosnian tragedy that has already been forgotten by the world ... for hiring five or six Bosnian actors in her movie?" he told the Oslobodjenje daily.

Jolie, Hollywood's highest paid actress, will not appear in the as yet untitled love story and has hired mostly local Bosnian actors for the English-language movie.

The 35-year-old, who most recently starred in the spy thriller "Salt", paid a surprise visit to Sarajevo in August when she called on Bosnian leaders to speed up the return of thousands of refugees from the civil war.

Pitt, Jolie to do another film together?

Hollywood star couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who previously worked together in Mr & Mrs Smith, are reportedly in talks to do a film again which is an adaptation of John Vaillant's upcoming novel The Tiger.

The film's screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga reveals the movie tells the tale of an animal activist who attempts to protect a small town in Siberia which is subject to an attack by a tiger.

"These days I'm travelling to New York to lend clarity to the last detail. In November I would be doing a tour of Siberia to check locations," imdb.com quoted him as saying.
Arriaga also hints Angelina could be involved in the film which is due to begin in 2011.

Jolie only woman on Ultimate Action Heroes Of All Time list

Angelina Jolie has become the only woman to have joined Hollywood hardmen Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Top 10 action hero list.

The Oscar-winning star of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and recent action spy thriller Salt was ranked seven with only two percent votes in the survey conducted by online sports nutrition brand www.myprotein.com.

And it was tough guy Stallone, who topped the poll, in which almost 2,000 British men and women voted for their ultimate action hero.

The 64-year-old star of Rocky, Rambo and The Expendables scooped 31 per cent of the vote and beat Terminator star Schwarzenegger, who came second with 24 per cent.

Die Hard star Bruce Willis, who made a cameo along with Schwarzenegger in Sly's action movie homage The Expendables, was third with 15 per cent, and martial arts legend Bruce Lee was fourth.

Jean Claude Van Damme rounded off the top five, reports the Mirror.

Steven Seagal was voted into sixth place, while Chuck Norris, Will Smith and Jason Statham all finished behind Angelina in the poll, with less than one per cent of the vote each.

Angelina will make a great director: Eastwood

Actor-turn-director Clint Eastwood is awaiting Angelina Jolie's debut behind the camera and is confident that she will do a brilliant job as a filmmaker.

The Dirty Harry star successfully dabbled into direction besides having a career as an actor in the industry and Eastwood says he is looking forward to Jolie's directorial debut.

The Million Dollar Baby director says he is convinced that Jolie will make a successful transition from acting to filmmaking, Access Hollywood reported.

Jolie is to begin work on her film, about the war in Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s, later this year and Eastwood, who directed her in 2008's Changeling, is excited about her new role.

"She's a very intelligent gal. I know she'll do great... She has great a work ethic and she's very smart. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does," Eastwood said.

And Eastwood has some words of advice for the budding movie-maker: "My advice for her is to get more sleep than the actors. And to have good management - know what you want and know what you are looking for and go after it."

Jolie strips to seduce Depp in The Tourist

Actress Angelina Jolie has been pictured stripping off as she seduces her co-star actor Johnny Depp in The Tourist.

Jolie, 35, was seen letting her silky robe fall to the floor before sharing a saucy snog with Depp, 47, in the newly released trailer, the Sun reported.

Depp plays an American tourist who meets the mysterious Elise on a train in Italy and gets drawn into a complicated spy plot.

‘The Tourist’ is set to hit cinemas in December.

Angelina Jolie Crowned as Best Celebrity Role Model

Contrary to her mysterious and withdrawn aura, Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie just grabbed the number one spot of being the Best Celebrity Role Model in an online poll. The actress and his husband’s unselfish dedication in campaigning for the largest issues worldwide and helping out those in need gave the actress almost half of the votes on WENN.com.

As proof to her compassion for others, Jolie just recently visited the victims of the disastrous floods in Pakistan.The actress whose movie roles mostly give her a ‘tough cookie’ image is the exact opposite in real life as she and hubby Brad Pitt are one of the most common names mentioned in social campaigns aimed for world development.

Angelina bagged 43 percent of votes toppling the United Nations Messenger or Peace George Clooney who only got 23 percent in the poll. Surprisingly coming in third position is teen Disney icon Mile Cyrus who got 15 percent of votes. She even defeated world renowned world peace supporter and crusader Bono who only finished in the fourth spot with 14 percent.

Finishing the top five of the list are the pro-Christian musicians and Disney superstars Jonas Brothers. The poll was started last September 13, 2010 only and votes are still raining for Tinseltown’s role model stars.

Angelina Jolie visits flood-ravaged Pakistan

Angelina Jolie has arrived in Pakistan as part of a United Nations humanitarian visit to view the damage caused by the country's recent floods.

Jolie toured several of Pakistan's flood-ravaged communities on Tuesday and spent time with families who lost their homes during the disaster, according to The AP.

The actress, who was dressed in the region's traditional long black robe, told reporters gathered in Jalozai that meeting the people of Pakistan has had a profound effect on her life.

"I am very moved by them and I hope that I am able to, today and tomorrow, be able to do something to help bring attention to the situation for all of the people in need in Pakistan," she said.

UN Assistant Secretary General Ajay Chhibber suggested during a simultaneous visit to Islamabad that the Salt star's visit will have a “a very big impact” on increasing aid for the country.

Chhibber further explained: "We need more... well-known figures who can keep the spotlight and focus because people tend to forget internationally."

Angelina Jolie's Plea For Pakistani Flood Relief

Once again using her celebrity to shed light on a needy cause, Angelina Jolie has released a new public service announcement pleading for help in Pakistan.

The United Nations Goodwill Ambassador wants financial support to try an improve the dire situation resulting from devastating floods affecting a fifth of the country (nearly 17 million people).

Voicing the desperate need for help, Jolie said in the PSA, “This is not just a humanitarian crisis – it is an economic and social catastrophe."

Jolie, who has already given $100,000 to UNHCR's Pakistani flood relief work, added, “The more support we can give, the greater number of tents, food, clean water and medicine will get to the people in need."