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The 47-year-old actor brought his two oldest sons, Maddox, 9, and Pax, 7, to the set of World War Z, the flick he's filming this summer in Marsa, Malta.
Based on the book of the same name, the project -- set to hit theaters in 2012 -- features Pitt as United Nations employee Gerry Lane.
Hanging out in papa Pitt's trailer for a portion of their visit, Maddox and Pax were able to see Pitt film a shooting scene that featured him running away from zombies. Both kids covered their ears to muffle the noise from the scene's sound effects, but were quickly comforted by a bodyguard on set.
"Brad was very cheerful and happy to have his kids on set," a source told Us Weekly of Pitt, who also serves as one of World War Z's producers. "When Brad finished the scene, he took to the boys to his trailer and looked thrilled to see them. [While walking] he didn't hold their hands -- I think he likes to treat them like big boys!"
Maddox and Pax's set visit is just the latest item in their Maltese summer itinerary.
"They had a lots of fun and played for the entire two hours, laughing and giggling," an eyewitness said the Pitt-Jolie brood, who were joined by a few nannies and unidentified kids for the afternoon of fun.
As Pitt shoots World War Z, the family has been staying in a rented, palatial $11 million mansion in Qrendi, Malta. Filming for the project will move to the United Kingdom in mid-July.
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Partner Angelina brings daughters Zahara and Shiloh to Brad's movie set
Angelina Jolie put a huge smile on partner Brad Pitt's face as she brought their daughters, Zahara and Shiloh to visit him on the set of his latest movie.
The 36-year-old actress and the girls stayed for an hour and a half with Brad in Valletta in Malta catching up with the actor and checking out the post-apocalyptic set of 'World War Z'.
Angelina and Brad, 47, spent some quality time alone together a few nights previous when they went out to a seafood dinne at the Xara Palace Relais and Chateaux.
Only recently Angelina told OK! Magazine how lucky she is to have Brad in her life.
“I am very lucky with Brad," she said. "He is a real gentleman, but he is also a man's man. He's got the wonderful balance of being an extraordinary, great, loving father and a very, very intelligent man, and physically he's a real man, in all things that it means.”
The 'Girl Interrupted' actress added that she loves being a woman. “I love that I can have children. I love feeling soft, I love being with Brad, I love all the sensitivity and natural emotion.”
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In the parking lot outside a Los Angeles photo studio, a scruffy-looking guy sporting a goatee, black T-shirt and motorcycle boots sits on the curb puffing a cigarette. He's listening intently to a stylish man rave about a cool camera shop. A passerby would barely notice the pair as they head into the building.
But when the photographer starts shooting, the bearded guy seems to undergo a transformation. Grooving to Jimi Hendrix on the sound system, he assumes an expression of ineffable cool, his posture somewhere between rakish and regal. He radiates glamour by the gigawatt. Suddenly, he's Brad Pitt.
That name, of course, refers to several entities that occupy the same broad-shouldered, 5-foot-11-inch frame. There's the actor, whose talent and charisma draw crowds to movie theaters worldwide. There's the celebrity, twice declared “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine, whose private life has been a source of public fascination for more than a decade. There's the Brad Pitt of the past, who has put his stints as a serial romancer of co-stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Robin Givens, Juliette Lewis) and errant husband of Jennifer Aniston (from whom he was divorced in 2005) far behind him.
Now 47, Pitt is an unabashed family man. Fatherhood is, indeed, his most consuming project: raising an unruly brood of six children ages 2 to 9 — three of them adopted, three biological, born in five different countries — with partner Angelina Jolie. Their effect on Pitt has been, by his own account, profound. He credits parenthood, in great part, for his hard-won maturity.
“Kids hold up a mirror to you,” he says in his first extensive interview since 2009. “You can't make excuses. You've got to make sure they've brushed their teeth and eaten a good breakfast. You want to be present if they wake up with a bad dream.”
The responsibility weighs heavily on the now-middle-aged actor. In a display of emotion any parent would relate to, Pitt says fears about his kids' safety “keep me up at night.”
But unlike in most families, Pitt's worries have an added dimension. “We're hunted,” he says, flexing his tattooed, muscular forearm as if contemplating retaliation. “Our kids have to live behind a gate. Outside, there are people with cameras.
“But I'll take the trade-off. I never knew I was capable of experiencing so much love.”
In his newest movie, the sprawling and poetic Tree of Life — directed by the legendary Terrence Malick and opening in some cities this weekend — Pitt plays a father of three boys in 1950s Texas. (One son grows up to be an architect, played by Sean Penn.) That's fitting: Parenthood is increasingly central to Pitt's sense of self, influencing everything from the movies he chooses to make — “I want to leave some work behind that my kids will be proud of” — to his vision of the future with Jolie.
Though he has said the couple would wait to wed until gay people could do so legally, he now acknowledges that the timetable may change. “The kids ask about marriage,” he says, sinking wearily into a sofa. He takes a sip of cappuccino. “It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.”
For all the luxuries Pitt can give his children, he regrets that he can't pass on the freedom he had as a child growing up the eldest of three siblings in Springfield, Mo., where his father owned a trucking company and his mother was a high school counselor.
“On the road, we're a military mobile unit,” he says. “The kids have got their stuff down to one backpack, and they're each responsible for their own bag. Mom does the packing; she's quite gifted at that. Puts in just what we need — nothing extra.”
The family migrates between the multi-house Los Angeles compound he calls “our base camp” and film sets around the globe, spending downtime at a 1,000-acre estate in southern France.
“We're pretty nomadic,” he says. “We go where the crops are.”
Pitt concedes that his family life “seems a bit extreme.” But “I like extremes. I guess I've always operated that way.”
Still, he says, “Angie and I do everything we can to carve out some semblance of normalcy for them, to re-create the kinds of moments that were special for us. It's not unusual for the kids to be covered in paint. We have mud fights. It's chaos from morning until the lights go out, and sometimes after that.”
The older kids are home-schooled, but their parents try to create opportunities to socialize. The family sometimes sneaks past the paparazzi to an undisclosed location for a football game with friends.
Pitt and Jolie carve out time to nurture their own relationship as well.
“There are no secrets at our house,” Pitt says, his blue eyes crinkling in a slightly wicked smile. “We tell the kids, ‘Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, ‘Eww, gross!' But we demand it.”
As he navigates his fifth decade, Pitt has begun to ponder the long term. “Will I be acting when I'm 80?” he asks rhetorically. “Definitely not.”
A passionate amateur photographer and architect (whose Make It Right foundation is building environmentally sustainable homes in New Orleans for low-income residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina), he aims to explore those vocations more deeply in the coming years. He also wants to improve his French and his cooking skills — now limited to bacon, eggs and flapjacks.
But Pitt won't be trading in biker boots for house slippers anytime soon. “I hope to keep riding motorcycles,” he says with that devilish grin, “until I can't stand up anymore.”
At the L.A. premiere of the Palme D'Or winning 'Tree of Life' - Brad Pitt, accompanied by Angelina Jolie, talks about how his role made him reflect on parenting, and sends his thoughts to those affected by the tornado in Missouri.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and her siblings aren't quite ready for the red carpet yet -- but they still got to cheer on their world-famous mom at Sunday's Hollywood premiere of Kung Fu Panda 2!
Although Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt walked the red carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theater without their brood, they were spotted exiting the screening with their four eldest.
After catching the animated sequel, Little Shiloh, 4 and brother Maddox, 9, held onto their mom Jolie's hands outside the the theater; Zahara, 6, and brother Pax, 7, walked out with their dad Pitt, 47.
As usual, the celeb kids each rocked their own unique styles: Shaggy-haired Shiloh sipped on a Kung Fu Panda 2 cup and wore a black vest, tie and pants, white button-down shirt and combat boots; drinking from a similar cup, Zahara wore a trench coat, grey shirt, slim black jeans and purple scrunch boots. Grinning ear-to-ear, Maddox sported a mohawk, black sweater, denim and black Converse high tops; Pax kept it more preppy-casual in a blazer, jeans and sneakers.
The famous clan are back from the Cannes Film Fest, where Jolie, 35, and Pitt were both promoting films.
But it apparently wasn't the first time Shiloh and the gang watched their mom's new movie. At a press junket in Cannes, Jolie explained that her kids had already seen the flick -- and gave it a big thumbs up.
"The kids loved it! They laughed out loud hysterical."
Good thing, because the film "deals with family and adoption," she said, and she worried that her brood of biological and adopted kids might be bothered by "such a heavy issue."
Added the mom: "We talk very openly in our house. 'Orphanage' and 'birth parents' are happy words in our house."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie caused a crowd frenzy in Cannes with the simple act of holding hands. OK, make that the two most famous and perfect-looking people on the planet were holding hands.
The duo's PDA was on display as they visited a French restaurant last night and had a romantic meal, perhaps celebrating the announcement that Jolie's directorial debut was picked up by a distributor and the premiere of Pitt's latest prestige pic, the Terrence Malick-helmed The Tree of Life.
So who purchased Jolie's controversial film on the Bosnian War? And what did the reviewers say about Pitt's performance?
First Jolie's movie, which is set during the Bosnian War and focusing on a fictional romance between a Bosnian woman and a Serbian man. The film made headlines for its trouble-plagued shoot. The production was initially banned from being filmed in Sarajevo after Bosnian officials had concerns with the script, then it wrapped early in the country and decamped to Budapest.
Well, after months of calling the movie variations on Untitled Angelina Jolie Project, we have learned that the official title is In the Land of Blood and Honey and it will be released by FilmDistrict, a subsidiary of GK Films, in the U.S. on Dec. 23.
Meanwhile, Pitt's latest endeavor is earning decidedly mix notices. Sure, his flicks tend to polarize critics, but there have been huge expectations this time out, seeing that he's starring with Sean Penn in a drama by the iconoclastic Malick, who has made just five movies in his 40-year career and whose rare output usually sends critics into a tizzy.
The Hollywood Reporter likens the movie to 2001: A Space Odyssey, claiming Tree is "hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs." But the review goes on to say that there are "great, heady" things in the film, "both obvious and evanescent," that will qualify it as an "exceptional and major film." And the trade hails Pitt's performance as one of his fines.
Variety calls the movie an "extraordinary" and "transfixing" through time and memory.
And then there are the outright haters.
Entertainment Weekly gave Tree a big thumbs-down, describing the movie as a sermon that goes off on too many tangents.
Movieline bashed it, too, calling the film a "gargantuan work of pretension and cleverly concealed self absorption" in which Malick pays more attention to the gorgeous photography than he does to the characters.
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The French Riviera is the place to be this week, as movie stars flock to the 64th Cannes Film Festival on the Mediterranean in the south of France.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are both expected to attend, for different films. Jolie arrives Thursday (along with Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman) for Kung Fu Panda 2. Pitt is due next Monday for The Tree of Life. The couple are expected to walk the red carpet together for his premiere.
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams joined Woody Allen for photos on Wednesday. They costar in Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris, which opens the festival.
As OK! reported last week, rumors about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adding a baby to their brood are swirling. The evidence: Angie inked a seventh tattoo of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder to go with the half-dozen others that signify the places in which each of her children were born. (Though some say, because the latitude line passes through Brad’s hometown of Shawnee, Okla., the ink symbolizes a secret wedding.)
As usual, the world’s most glamorous couple have reserved comment either way, but now we can add another bit of visual validation for the pregnancy theory: When Brad and Angie attended the opening night of Center Theatre Group’s God of Carnage in L.A. on April 13 (as guests of star James Gandolfini), Angelina wore a bulky coat that seemed to camouflage a certain, well, abdominal extension!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took in a night of theater Wednesday, attending the opening of "God of Carnage" at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Hollywood's hottest couple slipped in a back entrance, avoiding the paparazzi on the red carpet, professional autograph-seekers and throngs of mere mortals milling outside the downtown L.A. theater.
Seated in the center orchestra, Pitt and Jolie kept their eyes squarely focused on each other, seemingly oblivious to the double takes and spinning heads around them (even actress Frances Conroy was spotted sneaking a peek). Jolie and Pitt offered polite acknowledgments when Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, took their seats next to the pair.
The couple were guests of James Gandolfini, who stars in "Carnage" along with Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and Marcia Gay Harden. The comedy revolves around two couples meeting for the first time after their children get into a playground fight. Pitt kept a hand casually draped on Jolie's God-of-Carnage-gallery knee for much of the show, letting loose an especially hearty laugh when Gandolfini's character, Michael, uttered the line: "Children consume our lives and then destroy them." They joined in the standing ovation at the end, then were quickly ushered out of the theater to meet with cast members backstage.
Also in the audience were Will Ferrell (taking a night off from his new job in "The Office"), Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet from "Modern Family," Martin Sheen; Simon Helberg of "The Big Bang Theory," Aubrey Plaza of "Parks and Recreation," Troian Bellisario of "Pretty Little Liars," Andrea Bowen of "Desperate Housewives, and Sara Gilbert of "HawthoRNe." Others included Ron Livingston and wife Rosemarie DeWitt, Mira Furlan, Tony Shalhoub, Bradley Whitford, Annie Potts and Jason Alexander. Click the pic above for more photos from opening night.
Spotted at the after-party at Chaya Downtown: Sandra Oh of "Grey's Anatomy," Anjelica Huston, Stacy Keach, Julian Sands, Jon Polito, Gina Gershon, Eric Idle, playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton and Camryn Manheim.
Brad Pitt gets serious on the set of his latest film, Cogan’s Trade, on Friday (March 11) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 47-year-old actor had to step in for a late shoot to film a dramatic night scene.
Brad’s partner, Angelina Jolie, has just recently signed with United Talent Agency - they will be representing her as a writer and director.
“Angelina has a distinct and powerful creative voice, and having read her work and seen parts of the film she’s directing, we’re very certain that she’s entering a new and fruitful phase of her extraordinary career,” said UTA partner Rich Klubeck.
Brad Pitt looks fit even dressed as a cheesy gangster. Sporting a full goatee, a V-neck black tee with a gold chain and a leather blazer, we really shouldn’t be digging this fashion combo, but somehow Brad can pull even this look off.
The actor was spotted on the set of his latest flick, Cogan’s Trade, which co-stars Javier Bardem, Sam Rockwell, Casey Affleck and Ray Liotta. As he has a house in New Orleans, where the film is shooting, Pitt’s partner Angelina Jolie and their brood of six will soon be joining him in between scenes when Jolie wraps her directorial debut – a love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman during the war in the Balkans.
Getting to work on his new project, Brad Pitt was spotted on the set of “Cogan’s Trade” in New Orlean.
The “Fight Club” stud looked handsome as he strolled around the set in character as Jackie Cogan for the first time.
In family news, InTouch is reporting that Brad and his partner Angelina Jolie are experiencing some static from their big brood of kids regarding their move to the Big Easy to be with Pitt as he films the flick.
Angelina Jolie’s father has expressed his desire for his daughter to visit Israel.
Actor Jon Voight, a prominent Republican supporter who is in Israel with former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee this week, said he would “love to see” the Tomb Raider star tour Israel.
He said: “That would be a nice thing.”
Mr Voight, 72, the star of Midnight Cowboy, admitted he did not know his daughter’s views on the Middle East. The two were estranged for many years, but have been back in touch over the last year.
But he said she was well aware of his "affection for Israel and the Jewish people.”
Ms Jolie, whose partner is actor Brad Pitt, once revealed the couple kept a Torah scroll in their house, as part of a mission to expose their children to all different religions.
Mr Voight and Mr Huckabee visited east Jerusalem yesterday for a ceremony marking the development of a new neighborhood.
Mr Voight, who is not-Jewish but is a vocal supporter of Israel and of the Lubavitch organisation, for which he fronts a yearly telethon fundraiser in California, said: "I'm very honoured to be here and very proud to be with all of you who have stood for justice and the legacy of…the Jewish people."
Mr Huckabee, a Fox News presenter who is the former governor of Arkansas, said: "It is inconceivable in many ways that we have to argue and debate whether Israelis can live in Israel -- not just in parts of Israel, but anywhere in Israel they wish to live.”
Intrepid TV viewers watching Sunday's Golden Globe Awards caught Angelina Jolie re-applying her own lip gloss as she watched the show with love Brad Pitt, The Tourist costar Johnny Depp and other A-listers.
So what did Jolie, 35, use on her world-famous pout? Jolie's makeup artist Toni G. tells UsMagazine.com that she makes her lips pop with Chantecaille Brilliant Gloss in Love -- a brand she's frequently used on-set and on countless red carpets.
Toni G. -- who worked with Jolie during Globes night and as she shot The Tourist -- tells Us that the "Love" gloss "maintains lip moisture and is fresh and sexy. Just re apply and go!"
Although Jolie went home empty-handed (The Kids Are Alright's Annette Bening won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy), she earned raves for her dramatic sequined Versace gown.
Among her biggest fans? Dad Jon Voight. "Angelina looks stunning," the actor told Us at the HBO afterparty held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Circa 55. "She rarely wears color but tonight, tonight is her best ever in my opinion!"
Brad Pitt is going to head to New Orleans for the filming of "Cogan's Trade" in March 2011. He is reportedly attached to portray the title character in the film, based on George V. Higgins novel about Jackie Cogan. According to Scene Magazine, the movie is expected to shoot entirely in the New Orleans area.
This project will reunite Pitt with "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" director Andrew Dominick and co-stars Casey Affleck as well as Sam Rockwell. Other possible cast members are Josh Brolin, Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Bill Murray and Zoe Saldana, the site reports.
"Cogan's Trade" will additionally become the first film Pitt shoots in Louisiana since 2008 "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". The actor and his living partner Angelina Jolie share a residence in the city.
"Cogan's Trade" is a crime thriller that revolves around Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob. Andrew Dominick will write in addition to directing the movie.
Wartime rape victims in Bosnia say they will complain to the U.N. refugee agency about its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie who has not yet clarified rumors surrounding her movie that have infuriated the women.
Wartime rape victims were outraged when they heard rumors that Jolie's directorial debut was about a victim in a rape camp falling in love with her rapist. Jolie's producer denied the rumors.
Bakira Hasecic, the head of the association Women Victims of War, says she will send a letter to the UNHCR, according to an interview published in daily newspaper Dnevni Avaz on Monday.
Jolie had promised a meeting with the women in November and invited them to shooting in Budapest but Hasecic said Jolie should come to Bosnia and meet the women there.
Pax Jolie-Pitt got to see plenty of Paris on Sunday, from the air and the water, while celebrating his 7th birthday a day early with his family.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a full day of it with their kids – minus the 2-year-old twins – starting with a hot-air balloon ride and finishing with a party cruise on a riverboat.
He adds that they were "charming" and the kids were "excited but well-behaved. What I think they wanted was a little moment of peace."
Thanks to the hour, the time of year and the cold weather, they found just that – enjoying the 20-minute ride by themselves.
As if that weren't enough, the group took the festivities to the water in the early evening, renting the luxurious Josephine riverboat out of Port Debilly, alongside the Eiffel Tower, for a birthday cruise on the Seine.
"We made a short cruise upriver. They stayed on board for about 90 minutes," a crewmember tells PEOPLE.
"Angelina is a very beautiful woman in person. She was friendly and spoke to me. Brad," the female crew member said with a sigh, "is very, very nice and very outgoing. He played a lot with the kids."
There was an assortment of cakes and sweets, and the boat was decorated with blue and yellow balloons.
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The 33 Chilean miners who were trapped below ground for two and a half months until their dramatic rescue last month may get their story told on the big screen – with the help of Brad Pitt.
The actor's production company, Plan B, "has expressed potential interest in the story," says company representative, Jon Liebman, CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
"Like so many people worldwide, Plan B has been incredibly moved by the story of the Chilean miners and their families," says Liebman.
A lawyer for the miners, Edgardo Reinos Lundstedt, tells the Santiago, Chile, daily El Mercurio that Plan B made an offer in the millions.
But Liebman tells PEOPLE, "There have not yet been serious discussions."
The actress was on set again yesterday in Estergom, Hungary, shooting her Bosnian war epic.
And from the confident way she was guiding and instructing her team, the 35-year-old looked more like a veteran director than an inexperienced first-timer.
Do it like this: Angelina Jolie shows her team how it's done as she directs her first film in Estergom, Hungary
Dressed in a black coat and trousers and with a huge pair of sunglasses on, Jolie seemed to be everywhere at once as she mimicked firing a gun and made expansive arm gestures.
Her first feature film is a love story set against the backdrop of the Bosnian war, and tells the story of a romance between a Bosnian woman and Serbian man.
Jolie wrote the original screenplay, and she is also producing the film with the help of Graham King and Tim Headington, who she worked with on The Tourist.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are instilling their shared sense of adventure onto their kids. The globe-trotting couple took part of their brood to a park in Budapest where the youngsters got to try their hand at an outdoor adrenaline pumper: zip-lining!
As their proud parents looked on, Shiloh and Pax donned helmets and harnesses as they zip-lined through the leaves-filled grounds.
Shiloh gleefully smiled as she readied herself for the experience while Zahara (in a fashionable white puffy jacket) stayed close to mom Angelina as she watched her brother and sister.
Later on, Brad was spotted helping Shiloh onto one of the parks floating tunnel tubes which she wanted to climb through.
Two days before, Brad took sons Maddox and Pax to New York for the premiere of Megamind. He told reporters that he signed on for the animated movie largely for his kids.
The family is in Budapest while Jolie works on her directorial debut.
