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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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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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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.
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."
While his wife Angelina Jolie continues directing her first film in Budapest, Brad Pitt was seen at the New York City premiere of his new film Megamind, and RadarOnline.com has all the pics of the box-office hunk walking the 'blue' carpet.
The handsome 46-year-old A-lister, clad in a sleek all-black get-up, brought his kids Maddox, 9, and Pax, 6, to the event, which also drew show biz heavyweights such as Tina Fey, Pitt's co-stars in the film, as well as Ben Stiller, who served as its' producer.
Other animated films Pitt's been involved with include 1992's Cool World and 2003's Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
James Cameron and Sony Pictures Entertainment are exploring the very real possibility that he will direct Angelina Jolie in a 3D version of Cleopatra, an SPE adaptation of the Stacy Schiff book Cleopatra: A Life. Jolie is attached and anxious to make the movie. Scott Rudin, who acquired the book, is producer. The talks are serious but by no means conclusive yet. Meanwhile, Deadline's Nikki Finke reports that Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chair Amy Pascal decided to fast-track its PG-13 and 3D Cleopatra project after screenwriter Bran Helgeland wrote what was is being described as a "brilliant script deserving of epic treatment" all about "what the Romans took from Egypt". In addition, Pascal wants to own the Angelina Jolie franchise the same way it owns the franchises of Adam Sandler and Will Smith because "she's a real star who can open a movie by herself" and "she knows she was born to play this part" because it's the "greatest female heroine" that ever lived. Pascal is hoping for a start date in 2011 but has acknowledged that "it won't be cheap" and is calling this her Gone With The Wind epic. Indeed, a project of this size and scope is a huge risk for any studio, especially considering how much attention will be focused on the production and the last time the story of Cleopatra was made into a movie. The Egyptian queen got her big screen closeup in the 1963 film with Elizabeth Taylor in the title role. Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed the film, which started with a $2 million budget that ballooned to $44 million (the equivalent of over $300 million today) not the least because Taylor became ill and almost died. The production nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox, despite being the year's highest grossing pic with $26 million. However, with James Cameron as director, he has the ability to produce a huge worldwide spectacle where every penny will be on the big screen. He has several of his own projects in the works, including a title called The Dive, but there is no other outside project he is looking at but this one as he develops the Avatar sequel.
Stacy Schiff's biography peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatra, a much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version, and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all, according to reviews. A Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for The New York Times, Schiff digs up astonishing and rare facts about the queen that could make the film into an entirely new story. Schiff herself has said about Jolie as Cleoptra, "physically, she's the perfect look, and is hoping for Brad Pitt to play Mark Antony (just as Liz Taylor's then lover, Richard Burton, did in the 1963 epic). "Angelina Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities that Stacy Schiff finds in her biography of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived," the book's publisher, Little Brown's Michael Pietsch, told reporters.
As for 35-year-old Jolie, she has been a tomb raider and a spy and even a queen (she played Queen Olympias in 2004's Alexander.) But she has had a lifelong fascination with Cleopatra and has always wanted to play the Queen of the Nile. She once told reporters: "I haven’t done a historical epic of that nature and she’s always been fascinating to me because I feel like, as much of her story has been done big, it’s never been done accurately. Not that any movie can get history perfectly well. There is no universal truth to history in some films, but you can get closer and I feel there’s a lot that has been unexplord about her. But there's a lot that would have to come together for that to work." And, as recently as at Sony's Salt premiere in Hollywood, she told reporters "I would be honored" to play Cleopatra in an upcoming new biopic. "But," Jolie added, "we haven't gotten the script yet." But then Helgeland's screenplay came in. Scott Rudin bought the rights to the book envisioning Jolie in the role from the very beginning and later acknowledging that Cleopatra "is being developed for and with Jolie".
Since then, Jolie has been heavily involved in the project. In still another interview, Jolie said, "I will play it differently to Elizabeth Taylor, but I could never be as lovely as she was. We are trying to uncover the truth about her as a leader and not just a sex symbol which she really wasn't -- she didn't have many lovers, maybe only two, and they're men she had children with." Angelina has said she was stunned by what she learned when she started researching Cleopatra. "She was misunderstood and her life story was written wrongly. I always thought her life was very glamorous. Then I read her story and found a different side to her - that she was a mother, leader and an intellect who spoke five languages! Her upbringing also reflected her relationship with Rome -- all that is much more interesting than what she was summed up to be."
The Jolie project isn't the only Cleopatra film to make headlines in recent years. In 2008, director Steven Soderbergh reportedly began developing Cleo, a 3D rock musical version of the Egyptian queen's story with Catherine Zeta-Jones in mind for the title role. The film fell by the wayside. start it sometime next year
Cameron has done most of his directing at Fox with Titanic and Avatar, and he is hard at work on a sequel to the latter. As a producer, Cameron is making the Shane Salerno-scripted 3D reboot of Fantastic Voyage for Fox, but he is already working off campus, moonlighting at Universal as producer of At the Mountains of Madness, the adaptation of HP Lovecraft that Guillermo del Toro plans to direct in 3D.
US actress Angelina Jolie is seen during the shooting of Jolie's directorial debut, a film called 'Untitled Bosnian War Love Story' in Budapest, Hungary, 13 October 2010. The movie about a young Serb and a Muslim woman who fell in love several evenings before beginning of the Bosnian war is due to be released in 2011.
US actress Angelina Jolie and her partner US actor Brad Pitt are seen during the shooting of Jolie's directorial debut, a film called 'Untitled Bosnian War Love Story' in Budapest, Hungary, 13 October 2010.
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.
Jolie, who serves as a United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees goodwill ambassador, reportedly contacted the women's group through the UNHCR and said, "Don't judge me before you see the film."
Jolie, 35, is also quoted as saying, "Obviously any dramatic interpretation will always fail those who have had a real experience. This is not a documentary."
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."
The BBC also quotes GK Films as saying, "The stories about the film which have recently been circulated are incorrect."
