Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will soon adopt a child from India- according to reports. The source of the rumour is 10 year old actress Azharuddin Mohammed who starred in Slumdog Millionaire. Apparently she quizzed gorgeous Ange’ at the Oscars asking her if she planned to bring an Indian child into her massive family. The Wanted star apparently replied: “Well, I’ll let you into a little secret, we will soon.”
Paramount Pictures has attached Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman to star in a film based on the new Leanne Shapton book “Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry.” The book was just published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Paramount won an auction for the book rights Tuesday night. Pitt’s Plan B will produce with Portman’s Handsomecharlie Films [...]
Movie star and social activist Brad Pitt made an appearance at Newark City Hall today for a private meeting with Mayor Cory Booker, city officials said. The discussions centered around Pitt entering into a possible partnership with the city, said officials, who declined to provide more details. The actor, who received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” was later spotted on Halsey [...]
Paramount Pictures has acquired bigscreen rights to John Le Carre’s espionage thriller “The Night Manager.” Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing. Story centers on the night manager of a European hotel who is recruited by intelligence agents to infiltrate the network of a dangerous international arms dealer. Robert Edwards, who wrote and directed the 2006 political satire “Land of the Blind,” has been tapped to adapt. He is a former [...]
Actor Brad Pitt is scheduled to announce plans to create more than 100 affordable, ecologically sound homes in the Lower 9th Ward. This weekend, big pink houses were installed in the flood-ravaged neighorhood as symbolic stand-ins for those homes. - – - Ivory Porter Webb was first perplexed, then giddy with excitement, on Saturday afternoon, just before dusk. As she drove across the Claiborne Avenue bridge over the Industrial Canal, [...]
You can’t blame a media outfit for trying: E! Entertainment Television, the sort of armpit of celebrity TV, donated $250,000 to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year. Theirs was one of just four donations to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s joint charitable fund. The others were Angie ($1,194,911) and Brad ($956.961) themselves, and “Ocean’s Eleven” (Twelve and Thirteen, too!) producer Jerry Weintraub ($5,000). Not even People magazine, often accused of getting [...]
Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have called Zimbabwe’s Premier Morgan Tsvangirai to offer condolences over his wife’s death in a car crash, an aide told reporters Monday. “He didn’t manage to speak to them because the line was disconnected,” the premier’s aide told reporters at Tsvangirai’s home, speaking on condition of anonymity. The couple are active in charity work around the world, but have no apparent links [...]
Actor Brad Pitt attends with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) a press conference following a meeting to discuss the “Make it Right” project on March 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The project, launched in 2007, helps to construct affordable and environmentally-sustainable housing for low-income residents of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans who lost their homes as a result of Hurricane Katrina. [...]
Given Brad Pitt’s high-profile activism, it may not have seemed too curious that he and Nancy Pelosi met with each other in Washington, D.C., Thursday, but it no doubt piqued people’s curiosity. After all, it’s not every day you get to see a Hollywood heavyweight mixing it up with the Speaker of the House. “I just want to say thank you to the Speaker for opening up the doors to [...]
Mr. Pitt is going Washington. Nancy Pelosi’s office says Brad Pitt is set to meet with the Speaker of the House on Thursday to discuss the 45-year-old actor’s charity efforts in New Orleans. Pitt founded “Make It Right” in 2007 to help build environmentally sustainable housing for low-income residents in New Orleans who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina. He was nominated for a best-actor Oscar for “The Curious Case [...]
