Quentin Tarantino’s wartime thriller starring Brad Pitt will be the only U.S. film in competition this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Organizers on Wednesday released a list of the 20 films to be shown in competition at the 11-day festival that opens May 13. In addition to Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” the competition for the prestigious Palme d’Or includes a look at the Woodstock era by Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang [...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hit up a suburban grocery store with two of their kids Saturday afternoon, a Stop & Shop employee tells Usmagazine.com. “They were here for 30 minutes and left,” Monira Ahmed, who works in customer service, tells Us of the pair — who are staying on New York’s Long Island while she films thriller Salt. See a photo of Brad and Angie at the grocery store! [...]
Comedy Central star Demetri Martin has been cast opposite Brad Pitt in “Moneyball,” a professional baseball drama that Steven Soderbergh is directing. Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay of the Columbia film, which adapts Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending ball club despite having a payroll much lower than that of other major-league teams. Martin will play Paul DePodesta, a Harvard graduate [...]
While Brad is in Europe prepping for Cannes (yay!), I’ve added promotional materials from ‘Snatch’ including posters and stills. Enjoy! GALLERY LINKS: • ‘Snatch’ – Stills [HQ] • ‘Snatch’ – Promos [HQ] • ‘Snatch’ – Posters [HQ]
A new photo has surfaced showing Eli Roth and Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Roth plays Sgt. Donny Donowitz AKA “The Bear Jew”, a character The Nazis believe is an avenging golem (a mystical monster) created by a Jewish rabbi. He kills his enemies with a baseball bat. Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Raine, AKA “Aldo The Apache”, the non-Jewish leader of a Jewish-American/German soldier unit called “The Basterds.” [...]
Diane Kruger got to meet costar Brad Pitt’s kids on the German set of their intentionally misspelled Quentin Tarantino WWII flick Inglourious Basterds. “They came by a couple of times,” Kruger told Usmagazine.com at the Sixth Annual New Yorkers for Children Spring Dinner Dance Wednesday. “It’s lovely to see them,” she continued. “They are such a sweet family!” Kruger says Pitt didn’t seem tired for having six children.
Last night on American Idol, director Quentin Tarantino made a special guest mentor appearance and debuted a sneak preview of never-seen-before footage from his upcoming movie, Inglorious Basterds. Below is the entire clip that was too hot to air during primetime TV! Inglorious Basterds stars Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger and will hit theatres on Friday, August 21. For future updates on the movie, visit InglouriousBasterds-Movie.com.
Back in November, Brad Pitt and Paramount fell hard for Paul Pope’s Battling Boy, which they snapped up before it had even hit store shelves. The book isn’t due to be published until 2010, but according to The Hollywood Reporter the film adaptation already has a screenwriter: Alex Tse, who is fresh off Watchmen and busy penning scripts for Ninja Scroll and Zack Snyder’s adaptation of The Illustrated Man. Battling [...]
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The revised street date is a week later on May 26. Another former HD DVD exclusive has been given a Blu-light by Universal with news the Robert Redford and Brad Pitt 2001 thriller Spy Game is coming to Blu-ray Disc on May 19. Spy Game made its HD DVD debut on August 22, 2006 with Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 audio in addition to a 1080p transfer. The same transfer will [...]
