Actor Brad Pitt says he and partner Angelina Jolie like to bike around New Orleans, and he enjoys seeing the energy-efficient homes his Make It Right Foundation built for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. “In New Orleans, the people are great. They leave Angie and me alone,” Pitt says in an interview on the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s website. Despite the paparazzi that often trail them, he says: “Everybody treats us [...]

Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie will make her debut as a film director in the GK Films production of a feature film set during the Bosnian war. British film company GK Films said that Jolie will not be onscreen in this love story. Angelina Jolie was in Bosnia recently with two of her six children, the two-year-old twins, Vivienne and Knox. She met with political leaders there about the plight of war [...]

As I strolled along Tennessee Street in New Orleans at dusk earlier this month, I saw neighbors chatting on shady porches and a few friends drinking at a picnic table under a house set high on stilts. Five years ago, after Hurricane Katrina struck, a wall of water burst through the Industrial Canal levee just west of Tennessee Street in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward, and blasted 4,000 homes into [...]

It looks like A-lister Brad Pitt and fanboy favorite Ryan Reynolds are going to be dueling it out cowboy style for the lead role in CBS Films’ big-screen adaptation of the long running western series, Gunsmoke. Both stars are said to be in the running for the lead role of Matt Dillon (the character, not the actor) who was played by William Arness in the original Gunsmoke series. The studio [...]

After ‘Sherlock Holmes’ managed to uncover more than $65 million in its opening weekend, ‘Sherlock Holmes 2? is being planned with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law already committed. But the big surprise will be the addition of Brad Pitt as Professor Moriarty. “The director, Guy Ritchie, loves Brad,” an industry source tells me. “He has worked with him before and thinks he is one of the most underrated actors [...]

Pledge a few bucks and maybe talk to a vampire. Robert Pattinson will be manning the phones at Friday’s telethon for Haiti, joining Brad Pitt, Bill Clinton, Clint Eastwood, Jon Stewart, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and Tom Hanks. Added to the previously announced musical acts are Madonna and Beyoncé. Haitian artist Emeline Michel is also on the lineup. The two-hour Hope for [...]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made good on their promise to reach out to victims of the massive earthquake that struck the island of Haiti on Tuesday. The couple donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for the organization’s emergency medical operations in Haiti, UsMagazine.com has confirmed. See photos of Brangelina on a humanitarian trip to Syria “It is incredibly horrible to see a catastrophe of this size hit [...]

Wal-Mart may be able to beat competitors’ prices, but it can’t match others’ generosity. The world’s largest retail chain has pledged to donate $500,000 to the victims of the Haiti earthquake, as well as aid kits valued at $100,000. This combined six hundred grand falls short of what some in Hollywood are giving, or even what one Wall Street titan is promising. Celebrity stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have [...]

MovieLine.com is reporting that Matt Damon and Brad Pitt will both be lending their voices to Happy Feet 2, the sequel to the 2006 animated movie. It’s being reported that both actors were recording for their characters this week, although there is no indication as to what characters they will be voicing. Damon and Pitt will join the likes of Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Hugo [...]

While it’s been widely believed that Brad Pitt is a cinch to play the treacherous Moriarty in the next Sherlock Holmes film, the current villain, played by actor Mark Strong, tells Moviefone that’s news to him. “Is he?” said Strong, who plays the devilish Lord Blackwood, when asked whether Pitt is a go for the ‘Sherlock’ sequel. “I know there were rumors flying around and I know they certainly would [...]