Big-name stars? Definitely.

But big givers? Of that, there is even less doubt.

Angelina Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, gave a whopping $6.8 million to charities in 2008, the Hollywood Reporter says.

That was the amount given to various groups through the philanthropically minded couple’s Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which donated about half of the $13 million it raised last year to nonprofits like Global Health, Human Rights Watch, the Armed Services YMCA, and Pitt’s own Make It Right Foundation, dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans.

Another $1 million went to various causes in Cambodia, home country for their son Maddox.

Source

While you were paying thanks to your loved ones yesterday, many charities were thankful to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Over the course of the last year, the superstar couple gave a total of $6.4 million in donations to various organizations – which doubles the amount they gave in the preceding year.

According to The Hollywood Reporter blog Showbiz 411, the recipients of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation’s handouts included Global Health (which received $2 million), Human Rights Watch (which received $1 million), and Brad’s own Make it Right Foundation (which got $1 million).

Brad and Angie are famous for calling attention to various causes and needy people around the world, but it turns out they also put their money where their mouths are. To boot, the couple didn’t have any sketchy loopholes in their foundation. Operating expenses for the Jolie-Pitt organization totaled just under $225,000, which is peanuts compared to other foundations, which often pay out their staff and sundry expenses in many times that amount.

Source

Lost in Showbiz was almost too upset to come to the keyboard to type this, but I’m afraid there’s horrid news from the paradise that is Dubai. By paradise, I mean, of course, a Middle Eastern helldorado built by modern-day slaves, boasting a dismal human rights record, and unconstrained by such nuisances as democracy. And as I say, there’s trouble in it.

Specifically, the emirate finds itself financially embarrassed, its economy buckling under vast debt, with work having ground to a halt on projects such as that man-made archipelago in the shape of the map of the world. Are you feeling strong enough to go on? Because celebrities might suffer as a result of this.

The Beckhams and various Premier League footballers with property in the area have been touted as potential losers, though this column is far more desperate for news of Brad Pitt’s plans to design a luxury Dubai hotel. Remember that? As befits one half of the world’s hottest human rights spokescouple, architect manque Brad last year accepted a commission to get some of those migrant Afghans ghettoed out in the desert to throw up an 800-room “eco-resort” to his designs. (Warning: may not have been exact wording of press release.) “Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision,” Brad explained, as though it weren’t the only such offer he’d ever received. “It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment.”

Yet will it? Alas, last December the developers who had tempted him on board announced they were “completely reassessing” that plan in light of the downturn, and the deepening economic crisis leaves Lost in Showbiz fearing the worst. All we can do is cross our fingers, safe in the knowledge that if Brad Pitt’s 800-room “Dubai eco- hotel” is ever built, it will instantly supplant Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as the most questionable structure to be dreamt up by a soi-disant liberal.

Source

First it was books, then comics and now it is video games, leaving you wondering where movie mavericks will draw their inspiration from
Twitter Facebook Share
Email Print Save Comment
next.

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment and Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment have joined forces with gaming leader Capcom to develop a feature film based on the game Dark Void. It follows a trend. Tomb Raider was a game adapted into a feature with Angelina Jolie and Resident Evil first became popular as a game before it was made into a film.

Pitt’s production company, under its creative partnership with Ambani’s entertainment wing, and Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, have come to terms on the film rights relating to Dark Void. The theatrical version of Dark Void is being developed as a sci-fi action franchise and may potentially star Pitt himself, though there is no confirmation on who the leading man ultimately will be.

Capcom will release Dark Void in Xbox 360 video game format and entertainment system from Microsoft PLAYSTATION-3 computer entertainment system and PC in North America on January 2010.

Dark Void is an adrenaline-fuelled blend of aerial and groundpounding combat which centres on Will, a pilot who crashlands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission. Will wakes up to find himself in The Void, an alternate world resembling a primitive earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilisation. Together with a faction of humans who have disappeared into the Void, Will takes on the alien race using their own advanced technology to defeat them and keep order in the civilised world.

Reliance BIG Entertainment’s chairman Amit Khanna said, “Our creative partnership with Plan B has led to this agreement to develop Dark Void motion picture along with Capcom. We look forward to future projects from them.’’“Dark Void was developed with a wide-screen mentality, a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and scale,’’ Capcom Entertainment senior vice-president, licensing, Germaine Gioia said, “Plan B are as excited about bringing Dark Void to life in cinemas as Capcom is to bring the interactive experience to home theatres,’’ she added.

Source

A shocking new tell-all about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reports that “they’ve broken up so many times it would make your head spin.”

Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reveals the truth behind some of the alleged bombshells about them, reports Us magazine.

It also claims Jolie “has a temper like a cobra.”

According to Us Weekly, the actress, 34, still has her battles with Pitt, 45 – especially when it comes to their six children.

“They fight all the time about the kids – where to put toys, saying the wrong thing to a nanny, not cleaning up,” a source told Us Weekly. “Like cats and dogs.” (ANI)

Source

Brad Pitt (who I’m informed has been cured of that bizarre reverse ageing thing David Fincher documented) is potentially developing a big screen adaptation of the forthcoming shoot ‘em up Dark Void. The video game is about a pilot who crashes in the Bermuda Triangle, only to discover a parallel universe and a plot to take over the world. According to E!Online the pilot and his crew “end up fighting aliens that were previously presumed to be extinct”. Um, presumed to be extinct? So this is a world where aliens have not only existed, but died out…? Weird.

If he were to star the movie would be something of a departure for Pitt, who hasn’t really appeared in out-and-out Science Fiction, though he has circled several projects, including Aronofsky’s The Fountain (which was eventually made without him) and a sci-fi version of Homer’s Odyssey. Pitt of course had a memorable turn in Terry Gilliam’s wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey movie Twelve Monkeys as a batshit insane dude, though it’s unlikely a videogame will feature a central character that interesting. You know it’s true.

With more and more videogames headed to the big screen chances are that one will eventually be good, could it be Dark Void? The fact that it was optioned before the game is even out says they’re confident about the concept at least…And the trailer is pure awesome:

Source

I just added some HQ photos of Brad arriving at LAX Airport on the 19th of this month. Enjoy!

Gallery Link
Candids > Candids from 2009 > 11-19 – Arriving at LAX Airport