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The Tourist’s Director Talks to MTV About His Mega Stars

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:54:33 +0000

MTV has an excellent interview with the director of The Tourist, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck. He sounds like a great director to work for – full of passion for his work, respect for his stars, and a great sense of fun.

Below are excerpts from the interview – be sure to click through and read the rest. As a huge fan of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, I LOVE that he recognizes them as the Queen and King of Hollywood… exactly what they are!

FROM MTV.com: What does an up-and-coming director do after winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film? If you’re the talented Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, you do not go to Disneyland; you go out and secure the talents of megawatt actors Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie for your next feature.

The already heavily-hyped film in question is “The Tourist,” loosely based on the French thriller “Anthony Zimmer.” When MTV News caught up with von Donnersmarck, we talked international intrigue, the challenges of shooting in Venice and why everyone falls in love with Johnny Depp (including his co-star Paul Bettany, who confessed his feelings to us last month).

MTV: How did you assemble such a spectacular cast?

Von Donnersmarck: I think if you create a part in the screenplay and what you describe to actors where they can show some of their acting muscle, then great actors will be attracted to those parts and will be game for it. I think what people forget often when they talk about such great stars as Angelina and Johnny, they forget that what they are, really, are actors. They’re actors with a capital “A,” but they’re much more actors than they are stars, and I think that these parts were just right for them as actors. They can really show what they can do. Angelina is so charming and delicate and feminine and strong and everything at the same time that I think when I talked to her about that part and when we worked on the screenplay together, she saw that she could really be able to do something with that part, and the same for Johnny. He shows so much of his own complexity in this part. He’s so winning, so charming, so funny, like he is in real life. I think in many ways, this part is quite close to who he is in real life. He is the most funny and charming person you’ll have ever met.

MTV: Well, we already know Paul fell in love with him …

Von Donnersmarck: It’s impossible not to. Everybody does. Same with Angelina. She is so much fun. Also, Johnny and Angie just got along so well, that was something I could sense straight from the first meeting that we had, the three of us. Believe it or not, Angie and Johnny had never met. Through all the years that they’ve been king and queen of Hollywood, they had never actually physically met, so I was the first person to ever bring them together. So if nothing else, that was a really historical moment. They just got along so well from the first moment they met that I knew it was going to be a lot of fun making this film. I probably have hours worth of bloopers where they were just laughing because they had so much fun inventing stuff on the fly and letting their incredible creativity run free.

Be sure to read the rest of the interview!

Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie from The Tourist

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:12 +0000

Here’s a new picture that’s popped up online from The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.

A film starring the two hottest celebrities (as well as the most talented) is one that’s sure to be a hit. Both of these stars have so many outrageously loyal fans – it can’t miss.

The Tourist is based on a 2005 French film entitled Anthony Zimmer. Apparently we can expect the trailer for The Tourist in the next few weeks.

The movie is set for release December 10th.

When an American tourist (Depp) realizes that a female Interpol agent (Jolie) is using him to flush out the elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair, the stage is set for a game of international intrigue that threatens to turn deadly in this Spyglass remake of Jérôme Salle’s 2005 thriller. The film co-stars Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell.

Angelina Jolie Says Her Vegan Diet Nearly Killed Her

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:36:50 +0000

Gorgeous Angelina Jolie has blamed her vegan diet for “nearly killing” her. She has also said that she loves to eat red meat.

The Salt star says that when she restricted her diet to not include any animal products, it had negative effects on her health.

“I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously, I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition,” said Jolie.

The 35-year-old beauty also said she enjoys seeing her hands “grow older” as it is a sign of how much she has matured as a mother to her six children with partner Brad Pitt.

“Happiness is when I look down at my hands and they are washing a baby. I can sort of see my hands grow older and I love it,” she said.

Will Angelina Jolie and Robert Pattinson Work Together?

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:59:33 +0000

Angelina Jolie, as you know by now, will soon have her debut as a director, for the film, “Unforgiven.” Rumors are that the movie will star one of the hottest heartthrobs of the past couple of years, Robert Pattinson. Of course, we all have to keep in mind just how reliable rumors are – just this past month we’ve seen Angelina’s name connected to every role from Cleopatra to Marilyn Monroe.

I’m kind of skeptical about anything I read anymore!

Robert Pattinson’s involvement has not, at all, been confirmed. However Deadline Hollywood reports that word has it he’s been tapped for the role of a vengeful son.

The plot of “Unforgiven” focuses on the story of a woman who spends 15 years in prison after being accused of murdering 2 policemen. She gets out determined to start afresh and leave everything behind.

However, she finds out that the past can – and often does – come back to haunt you, as the sons of one of her victims come back for revenge. One of them will reportedly be played by Robert Pattinson.

“Yesterday Deadline Hollywood came out with a report that GK Films is developing a project for Angelina Jolie, based on a 2009 BBC miniseries called Unforgiven,” Lainey Gossip writes.

“There’s speculation in the wind that Robert Pattinson has been tapped for this project (I would assume as one of the vengeful sons). He had a meeting late last year with Angelina’s lawyer, Robert Offer – and a ‘celebratory’ dinner, too – so his recent trip to see Salt with his agent is suddenly rife with new possibility,” the same e-zine writes.

Should that be the case, Pattinson would be making a very smart career move if he accepted the offer because it could make of him a bona fide star, an actor in the real sense and not just a heartthrob.

“Pattinson needs a non-romantic role. He needs something that has nothing to do with how pretty he is and would actively work against his appeal. As Fight Club turned Brad Pitt from pretty boy to man’s man, so could a violent, explosive role transform Pattinson,” the same source says.

Right now, although Angelina Jolie is extremely interested in the project, she hasn’t committed to it. Furthermore, she won’t until she has the script in her hand, as she does with every other film offer that comes her way.

As a fan of Angelina’s and Roberts, I hope the rumors prove to be true all the way around.

Angelina Jolie to Make Her Directorial Debut

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:51 +0000

Angelina Jolie will make her debut as a film director in a GK Films production of a film set during the Bosnian war, but she will not be onscreen apparently.

Angelina Jolie was in Bosnia recently with Vivienne and Knox. She met with political leaders about the plight of war refugees from the Bosnian War which occurred between 1992 and 1995. She was also seen scouting locations in Budapest over the weekend so that her family can be together while she is working.

Angelina Jolie has said of the film, “I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can. Casting will be exclusively various ethnicities of the former Yugoslavia.” I guess this makes it pretty clear that Brad Pitt or any of their Hollywood friends won’t be involved in the movie.

So far no start date for the movie has been disclosed.

Angelina Jolie to Begin Shooting a War Love Story

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:12:09 +0000

ABC News reports that Angelina Jolie is starting work on a movie about a love story set during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.

Angelina Jolie has said that shooting will begin in the autumn on the tale of a couple who meet on the eve of the war and the effect it has on their relationship.

“The film is a love story, not a political statement,” Jolie said in a statement issued on Saturday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for whom she is a goodwill ambassador.

The mega-popular star and activist arrived in Sarajevo on Friday. On Saturday, she met with members of Bosnia’s inter-ethnic presidency to discuss ways to help thousands of returning war refugees.

Angelina and Brad Pitt visited returnees in eastern Bosnia in April and promised, then, to come back.

She said the movie’s cast would be comprised of actors from the various ethnicities of the former Yugoslavia.

“I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can,” Jolie said.

*** By the way, Angelina recently stated that she would NOT be starring as Marilyn Monroe in a movie about the infamous sex star. It’s tough to keep up with all the rumors!

Angelina Jolie Pleads for Help for Pakistans Flood Victims

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:54:24 +0000

Angelina Jolie says it’s vital that people help Pakistan’s flood victims.

These floods have displaced 20 million people (!!!), but donations are well below donations for catastrophes like the Haitian earthquake or the Asian tsunami.

Angelina Jolie said she understood that “it is getting hard for people — they see Haiti, they see these other events … and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around.”

But she said Pakistanis face “mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse.”

Jolie has visited Haiti, Iraq and other countries as a U.N. goodwill ambassador and says she might visit Pakistan once “the cameras go away.”

Angelina Jolie Talks About Her Babies, Brad, and Fake Blood

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:49:17 +0000

At Monday’s London premiere of Salt, Angelina Jolie admitted to UsMagazine.com that her and Brad Pitt’s kids love to play with fake blood on movie sets. I think most kids would get an icky kick out that.

Angelina said that her litle ones (Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5 and Shiloh, 4) would often come with her on the set of Salt. “I would bring them in early in the mornings…and I’d let them [use] blood,” she said.

“So we play together, they try on my wigs, they play with the blood. They know it’s all silly! They test the harnesses and we have them flying around. They know what it is.”

The gorgeous mother pointed to proof that she shed a little of the “real stuff” while filming the action thriller. “I have a little scar right here,” she admitted, pointing to the front of her scalp, describing how she “went smack into a table” during an gun-shooting sequence. “It was a little embarrassing.”

When asked if all of the kids were along for the trip, Angelina said it was just “the babies (Vivienne and Knox, 2). I’m having some special baby time.”

The star also lent some insight into how she and Brad Pitt co-parent. “We’re very much a united front,” she told Us. “They can’t get Mommy to do something Daddy wouldn’t. We’re very much the same. But we take turns working and we bring the kids to each other’s sets, so we try to stay together.”

Angelina Jolie to Play Marilyn Monroe

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:55:01 +0000

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie, 35, is apparently set to play Marilyn Monroe in the movie version of The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, author Andrew O’Hagan tells the London Telegraph.

George Clooney will play Frank Sinatra.

An official announcement has not been made. According to the Telegraph, “The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe follows Monroe’s last two years through the eyes of her pet, Maf, a Maltese terrier which was a gift from Sinatra in 1960.”

Angelina Jolie also is being considered for the role of Cleopatra in another movie based on the life of the infamous, controversial figure.

“I would be honored [to play the role],” Angelina has said. “But we haven’t gotten the script yet.”

Angelina Jolie and Family in Oakland California

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:10:31 +0000

The beautiful family that the whole world loves to watch and talk about have been in Oakland California recently where dad Brad Pitt is filming Moneyball.

Recently, Pax showed what he thought of the constant prying eyes and paparazzi. It makes you wonder how much he has been affected by the nasty new book that’s out and the questions surrounding it. Even if he’s shielded from a great deal of it, you know he has to hear some of the outrageous questions about the ignorant book and the even more ignorant attention being given to his sister Shiloh and the way she dresses. Seriously, wouldn’t you think people would have more things to talk about than a 4 year old’s clothes?!

Joining Angelina, Brad, and Pax in Oakland are Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh. The younger siblings, two-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox stayed home. Traveling with 2 year olds isn’t the easiest thing to do and the 2 year olds don’t enjoy it nearly as much as older children do.

Angelina recently took her adorable kids on a shopping trip. An eyewitness told UsMagazine.com: “Pax found a Magnificent Manicure Kit that he brought over to show Zahara. It looked like they both wanted it and they showed it to Angelina.”

The two pleaded with their famous mother until she agreed to buy them the kit – which lets children make a lotion and give their hands a mud bath.

The family are staying in the area while Brad Pitt shoots his new film Moneyball nearby.

Brad Pitt is playing Billy Beane, legendary manager to baseball team the Oakland A’s, who led them to victory in the 2002 Major League Baseball American League West Division.

Shiloh is seen sporting an Oakland A’s baseball cap in the pictures – she looks so cute!