These are some new photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie out to dinner in Cannes last night. Brad seems to be wearing a charcoal-colored suit, white shirt and no tie, with his hair slicked back into some kind of fancy mullet (praise it). Angelina seems to be wearing a fitted white v-neck dress that I would like to see more of – it looks flattering, and very much UNLIKE the sack dresses she prefers for the red carpet. I could be wrong, but I thought I also spied a classic Louis Vuitton monogram purse in her hand too. Angelina was recently shooting the LV ads with Annie Leibovitz in Cambodia, and I can’t wait for those to come out.
Later today is the big evening red carpet for Tree of Life, Brad’s film with Terrence Malick. Brad and Angelina are both expected for the red carpet, and I’ll have the pics from the Tree of Life photo call up in just a moment (just Brad, no Angie). First, I wanted to talk about the news that came out yesterday – Angelina’s Bosnian love story movie has found a distrubuter, got a release date, and most importantly, Angelina finally gave it a title. She’s calling it… In the Land of Blood and Honey. Meh.
FilmDistrict has been tapped to release Angelina Jolie’s feature directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey, which is now slated to open Dec. 23 in the U.S.
The pact was announced Sunday in Cannes by Graham King and his producing partner Tim Headington, together with Peter Schlessel, CEO of FilmDistrict, the new production and distribution company that GK Films launched last year.
GK Films also produced the film, which Jolie wrote as well as directed.
Land is set against the backdrop of the Bonsian Civil War in the 1990s, and Jolie said, “The film is specific to the Bosnian War, but it’s also universal. I wanted to tell a story of how human relationships and behavior are deeply affected by living inside a war.”
It stars Zana Marjanovic (Snow), Goran Kostic and Rade Serbedzija (In the Rain). Jolie worked with a completely local cast, filming the project in both Serbo-Croation, the language spoken at the time of the war, and English. FilmDistrict will be releasing the English-language version.
“The former Yugoslavia has a rich history of dramatic arts. The cast was extraordinary. I was privileged and honored to work with them and I am very excited for everyone to see their immense talent,” Jolie added.
The project reteams Jolie with King, who produced last year’s thriller The Tourist, in which she starred with Johnny Depp.
“Working with Angelina on this film and story has been a great collaboration and I am extremely proud of this film,” said King. “The filmmaking is impeccable, and signals the arrival of a visceral and compelling storyteller.”
GK Films has several other titles that will also be released stateside in the fall: The Rum Diary, starring Depp, will be released by FilmDistrict on Oct. 28, and Martin Scorsese’s foray into 3D, Hugo Cabret, will be distributed by Paramount on Nov. 23.
Jolie, who has been in Cannes this week to promote DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2, in which she voices the character of the Tigress, directed the 2007 documentary A Place in Time before making her current move into helming a narrative feature.
UPDATED: FilmDistrict sets Dec. 23 release date for “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
We talked a little bit about this film on Friday, and I came clean about my qualms regarding how bad I think this film was going to be. Some super-cool Brangeloonies then QUESTIONED MY LOYALTY to the Brangelina Brand, and even doubted my membership to the club. Look… I love some Angelina. But the skinny bitch doesn’t walk on water, and I honestly think the film is probably going to suck. It truly doesn’t sound good. That being said, I will defend her right to make any movie she wants, and I will defend her because I think her heart was in the right place. I don’t think In the Land of Blood and Honey is going to be offensive, not do I think it’s some sort of terrible story about a rape victim falling in love with her rapist. I just think it’s probably going to be a boring, somewhat preachy movie, and the worst thing I’ve heard about it thus far is that Angelina shot the entire thing in English and Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian) because she didn’t know which she wanted. Seriously, that does not bode well. She should have figured that out before she even began filming.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
Oh here we go again…. I think they look great also Angie made a visit to Germany to visit the wounded troops last weekend- no press the only reason anyone knows about it is that some of the soldiers posted pics on Facebook.
EDIT: I think you can keep your loonie card Kaiser
In the land of blood and honey?
Um…
Whatever…
What the hell? Who did her her and makeup for date night? Who dressed her? Princess Z? BECAUSE SHE NEEDS TO HIRE THAT B*TCH FULL-FREAKIN’-TIME! These are my favorite recent pics of her-I absolutely love them.
Guess she ranks Date Night with Brad above red-carpet appearances. Good for her!
Kaiser,
I complete understand what you’re saying. I love Angie as an actress and humantarian too, but I don’t think she’s the Alpha and Omega. Nor do I think that the only way to be a “real” fan is to think these people can do no wrong. It’s that mentality, that you have to love everything about her or nothing at all, that usually makes me reluctant to say I’m her fan or criticize her on this site because I just don’t want to deal with her more “intense” fans. Sometimes they take things a little too personally.
I’m going to watch this movie =)
She looks… beautiful, happy… Amazing
The title of the film is very fitting. I will cOntinue to reserve my jugdement of the film. Can’t wait for tonight rc hope she wear she nice color
Angie=Lovely as per usual.
The movie name is NOT very good.
If it was a war movie then maybe, but for a love story (which is what it is)No.
Hope it is a good movie, but you are 100% correct Kaiser. There IS a chance it can be crappy.
IF it does turn out badly, there is nothing wrong with admitting it did and still being a fan.
Damn, he looks hot here. A bit greasy, but hot. He still has that swagger. The man knows how to hold himself. Cocky. And yeah, Angie looks better here than in most of her recent photos, though I actually didn’t mind her photocall with Jack Black last week even though the dress was a bit too big. The bar is low for style expectations for Angelina. Which is a shame since she is so gorgeous and thin and rich. She could have the best wardrobe if she had taste.
Brad looks like Tori Spelling’s husband, Dean whatever his name is, in those pictures. As for this Bosnian movie. Meh. I tend to think it’ll be terrible too. Does anyone remember AJ’s movie “beyond borders”? It was boring, preachy, pretentious and (worst of all) predictable. I think this one will be the same. However, I am interested and will probably see it eventually.
As for that title, I’m not feeling it. When I was a kid, my best friend decided that she wanted to run away from home. So, she packed up some clothes and some stuffed animals and shuffled on out the house. On her way out the door she left a note on the stairwell that read;
“Dear Mom,
I am going to Tennessee, the land of milk and honey. Good bye.”
She had some kind of half baked idea about running off to live with her cousins. She made it to the end of the block, turned around and came home. We all teased her about that milk and honey thing for years though. The title of Angie’s film reminds me of that.
love her no matter what..
Good Lord. People will wonder who the F*** was in Tree of Life. stupITT looks NOTHING of his former self. And who is he emulating here….Johnny Depp with the glasses or Tucker McCall from Young and Restless.
She looks like a F****** zombie tagging along behind him.
@DetRiotGirl: Right now Tennessee is the land of tornados and floods. Normally we’re the land of great roads and terrible grammar. Proper diction results in people asking, “You ain’t from around here, are you?”
It’s probably in your best friend’s interest that she stayed where she was. Unless it was southern Mississippi. 🙂
I think the movie is named like that because region Balkan on turkish means blood and honey. Interesting
Wasn’t that movie supposed to be a short movie? The title sounds, ehm, stupid, makes me think of bees – and I’m pretty sure bees weren’t involved in that war – I hate that they made a movie about that war, but let’s see if it’s good, then judge.
I wonder how much those fake lashes weight, I wouldn’t have the strenght to open my eyes with lashes like those.
Edit:
Victoire:
May 16th, 2011 at 8:45 am
I think the movie is named like that because region Balkan on turkish means blood and honey. Interesting
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I made a quick research and that is not the meaning of the word “Balkans” in Turkish. Apparently it’s just a legend, in fact in Turkish the word “Blakans” means something like “wooded mountain chain”.
as a croatian and a student of slavistics and croatian language, i have to say:
please, please,please don’t sound like an ignorant: there is no serbo-croatian, there is serb language and croatian language. i’ve seen hungarian and finnish people communicate with each other in their native languages, but i still never thought it’s finno-hungarian! plus: you have USA english, brittish english and so on, no? well, these are two DIFFERENT languages.
that’s just offensive.
and as a person who has relatives in bosnia, who has seen this war and who knows that it’s very difficult to truly understand the amount of horror, betrayal, bloodshed and cruelty that emerged to anyone who REALLY doesn’t know EVERYTHING about history in these part of Europe, this movie is not just going to suck, but just proves that Saint Jolie is no less superficial than most of the stars. This war and these women and these situations can’t be shoprtened or made into cliches…..those are real tragedies, and i find the fact that this movie is being presented as Jolie’s crusade for victims or women or understanding of this war-even more tragic.
“Some super-cool Brangeloonies then QUESTIONED MY LOYALTY to the Brangelina Brand, and even doubted my membership to the club.”
yeah, that was pretty funny…good times…
seriously Kaiser, I know you like the Brange a lot, but you also temper it with objectivity. NO ACTOR working today has a hit with EVERY movie they make, whether acting, writing or directing, and acknowledging that about someone of whom you’re a fan is not a tragedy.
EDIT: I like this dress (style) too, but as with most of her choices I’d like it better with some color. But then, I have a thing against wearing white. not a seasonal thing, a SPILLING thing.
Dear Geekychic,
Point taken.
However, the only reason that you have a platform to enlighten the uneducated is because Jolie is making a war film and we are discussing it on this blog.
Suck or not, it will shed some light on the issue and more people will be aware of the life/death tragedies that are happening away from their barbeque backyard-inner-conversations such as, “what am I going to do about all of these dandelions?”
Bal-kan in Turkish means blood and honey but it is just playing with the words and not referring to the region. The Balkans is so much more than accidental origin of the word!
I think referring to it in the title of the movie is pretensious and will not be understood anyway. Like she knows it all now: Balkan history, background etc. I want to watch that film only becasue I really do know the region and speak the language and want to see what she makes of it.
Here is the nastiness that I was expecting from the ‘usual suspects’. I just tried found on Google that Blood and Honey is a title of a Balkan journal of the war by a someone named Ron Haviv.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/feb/010222.haviv.html
She looks good. I like the dress, but those false lashes look ridiculous and the handbag is hideous. Brad Pitt makes me dry heave as always with his greasy hair and poser glasses.
Re: the movie- I’m sure the critics will be harsh, this whole project screams ‘vanity piece’, and the title sounds pretentious. I’ll wait for the reviews as well.
She looks very pretty, doll-like even, if a bit wan. He looks like a gigolo (ew to the unbuttoned shirt, at any age).
we do NOT need this shit!
@ geekychic: no you have not seen finnish and hungarian people communicating in their native languages. Must have mixed with some other languages, like Swedish and Danish?
And yes there is serbo-croat language, its just they use different script and after breake up now they develop other words and there are some regionalisms but following your way of thinkig there is serbian and kroatian languageand then waht, also bosnian? montenegran? come on!
And yes, English is English, whether it is British English or American English or Australian or whatever, it is still English.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie loks amazing they must have been the hottest couple at the film festival, good to see they are still going strong, the romance between them seem to be as hot as ever,after 6 kids and almost 6 years, wow. Who would have thought it would last this long.
I’m curious to see the film.
The reality on the Balkan peninsula has so many faces and each nation that was a part of the former Jugoslavia has its own truth.
In general I’m over careful with Holywood-ish historical films as the directors write their own story and often it’s opposite to what happened.
I hope AJ will present a believable story. As it’s her first directorial effort I’m ready to cut some slack if there’s need to.
She looks gorgeous! I totally agree with Pretty Tarheel!
The Jolie looks beautiful as usual…Pitt, on the other hand, looks ridiculous here.
Whether any movie is good or not is entirely in the eye of the beholder. One person can love a movie and the person next to them thinks it is total crap. Personally, I have very ecclectic tastes in movies and books. The movie doesn’t sound bad to me. It sounds different, but that is a good thing with all the same old crap that gets put out year after year. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a movie and felt like I saw it before because so many of them seem like recycled plots.
I’m also not sure that she filmed in English and Serbo-Croatian because she didn’t know which she wanted. It could be that she filmed one version for Bosnia and the other for the English speaking world. She does seem culturally sensitive and I think that is the kind of thing she would do, so the people in Bosnia don’t have to watch a dubbed in version of their own story.
These two are simply glamour personified…(sigh).
She looks medicated or is on drugs.
The last post re: drugs, I have read comments about her for a long time now, and have been really surprised that no-one else comments about the look in her eyes. 90% of the time she looks high to me. Being a past abuser, unfortunately, I know that look very well in myself and friends. I have no doubt in my mind she’s using something…..and if a script, some sort of synthetic herion would be my guess.
Stop the hate people, stop drinking the poison and hoping Brad and Angelina will die. they do not read what’s written on these blogs. Go live your life and be happy, do something good for someone today.
Dear Whitedaisy-as i’ve seen on my personal experience, and as you can see even today in Tunisia, 2hours or 20 minutes of movie, report or even an article will just make 90% of the people symphatize for 20 minutes, 2 hours or a week. i can’t even start enlightening anyone on a blog, and that is not my intention.
the question of language is the same as some of the people commenting on goopy post that saunas in Finland aren’t anything flashy or special. that is stating a fact and erasing prejudice (no matter how small it is).
the commentary about Jolie’s movie comes from the fact that, although i respect her as a mother, or an actress (although i almost died trying to watch her in Alexander) or a really beautiful woman, i’m fed up with her opinions and interviews about this particular situation.
I’d bet a dollar to a donut hole the movie title gets changed before the release date.
She looks better than usual..but this is another movie I won’t see…sounds awful!
@ euroschmuck: when i was in Estonia, for 15 days, finnish and hungarian 15yr-olds were sitting at the same table and were the only ones dispersed in 2 groups bc their teachers could communicate without english. i swear.
and no, serbo-croatian is NOT one language. it is based on completely different roots, and the only similarity comes from the fact that we are neighbours and have been in the same state for decades. the fact that many people still think it’s the same is product of the communist philosophy where all the people were counted as south Slavs, and as evidenced with a decade-string of wars in that part of europe, you can see how succesful that turned out. i don’t know about montenegro, but even bosnia has it’s own grammar rules and dictionary.
and i don’t know about serbian language, but croatian had it’s first written documents in 1100 and first grammar in 1604.
try asking an austrian if they speak deutsch, and look for a reaction.i respect that, although i can’t tell the difference in the first minute of the conversation: but i respect the fact that those 2 nations consider their languages different: it is their right.
and we have even more differences.
i hope there is no animosity here, after all, i like this blog bc of all the different opinions i can read here. 🙂
@Micki:
co-sign everything except the last paragraph. 😉
geekychic: you either are ignorant or you’ve never been in Bosnia. It’s the same damn language, few words here and there are different but everyone understands each other. A Croat who travels to Bosnia or Serbia doesn’t need a dictionary or an intepreter to communicate with the people living there. I live in Bosnia and am of Serbo-Croatic origin. Leave your political agendas out of this.
Ick on the title.
And ick on actor’s pet projects/vanity projects. Just leave it, actors.
The subject matter, the filming in two languages, the title-it already seems overwrought and preachy and it hasn’t even been released yet.
@Julie: “I have no doubt in my mind she’s using something…..and if a script, some sort of synthetic herion would be my guess.”
The only problem with your theory is that her pupils are clearly dilated, and opiates constrict pupils. As a former user, I’m surprised you don’t know that. Cocaine dilates pupils, but she doesn’t look speedy to me at all here.
She does look very beautiful here, I LOVE her hair and makeup. As for her movie, I have no doubt she has good intentions. It will be interesting to see if she has any chops as a director. So far the movie doesn’t sound like anything anyone is going to want to watch though. Life is grim enough now as it is.
Lala:
my grandpa was born and lived in Travnik, my dad and all of his family spent their vacations in Bosnia, i was to bosnia…
why do i have to have agenda bc i said it’s different language? and just the fact that i can understand you, and you me does not make it the same. i was in Sarajevo 2 years ago-and i BOUGHT your grammar (although i had to choose between at least two that were in store), which is DIFFERENT than the one in Podgorica or Zagreb.and the fact that you are from bosnia doesn’t make you expert on language in your neighboring country.
ok, i’m over and out. this is an article about jolie, and i don’t want to get into fights, especially be accused of anything political. that is really mean and unnecessary.
have a happy reading and enjoy the cbitchy!
i still think i’m right about the language thing (which was only pointed bc of the blog in itself!), as i believe the linguists, myself and the faculty-as i do study it.
Er, I don’t think the movie’s going to be a masterpiece either but she didn’t shoot them in two different languages because she couldn’t decide which to use. It’s because the English version will be released in English speaking countries and the native countries will get the version using their languages. It’s hardly rocket science. Well, apparently it is.
I think I’ll pass and just read a book about the subject matter instead. It won’t be a love story, but I think I’ll manage.
How ridiculous does Brad Pitt look here? Such a fashion victim…which convinces me even more that he is very in love with himself. Name me another actor his age that dresses like that without looking skeezy (maybe Johnny Depp, but Johnny Depp does it with flair)
ah HA!
EUREKA!!!
i’ve finally figured out Angie’s secret to startling gorgeous eyes in pic# 5…FAKE EYELASHES!
i couldn’t for the longest figure out what she did to her eyes besides the cat liner that makes them look so amazing.
now i know her secret… now i’m off to the Duane Reade makeup aisle. 😉
Not a fan of the false eyelashes on her.
@DeeVine: well, you know Brad has to look like this for awhile cos there might be reshoots for Cogan’s Trade. so he can’t just change his looks until post-production is wrapped.
Besides, i think he looks good whatever he wears. it’s the ‘human being’ i like not the clothes he wears. People need to stop being critical and a little more unconditional. you wouldn’t want anyone to cast you into this mould they think is perfect for you, now would you?
i think the Brangies on Celebitchy are more objective than most. that said, Jolie didn’t shoot the movie in two languages because she couldn’t decide which one she wanted. she shot it so lazy people who don’t like to read SUBTITLES could give it a chance…
I may see the movie. i may not like it too… but that won’t stop me liking AJ , the human being…
She is a liar!
I feel like she looks very vacant when out to dinner with Brad because LORD KNOWS I WOULD BE DRINKING A VAT OF WINE AT THAT SITTING AS WELL especially having to deal with milk and juice 24-7 with 6 kids. So perhaps she is simply drunk. I get a starey glaze like that too [sadly]
Silly people how could someone be doped up and on heroin and have to deal with the UN. do you people know anything about that organization? Propbably tipsy if anything but she doesn’t look that way either.
They make such a gorgeous, glamorous couple. And how beautiful is Angelina. Just stunning.
And yep that is an LV purse. Let the roll out begin lol.
she looks like she’s buzzed off of some good wine.
they look good together.
Brad is looking like a younger jack nicholson in the Cannes pics this year!
AJ does not look happy to me-she frankly looks sad or medicated.
I believe ppl do CAnnes b/c 1) it’s fun to be there…and 2) it’s GREAT PR for the industry….so I think they always make a point to be there-it is prob. the most high profile celebrity/industry event. I just saw a travel video the other day, and it was said that Cannes is second only to the olympics on terms of viewers…..Um maybe they said attendees…not viewers. but second to olympics and high profile is what i remember.
i hope her film turns out to be great; it is always cool when an actor turns directer and is actually talented. Affleck, Eastwood, etc.
Well yea hardcore Brad and Angelina fans are gonna question your loyalty. 😛 I wouldn’t say you hate them but your not like a hardcore fan. Hardcore fans of anything or anyone would never judge the object of their affection’s work before a trailer has even been released.
Seriously thats what the other side does, they say everything they do sucks and hate anything they plan to do before its even done. Probably why you got the hate from some of the fans. I, myself don’t tend to judge things until I have been given something to judge, thats on anything, but thats espeically on Angelina. As far as I am concerned I have high hopes for this film, I don’t know if it will be good but as a hardcore fan of Angelina and a believer in her talent, my general outlook is that this is gonna be a moving, poignant, and romantic film.
Holy false lashes!
He’s starting to look like her dad (not Jon Voight – just old).
@lrm if I hooked up with Brad Pitt 6 years ago and woke up next to THAT I would look depressed too.
i love brad, he can not do wrong, i know what’s behind his look, he’s a good man, jolie is beautiful, best Hollywood couple out, bring it. i’m in heaven watching these two, never too much.
The photos of her smiling while looking down makes me think she’s soon going to be getting some dessert. =]
I don’t keep up with Angelina and Brad like the hardcore fans do, but I truly hope they last. They both seem to inspire and encourage each other, and seem to be loving and doting parents.
Angelina looks more beautiful in these pics than she has for a while. I love the title “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” although it does sound like a sado-erotic short story that I might write. I just can’t with war movies so I won’t be watching Angie’s directorial debut but I wish her well and hope the film is better than expected.
Or maybe, just maybe, having hundreds of camera flashes going off in your face could affect the size of your pupils… just a little bit… y’think?
Where did anybody say Angelina was perfect and walked on water? I stand-by my comment that Kaiser isn’t a fan just a fan of hating on her. I don’t remember the last time Kaiser said something half-way nice about her. She says every rumor is true no matter how far-fetched it is. I think the movie will be average at best because the first time is never great. But to call it a massive disaster on the basis Angelina is involved seems more about hate than opinion.
The comments that Angelina is high, come on. Be realistic. Besides how can you tell from photos. You can’t even see her eyes or tell what they are actually doing because of the camera flashes. I think Brad is keeping his hair like that in case of reshoots with Cogan’s Trade.
wow, her face is so beautiful. i’m rooting for them both to stay happy and in love.
They look perfect and styles that makes all reporter crazy taking picture of this two. Anywhere they are,it’s like milk and honey..good combination. Im excited to see her work. I believe in her ability in film making and story telling. Her objective to the public, and viewers. Her title pick is just right,since blood stand for war and violence, honey represent sweetness that lead us to like each other,despite our differences in color,nationality and faith. She want to bring good message in her film. All cast of this movie, proud that someone like Angelina Jolie have faith on their acting ability and be known all over the world..Forget all those false acquisition about rape victims story. AJ knows more than anybody else,for she listen to their pain,fear,anger,hate and justice to those who hold power and abuse it. For me, she is more political activist and analysis. She is bright and smart..She use her beauty and money for awareness. This woman amazing work, help construct back their life. Believing there a change for peace and unity among us. Every human being have a chance to grow and learn. Educating your self and helping others,make a big difference in life that you moving on. No one will dictate you how you live your life,as long as your doing good for others. Hope next time she make a movie about “NEDA” Egytian warrior of women freedom of speech. Murder’d because of her belief,that men and women have equal rights, in a muslim world. That “GOD” is not a hatefull but mercyfull and loving “GOD”. More power to you Ms. Jolie keep the good work,and the whole world love you.
look at them, their beautiful together, he is so protective of her, and she of him, it’s like they are on their first date, even the haters can’t stop watching their every move, HOT COUPLE ALERT!!
@Sakyiwaa: Sure I can understand the greasy hair and Jersey shore tan for the reshoots for Cogan’s Trade, but those glasses and the gold chains? Yuk. The white suit from the premiere? Looks like he is going to a 70s theme party!
“You can’t even see her eyes or tell what they are actually doing because of the camera flashes.”
Actually, the camera flashes show her pupils quite well.
I would *love* to know exactly what treatments she’s been getting and what products she’s using on her face. Her skin has looked fantastic for the past year or so. Clear and smooth and glowing. I know she’s had some kind of RF and/or laser treatment, I’d just like to know which one(s). I want to get the name of her doctor, or at least a list of what she’s doing.
I hate those Louis Vuitton monogram purses! Other than that…..what a face!
It doesn’t take much effort from her part to look good because she is so beautiful, I imagine all eyes are on her wherever she goes. Brad must feel like a prize winner every day.
WOW she looks absolutely breathtaking in that dress, and Brad is dreamy also.
As for the movie I’m not judging before i actually see the it.