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On Friday, we reported on People Magazine’s interview excerpt from Stern, in which Brad Pitt allegedly said Tom Cruise Hitler-assassination film Valkyrie was “a ridiculous movie”. Within hours, it seems one of Brad’s reps contacted a few outlets and claimed that the statement was a misquote. A spokesman said, “Brad has never seen Valkyrie so this is not accurate.” Xenu got angry, and Brad succumbed. Either that, or it really was a misquote. It didn’t really sound like Brad, in my opinion. Throughout the years of Tom Cruise acting crazy, Brad has never said anything negative about Tom, so it did seem weird. I saw Valkyrie, and it was a strange movie. I wouldn’t call it ridiculous… just strange. The accents were all over the place. It’s maybe Bill Nighy’s worst acting jobs, he’s totally phoning it in.
Brad’s weird, random promotion of Inglourious Basterds did the trick at the box office though – Basterds made $37.6 million in America, and another $27.5 million overseas. Guess who’s taking credit? Harvey Weinstein, the executive producer. He needed a hit movie, and Pitt and Tarantino delivered. The media strategy for this film was so weird, I’m not even sure how it worked so well. Maybe people were just excited about seeing Pitt work with Tarantino, and everything else was just icing on the cake?
In one last piece of Brad Pitt-related news, the Mirror is reporting that the entire purchase and renovation of the Jolie-Pitt French chateau will cost around 45 million pounds – about $70 million. The numbers are a little screwy in this report – I think they’re saying that the purchase was one thing, and then Brad’s renovating the place to the tune of ten million pounds:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are spending £45million transforming a French chateau into a dream home for themselves and their six children. The Hollywood golden couple have completed the £35million purchase of 17th-Century Chateau Miraval, set on a 1,000-acre estate in Provence. Now they plan to splash out £10million more turning the pile into the “love nest of all love nests”.
They have applied to renovate all THIRTY-FIVE bedrooms to give them a “contemporary feel”. They want to add jacuzzis, steam rooms and a spa, and to install a new gym, an expanded wine cellar – and even a motorbike track for Brad, 45. They also plan to improve its helicopter landing facilities, so they can fly in and out with their children – Maddox, seven, Pax, five, four-yearold Zahara, and biological daughter Shiloh, three, and their year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
“We’re trying to spend more time in the South of France, because our kids have a more normal life there,” Inglourious Basterds star Brad said earlier this month. But the hunky star also admitted he’s still struggling to master the language.
Security around the house will be improved hugely, to include a surveillance centre, spy cameras, alarms, and infra-red sensors. Some work has started, while more complicated renovations still need to be agreed by the local council.
Jean-Claude Sadion, mayor of the nearby town of Correns, said: “The application has been received for widespread work on their new house, and we are delighted that they will be here more permanently. They are a wonderful couple with beautiful children and we will hold a civic reception to honour them.”
Brad and 34-year-old Angelina, who met on the set of 2005 movie Mr And Mrs Smith, have reportedly had a string of bitter rows and spent much of their time apart recently.
But now the pair and their children are set to start afresh at the home which they have rented from a rich businessman for the last year.A local property developer said: “They want to make sure this very romantic property becomes the love nest of all love nests. Brad is looking into local schools for the kids, and both he and Angelina are improving their French.”
Brad and Angelina flew from Los Angeles into nearby Marseilles on July 29 to inspect the start of the renovation work, and are keen to have security measures in place as soon as possible.
The couple looked at around 100 properties before settling on the Miraval. It comes with a vineyard, swimming pool, moat, lake and forest, and a three-mile long driveway up to the main house. The cascading stone-walled terraces have been replanted with 13 different varieties of olives, and there are 20 fountains and aqueducts.
Near-neighbour Christophe Meer said: “It’s very beautiful. You couldn’t find a better place to ensure a bit of romance in your life.”
The globe-trotting couple will split their time between France and their homes in California and New Orleans. Close friends with homes nearby include U2 stars Bono and The Edge, plus fellow actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.
[From the Daily Mirror]
God, Brad has never met a property he doesn’t want to spend millions of dollars renovating. That would drive me up the wall, but I’m sure that just the sort of thing that relaxes him. Brad and Angelina are currently vacationing at the chateau for an unknown period of time. They even bought some “gerbilles” for their sons. I want them to get a cat. Maybe there’s already some sleepy housecat that came with the house, though.
Photos via AllMoviePhoto
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Movies, Quentin Tarantino, Til Schweiger
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The“a ridiculous movie” quote was suspect when it first appeared because it made no sense for him to say such a thing, and I don’t think he has a reputation for trashing others’ movies.
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I don’t believe he said it either. He doesn’t have this reputation.
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Whenever celebrities get heat from something inappropriate and stupid they might have said, they always excuse it by claiming they have been misquoted.
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“Brad has never seen Valkyrie” was kind of a diss, too.
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Just saw it and Inglorious is my favorite Tarantino film hands down. Pitt must’ve had so much fun playing that role. I thought he did a great job.
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Very often the celebrity is misquoted or the quote is completely made-up. Words do get mixed up in translations. Since Brad isn’t known to criticize other people and movies I can believe that Brad would say that comparing the movies is ridiculous but got quoted as calling Valkyrie ridiculous. I don’t think anybody has printed the interview just the quote. So it’s really difficult to understand what was said and the context.
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To be fair, not everyone has seen Valkyrie. @ Kaiser, I kind of know what you mean about Bill Nighy, he just seemed to be Bill Nighy in a uniform. He was still scads better than Teeny Tom though. But all good actors have off days – I mean, Inkheart was probably Jim Broadbent’s worst performance ever. And he’s a walking legend!!!
Anyway, moving along from the “rediculous” (this month’s “uncool”) story, I have a bone to pick with the chateau restoration story.
They’re planning a complete transformation of a French post-medieval country house. In France. The same France with the most complex and involved planning legislation on the planet? The same France where any sort of renovation work is bound up with metres and metres of red tape? I’ll believe it when I see it.
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@Trillion, I agree!
It was so darkly comic, I was doubled up with laughter as the end credits rolled.
Brad was superb in it – as were the rest of the cast.
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Unbelievable! Unbelievable!
And they tell the world that Kids live normally!
You are Blender!
They are liars!
For all working she hare nannies!
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i went to the movie because brad was in it, he did not disappoint, i loved that movie, everyone was great.
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Loved IB, great job guys!
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Obiously Brad did not say that. I never thought he did and was waiting for the denial.
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In 20 years of being famous I have never heard Brad criticize anyone not even his exes.Well except when he’s joking about George.
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People magazine just retracted the story 60 hrs after the fact.
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Though the movie dragged at parts, I thought overall it was very good. Brad Pitt is one of those people that even when they say things I don’t agree with morally or politically or whatever, he is too good not to watch.
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Saying he has not seen the movie is uncool also. Pottyhead!
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I saw IB on Friday.. and I loved it so much.. will see it again this week. Brad was so funny and there should have been more of the Bast*rds.. Christoph was superb.. excellent.. Brad was the humor in the movie and he knocked it out of the park.. Way to go Quintin..
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I liked it too. Way to go Quentin! I love your movies, and Brad was cool, too.
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I guess I am in the minority here, because I thought that I.B was a terrible waste of my time and money. Grindhouse was better than I.B, and I thought Grindhouse was terrible.
To each his own, the last Tarantino movie I enjoyed was Kill Bill. Pulp Fiction, however, will always be his best work.
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I’ve totally lost interest in Tarantino movies. Just not my thing anymore.
If there is any truth to the renovating story, it makes me kind of sad. Knowing his tastes, a beautiful, and probably historic, chateau will end up over-modernized and ruined. Though I doubt the story, as we’ve heard this from them a million times before. I’m still waiting for them to move to New Orleans, raise their kids there, and be a part of the community.
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Great movie. Another win for Brad! So many people trying to bring Brad down, but he’s still got it. Go Brad!
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Brad is not cool!
He is in real live a pussy! And he used ever his kids for promo for his movies!
He used his wife for promo for his movies!
This is so pussy-like
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You don’t know what he’s like “in real live.” Calling someone bad names doesn’t make you a better person.
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He makes too many muggy faces.
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