School’s Out for the Jolie-Pitts!

@997

A Mighty Heart will not open in the UK until 21 September.

I want to see it today too.

For those of us who are not from the usa, could you guys recap what the story US weekly have on Shiloh this week.

She just does NOT look healthy. Yikes!

1005 Cassandra | 06/22/2007 at 5:15 am

She just does NOT look healthy. Yikes!

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Why? Because she lost some weight?

Oh, please…

I didn’t realise you heters keep on talking about same staff over and over, cant you give her a break and atleast go with POSSITIVE comments?

And for God’s sake Angelina is BEAUTIFUL!!!

What a lovely family. Yes, Mad is growing very fast. The children is lovely. Brad and Angelina are the most beautiful couple that I’v see.

#1008 omg

Thanx. I better go and catch it before it catches me up!!

Ted needs to quit. I think we should ignore him since he’s obviously out to get both Brad and Angelina. His stories never add up.

re: Angelina. She was that thin last week as well. One thing I notice is she’s not hiding her body. I don’t think she’s ashamed. It would be easy to hide behind baggy long shirts and jeans, but she doesn’t. She’ll be fine.

Anyway, good to see the family. You can just see their happiness from the pictures.

One thing I notice is she’s not hiding her body. I don’t think she’s ashamed. It would be easy to hide behind baggy long shirts and jeans, but she doesn’t.
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Exactly!
she has lost some weight do to the circumstances and she acknowledges that and is trying to work it.

I just wanna say this to all those watching A MIGHTY HEART today,

ENJOY IT GUYS!!!!!!!

To: #1017 Yes

And dont worry we will come back to you and tell you how she was, but of course you know already she is the BEST right!!!!!!!!

#1018 LOSERSTONED

Now its Chinnifer right? Bring it on, JEN IS A LOSER and just as your name says Maniston should be stoned since she is always the loser!

The world was riveted in January and February 2002 when 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by terrorists in Pakistan and brutally murdered. Footage of his execution spread worldwide via the Internet, giving the tragedy a macabre 21st-century spin.

But the film “A Mighty Heart,” based on the memoir of his widow, fellow journalist Mariane Pearl, offers a story of hope rather than hate. Opening Friday, it shows Mariane - played by Angelina Jolie - six months pregnant and surrounded by strangers, people of different faiths and backgrounds, all coming together to try to rescue Daniel after his kidnapping.

Even in despair, Mariane finds something positive - linking her cry of pain at the news of Daniel’s death to the cries of pain and happiness while later giving birth to their son, Adam. Even in the darkest moments, Mariane insists on seeing light. That, above all, is what drove Jolie to be involved.

“Mariane, under the most extraordinary circumstances, remained very focused on even having sympathy for the other side, even after they did that to her husband,” says Jolie, interviewed at the Cannes Film Festival last month. “And I’m sure she felt all that we would expect her to feel. But somehow, on top of that, she managed to rise above it.”

Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, had optioned the book when it was in galleys to develop as a film.

The two have used their lives to further their causes (when Pitt went to Africa, he took Diane Sawyer and ABC with him, deciding that if cameras are going to follow him everywhere, he might as well get them to look at some of the world’s problems). After Hurricane Katrina, the couple purchased a home in still-devastated New Orleans. The decision by Jolie to give birth to her daughter, Shiloh, now a year old, in Namibia, made worldwide headlines.

Now they’re turning their art toward life with “A Mighty Heart.” Yes, the film will remind Hollywood that, despite “Alexander” and the 2005 summer hit “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Jolie is a serious, Oscar-winning actress - but she has higher goals.

“I hope [people] read Mariane’s book, first of all,” says the 32-year-old actress. “I hope they basically get to know her and I hope they look up Danny’s old articles and read about him.

“But also I think there is a bigger message in this. We are at a time in our lives where there is so much fear and there is so much anger. And it’s hard for people to calm down enough to focus on having a dialogue and understanding the full information, and trying to have a real comprehensive approach to find solutions. And I think Mariane is a great example of that.”

For director Michael Winterbottom (”Welcome to Sarajevo,” “The Road to Guantanamo”), the goal was to have a documentary-like focus on the facts of what happened in the tense days when Daniel might still have been saved.

“We talked to other people who were [involved],” says Winterbottom. “But Mariane did a great job of telling the story in the book. She gave us the story inside her house of this small group of people who became friends, and just enough of the investigation and what Pakistan was like.”

As for Jolie, being faithful to Mariane’s story was easy.

“The book is beautiful,” she says. “Danny was very much in love with Mariane, and Mariane was very much in love with Danny. They both would have been great parents together. He spoke to her tummy [and their soon-to-be-born child] probably every day she was pregnant, and not just the day he left.”

Jolie sincerely hopes the film’s bluntness about the facts of the case won’t impede her desire to continue humanitarian efforts in the Middle East. Long before the film was in the works, she and Pitt visited Pakistan after a devastating earthquake, in the hope of refocusing media attention on that country’s plight.

“I think it’s a very balanced film, and I don’t think there’s any reason to feel that any one group is going to be so upset about this and feel that way,” says Jolie. “It does make me want to go back there all the more, and I miss it. I’ve been there three times and have a deep love for that part of the world, and I’m very saddened to see how every day it seems to be breaking more and more apart.”

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