Angelina Jolie: Hire Some Fast Elephants!

Awww… cute. Couple time.
Thanks Jared, Am I first?

Yipeeeeee! And to think I wasn’t gonna check in this morning….Oh my! I don’t know what to say…Okay, first off… to my Alarm clock…without which I won’t have woken up on time. Thank you for keeping me together man!

First?!?

Aw I’m glad that they’re having some time alone. And the part about Shiloh was adorable.

Thanks for the new thread Just Jared. The Maddox Jolie Pitt Project is going strong. So called writers really need to do their research before putting out false information. Many fans have posted correct information and links regarding this. It is good that they have some alone time. Go see “A Mighty Heart”. It is a mighty good film with a great message. Peace to all.

ur fast j,thanks.

Thanks Jared for the pic of my favorite couple. I am glad they’re having an alone-time.
Happy Sunday everyone.

I love them like I love my parents.

Thanks Jared. Good to see them going out and about without the kids again. The go to the most interesting places.

:cry: saw theses already

:roll:

anymore :!:

Brad is such a Frank Gehry groupie lol it’s cute that angie goes with him. I like that she’s she one driving lol

didnt she once say something about how they fight when she drives?
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I think she said they fought when he drives. I have the feeling she’s more agressive behaind the wheel than him.

fr other thread:

Angie is driving getaway car- very MAMS-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfurmW5PNh8

maybe she planned this trip as part of fathers day gift (recall his bday gift in PA)

yipee!!! daddy & mommy time!

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: The tide HAS turned on Jolie

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America’s Disgust at ‘perfect Angelina’
Brad Pitt’s partner is accused of hypocrisy as she tries to control interviews about press freedom movie, and bans selected journalists from its premiere.
She’s one of the most beautiful women in the world, a talented actress who lives with a man many claim is the sexiest man on the planet and she has a penchant for doing high-profile good deeds. But now - perhaps inevitably - the Angelina Jolie backlash has begun. The stunning movie star generates headlines almost every day but now those headlines have taken a distinctly negative turn.

For the backers of her new film, A Mighty Heart, which tells the story of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, negative publicity around Jolie’s recent activities is becoming a potential threat to its success.

First was a disastrous PR gaffe after one of Jolie’s overzealous lawyers tried to force journalists to sign a contract before they could interview her for the film’s publicity drive. The document said they could not ask Jolie any personal questions and that the interview ‘… could only be used to promote the picture’.

Though the world of celebrity interviews is often full of such tacit agreements, the existence of a legal contract saw many reporters, including those from USA Today and the Associated Press news agency, cancel interviews. The fact that A Mighty Heart is about the issue of press freedom made the story all the more ironic. ‘Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press,’ said Fox TV’s Roger Friedman.

But that move was just the latest in a series of press kerfuffles for Jolie’s staff had previously tried to ban Fox journalists from covering her new film’s premiere, until the studio behind the film, Paramount, intervened. At the same time some of the adulatory coverage of Jolie associated with the film has itself become the subject of intense criticism. Men’s magazine Esquire is putting Jolie - barely clothed - on the cover of its July issue. The magazine is also running a lengthy profile and interview with Jolie inside.

Yet instead of drawing people into watching the movie, the piece has been the subject of intense media-bashing. On the popular _ magazine Slate the article was trashed under the headline: ‘The worst celebrity profile ever written?’ And elsewhere a review of the film was headlined: ‘The Mariane Pearl movie can’t escape the shadow of Angelina Jolie’ and went on to say that casting had trumped acting because Jolie was an actress whose ‘global recognizability quotient is exceeded only by that of the sun’ and hence we cannot suspend belief long enough to believe she is Pearl. Its a damning turnaround for the actress.

Perhaps some of the backlash is the inevitable consequence of how Jolie and Brad Pitt have skilfully exploited the intense media interest in their lives in return for publicity for charities and causes that they are interested in. But even that has started to backfire. Several US newspapers reported last week that she has abandoned a charity in her eldest son’s name. She established the Maddox Jolie Project to protect the eco-system and watershed conservation values in his homeland of Cambodia. But according to ’sources’ Jolie has stopped funding it.

Other recent stories in celebrity magazines have criticized her child-rearing skills and speculated that Pitt is reluctant to marry her. She is constantly compared with his ex, Jennifer Aniston.

But she still has support. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell last week heaped praise on the actress for her work raising awareness of landmines and refugees. ‘Her work with refugees is not something to decorate herself. She studies the issues,’ he told Newsweek.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/142678.html

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:) perfect timing :) just before i go to sleep! there’s another brangelina thread here. love it!!!

I love that MSN interview. I hope they enjoyed their Mommy and Daddy alone time.

JJ was it necessary to print where they are staying? How important is that? Is the hotel paying you? Yes I know this was printed somewhere else but how is this relevant? At least use the past tense. What next? Social Security numbers?

Thank you for this interview.. We all know about the MJP and knws she’s dediated to this endeavor.

now everyone sees why brad and angelina are together???
i just can’t imagine jennifer aniston spending an entire day sightseeing and visiting museums…
it would be great if they came to madrid too.. we also have plenty of things to see. And almost no paparazzi..
here they are more respectful. Beckham could see it while he was here.
he had a quiet and private life.

Wouldnt it be cool if they left those kids in a hotel and decided to live alone now?

34 sam p

ATTENTION…that all she wants attention. She read the scipt before she signed on. The real question is did she give back her pay check for being an consultant on the movie.

Hello, I’m from Brasil and I’ve posted a few times in these threads. I have a great admiration for them both, first for their acting skills, but also for their use of their power with the media to attract attention where it’s needed. Films like “Twelve Monkeys” ,”Seven” and Guy Ritchie’s film (can’t remember the title in english) showed that Pitt was far more than just a handsome face. Jolie’s talented piece of work don’t need to be ennumerated. They are committed to their causes, but also to live a real, significant life. I can’t understand why people, specially in the US are so eager to hate them, criticize them, and analyse all their moves in a negative way. I guess this is part of north american culture that produced that guy who murdered John Lennon, or that other who shot Reagan (wasn’t him crazy about jodie Foster, claiming he was doing that because of her, etc ?). People seem to have a very sick relationship with those stars. I’ve read the questions posed to Sean Smith, the guy who interviewed her for Newsweek, I think, and those where sick, hatred people. I’m so glad to see they manage to live their lifes above all this. Once Jolie said that Pitt is a very down to earth person, specially because he has a wonderful family who love and support him, and is very close to his family. Family, friends and values. Living life how you believe it must be lived (and not spitting hate through the net), making a difference as citizens and as parents. I guess this is what keep them safe from the negative feelings. Wish them all the luck, a happy and long life.
The same for you all

As much as I enjoy seeing photo’s of this couple (& thier kids) … I feel so sorry for them. They can’t even get away for some much needed persoanl down time without being photographed.

He went with aniston too, so don’t lie.

that muslin girl ashri(frend of daniel pearl) bash again a mighty heart in today washington post she call it a migty shame.so why she keep doing this,she is being stupid and arogant.she should just shut up because why keep bash over and over if you had tell your opion to the producers ,she start to bringing bad publicity ant its shameful
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I read it too and at least is not a bashing editorial to angelina, she’s still pissed at the producers (Brad) and at Paramount. I don’t get why she would to this so public, forget paramount and the producers, what about showing a little respect to marianne?

IT’s GREAT to see them having some fun together as a couple. I wonder if Brad is designing any houses and/or a special one for the family???

Thanks for keeping up with them.

olá rô,eu sou portuguesa.tdo bem?é sempre bom encontra fans de tdo mundo aqui .fica bem

30 Lake | 06/24/2007 at 10:00 am
Does anyone know if Angie is scheduled to appear on anymore interviews soon? I missed that charlierose and msn one.
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Here’s the Charlierose part 1 of 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlpmKUMd74

ANGELINA JOLIE-CHARLIE ROSE x JUNE 20 07′ PART 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ErDFXl1Kk

46 bdj
It is based on the book, “A Mighty Heart” and therefore told through M. Pearl perspective

~~~Exactly, she seems to be writing as if the movie was going to be about her and Daniel’s adventures.

47 Just saying | 06/24/2007 at 10:18 am
what about showing a little respect to marianne?

~~~~Yes this is the biggest insult. She acts as if she misses Daniel more than Mariane. I hope Mariane calls her up and gives her a piece of her mind.

It’s very obvious she hates the movie. She’s very angry at Paramount and Brad, very! even Marianne get’s a litle bashing for going with Adam at the Cannes premiere.

A Mighty Shame
It’s the Story of Our Search for Danny Pearl. But in This Movie, He’s Nowhere to Be Found.

By Asra Q. Nomani
Sunday, June 24, 2007; Page B01

O n Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002, I stood at the gate of my rented house in Karachi, watching my friend Danny Pearl juggle a notebook, cellphone and earpiece as he bounded over to a taxicab idling in the street. He was off to try to find the alleged al-Qaeda handler of “shoe bomber” Richard Reid in Pakistan. “Good luck, dude,” I called, waving cheerfully as he strode off, a lopsided grin on his face. His pregnant wife, Mariane, stood smiling and waving beside me as the taxi pulled away. A gaggle of parrots swooped through the trees above, squawking in the late afternoon sun.

That was the last image I had of Danny until late last month, when a PR executive for Paramount Vantage pulled up to my house in Morgantown, W.Va., in a black Lincoln Town Car. She was carrying a DVD of “A Mighty Heart,” the just-released movie, based on the book by Mariane Pearl, about the staggering events that unfolded after that innocuous moment in Pakistan: Danny’s kidnapping and eventual beheading.

With my parents and a friend beside me, I pressed “play” on my DVD player and settled in to watch. Slowly, as the scenes ticked by, my heart sank. I could live with having been reduced from a colleague of Danny’s to a “charming assistant” to Mariane, as one review put it, and even with having been cut out of the scene in front of my house in Pakistan. That’s the creative license Hollywood takes. What I couldn’t accept was that Danny himself had been cut from his own story.

The character I saw on the screen was flat — nerdy, bland and boring. He’s not at all like Danny, who wrote “ditties” about Osama bin Laden while he was investigating Pakistan’s nuclear secrets and jihadist groups as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. On screen, he’s warned three times to meet with Sheik Mubarik Ali Gilani — the man with whom he thought he had an interview — only in public. But off he goes, ignoring the warnings. The message: Reckless journalist.

That was nothing like the Danny I knew. As the credits rolled, I murmured to my mother, “Danny had a cameo in his own murder.”

For me, watching the movie was like having people enter my home, rearrange the furniture and reprogram my memory. I’d known it was a gamble when I agreed to help with a Hollywood version of Danny’s kidnapping, but I’d done it because I thought the movie had the potential to be meaningful. I’d hoped it could honor the man I’d worked alongside for nine years at the Journal by explaining why he was so passionate about his work as a reporter. I’d hoped that it would tell the story of the unique team of law enforcement agents, government officials and journalists — of varying religions, nationalities and cultures — that had searched for him. And I hoped it could spark a search for the truth behind Danny’s death.

But the moviemakers and their PR machine seemed intent on two very different and much shallower goals: creating a mega-star vehicle for Angelina Jolie, who plays Mariane, and promoting the glib and cliched idea that both Danny and Mariane were “ordinary heroes.”

I think Danny would have rolled his eyes at that.

In the prologue to her book, Mariane wrote to her son: “I write this book for you, Adam, so you know that your father was not a hero but an ordinary man.” In a movie voiceover, that dedication becomes: “This film is for our son so he knows that his father was an ordinary man. An ordinary hero.”

But there weren’t any real heroes in the story of Danny’s tragedy. Danny would have said he was just doing his job. When he went off that day in Karachi, he didn’t give any impression that he thought what he was doing was especially dangerous. He just had a story he wanted to pursue and an interview he thought would help him. After he vanished, I don’t think any of us, not even Mariane, did anything particularly courageous, either. We each had a duty to try to find him — either as professionals or because of the bonds of friendship or family.

I know that movies need a dramatic arc and that there has to be room for artistic license in the telling of a true story, because reality is often so chaotic. I know that it’s natural to search for a compelling narrative structure to make sense of tragedy and pointlessness. And I do believe that Danny’s last moments, as he declared his Jewishness for his kidnappers’ video camera, showed his strength of character.

But recasting a story just so we can tell ourselves that we’ve found a hero is too easy. It’s the quickest way to convince ourselves that what happened wasn’t such a bad thing, that it had redeeming value, that we can close the book on it and move on with our lives. We do it too often — with television shows about ordinary people with extraordinary powers, with magazine features that extol the “heroes among us” and with our impulse to elevate every story — think Jessica Lynch, ambushed and wounded in Iraq — to one of heroism.

For me, “A Mighty Heart” and all the hype surrounding it have only underscored how cheap and manufactured our quest for heroism has become. Paramount even launched an “ordinary hero” contest to promote the movie. “Nominate the most inspiring ordinary hero,” its Web site shouts. “Win a trip to the Bahamas!”

Lost in the PR machine and the heroism hoopla is Danny, whose death is at the center of the story. After all, as one person involved in the production candidly told me: Danny can’t do interviews. So in the Associated Press review, he amounts to nothing more than a parenthetical phrase.

But Danny was not parenthetical. He deserves to be remembered fully. He was charming and charismatic. He was an outstanding investigative reporter with an irreverent streak. The year before he died, I’d taken a leave from the Journal to work on a book, and he faxed me an article from an Indian magazine that he thought would help with my research. “From your assistant, Danny,” he scrawled across the cover sheet, in his self-deprecating style.

He observed the media machine with a contrarian, skeptical eye. In November 2001, after the war in Afghanistan had begun, he wrote to me: “I’m getting to Pakistan just in time for the lull between ‘well, more bombings, more deaths — who cares now?’ and ’****, it’s December, we have to round out our prize packages’ ” with big articles for awards such as the Pulitzers. “Okay, no more cynicism from here,” he signed off. “I’m going to be a father and must maintain an idyllic view of the world.”

Danny had me teach him how to say “Do I look like a fool?” in Urdu so he could tell off Mumbai taxi drivers who tried to overcharge him. Once, shortly after arriving in Peshawar on an assignment, he wrote me: “I’m at the Pearl Continental, wasn’t able to get a free room despite my argument that I was the owner.”

Don’t look for that personality in the movie. You won’t find it.

I know I’m guilty of assisting in Hollywood’s mythmaking. In the fall of 2003, I went with Mariane to the Los Angeles home of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, where we ate bagels and drank coffee by the pool while listening to their pitch for buying the movie rights to her book. When Mariane decided to sell, Warner Bros. Pictures sought my “life rights,” too. I agreed to sell them, even though a friend told me that making a movie about Danny’s death seemed exploitative.

A year passed. Pitt and Aniston got a divorce. Pitt and Jolie got together. The movie rights passed to Paramount Vantage. Paramount hired British director Michael Winterbottom. And a script emerged.

When I read it last summer, I felt as though I’d been punched in the gut. I sat across from British actress Archie Panjabi, who had been dispatched to my home in Morgantown to learn to play me. I lamented that none of the characters were fully developed, least of all Danny.

When I watched the movie last month, I was relieved that I wasn’t a servant girl, as I felt an early script had it. So I wrote to a producer, “Thumbs up okay on my end.” But I wasn’t being true to myself. I was reacting to the power and seduction of Hollywood.

A few days later, when I saw the photos of stars in evening gowns and tuxedos floating down the red carpet for the Cannes premiere of “A Mighty Heart,” Danny’s not-quite-5-year-old son among them, I had that sinking feeling again. Other friends of Danny’s said they did, too. It was so not Danny.

Worst of all, the pomp came at the same time as a chilling reminder of his death. On the night of the Cannes premiere, the Daily Times, a Pakistani newspaper, ran a photo of an emaciated man said to have been the owner of the plot of land where Danny had been held and where his remains had been buried. The accompanying story alleged that the man had been held in the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then released to Pakistani intelligence authorities, who had recently dumped him at his family’s home. The headline: “Most wanted man in Daniel Pearl case: Saud Memon dies.”

On the eve of the movie’s New York premiere earlier this month, I was in Phoenix at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference. I was there to announce the establishment of the Pearl Project, a joint faculty-student investigative reporting project at Georgetown University that will aim to find out who really killed Danny and why. It’s my own way of honoring him. His story isn’t over for me. I set up the project because — despite a confession from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11 and of Richard Reid’s failed shoe-bombing, that he killed Danny — I believe we still don’t know the real truth behind what happened to him.

After the conference, I had to decide whether to go to New York for the premiere or head back home. I went home. In my home office, I stood in front of a copy of the chart I had started in Karachi to make sense of everything that happened after that January day in 2002. At the center is a single name: Danny.

Wow I love to see them having some time alone for themselves.. They are really soul mates.. Angie looks very sexy doing the driving while Daddy Brad is taking some souvenir pictures of the city..Spain is cool !!! people are very nice and friendly..Go Brangelina and make more babies.. Love them forever!!

Thanks for the links everyone. I hope the next interviews she does on tv I dont miss them!

gr8 pics i really would like to see AMH but unfortunatly i have to wait till the dvd comes out here in Morocco

and asra nomani well to bad for her she didnt liked the movie and the movie was based on marianne’s book and ive read the book and i personally feel so sorry for marianne for what happened to her and danny RIP!

many muslims actually will watch this movie i have familly and friends in europe and they all are waiting for it!

A few days later, when I saw the photos of stars in evening gowns and tuxedos floating down the red carpet for the Cannes premiere of “A Mighty Heart,” Danny’s not-quite-5-year-old son among them, I had that sinking feeling again. Other friends of Danny’s said they did, too. It was so not Danny.

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I don’t know about all of you, but here she bashes Marianne big time.

I agree with whoever said that she’s pissed at Brad and Paramount and even Marianne I will say. Anyway, for all the crazy angelina fans that they were waiting for some Brad bashing, there you go.

That’s nice Angie drove Brad .

love both of them there probably working on that alone time good for them and nobody with their negative comments will bring them down

Thanks Jared.

Mommy and Daddy time is always a good thing.

In Mariannes book the story is very much [i]her[/i] journey. Sure, Daniel is central to it and you get some perspective of his character and a lot of his spirit but still it’s very much her tale which, when you think about it, is as it should be. Asra may well have vastly different ideas about who Daniel was and should be shown, and she’s entitled to. What I find rather mean spirited of her is to criticize those memories of her supposedly close (though perhaps not anymore) friend Mariannne. Still, as I said before when you make films or write about real people and events there’s always one who doesn’t like themselves in it, Asra just seems to be the one in this case.

You’re welcome lurker opinion & filipino fan.

Oh my god, thAt woman is so bitter. Jeesh! Even people who read the book say the movie followed the same line of events as in the book. What the **** is that woman’s problem?

Did she really want a movie about her hidden love for Daniel? She may as well write a book about him and get someone to make a movie about him. Other people did that!
A poster said on the other thread that AMH is not about Dany’s life! Jeesh!It’s based on the book and follow Mariane’s voice. Not that *****’s!
I really don’t know if she read the book…damn… She got the money, she read the script, she agred with Paramount etc, she never gave her real thoughts, ******* hypocrit beyotch! Now she lashes at Paramount and Mariane. Oh, man, I hope Mariane will give her a good bollocking. Daniel Pearl married Mariane. Not that sour grapes witch. Wow….I’m so crossed right now. I need a chill pill…

I think that woman has a problem with MP.

The WP article - I think this woman least of problems is Angelina. Her main issue is The Producers of the movie and how the handle the script and the promotion of the movie.

I agree that she is also pissed at Marianne, you don’t say “So not Danny” without trying to left Marianne in a bad light.

Her beef is with the producers not angelina. It’s not unususual for a real event movie to get some bashing from one of the people who were there, happens all the time, but I’m very surprised she will go and talked like this about Marianne.

She never used the word “fight”. You exaggerated it into the word fight.
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Glamour UK article.

LUCY! | 06/24/2007 at 10:15 am

As much as I enjoy seeing photo’s of this couple (& thier kids) … I feel so sorry for them. They can’t even get away for some much needed persoanl down time without being photographed.

Lucy I feel you on this.

I love this couple but there is just soo much pressure and intrusion of their privacy. While I enjoy reading about them and seeing their pictures, I worry that the pressure from fans and the paparazzi might be harmful to their relationship in the long run.

I have made it a point to read less about them and I actually will not be looking at pictures of their children picked and dropped from school. Its too much and we as their fans should be the first to set an example and back off. The more we ogle their pictures and read about them dropping and taking their children from school, the more paparazzi become obsessed into taking their pictures.

Cant we just be thier fans, support their causes and only use pictures their have possed for instead of continuosly prying into their personal lives especially when kids are involved. This was a prinvate intimate vacation, this pictures are an intrusion of privacy.

I saw the movie last night, and I will definitely see it again. I was one of the ‘young’people in the audience, and that made me sad to a degree. This was a hard movie to watch — not only because of the story itself, but because it was really not narrative in the way most h’wood films are (and then this happened and then this happened. . . .) there are a lot of details and chaos and people talking and mumbling and thinking — just like real life, and Winterbottom doesn’t ‘recap’ the story for you the viewer.

As for the story itself, I very much was thrust in my mind to Angie and Marianne on Charlie Rose. MP in particular — here she is young and intelligent and beautiful and in love with her husband — if one goes to the movie thinking this is going to be a kind of sicky sweet valentine to that love, don’t go see it. This is a woman who is dealt a blow to her life and to her beliefs and emerges unbroken. She refuses to be a victim. This is why Angie is perfect to understand MP as a force on the screen. These two are sisters under the skin, intrepid, CITIZENs of the world. They don’t act in the stereotypical ways that comfort the lazy voyeurs. They are female protagonists in a world that is deeply suspicious of that way of being. I thought a lot of the acting was great, esp. Irfan Khan

Two thoughts from recent postings: first, I got a lot out of reading the old BP interviews on the previous threads. Like, he has been looking for some purpose for his life for a long time. The sheer narcissism of his job and of romantic love was not enough for him. His desire to be a producer, his zest in the project of making a family — these impulses to create seem to be an ongoing thread in his adult life. So how did he end up here — he has been bound for this life of travel of family of creating of seeking greater understanding. And I recognize that it is hindsight, but when he describes the way he approaches his art and life, I hear Jolie, not any of his previous loves.

Second, Asra (the real), I see her comments as completely disrespectful to MP, which is sad. I don’t know anything about her, but her need to define Danny Pearl means that SHE should write her own book. The movie is reflective of the story that MP wanted/needed to tell. The ‘ordinary heroes’ language was said by marianne herself. And she doesn’t get to say if Adam goes to the premiere in Cannes — he didn’t see the movie, and he is Marianne and Danny’s child. If I were her I would be pleased to have that marvelous actress play me and that people might be interested in finding out more about me after seeing it. Although now, not so much (on my part).

Regarding the Nomani article:

It’s a shame when people expect a Hollywood movie to be a documentary or a treatise. Nomani’s anger at Hollywood doing what it does - taking a story and converting it into a visual medium that is hopefully entertaining or compelling enough to sell tickets and make money - is misplaced.

Mariane already wrote “A Mighty Heart”. The journalists have already covered the story.

The film reaches a broader audience, and why? Because it has a major star. And even so, some of us, including me, are hesitating to see it. Why? Because it sounds like a very depressing two hours, frankly, and I don’t know if I want to pay to be emotionally dejected. But I can assure you, without Angelina Jolie in the film, I wouldn’t see it.

Of course there is a star in the movie. Of course the PR is promoting the star. That is the business of Hollywood. Hollywood is not journalism.

On the other hand, because of the movie, millions of people who never paid attention before, now know what happened to Danny Pearl. Many of them are younger people. Perhaps they will pay more attention now.

But at the end of the day, Hollywood produces movies to entertain and to make money. Resenting that component is foolish. Unless the producer filed a 501(c)(3), complaining about how they make a return on their millions is naive.

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Not sure about that!!!

You think this movie will teach the young generation!!

Look at the AJ & BP threads to familiarize yourself with the topic of discussion.

The audience that this movie reaches is the fanatics of AJ & BP, not necessarily the one that is concerned with world affairs, world poverty and so forth.

People will remember the movie for the drama surrounding their life. 5 years from now, if not less, the life of Daniel Pearl and how he died will be forgotten.

Hats off to Ms. Nomani for giving us a little insight into the type of man he was.

Luckily some of us are not blinded by the do gooders to realize what their real intention is.

The tragic life of man who devoted his life in the pursuit of the truth has been reduced to showbusiness!!!

Yes, indeed this movie is a mighty shame!!!!

Study shows that couples who have similar values and commonality have a better chance of succeeding in the long term. Angie attested to her and Brad’s similar family values which is the key why they are happy together with their growing brood.
It is always nice to see them sharing and supporting each other’s interest, Angie indulging Brad’s architecture curiosity and photography. Brad on the other hand, showing his genuine support by reading Angie’s WP article first and going with her on her UNHCR trips. Both are making it work and that’s a wonderful thing.

Oh my god, thAt woman is so bitter. Jeesh! Even people who read the book say the movie followed the same line of events as in the book. What the **** is that woman’s problem?

Did she really want a movie about her hidden love for Daniel? She may as well write a book about him and get someone to make a movie about him. Other people did that!
A poster said on the other thread that AMH is not about Dany’s life! Jeesh!It’s based on the book and follow Mariane’s voice. Not that *****’s!
I really don’t know if she read the book…damn… She got the money, she read the script, she agred with Paramount etc, she never gave her real thoughts, ******* hypocrit beyotch! Now she lashes at Paramount and Mariane. Oh, man, I hope Mariane will give her a good bollocking. Daniel Pearl married Mariane. Not that sour grapes witch. Wow….I’m so crossed right now. I need a chill pill…

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I would suggest to you read the book yourself!!!

Asra Q. Nomani OP gives you the idea that she’s the only one fighiting for Danny’s memory because his wife is so busy playing with Hollywood. She says Brad Pitt and Paramount only care about the money and not danny, this project with or without angelina was going to be the same, the adaptation of the script is her main issue.

Boxoffice for Saturday IMPROVED over Friday’s (quite a big percentage).

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Then why you don’t post the numbers?

Well this Asra Q. Nomani can shove her article whenever she wants.

Personally I want to thank Brad and all the other producers for making this movie and spreading the message Marriane wanted to be out there and for chosing and extrodinary actress as Angie to portray her.

If it wasn’t for this two people I wouldn’t have known about Marriane and Daniel and their story. I wouldn’t have known what happened. And many people wouldn’t have known about it either.

Now many foreiners like me will be able to learn and educate and search about who Daniel Pearl was and what he had acomplished and how a real journalist should operate awhat a great strength Marriane had through all this situation.

If Marriane her self or D.Pearl’s parents are satisfied with the resault of this movie then enyone else who is complaining is a big fat NOTHING!!

Asra Q. Nomani OP gives you the idea that she’s the only one fighiting for Danny’s memory because his wife is so busy playing with Hollywood. She says Brad Pitt and Paramount only care about the money and not danny, this project with or without angelina was going to be the same, the adaptation of the script is her main issue.

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Right

Yes, that is your interpretation, not mine, but I respect yours!!!!

It cannot be said that violence is an Islamic phenomenon. Violence has no religion or nationality. If some Islamic groups are involved in violence and are considered extremist, there are also other groups and even nations that are known for committing acts of violence, such as Israel, or Hindu groups in India.

Violence has no nationality; it exists everywhere. The list of individuals, groups, or even nations that use violence to attain political aims is quite long. Israel has the worst record of using violence and committing atrocities against the Palestinian people as well as the Lebanese.

Some people, particularly Marxists and communists in general, want to interpret the phenomenon of violence as the result of economic injustice. We cannot deny the truth in this explanation. The Qur’an did not underestimate the financial factor in explaining certain phenomena such as killing the children out of destitution or out of fear of pauperism.

Others explain violence using the conspiracy scheme, meaning that behind all this violence is a diabolic design. This interpretation is quite popular; it alleviates any sort of responsibility because someone else is accountable, and at the same time it renders us impotent vis-à-vis political oppression. We are facing religious, social, and political oppressions. The human being is free; therefore one should not accept this explication. Even if some people really are conspiring against us, is that an excuse? Why don’t we make our own plan? Should we always be victimized by others?

A single answer to this phenomenon is unacceptable, because it is a multi-faceted, compounded, and complex problem. Some of the reasons behind this phenomenon could be attributed to internal, external, and psychological factors; some can be attributed to intellectual factors; others are social or economic. Some people focus on the external factors. This is neither objective nor scientific thinking; there must be a reconciliation between all the factors.

There are many factors to this phenomenon:

1. The absence of a moderate line of thinking. It is important that prevalent moderate Islamic thought come into the open in order for a multitude of young people to find their way instead of going underground. The absence of such a line of thinking left the ground open for extremist thought and philosophy.

2. The absence of true scholars who are capable to convince with the proofs from the Qur’an and Sunnah. Their absence left the arena open to unqualified, the so-called scholars working for the authorities. Consequently, the youth lost confidence and appointed themselves as sheikhs to issue fatwas on complicated problems.

3. Oppression of the people and lack of democracy led the people to take things into their own hands. Oppression breeds violence, and violence breeds more violence.

4. The non-application of the Shari`ah is also a main factor, as many countries state that Islam is the official religion of the country, and others may add that Islam is the main source of the laws. After this, people see enacted laws that run counter to the Shari`ah, and for sure such laws provoke young men to commit acts of violence.

5. The propagation of corruption and the proliferation of oppression in society are also reasons for frustration.

@egad

you sure spend lots of time studying the triangle. i’ve noticed you studied, analysed every picture to find a “speck”. you spend so much time here, that the minute a “spanish post” was up, you immediately used the language translator (looking at the timing of the post). you sure responded fast. you sure studied brad in detail, knowing about the “supposed” trip with aniston.

remember the old adage, “you reap what you sow”. do some good deeds and you’ll be rewarded.

dont use the excuse that because you’re in the business that you can just plant rumors at will.

Asra has all the skills needed to write her own book. If she has something to say, write about it.

Her beef is with the studio, Paramount. They decide how the film will be marketed and promoted. The producers are only involved in the actual filmaking.

She has a right to beef but we get it the first time. Her comment that all of this is so not Danny, is it so like Mariane? Mariane is a serious journalist just like she is.

The film Gandhi was about great Indian spiritual leader who lived a very simple life, simple vegetarian diet and spun the fabric to clothe himself. The premiere of that film was as splashy as all get out. Of course it was as far as Mahatma Gandhi as you can get, but the premiere and promotion of a film has no connection to the subject of the film.

Asra was caught totally cluless on how a film is distributed and promoted. She thinks that it should be like a book signing with coffee and donuts distributed.

QUOTE
“I’ll never work with Brad Pitt on another film. Can you imagine a close-up of his beautiful face and then the camera moves to a close-up of my big nose? It’s just not good.” ~Emily Lloyd (co-star in “A River Runs Through It”)

From 1993…

QUOTE
”(Tom and Brad) are both great kissers, but since I get along a lot more with Brad, it would have to be him. We’re kissing a lot longer. There’s a lot more heat, and I really respect him.” ~ Karina Lombard, on who’s the better kisser, her Firm costar, Tom Cruise, or her Legends of the Fall costar, Brad Pitt.

From 1995…

QUOTE
”He’s so beautiful. That’s probably why I’m attracted to him.” ~ Melissa Etheridge

From 1995…

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”I’m sick of all the hoopla about Brad’s hair,” says Paltrow, who will costar with Morgan Freeman and the newly shorn Pitt in the psychological thriller Seven, out in September. ”I swear, if I hear one more time, ‘What happened to his hair?’ I’m going to scream.” Passions have been running high since Pitt decided to lop off his Legends of the Fall mane. In fact, according to Paltrow, one interviewer was crushed when she revealed Pitt had gotten a buzz cut. ”Don’t people have anything else to worry about?” ~Gwyneth Paltrow

From 1998…

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”I met Brad Pitt at a party! I was struck silent…nothing. Not one word came out of my mouth. Deer caught in the headlights, the whole works. He probably thinks I’m such a geek.” ~ Model Cindy Margolis

From 1998…

QUOTE
”Death would be a beautiful place if it looked like Brad Pitt.” ~ Carmen Electra

From 1998…

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Holly Hunter calls Brad Pitt ”alluring and fun and wicked…He’s candy to my eye.”

Boxoffice for Saturday IMPROVED over Friday’s (quite a big percentage).

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Then why you don’t post the numbers?
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Below you find the numbers of the box office

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mightyheart.htm

Domestic: $1,190,000 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%

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= Worldwide: $1,190,000

WOW…lovely couple.

Nomani’s opinion reflects badly upon herself. She never accepts responsibility for her own sell-out and tries to makes a weak excuse “I was reacting to the power and seduction of Hollywood.” At the end of the day it was Mariane’s story about Danny not Nomani’s. Everyone has their own reality.

Another old Brad interview

Primetime 1997

Diane Sawyer:
All right. How’s this for a success story? Ten years ago, a college kid from Springfield, Missouri, who loves movies decides he’ll just drive to California and become an actor. And in fact, in seven months, Brad Pitt has his first job.
Of course, it helps that as Dustin Hoffman has said, “Next to Brad Pitt, everybody else looks like an onion.” But out here, they talk more about the young actor’s constant search for serious roles, new mountains to climb.

We first saw him last February north of Vancouver on top of the world, making the movie “Seven Years In Tibet” about a mountain climber who stumbles into spiritual clarity. The 33 - year - old actor loved the danger, the bitter cold and the prospect of getting back to the 24 - year - old woman he couldn’t wait to marry. He called her his Gwynie.

But as mountain climbers know, any moment the weather can turn. As helicopters brewed up a blizzard for a movie shot, there was turbulence ahead in life. Soon, he would learn that a magazine had paparazzi photos of him and Gwyneth Paltrow on vacation, happy and naked. He sued for recall of the magazine and won. Later in the year, there would be a scare about his father’s health which ended up OK. Add to it all, the breakup. Gossip sheets have blamed Pitt. They’ve written stories that he had a roving eye, but the gossip sheets apparently have it very wrong. Last Monday, we met up with him again outside a blues club in LA. He is tall, famously polite and hates interviews — especially those personal questions about why he broke off the engagement and about his broken heart.

Brad Pitt:
Well, that happens to everyone. But listen, that’s — are we on the love conversation now?

Diane Sawyer:
We are.

Brad Pitt:
The love line?

Diane Sawyer:
We are. Everybody has been speculating it was about somebody else for one or the two of you.

Brad Pitt:
It wasn’t one thing. It wasn’t, you know, it just — boy, I hit a brick wall here, didn’t I?

Diane Sawyer:
He says for everyone, love is about commitment and trust (on camera) Still believe in happy endings?

Brad Pitt:
Yeah, absolutely. Happy endings. Um, happy endings? No, I believe in perfect moments. And then I believe in miserable moments. And then you collect another perfect moment.
But you know, listen, oh, boy. This is the big one. It’s love, I think — I think it’s a fantastic thing. It’s fantastic. I think it’s - I don’t know, when you first meet and you have that first touch and there’s this euphoria, and it’s exciting. But that’s — that’s not it. I mean, that only lasts for so long. And love is work. Love is work. And so, you’ve got to make your choice, if that’s what’s most important to you, you know? What do you want? Do you want to be with someone, or do you want to play around? You make your choice. And you’ve got to be honest about it, if — if you find yourself going another way, that’s all. It’s very simple stuff, honesty. Yet it seems to be the toughest thing to grasp. Honesty with yourself. How’re you really feeling? Honesty with others. Otherwise, you’re better off alone. Don’t waste someone’s time.

Diane Sawyer:
You really believe in fidelity?

Brad Pitt:
Me? Yeah, I do. But it’s taken me a while to learn it, you know? I had to screw up a couple times. I had to fail to figure it out.

Diane Sawyer:
But how long ago did you learn this?

Brad Pitt:
I would say coming out of college, you know? Because your college years, you’re all over the place. At least, I was. Listen, I’ll go on to the next one just as open. And if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. You know, I’ll keep trying. I have a lot of respect for love. And I think I’m speaking for the both of us here. You — you put yourself into a relationship and you expose yourself, and it doesn’t work. Sometimes you know, you see it’s not — it’s not going to be so healthy for the long run. You’d better get out.

Diane Sawyer:
Will you be friends again? Will you be close again?

Brad Pitt:
Oh, I don’t see how we can’t be. Um, shared a big part of our life together.

Diane Sawyer:
Some day?

Brad Pitt:
Sure, we will.

Diane Sawyer:
Do you think men and women are essentially different?

Brad Pitt:
I don’t know. I have no idea. What is that book, “Men Are From …

Diane Sawyer:
“Mars.”

Brad Pitt:
… “Pluto, and Women Are From” …

Diane Sawyer:
Who knows where.(Laughter)

Brad Pitt:
I have no idea. I think women are fantastic.

Diane Sawyer:
Does it ever make you happy at all when the girls are screaming?

Brad Pitt:
Oh, sure it does. What am I, crazy?

Diane Sawyer:
Just checking.

Brad Pitt:
Come on.

Diane Sawyer:
But can you experience it? Can you say, “They all want me”?

Brad Pitt:
No. It’s not like that, though. You know, it’s — I mean, my sister had Andy Gibb up on the wall, you know? I mean, really, you know?

Diane Sawyer:
Fame is fleeting.

Brad Pitt:
Yeah, yeah. And it’s a poster.

Diane Sawyer:
Yeah.

Brad Pitt:
But every now and then, you get the individual who comes up and you know they were moved by a movie you were involved with. You know, they were honestly moved. Because that was my experience as a child. That’s why I love movies. Because someone demonstrated or articulated something that I had felt but never been able to put it that way and it made sense to me, and someone showed me some clarity and it really moved me.

Diane Sawyer:
Do you like the money? Would you ever be nervous about losing it?

Brad Pitt:
No. No. My father said to me when I was a kid, which I — it really took me off - guard. He said — because he’s very practical. And I’m not very practical. He would always say, “You either are going to be filthy rich or dirt poor. So prepare yourself.”

Diane Sawyer:
Tell me about your mom and dad. Tell me about your dad.

WHERE IS SAM AND AHM WILL BOMB? AMH ALREADY SURPASSED THEIR PREDICTIONS OF LESS THAN £2 MILLION WEEKEND OPENING. AS OF SATURDAY AMH EARNED ALMOST £2.8MIL. SAM AND AMH WILL BOMB, WHERE ARE YOU??????????????? ARE U BOTH COMMITTED SUICIDE NOW???????????

90 serouisly!!!

Because of DVD sales and rentals this movie will have a wide range audience.

With a documentary, and HBO movie, this movie plus countless books I do not think 5 years from now Daniel Pearl will be forgotten.

African Girl | 06/24/2007 at 9:36 am
Yipeeeeee! And to think I wasn’t gonna check in this morning….Oh my! I don’t know what to say…Okay, first off… to my Alarm clock…without which I won’t have woken up on time. Thank you for keeping me together man!

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BO figures for Saturday AMH (showbizdata)

1,605,000
total: 2,784,000

Diane Sawyer:
Tell me about your mom and dad. Tell me about your dad.

Brad Pitt:
He’s integrity. He’s very unassuming, but he walks — he just walks it. You feel it. And where we grew up, it was all about actions and not words. We didn’t have much of a vocabulary. It was just actions.

Diane Sawyer:
And your mom?

Brad Pitt:
She’s goodness. Lovely, lovely woman. Growing up we would, you know, we would have our bedtimes and so the three of us siblings, we’d jump in our beds, separate rooms, and we’d all be yelling for her, because she’d take turns coming from room to room, right? And we’d just talk for hours sometimes. Just talk.

Diane Sawyer:
But the all - American kid came to California ready to take chances. Just look at the risky roles he keeps playing, the opposite of what he calls “the Velveeta,” the glamour.

Brad Pitt:
They start throwing all this money at you, you got a responsibility. You feel more pressure if the movie’s successful because they give you this money. You want them to make their money back, you know?

Diane Sawyer:
But do you worry about what they’re going to think? Do you worry about whether you’re going to be embarrassed?

Brad Pitt:
No, no, no. No, no, no. No, I worry about the getting it right.

Diane Sawyer:
The new movie is a true story of Austrian Heinrich Harrer — Olympic athlete, epic bully. The real Harrer recently surprised the filmmakers by admitting he had joined the Nazis before the war. (on camera) On Heinrich Harrer …

Brad Pitt:
Mm - hmm.

Diane Sawyer:
… did it cause a jolt when you found out that, indeed, he was confirming that he had been a Nazi?

Brad Pitt:
Oh, yeah. It threw me a little bit. Sure because I—you know, the first thing are those images that come in the head. You think of Auschwitz, you think of the atrocities that went on, and they certainly went on. But he wasn’t a part of it.
He was a man of great hubris and an ego - maniacal, and he would have signed up with anything if it advanced himself. And this was a big honor at that time before the war, and that’s what — it was never stated this before the war broke out.

Diane Sawyer:
Would you have done something differently?

Brad Pitt:
No, that’s the story. I think it should have been enhanced in the story. That’s the story.

Diane Sawyer:
That he goes from the person who could do that?

Brad Pitt:
That’s the metamorphosis of this man, yeah.

Diane Sawyer:
It is the story of Harrer’s transformation when the tired adventurer meets the Dalai Lama, a boy lit from within.

(Clip from “Seven Years In Tibet”)

Diane Sawyer:
The character he plays finds serenity, a sanctuary. Looking at this, you wonder if Brad Pitt ever will.(on camera) Among the things that have to have been — sort of rocked you this year were the “Playgirl” pictures and the whole paparazzi issue.

Brad Pitt:
Sure. There was all that to deal with as well.

Diane Sawyer:
Did you immediately think, “I’m going to sue”?

Brad Pitt:
Yeah, I think so. You know why? Because things are printed every week, and I got to tell you they are always wrong. Listen to me, they are always wrong. I don’t fight it. I don’t say anything. I just let it go. But when this thing came out, I felt like, you know, enough is enough. You know, if people — I was on a private property, and to get those photographs, you would have had to have trespassed on private property. And if people aren’t going to have common — any kind of common decency, which I see it dwindling, then I felt like it was time to make someone accountable for it. And I don’t want to infringe on the press, but correct me if I’m wrong, the code of the journalism was, I believe it was an unbiased account of newsworthy events. Is that the goal?

Diane Sawyer:
Yeah.

Brad Pitt:
Unbiased is tough, I know. But that’s the goal. But it’s that key word, newsworthy. Right? And the fact that Pitt has a ***** and here’s proof, it’s not news. It’s not needed. Do you know?

Diane Sawyer:
Do you hate that people who buy those magazines and look?

Brad Pitt:
No, I don’t because it’s everyone’s impulse. It’s my impulse. It’s human nature, you know? But I, again, I say I see it slipping. I need to know if I need to shut all the shades in my house. Because right now, I think the laws have not kept up with technology. I don’t think that our forefathers saw telephoto lenses, you know, when they were writing it out, so listen, I’ll take the line. I just need to know.

Diane Sawyer:
The paparazzi themselves, of course, have been heard to say, “Look,he’s a grown - up.”

Brad Pitt:
“Shouldn’t be running around” …

Diane Sawyer:
Exactly.

Brad Pitt:
“Buck naked.”

Diane Sawyer:
Yeah. I mean, “What is he going to think when he comes out like that?”

Brad Pitt:
Well, yeah. Listen, I never expected it to come out. That’s what I’m saying.

Diane Sawyer:
No, but when you walk out the door like that.

Brad Pitt:
It was in a private property and, believe me, I checked it out ahead of time, because I’m paranoid. I’m paranoid of these things. Well, see, I would hate to think I couldn’t have these special moments, you know? Because they are, I mean, come on, it was a special moment. And they’re private moments. And again, you know, common decency. That’s what I think.

Diane Sawyer:
Private moments, which brings us back where we began — talking about what he wryly called “this Charlie Brown year,” a year he can’t wait to leave behind.(on camera) What is a Charlie Brown year? What do you mean?

Brad Pitt:
A Charlie Brown year?

Diane Sawyer:
Yes.

Brad Pitt:
It means you can have the best intentions, but you’re still going to end up with rocks in your Halloween bag, you know? You just have periods where you know, your number’s not coming up. Things aren’t working right. I just call it the Charlie Brown year.
People have much worse years, and people survive. That’s what’s, you know, that’s where — it’s just when you don’t think you — you’re not sure you can take much more, you know? You find something. And you get over that hump.

Diane Sawyer:
And you said you’re getting to the end of it?

Brad Pitt:
I don’t want to make a big deal. I mean, we’ve all done it. We’ve all gone through tough times, and we all will continue to. That’s all. I’m not asking for sympathy or not even empathy, just stating the facts

Diane Sawyer:
Speaking of the paparazzi, there was something we noticed as we finished the interview. We came out of the club where we did the interview, looked up and right there in the window up above us was a huge telephoto lens.

REGARDING THAT MS NOMANI, I BELIEVE SHE WAS PAID TO WRITE HER ENGATIVE COMMENT ON AMH, PERHAPS BY FOX PEOPLE LIKE THAT FRIEDMAN GUY WHO HATES ANGIE. THERE IS JUST SOEMTHING MALICIOUS IN WHAT SHE WROTE, BRINGING ANISTON IN THE PICTURE, ITS CLEAR, IT WAS MEANT TO DESTROY ANGELINA.

Fans can help promote the movie by talking about the message of the movie, instead of talking about the opinion of any disgruntled person. There are so many people who have not seen this movie, please let’s have your positive opinion about it.

Quality time!

Domino | 06/24/2007 at 12:01 pm
REGARDING THAT MS NOMANI, I BELIEVE SHE WAS PAID TO WRITE HER ENGATIVE COMMENT ON AMH, PERHAPS BY FOX PEOPLE LIKE THAT FRIEDMAN GUY WHO HATES ANGIE. THERE IS JUST SOEMTHING MALICIOUS IN WHAT SHE WROTE, BRINGING ANISTON IN THE PICTURE, ITS CLEAR, IT WAS MEANT TO DESTROY ANGELINA
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You’re so stupid. Read the article again, you moron.

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yes I did, she is like a typical Indian who is greedy of money and can be a cheat or a traitor!

Poor loonies, variety will call it a bomb then maybe you’ll have a reality check.

119 cookie

You see cookie, sam and amh will bomb changed what they called a bomb. It was that the film would only make 2 million. Then after Friday’s numbers it’s now that it did not make esitmates.

*************SPOILER ALERT************

I don’t know… maybe Asri expected her part in the film to be juicier. What we saw was that she was dumped by her boyfriend and that she slept in the same bed as Mariane while Danny was missing. And that she answered Mariane’s phone when Danny’s name appeared on the caller ID. They probably had many heart-to-hearts while he was gone, but it didn’t make it to the screen. But then again, did they make it into Mariane’s book? If they didn’t, it shouldn’t be seen as a slight or anything; the heart-to-hearts were private.

If she’s upset, fine. But it’s entirely possible that her complaints may prompt more people to see it in order to see if her assessments were correct. And she needs to be reminded that this is Mariane’s story and that she and the Pearls signed off on it.

thank you jared for these new pics. it is great to see them always TOGETHER , its amazing with their ackward life style they can live and want to live an oridinary family life, i compliment then and that is mostly why i admire them so much. i will be seeing AMH this weekend .

Domino | 06/24/2007 at 12:09 pm
yes I did, she is like a typical Indian who is greedy of money and can be a cheat or a traitor
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You’re a disgusting racist.

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SO WHAT? IM ALSO AN INDIAN AND I DESPISE THAT NOMANI WOMAN!

OK, I WANT TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM SO EXCITED AFTER SEEING A MIGHTY HEART BUT I WON’T SO I DON’T ANNOY….OK HERE GOES:

A Mighty Heart was heart wrenching and a perfet piece of filmmaking.

ANGELINA JOLIE WILL BE NOMINATED AND MAY WIN AN OSCAR FOR THIS.

This was Angie’s BEST performance. It was unbelievable. I have never seen her so raw and effortless. Actually I have not seen this level of acting in Hollywood in a couple of years where the actor is so comfortable and not making some HUGE effort to ACT. This seemed so natural for her - so unforced.

It was out of tis world!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am telling you: GO SEE THIS FILM. You will be amazed.

I also realize why Angelina Jolie is my favorite actress. I saw a 9:30pm show last night in Los Angeles and the theater was full of interesting, racially diverse, clearly educated and worldly people. The fans she attracts and the viewers she attracts are so sophisticated adn interesting.

Whereas you go to a certain unnamed former sitcom actress’ “films” and you see you know K-MArt shoppers on their break from a Baskin Robbins run. Not that I have ever seen that former sitcom actresses’ films but I have seen te 10 women who buy her movie tickets and they are kind of appalling.

Angie’s fans and viewer base is so racially diverse They were Asians, Blacks, WHites, Gay people, all ages, well dressed, punkers, artists etc at her film. She attracts and eclectic and exciting crowd - a true symbol of what American is becoming - that is her fan base.

I also felt goo knowing that the $12.75 (yes it coest that much in LA) I spent on her films is actually supportin gDarfur and other organizations. I know this may seem farfetched but it is true. So good to go to an actor’s film and know that the money you spend on them will be respent on good causes.

Again, this performance has to be seen to be believed. I am in awe. I did not think Angie could go there so completely and she does. How does she do it? Where does this inner life come from? how does she KNOW how to act this way? I am amazed, touched, awed and completely floored.

The best performance I have seen this entire year.

My ranting is over. Go see the film adn go see it for Dannie Pearl. Dannie seems like an incredible good non-judgmental man. Thank GOd Brad made this film.

138 AMH BOMBED | 06/24/2007 at 12:07 pm

Poor loonies, variety will call it a bomb then maybe you’ll have a reality check.
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I am more convinced than ever that Jen’s hens are not educated. VARIETY will never say a film bombed on its first weekend of showing.

148 Team Lara Croft

WELL SAID! Thank you!

There were many diverse people at my viwewing as well. But to my surprise was all the seniors who attended. I did not go during the day, I saw it Friday night. Angelina has a senior fanbase too? Who knew?

Children just love Angelina. I looked at that picture of her saying hi to the baby. Remember the baby in MMS? that smile he gave to Angelina was sooo cute. In the film AMH, the baby wanted a kiss from Angelina not just a wave goodbye, LOL!!!

AMH is small movie; if not for Angie I wasn’t to see it, even though I love it. I think Angie deserves an Oscar for her role.

Haters, this movie is going to be around for the next seven months or more making its way around the world and making big bucks. Repent and move on.

Friday $1,199,000 (estimate)
Saturday $1,632,000 (estimate)
Sunday $1,175,000 (projected est)

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total: $4,006,000

source: boxofficemojo

SAM AND AMH WILL BOMB ARE YOU STILL THERE????ARE YOU STILL ALIVE???????? DO YOU WANT ME TO CALL 911?????? HELP, HELP THERE ARE 2 IDIOTS WHO JUST COMMITTED SUICIDE HERE….. PLS.HELP…. SAM AND AMH WILL BOMB ARE YOU BOTH OK. I NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN PERFORM CPR STAT………… HU.HU.HU.HU.HU.HU. THEY BOTH DEAD NOW……

When I watched the movie last month, I was relieved that I wasn’t a servant girl, as I felt an early script had it. So I wrote to a producer, “Thumbs up okay on my end.” But I wasn’t being true to myself. I was reacting to the power and seduction of Hollywood.

fromthe Normani article
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I find this excerpt to be very telling in the Normani article. SHE GAVE THE THUMBS UP so what is she complaining about now?

Was she not thinking of Danny all along when she gave the thumbs up?

How convenient that she NOW is fighting for the image of Dannie Pearl AFTER the fact.

WHy not BEFORE THE MOVIE when they surely gave her some reward I would think for using her image?

Seduced by Hollywood and that bagel lunch with Brad Pitt - she clearly had no issues with Dannie’s image then so why whine now?????????

Also does she not get that this is what happens to any story told on film. The victim in a way becomes bigger than life and becomes a “star in a sense”. it is a weird tradeoff but why can’t she see the good in it?

Now Dannie will be forever rememberred because this film will exist forever.

Many journalists go missing but this one has a film that can potentially reach millions - what a gift to Danny.

The same can be said for Schindler’s List, Roots, Erin Brokovitch, rape stories, or any movies focusing on real life people. Once it goes on screen, the person enters a weird realm of publicity and fame. So what is the alternativ? Should all films about real life heroes be documentaries? NO! Some should be narratives and this is what happens in the narrative of a real life person. You can NEVER capture them perfectly - a special one who has died.

But that is the challenge. I find it weak of Normani to complain now. She played the game. She handed over her image. She engaged and NOW she is complaining. She is a smart woman - a Professor, a Journalist - it should not of taken seeing the DVD to know that once you portray a real life hero in a Hollywood film that hero’s family and image will be part of the red carpet thing. She should have known that.

Look at United 93: widows and widowers and children of people who died on that flight were at the Tribeca FIlm Festival premiere walking the red carpet with Robert Deniro and other famous people.

Does that minimize 911? No. It doesn’t change the reality of their pain - it just comes with the territory. Once you hand over your image to Hollywood then the cameras and red carpets follow.

Is Normani upset that she was reduced to Dannie’s “Assistant” (which I did not think she was)? DId she want a leading role? Did she want to be the star? Is THAT the problem?

The great trade-off in handing a real life person’s image to Hollywood (like United 93) is that the victims’ names will be forever remembered all around the world. I can’t think of a better celebration of Dannie Pearl’s life than that. Thank God he has tis film otherwise he’d be just another beheaded journalist.

May he rest in peace.

This is hilarious. I know I shouldn’t tease them, but I posted a comment on FF about hoping that Maniston and her new boyf get married and have a baby, and they got a bit overexcited. “I hope she has twins!!”, “I hope she names them after Brad and Angie’s characters in MMS!!” Read it, it’s pretty funny.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/board/about144743-15.html

There is a new video on splash.
Brad and Angie (although its not clear.

Caption reads: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are seen arriving at Prague airport on a private jet. The video shows Jolie and Pitt thanking the air hostess in the door of the plane before they take the steps down to their waiting car. It also shows G.V.s of the jet moving along the runway to the terminal.

lizzie most B & A fans would rather not visit filthy females first.

163 Team Lara Croft
Wow!!! Great post. Your post clearly shows your understanding of the movie and how you were affected by. Great read.

Great interview, love you angie

with a movie like this one, its not so much the total amount it makes per day over opening weekend, it’s the per theater average. yes, it opened on 1000+ screens (less than half the # of screens as the blockbusters), but how did it do per theater as compared to the blockbusters? so far its been pretty weak. something like $800+. in the past there have been any number of small indie films that have opened on 5,6 or 10 screens initially whose per theater avergae blew away that of the larger, more commercial films. that’s the number that the studio was hoping to be high and its not. this movie was heavily marketed. there were tv spots on every channel i watch and repeatedly too. have you noticed? the movie itself may have been only 16 million to make but the marketing of it may have been equal to that or more, prolly between 15-20 million. she was everywhere. so they need to recoup the film and the marketing budget for it not to be considered a total financial disappointment.

angelina has her good notices and she might even get an oscar nod, but its brad that i feel bad for. people will recognize that this is a quality film but money is equally important in this business and it needed to do better in its opening weekend because now what you will get is a bunch of articles about how the public is sick to death of BRANGELINA and they showed it by shunning the film.

152 Missouri Fan | 06/24/2007 at 12:25 pm

148 Team Lara Croft

WELL SAID! Thank you!

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You’re welcome :) Loved the film…..truly loved it.

Thanks, Jared. I always check your site first when on the web.

The info re the hotel was printed in Spanish newspapers so it is commom knowledge. The hotel where they stayed was also designed by FGehry. That museum is just beautiful, and it made world news when it was opened. They went to a Gehry project in Panama also at Christmas time. So happy for them to visit Spain. I have been there twice and it is just beautiful and very romantic. Hope to return next year.

So little Ms. Shiloh is a “little honey” somewhat like her momma. Watched the MSN video and Angelina is so lovingly proud when describing her youngest child.

171 bdj | 06/24/2007 at 12:49 pm

163 Team Lara Croft
Wow!!! Great post. Your post clearly shows your understanding of the movie and how you were affected by. Great read.

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Thanks hon!

Can’t wait for angie and eastwood to start the changeling after wanted, it’s great she doesn’t have to wait 2 1/2 yrs to do a movie,she’s continually in demand.

177 sam | 06/24/2007 at 12:55 pm

yeah right i hope you get bomb by the terrorist bwahahahahhaha

ny goodness it’s only shown what only 3 days? wait till it close then come back …in the meantime go suck some lemon.

this Normani woman is doing dammage for herself ; it’s odd timing to complain , it’s disrespectful and she looks like a jealous and bitter woman among all the messages of peace;

she doesn’t deserve an answer , she wd be so glad to have her name in the news and in a battle , maybe she’s selling a book in the trail ;

it’s suspicious that she’s always bringing the X factor in the process ;

let her go and mixe her 15mn fame , she will be not remembered , for sure ;

Daniel Pearl will be , and so will be Mariane;

I wish we will not post her articles again, she’s not worth it , we are given her space for her bitterness and most of all it is a diservice for the message of the movie;

Sorry , i’m not english spoken ;

Evan bombed and variety didn’t even mention AHM lol

‘Evan’ on top, but ‘1408′ surprises
Stephen King thriller checks in at No. 2
By IAN MOHRUniversal’s “Evan Almighty” took in $32.1 million and the No. 1 spot over the weekend.
But it was MGM and the Weinstein Co.’s Stephen King’s horror adaptation “1408,” which landed at No. 2 with $20.1 million, that was the real surprise.

Starring John Cusack, “1408″ was the biggest ever opening for a pic based on a King book.

Fox’s Marvel sequel “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” slipped 65% in biz, raising cume after two frames to $97.6 million, and landing at No. 3.

Warner Bros.’ “Ocean’s Thirteen” dropped another 42% to take cume up to $91 million after three weekends in release.

Michael Moore’s “Sicko” from TWC hit $70,000 at one theater in Gotham. Pic also sold out all its Saturday sneaks in 43 markets. Pic opened a week early in New York after its preem there last week.

177 sam | 06/24/2007 at 12:55 pm

Well Hello!

First I estimated that AMH should make 13 million with Angelina being A list and all the publicity! I mean she did what 5 magaines or more, tv program after tv program about herself and her family. No one watched of course but still lots of publicity. If you note all of the publicity was about herself, her family, and marianne.
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PEA BRAIN: This movie can’t be entirely about Danny - he is DEAD and is not here to give us that kind of foray into who he is.

THis movie is about so much more:

THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT DIVISION AND HOW TO CONQUER IT

This movie is about maintaining lack of judgment at the most crucial time.

This movie is about people of all colors and faiths coming together to fight for one thing : one man.

Publicity around Angelina is crucial in getting people to talk about the film. If all the publicity revolved around Dannie - sadly, there would not be as much buzz. Moviegoers are THAT stupid sometimes.

You have to give them hype to get them in. My friends who work in Development and Publicity understand this.

ANd once you get them in, then they can see what the movie is really about.

MOst viewers want to talk about Paris Hilton in jail NOT Danny Pearl’s beheading so you have to find ways to conquer that thus the focus on Brad and Angie during the publicity tour.

Again, what part of “this is a small indie film that is not meant to make tons of money” do you not understand?

Angie on Larry King said she did not care if the movie made any money.

Again, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are first rate successful actors. Brad Pitt is one of the most successful Producers in Hollywood.

If he wanted to make a big megahit for the summer - he would not have made this film.

His fame and success afford him the luxury of making small films like this that don’t make as much money. He has that luxury.

It is a sad reality that most people in America would go see Jessica Alba’s butt in Fantastic Four before they go see a film such as this ( a film which is crucial in what will become of our world and we go deeper into war).

But that is the reality. The movie is doing incredibly well for its budget and subject matter. Angie and Brad are triumphant once again and Danny’s image is forever engraved for generations to come.

THAT is worth millions!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

As I said yesterday, haters ‘projected’ that AMH should make a gagillion dollars in order for it not to be a flop in their minds.

No wonder they aren’t put in charge of anything beyond bottle/can returns.

So please fans, stop operating on their level; the success of a film shouldn’t rest solely on its numbers. And if this fixation is based on the nastiness that people been saying about these two for the last two years, specifically, that ‘their careers would be over because of what they did to ___,’ please release yourself from that projection.

Hello bunchies of loonies - long time no see.

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90 serouisly!!! | 06/24/2007 at 11:14 am
Regarding the Nomani article:

Not sure about that!!!

You think this movie will teach the young generation!!

Look at the AJ & BP threads to familiarize yourself with the topic of discussion.

The audience that this movie reaches is the fanatics of AJ & BP, not necessarily the one that is concerned with world affairs, world poverty and so forth.

People will remember the movie for the drama surrounding their life. 5 years from now, if not less, the life of Daniel Pearl and how he died will be forgotten.

Hats off to Ms. Nomani for giving us a little insight into the type of man he was.

Luckily some of us are not blinded by the do gooders to realize what their real intention is.

The tragic life of man who devoted his life in the pursuit of the truth has been reduced to showbusiness!!!

Yes, indeed this movie is a mighty shame!!!!
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Could not have said it better!

JA’S RUMOR HAS IT = 2,815 THEATRES $3,473,155 AJ’S A MIGHTY HEART=1,355 THEATRES $4,006,000 NOW WHO IS THE BOX OFFICE POISON? SAM ARE U STILL GASPING, PLS, ANSWER THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

good one cookie-lol

First I estimated that AMH should make 13 million with Angelina being A list and all the publicity! I mean she did what 5 magaines or more, tv program after tv program about herself and her family. No one watched of course but still lots of publicity. If you note all of the publicity was about herself, her family, and marianne. Hardly any of it was about Danny. Perhaps that is why people don’t want to watch. This movie should have been about Danny and the dangerous lives of reporters who work to bring America accurate news, but it was not. It was about Marianne. And really who cares about her! If the story had really been about Danny maybe more people would have gone out to watch. Marianne sold her husband out. If you are all honest AMH is BOMBING! It will come in below all the estimates that were given.
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How in the heck did you estimate 13 million? jolie has a terrible box office track.

I estimate 4.8 the avg per theater is horrible. Paramount should have released it only in 100 theaters.

Sicko will do great.

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Sam you waited a little longer before responding to yourself. Good job this time.

Oh btw Angelina has talent so she will always have movie offers coming her way. So you can track her movies for the next decade and beyond.

JA’S RUMOR HAS IT = 2,815 THEATRES $3,473,155 AJ’S A MIGHTY HEART=1,355 THEATRES $4,006,000 NOW WHO IS THE BOX OFFICE POISON? SAM ARE U STILL GASPING, PLS, ANSWER THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t care about JA, she not even a A-List.

In my opinon, the problem with the book/movie is that it is centered around Mariane and not Daniel Pearl. I sympathize with Mariane Pearl and I can’t imagine the pain she suffered; it’s a story that NEEDS to be told. With that said, I think as the first film or story surrounding Daniel Pearl, AMH fails to give it’s audience much information about Daniel. I myself feel like I don’t know much about Daniel Pearl and it’s a shame. Perhaps if the movie came out after another film that featured the actual life of Daniel Pearl, it would be more satisfying.

Just my thoughts - so don’t hate people.

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Yep I heard it. God only knows how long he was out there waiting for them to arrive.

As for hater sam :roll:

202 lurker
There is only so much, “she looks good, her hair looks great, she has the best hair, I like her casual style, she looks so natural with all the plastic surgery” that sam and her ilk can take. That is why they are constantly on AJ’s thread. Okay, my bad!!!!

I love brad and Angie they are unique in there own way. They look like they are having a good time in spain.

Why is everything JA versus AJ? It seems so childish. The failure of AMH to meets studio targets have nothing to do with JA or her failed movies.

45 LUCY! | 06/24/2007 at 10:15 am

As much as I enjoy seeing photo’s of this couple (& thier kids) … I feel so sorry for them. They can’t even get away for some much needed persoanl down time without being photographed.
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Don’t feel sorry for them. They knew what they signed up for when they got into the business.

If you don’t want the attention, go into plumbing, not show business.

Why is everything JA versus AJ? It seems so childish. The failure of AMH to meets studio targets have nothing to do with JA or her failed movies.
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Angelina’s movies always sucked at B.O, at least this one got good reviews. The last 3-4 years angelina has got terrible reviews.

It’s official AMH, to you.

Why do you need it to suck so bad? This is crazy.

You said yourself you know nothing about Daniel Pearl and his story. His own parents supported the movie, that’s a pretty big endorsement.

It’s a shame that there are some so caught up in the triangle they can’t see past it.

Can you PLEASE post the links for the ESTIMATES of…..
-Coming Soon
-Box Office Prophet
-Box Office Guru
-Entertainment Weekly

for the A MIGHTY HEART Box Offices estimas??????

If you don’t have anything to hide or you are NOT lying about this estimates… PROVE IT and post the links????????

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Deadline Hollywood Daily:
“Another movie opening was Paramount Vantage’s A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie in the story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s terrorist murder. It finished in 10th place this weekend with only $4 mil from 1,355 playdates. But the real gauge here is its per screen average, which was extremely low, indicating weak interest in this well-reviewed pic despite a ton of publicity featuring tabloid-favorite Jolie. I believe releasing it this blockbuster-crowded summer, even as counter-programming, was a dumb move. September would have been a better time.”

1. Evan Almighty $11.4M Fri, $11.4M Sat, and est $9.5M Sun. (cume $32.1M)
2. Silver Surfer $6.2M Fri, $7.9M Sat, and est $6.4M Sun. ($97.9M)
3. 1408 $7.6M Fri, $7.4M Sat, and est $5.3M Sun. ($20.3M)
4. Ocean’s Thirteen $3.5M Fri, $4.6M Sat, and est $3.4M Sun. ($91.1M)
5. Knocked Up $3.3M Fri, $4.3M Sat, and est $3M Sun. ($108.9M)
6. Pirates 3 $2.1M Fri, $2.9M Sat, and est $2.2M Sun. ($287.1M)
7. Surf’s Up $2.1M Fri, $2.5M Sat, and est $2.1M Sun. ($47.3M)
8. Shrek The Third $1.7M Fri, $2.2M Sat, and est $1.9M Sun. ($307.9M)
9. Nancy Drew $1.5K Fri, $1.6M Sat, and est $1.2K Sun. ($16.1M)
10. A Mighty Heart $1.1M Fri, $1.6M Sat, and est $1.1M Sun. ($4M)

AJ makes the kind of movies that she is interested in. She feels passionate about the script, the director or the story. It is not always about the big box office. As stated before, AMH is a smart indie pictures. Those who want to see it will see it. All this back and forth about box office is silly. It is a very good movie period. There is a whole wide world out there and AJ fan base is international. Those who want to continue to compare it to that cinematic classic, “The Breakup” can continue to do so. However, they are missing out on seeing a great film with the role of a lifetime.

Domino | 06/24/2007 at 12:01 pm
REGARDING THAT MS NOMANI, I BELIEVE SHE WAS PAID TO WRITE HER ENGATIVE COMMENT ON AMH, PERHAPS BY FOX PEOPLE LIKE THAT FRIEDMAN GUY WHO HATES ANGIE. THERE IS JUST SOEMTHING MALICIOUS IN WHAT SHE WROTE, BRINGING ANISTON IN THE PICTURE, ITS CLEAR, IT WAS MEANT TO DESTROY ANGELINA
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You’re so stupid. Read the article again, you moron.

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yes I did, she is like a typical Indian who is greedy of money and can be a cheat or a traitor!

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wow!!!

AJ’s humanatarian activities has really made you a better person.

You are a true fanatic!!!

Boy, she really reaches out to people

Deadline Hollywood Daily:
“Another movie opening was Paramount Vantage’s A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie in the story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s terrorist murder. It finished in 10th place this weekend with only $4 mil from 1,355 playdates. But the real gauge here is its per screen average, which was extremely low, indicating weak interest in this well-reviewed pic despite a ton of publicity featuring tabloid-favorite Jolie. I believe releasing it this blockbuster-crowded summer, even as counter-programming, was a dumb move. September would have been a better time.”

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ITA, the people at Paramount are morons.

No matter what the haters say, an opening of 4 million is really decent for a film of this genre. Coupled with the critical acclaim it has and continues to receive I’m sure the studio and everyone involved are NOT crying in their cereal this morning. AJ is still being offered solid roles from a professional perspective (The Changeling, anyone?) so the whole box office ‘poison’ comment doesn’t really hold water. If that were REALLY the case, she wouldn’t be working.

Whether you like AJ or not the reality is one of the reasons this film made as much main stream noise from a publicity standpoint is because she was in it. If it had been a different actress, it may have fallen through the cracks and that’s unfortunate because this is an important film for a lot of different reasons.

Deadline Hollywood Daily:
“Another movie opening was Paramount Vantage’s A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie in the story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s terrorist murder. It finished in 10th place this weekend with only $4 mil from 1,355 playdates. But the real gauge here is its per screen average, which was extremely low, indicating weak interest in this well-reviewed pic despite a ton of publicity featuring tabloid-favorite Jolie. I believe releasing it this blockbuster-crowded summer, even as counter-programming, was a dumb move. September would have been a better time.”

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This movies was perfect for a fall release, now Paramount ruined any chances angelina had of being nominated at the oscars.

4m not bad at all ,if not for Angie AHM could make at least 1m.Angie did a great job on her role.

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Where is the link for your article of Hollywood Daily????

Post the link to prove that you are telling the true!!

geez we’re still talking about box office bombs? it’s been what, only 2 days and some change. How long is it going to take for you detractors to understand that the movie isnt set to be the #1 appealing movie for all viewers. Geez go ahead and watch fantastic four or something!

211 bdj | 06/24/2007 at 1:20 pm
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Evan Almighty, the most expensive comedy ever made, got off to an inauspicious start this weekend, coming in as the lowest opening weekend earner from the slew of sequels we have seen so far this summer. Angelina Jolie’s A Mighty Heart also got off to a tough start; however, a film about the death of Daniel Pearl isn’t exactly summer blockbuster fare. There was even more bad news in the Fox camp, as the Fantastic Four sequel fell off its surfboard this weekend, losing a tremendous amount of its opening weekend business. The good news came from a studio that doesn’t often get good news in MGM, as 1408 got off to a better-than-expected start.

The number one film is Evan Almighty, the follow up to Bruce Almighty, the 2003 juggernaut that opened to $68 million and earned $242 million domestically. Evan Almighty is like the brother of the quarterback that just isn’t as bright or smart as its sibling. Evan Almighty debuted at 3,602 venues this weekend (about 150 more than its brother) and grossed a slower-than-expected $32.1 million. That gives this very expensive Universal product a venue average of $8,910, an opening weekend that just isn’t good enough in these days of turn’em and burn’em summer movies. Universal put as much as $200 million (I’m more apt to believe IMDb’s $175 million figure) into Evan Almighty, putting a lot of pressure on the back of Steve Carell, star of The 40 Year-Old Virgin, which wasn’t exactly family comedy. Carell is unproven in the all-ages comedy realm, except stretching to look at the small role he had in the original Almighty film. Universal was said to be courting the religious viewer for this one, and I would say they failed in their efforts. Kudos to BOP’s Reagen Sulewski, who pretty much nailed Evan Almighty’s opening weekend in his weekend forecast column earlier this week. In fact, Reagen estimated an opening of $35.6 million.

Finally in tenth we have A Mighty Heart, the Angelina Jolie film about the late Daniel Pearl and his wife, Mariane. Audiences weren’t inclined to see such serious content on a summer weekend, and A Mighty Heart had to settle for a debut weekend of $4 million, albeit from only 1,355 venues. It had a theatre average of $2,956. From Paramount Vantage, this one cost only $16 million to make, but will have a tough time earning that back domestically.

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=10103&cmin=10&columnpage=3

What did Babel make it’s first weekend?

Steve Carell proved not nearly as all-powerful as Jim Carrey.

“Evan Almighty,” with Carell taking over for Carrey in a followup to the comedy smash “Bruce Almighty,” debuted a solid No. 1 with $32.1 million, though that was less than half the $68 million opening of its predecessor, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Released by Universal, “Evan Almighty” has Carell as a new congressman instructed by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark for a coming flood.

Carrey’s “Bruce Almighty” was an adult comedy, while the PG-rated “Evan Almighty” was aimed at a family crowd, which could give it longer shelf life, said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution at Universal.

“Family films have an incredible ability to just play and play,” Rocco said. “I’m very optimistic about it playing out over the course of the summer.”

The Stephen King adaptation “1408,” a Weinstein Co. horror tale with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the story of a man trapped in a hotel room with malevolent spirits, debuted in second place with $20.175 million.

Paramount Vantage’s “A Mighty Heart,” starring Angelina Jolie as the wife of kidnapped and slain journalist Daniel Pearl, had a so-so debut, coming in at No. 10 with $4 million.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/24/entertainment/e101900D51.DTL

Awww they’re already back to their peeps!
It’s sooo nice to see Angie supporting Brad’s love for architecture and managing to have time for them in between.
L-O-V-E

Paramount can re-release the movie at the end of the year. Many studios do that if their movies have a chance for Oscar.

I think the studio was right in releasing the film now instead of the fall. Last fall, there were too many good indie movies out at the same time. I had to see them back to back to back, I didn’t like it one bit. Not enough time to ponder on each one of them. It’s just the nature of the movie that makes it not do well at the BO.

Still at it about AMH boxoffice in the US,pity!The money for this movie will be made overseas this fall!To sit here and argue with haters is a waste of time.To all those who worry that Angelina won’t get a oscar nod due to the June release,don’t worry.One thing about Angelina she is NEVER forgotten,lol.Look how she has the haters strung out almost 3 years later!:lol:This movie is getting excellent reviews we should be celebrating that!

Calm down. Calm down. It is really all OK. I understand your anger that this film is BOMBING! But don’t take it out on the messenger. I just give you the information and you attack me. I understand so I don’t take it personally! You guys are hurting its OK! Let it all out and then you will feel better.

Now what I think would be great therapy if you guys at least admited that TGS BOMBED. So big that it lost millions and milions of dollars. Once we get that straight then maybe we can move on and work on more therapy. So ask yourself this question. Did TGS bomb? (All the numbers are in by the way. If you cannot answer yes then you know that you need help! See someone to help you with your denial!!

I also don’t change my name it is just sam. I know that you guys do as there are only a few posters here maybe like 20, 21 counting me. So I know that you change your names to make it look like more people post. I don’t need to do that though. I really don’t care how many posts there are.

I also did not change my guess. 13 million has always been my guess. That is 10,000 per screen. I don’t understand why a BIG A list star, loved the worlwide, has millions and millions of adoring fans cannot make more money when her movies come out. This is embarassing for you guys!!!!!!

I also realize that a loony is posting under my name and bringing up JA. So sad that you have to do this. REmember JA is not a fan of mine. I know you guys are obessed with her. But this is really sad. If you want to compare her to AJ that is fine. Let’s do that.

First remember that the actual box office numbers the movie only gets about 1/2 of that back. (I know that this is difficult for you guys but follow me). So if a theatre charges a movie so much money to show it and the movie theatre is packed then the movie gets more money. If the movie theatre is empty the movie makes very little money as they still have to pay the same fee for showing the movie. So for example if a theatre charges lets say 2,000 per screen for a weekend and the movie makes 10,000 then lots of money for the movie. However if a movie only makes 2,900 per screen then only 900 for the movie. Generally though about half of the money goes back to the movie in some cases with low numbers in the seats less than that. (This would be the case with AMH). Also if have a smaller amount of screen the movie should make more per screen. So if AMH opened at 2,000 screens it would make more money but less in per screen money. Understand? So for a movie to break even it must make at least 2X it’s budget. If it does very very well and makes money it generally makes 4X its budget. So here we go

JA MOVIES:

TBU - budget: 52 million
Worldwide: 204.9
A hit 4X it’s budget.

FRIENDS WITH MONEY- budget: 6.5
Worldwide: 18
Moderate 3X it’s budget

DERAILED: budget: 22
Wordlwide: 57
Moderate 2.5 times it’s budget

ALONG CAME POLLY: bduget: 42
Worldwide: 171
A hit over 4X it’s budget.

Could not do RHI as no budget at box office mojo

AJ movies

TGS - budget: 90 to 110 million
Worldwide: 92 million
Loss did not even make it’s budget

Alexander: budget 155 million
Worldwide: 167
Loss did not make budget as 1/2 of the 167 goes to the movie. This movie lost millions

Sky Captain; budget:70 million
Worldwide: 57 million
Loss did not make it’s budget

Her only recent movie that has made money is with Brad and Brad was the one who made the money in that movie.

So I know that this is hard to admit but if JA movies are bombs and haven’t lost money what are AJ? WEll they are huge BOMBS. AMH is also one of these. SO sad.

Why I saty here is to help you guys. You are coping with huge problems and some OCD here. Also living in a altered reality believing that ANgie’s films do well. So you need some help. I really don’t care if you post under my name if it helps you. That’s OK. I also don’t mind her personal attacks because I realize that you are struggling. But I think that life would be so much better for you if you came out and admitted that this weekend has been hard for you and that you are struggling with accepting that this movie is bombing. With all their power, and beauty, and fans, and loving home well the movie is BOMBING! I really love it because you guys are so rude about everyone else, Oprah, Tom and Katie, etc. You make rude comments all the time. It is really good to see you struggling. But I also want you to get help. It is OK but brace yourselves because Brad has another movie to BOMB in September. Maybe if he gives even more interviews, or if he talks more about their home life, or if he looks really good, maybe more people will go to see it. THink SO?

If people can talk about Marion Cotillard’s performance of Edith Piaf in a foreign film, which has been out for over a month already, Angelina’s performance will not be overlooked. I see her getting a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit more than an Oscar though. That’s one award she doesn’t have is the Spirit award. But she’s been though the who awards thing already years ago. She got just about every acting award you can get.

Anyway this film was a labor of love for Brad & Angelina. It came our very well. Remember all the chaos while they were in India shooting this film? And yet Angelina pulls off a controlled stellar performance. That’s what I call focus.

I love that they went to Spain. I’m about to go on my summer travels and I can’t wait.

Later.

Hey let´s keep this thread positive…
It´s so wonderful that they went to Spain, beatiful country. Are they coming back to Prague today?…
For those who keep on saying that AMH is a bomb, you are so boring…please wait for the movie to open in the rest of the world…

246 Go to hell Brad

sorry to dissiapont but there is no such thing as bad news for Brad, He has everyhting He alway’s wanted, a Beautiful Family. He loves and loves him back.

Perhaps You should evaluate why someone else’s seeming misfortune makes you happy.

i know now AMH WILL BOMB changed to AMH REALLY SUCKS! why are you scared to use the same username?

Toronto Star: “dignified performance…

SUNDAY AM: Hollywood’s most expensive comedy ever needed divine intervention and didn’t get it at the box office this weekend as Universal’s Evan Almighty debuted to a disappointing $32.1 million. That’s well below the $50 mil which box office gurus initially expected and the studio’s own lowered expectations of 40+ mil. The PG faith-based pic made less than half the $68 million that the original PG-13 Bruce Almighty took in its opening weekend at the box office. Neither Saturday night nor Friday date night boosted weak matinees for Universal’s terribly reviewed family-targeted Noah’s Ark retelling which did $11.4 million on Friday and $11.4 million on Saturday and a projected $9.5 mil Sunday from 3,602 theaters. The Tom Shadyac-directed pic won’t get to $100 mil domestic this summer despite its runaway cost of $210 mil.

Another movie opening was Paramount Vantage’s A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie in the story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s terrorist murder. It finished in 10th place this weekend with only $4 mil from 1,355 playdates. But the real gauge here is its per screen average, which was extremely low, indicating weak interest in this well-reviewed pic despite a ton of publicity featuring tabloid-favorite Jolie. I believe releasing it this blockbuster-crowded summer, even as counter-programming, was a dumb move. September would have been a better time
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

TGS —-BOMBED

AMH—–BOMBED

Hey, Sam “the COWARD” So why are you AFRAID to give me the f*cking links that i been asking you???

I mean; if you don’t have anything to hide or you are NOT lying about this estimates… GIVE ME the f*cking links, Okey???

no matter what the BO says i’m really proud of Angelina in this film. she was great in it. it’s a well reviewed movie. it’s only the first week but i think people will pass word about it and more will see it.

Better luck with yor next movie dear!

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Sam, Runor Has it has a budget of $85 million. The budget was removed from boxoffice mojo and imdb.

Actually, it was a major BOMB.

Well Hello!

First I estimated that AMH should make 13 million with Angelina being A list and all the publicity! I mean she did what 5 magaines or more, tv program after tv program about herself and her family. No one watched of course but still lots of publicity. If you note all of the publicity was about herself, her family, and marianne. Hardly any of it was about Danny. Perhaps that is why people don’t want to watch. This movie should have been about Danny and the dangerous lives of reporters who work to bring America accurate news, but it was not. It was about Marianne. And really who cares about her! If the story had really been about Danny maybe more people would have gone out to watch. Marianne sold her husband out. If you are all honest AMH is BOMBING! It will come in below all the estimates that were given.

ESTIMATES
Coming Soon 6.5
Box Office Prophets 6.4
Box Office Guru 7
Entertainment Weekly 5

Even the comments are that it is doing poorly. You can make up all the excuses you want but the reality is that this movie is not doing well. It will not be going wider. In fact this will be its best weekend. Huge releases coming up in the next few weeks. Actually I think that it will struggle to make money. With theatres that are only about 1/4 full more than 1/2 of the money goes to the theatres because the movie pays so much per theatre. If the theatre is full than more money for the movie but if empty more money for the theaters. In this case lots of money for the theaters not much for AMH. So a weekend of 4 million is only 2 million or less. A movie has to make at least 2X its budget to make money and a huge success movie will make 4X its budget like Mr and Mrs Smith. This movie is doing very very very poorly. It needs to make at least about 35 million to break even and it looks like it doesn’t stand much of a chance of this. Be honest the rest of the world will not buy into this as does China really care about Danny Pearl. They care about Angelina if she is playing some sexy thing but not her in this role. She is very type cast and when she plays other types of people her movies do not do well.

Get moving YOu guys did not see TGS enough. It BOMBED. Now AMH is BOMBING. Take your friends, spend your life savings, do whatever you have to to make this movie do well for this beautiful, giving, couple. They need you fans. So sad

Angie is really box office posion. Her movies just cannot do well (unless of course Brad is in the movie with her).

Perhaps your families hsould put you guys on suicide watch. This has been a very disappointing weekend. As a “hater” this weekend has been great for me.

Marianne and Angie really promoted themselves but forgot about the person the movie was about. Wonder what he would think of how this all went down?

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Well said!!!

262 It’s official AMH sucks | 06/24/2007 at 1:49 pm
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You obviously don’t understand how things work in the movie business or in any business. Every project in Hollywood is about making money. The studios are in the business of making films- they are not charitable or altruistic organizations. Therefore, to measure each film, studios create estimates to gauge a film’s progress.

Many of us here are in the business. The film has not opened up everywhere. The American market sucks. That’s why you don’t only count domestic sales, the rest of the world counts more than US these days. It’s 60% of the box office.

ITA with those who don’t get your reason for being here. We like Brad & Angelina. Why is that a problem for the likes of you?

Later (for real).

SAM YOU ARE A LIAR.MR AND MRS SMITH IS NOT THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL FILM FOR ANGELINA.BRAD IS NOT GOING BACK TO JEN.

Which part do most of you haters dont understand?! This movie was made to tell a story! Its not about how much money they were going to make out of it. Do you think Brad and Angie care if it bomb or not. These people was willing to just throw it down the toilet if Marianne feels it was not going the direction she wanted during the making of the movie. Simply english to some–all that time and money spent already they were just going to take a lost by walking away from the project.

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Which story? the one of AJ & BP

“Perhaps some of the backlash is the inevitable consequence of how Jolia and Pitt have skillfully exploited the intense media interest in their lives in return for publicity for charities and causes that they are interested in. But even that has started to backfire…”

“She is constantly compared with his ex, Jennifer Aniston”

Its only the haters who are to say it flopped for their own artificial happiness, like the National leger, the Jenhags at Female first and of course that stupid Perezhilton, who now has to kiss ass with Huvane, after his blogsite is being closed arising from complaints from Huvane and other publicists!!!
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No hon, perez hates angelina now because he realized she’s a fraud. X17 is the one who made his site close the other day not huvane.

I agree that there’s a season for everything; eggnog belongs in the winter; apple cidar, for the fall; swimsuits for the summer; but a season for well-made, thought-provoking movies? Sorry, but there should be a demand for that for any and all seasons.

And please, fans, don’t let these haters get your goat. Clearly, Brad and Angelina aren’t letting these armchair quarterbacks ruin their weekend, so don’t let them ruin yours.

And personally, I think that they’re sore that their last week tizzies didn’t, psychicly (if that’s a word) reach these two. Clearly, Angelina hasn’t died from starvation or o.d’ed and Brad didn’t die by Angelina’s hand, although he was in prime position while snapping some pics. And he wasn’t afraid to let her take the wheel, despite her suspected impairments (heroin, as if or anger). We got an eye and earful of Zahara this week, who is an absolute doll. We saw that Pax was a very curious, perceptive little boy. We saw Maddox and last weekend, Angelina took a lunch with her baby girls and best friend, Holly. And let’s not forget Charlie Rose with Mariane Pearl and Anderson Cooper on the refugees.

Despite the constant attempts to create static, it’s been a good week.

CORRECTION: sorry about my numbers. it made close to $3000 per theater not $800. but La Vie en Rose made over $6000 per theater.

Yikes!

274 egad | 06/24/2007 at 1:53 pm

how can you say that a studio doesnt care if the movie makes money? do you realize how dumb you sound? paramount vantage is a specialty division, set up for movies just like this and BABEL but its also a business. they need to recoup their investment like any other business. yes, this was a small movie and a somewhat limited release, not expected to do blockbuster numbers but the per screen avg could have been better and I was a little shocked at how weak it was. something like $800+ dollars per screen in over 1000+ screens is not good.

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AMH per screen average is $2956. That is not bad. It is #6 in per theater average.

Angelina is sinking fast!

the good sheperd is only release now in France and it’s got great reviews;

the worldwide tour is not yet finished

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Well well, I live in France, I know the good shepherd has not gotten good reviews, in France.

Please tell me which newspaper article, tv show that lead you to believe this. I am just curious!

its not just 16 million that they have to make back. its the marketing budget as well, which was probably 15-20 million. didnt you notice all of the tv spots and banner ads on this and other sites like the new york times? that ny junket where she did interviews with “almost” everyone, costs the studio money. they have a lot of money to recoup. this was not a promising start. and more importantly than the total amount, its the per screen theater average that the studio looks to, to determine how wide they roll it out and whether they continue to hype it with the same gusto. it should have done better and i feel bad for brad. angelina has her good notices and probably an oscar nod but brad needed this to do better than it did. now what we have to look forward to is a bunch of articles claiming how sick to death the public is of BRANGELINA because in spite of the massive push and her being EVERYWHERE, people still didnt go
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If this is bad news for Brad….I’m happy
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Whatever! What is your openion about bruce Almighty which really flop. Despite being number one currenty at the box office. Its production budget 200 mil .It is going to make only around 100 mil domostic.
I am actually happy about AMH. Movies like this classic are not excpected to make a lot of money. You said they are everywhere.They are like everybody who promote has a movie to promote.
Because of a lot people interest to know about them they are always in the news. That is not there fault. They actually wants to be left alone.

perez has a funny article on maniston on his thread today-he hates her with a passion, which is find by me

Why don’t you guys just ignore these hateful ignorant posters. Just skip over their posts.

Ange Not So Saint-Like At The Box Office

Despite a massive publicity push by star Angelina Jolie, her new film, A Might Heart, opened at a disappointing tenth place at the U.S. box office this past weekend.

Released on 1,355 screens the film took in only $3.8 million, but even more disturbing than the disappointing opening was the film’s per screen average, which was extremely low, indicating weak interest in the well-reviewed pic.

A Mighty Heart isn’t exactly popcorn summer material. Steve Carrell’s Evan Almighty is, though. However, that film opened to dissapointing numbers too.

At over $175 million, Evan was the most expensive comedy ever to be made, yet the film took in only $32.1 million this past weekend - that’s half of what the film’s predecessor, Bruce Almighty starring Jim Carrey, took in on its first weekend.

The John Cusack thriller 1408 - based on a Stephen King work- did very well, coming in at #3 with $20.3 million.

Ahaha, Sam is hilarious!!!
I believe him, AHM will bomb and AHM really sucks are the same person. Look at the way they post together and the times… so similar. At least, try to change your writing style. LOL.

Now about the good shepperd, AJ wasn’t the main lead. She was on for about 20 mins. And please stop comparing TBU with AMH. If you want, compare it with MMS and it did bombed compared to MMS.
People went to see TBU because of VV not because of Traniston. Maybe some went there because they pity his long chin and his big jaw after his break with BP, and not because of his talent but the majority went for the fantastic and hilarious Vince.

Still waiting for the movie release in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. And then we’ll talk ABOUT THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE.

This is soooo funny. Friday the same nuts were screaming the movie is a failure do to its first day numbers…but once it became clear that it would make over the 2 million dollar mark that these same nuts scream before the release, the story changed to it won’t do want the studio wanted/hoped for which was 4 to 6 million dollars…now that it’s clear that it made met that number, they are now pulling out per screen average. Is it me are these guys losing it? They follow Jolie more than I do and I consider myself a hardcore AJ fan.

To Sam…that whole little list was nice and all but let’s deal with reality and answer these questions: If Angelina’s career features so many “bombs” as you put it, why are big studios keep putting this woman in major movies? If her career is freefall, why is she still paid the big bucks to star in movies like ‘Wanted’ and work with greats like Clint Eastwood…mind you the studio wanted her to do the role!When is Jen’s next movie coming out? Why haven’t we heard anything from her in a while other than being with boyfriends and hanging out co star CA? Why are studios not knocking down her door like Angelina?

Plz answer these questions for I really want to know what you think. FYI to all the haters that are claiming some sort of ‘victory’ here. Any person who follows money that movies make know that almost all movies that make money..make the majority of it overseas and for AMH to take in 25% of it’s budget the first weekend in the U.S. speaks volumes of what it will do overseas.

Everyone please join me to say this…

RIP Sam & her other alias….

May you lived on in Box Office hell.

294 egad | 06/24/2007 at 2:00 pm

CORRECTION: sorry about my numbers. it made close to $3000 per theater not $800. but La Vie en Rose made over $6000 per theater.

Yikes!
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egad is really a moron. That $6000 is for 118 theaters. I am quite sure La Vie cannot expand to 500 or more theaters and get the same theater average.