Brad Pitt is in The House That Bono Built

Great article $$$. All the best for the Jolie-Pitt clan.

http://www.fashion.ie/aggregator/gossip/89718-angelina-jolie-s-impossible-baby-photos

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

OUCH, Bad news for Meet DAve, Flop. WANTED still going strong. and the little Panda crosses 200 million .

SATURDAY AM: Sources have just given me Friday’s very early North American numbers, including West Coast late shows (which were very strong tonight). Universal’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army opened to a feisty $13 million from 3,204 theaters with big support from African-American and Latino audiences. It’s well on its way to making what is expected to be $32M-$33M over the weekend. Obviously, the studio’s uber-marketing attempt to humanize the Guillermo del Toro pic’s bizarro collection of characters from the Dark Horse comic book worked nicely. That’s why Ron Perlman as Hellboy did promos on every NBC Uni media outlet imaginable. (Even on cable’s Oxygen channel with Bravo’s James Lipton interviewing him…) “We wanted to make him as audience friendly and accessible as possible,” one Uni exec explained to me. The fact that Hellboy II looks to make 50% more than the 2004 first movie’s $23.1M opening FSS is a real triumph for Universal Pictures, whose bosses Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Donna Langley swooped in and scooped up the sequel from Sony/Revolution Studios which did the original Hellboy I. (And the trio wanted it before del Toro’s Oscar-nominated Pan’s Labyrinth ever opened.) As one Uni exec exulted, “We took somebody’s reject pile and made it into a franchise for us.”

At No. 2, Sony Pictures’ holdover Hancock was down only -45% from its first place finish last Friday to earn $10.1M today from its 3,965 runs. It’ll have a $30M-$32M weekend and a $163M cume.

In 3rd place, New Line / Warner Bros’ Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D took the freeway to a $6.7 million debut Friday from just 2,811 venues for what should be only a $15M weekend but good enough for #3. “I think anytime dinosaurs exist in a movie, don’t bet against it,” one Hollywood marketing guru told me. (Talk about date-swapping: the Brendan Fraser starrer was supposed to debut in August when the actor’s other summer movie The Mummy 3 was slated for July. Then Universal moved The Mummy to August, so Warner Bros moved Journey forward to July. Got that?)

Pixar/Disney’s lonely droid Wall-E was No. 4 since it keeps going and going like the Energizer bunny, racking up another $5.5M Friday from 3,849 plays for what should be an $18M-$19M weekend and $163M cume.

And all the way back at No. 7 was 20th Century Fox’s Meet Dave which even the studio didn’t bother to hide was going to bomb big-time. The Eddie Murphy starrer opened to an embarrassing $1.7M Friday despite playing in 3,011 theaters for what is expected to be only a $5M-$6M weekend. It’s not like this is the first moronic movie Eddie has starred in — remember Norbit and Daddy Day Care which did big business? — but this was “an incredibly difficult one to market,” an insider explained to me. So was that other sci-fi Eddie pic, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, which tanked as well. The general concensus is that Meet Dave should have been aimed “at young kids from the get-go”. Or just never made.

http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1215840086268100.xml&coll=1&thispage=3
Entire article at link. Highlights below:
THIS MOLD HOUSE
SMART PLANNING WITHOUT A PLAN
Saturday, July 12, 2008Renee Peck
About this time of year, I start getting holiday press releases. Really — new scents for holiday candles or perfect stocking-stuffers, and we’re not talking Christmas in July, either.

But these days, with the anniversary of You Know What on the horizon, I’m thinking more about jack-o’-lanterns.

Absolutely, says Jett. Knowing where people are rebuilding can help residents and organizations determine where to put schools and community centers and fire stations. It can help businesses decide where to locate. It can help secure grant funds and conserve resources.

“You have to define a problem before you can fix it,” Jett said. “I can give data to people, but they have to decide how to use it, how to get the best effect from it. The question is how to turn that raw data into something to act on.”

And that, he says, means looking at the big picture. The jack-o’-lantern picture.

– In its late 2007 survey of the Lower 9th Ward, Jett’s team found that, as one would expect, Holy Cross (which sits on higher ground) is seeing the greatest amount of rebuilding — 56 percent of residents were rebuilding or back in one area of Holy Cross, 76 percent in another.

– Also as one would expect, “ground zero,” that area of the Lower 9th Ward next to the Industrial Canal, is seeing the most vacant land and the least amount of rebuilding: 42 percent of the area consists of empty lots, 14 percent blighted houses, 35 percent gutted or rebuilding and only 9 percent inhabited. This, however, is where there’s a lot of activity going on from groups such as Common Ground and Brad Pitt’s Make It Right.

I miss the section that tells you all the new posts to the right. However, Just Jared has to get those ads in. I click on a few just to see what they are advertising except US WEAKLY. I can’t get over that Twisted Double life BS(my problem, I know!!!). Oh well, I can always click back to main page. Thanks for a great web site Just Jared.

Alexanderina @ 07/12/2008 at 9:46 a
Eddie was the Man, once upon a time but he goes for the dollar much to often. He does have a bunch of kids, ex wife and issues to deal with. Maybe he should go back to being a standup comic. To get intouch with his comedic roots. JMO.

bdj @ 07/12/2008 at 9:57 am

So true bdj, I guess he have to make the money some how to provide for the ex-wife and kids and etc. You are right maybe he should go back to what made him famous before which is his comedic roots.

Have a good day bdj, I am off to the gym. TTYL

Happy Birthday and many blessings ON MY OWN.

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Happy Birthday On My Own. Enjoy your Birthday.
Very sad news the night before your BD or anytime but you did the best you could.. God Bless.

Jaye noticed your poen yesterday didnt get a chance to say how beautiful it is. How very sweet of you= big heart.

Happy Saturday BAMPZS.

neer @ 07/12/2008 at 3:47 am $$$ @ 07/12/2008 at 1:27 am #636

This is who Angelina Jolie is!

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/jolie.html

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Wow. Thank you very much “$$$” for posting that. If not for you, I wouldn’t be able to have read this wonderful old article. I like the writer’s style in describing Angie (By Rachel Giese June 13, 2006). She was just stating what it is. What about her based on facts. She’s not criticizing her or patronizing Angie. Very objective. How I wish she writes more about her. I also like the letter/comment after the article found on the same site. To quote that said letter:

“Your article on Angelina Jolie was so well written, it put into clear words what opinion I was trying to form about her. I did not like her and did not know why. Perhaps it’s because she is so complex as a person that she is hard to pin down and somewhat scary. Perhaps it’s that she is so perfect. I now realize that she is a force to be recognized with, a fiercely independent woman who doesn’t care what others think, a blend between Mother Theresa (heart, hard working), Audrey Hepburn (beauty, grace under pressure, unselfishness) and a rock star (unconventional, fearless, brash). All in one package. Not bad.
N. Wyss
Burlington, Ontario ”

For the letter-sender to come up with the realization that not to like her before without understanding why is not just enough reason. Angie’s complexity and so perfect persona makes him even realized that he cannot not like her
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ITA with the letter sender. Early on I too can’t figure it out why I didn’t like Ange but later realized the reason I didn’t care for her was because she is everything I want to be but am not. Now I adore her for all that she is, perfections and imperfections!

Could Brad Pitt be any more hotter?

onmyown @ 07/12/2008 at 10:02 am
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life can be pretty harsh. I have a friend who’s an Ems Medic. It takes a special person to work in any medical field. Helping people who are injured is not for light weights because no matter how long you’ve been in that work, You can’t totally disconnect. It’s that compassion and wanting to help others that allows you to do what you do. You can have peace in knowing you did everything that could be done. You keep faith by knowing there are many more that you did save. Ultimately their lives do not belong to us.

While writing a response to you another I had the beginnings of another poem and decided to write it. Here it is, i hope you like it as well.
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THE CALL

In the darkness we know the world to be
Who is inclined to share his humanity?
Can it be someone unwilling to share
Who exists in this world without a care?
Or one who has risen above the hurt and pain
One who can go forth as if ordained?

Who among us will answer the Call
When those who helpless and wounded fall
Will it be someone whose heart is cold
Or one with a compassionate hand to hold
Who will rise up and say ‘send me’
Who , tell me, will even hear his plea?

Who, when we travel this road called life
will make peace in the middle of all this strife?
Who will show empathy for their mountain of pain
Who’s willing to give, with nothing to gain?
can any of us be selfless, say it true
Who will answer the call, if not me or you?

Peace-