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Angelina Jolie Replaces Tom Cruise in “Edwin A. Salt”

Angelina Jolie Replaces Tom Cruise in “Edwin A. Salt”

Angelina Jolie will be replacing Tom Cruise in the Columbia Pictures espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt.

Variety says Angie is “the rare female who is viable in an action genre that has been almost the exclusive domain of men.” No doubt!!!

Jolie would play the title character, a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence. Edwin A. Salt will be rewritten by the movie studios and will undergo a title change, obviously.

Tom had long been rumored to take the project but eventually bowed out because (reportedly) a $20 million salary wasn’t possible. The film will reunite Angie will her Bone Collector director, Philip Noyce.

Wow, who saw this one coming!? More spy chick Angie! Woo!!!!!

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legs @ 08/12/2008 at 12:41 am

Yeah. Bone Collector. The funny thing about that film is, if you take every scene in that film that has Angelina in it and leave out the rest, you’d have a great film….

Angie was really great in that film She was so good, supposedly Denzel was jealous.
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Please shut the f*** up. Yes, I had to write that out for you. Denzel complimented her and loved working with her:

Noyce’s entry has nothing for “Edwin A. Salt” IMdBPRO has “Captain Blood” as an optioned property looking for writers. The “Edwin A. Salt” entry still has Cruise and says Noyce is off the project.

vickifromtexas @ 08/12/2008 at 12:45 am

# 175 legs @ 08/12/2008 at 12:41 am Yeah. Bone Collector. The funny thing about that film is, if you take every scene in that film that has Angelina in it and leave out the rest, you’d have a great film….

Angie was really great in that film She was so good, supposedly Denzel was jealous.
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i can’t imagine denzel being jealous. he seems far too professional, gracious, and confident for that sort of behavior.
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Denzel’s acting skills, I don’t even need to defend them.

LOL, I love how calm you are with trolls compared to me vicki. I’m doing well by the way, how about you?

jules @ 08/12/2008 at 12:47 am

Noyce’s entry has nothing for “Edwin A. Salt” IMdBPRO has “Captain Blood” as an optioned property looking for writers. The “Edwin A. Salt” entry still has Cruise and says Noyce is off the project.
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Why don’t you trolls show your sources unlike the BAMPZSKV fans and Jared?

i am a mom @ 08/12/2008 at 12:30 am

Angelina is not working 9-5 each day. Lots of acting is sitting around waiting to shoot a scene. She can also avail herself of having her kids on the set with her everyday, will have a trailer to accomodate the kids, can have her contract set her work hours and provide for onset childcare, does not have to be on set everyday. Plus Brad can be on the set with the kids also as they take turns working and keeping the kids, they are lucky in that both can alternate being full time parents. Three of the kids will be in school next year, Maddox (7), Pax (5), Zahara (4). So her working life is significantly more flexible than that of many moms.

alia @ 08/12/2008 at 12:38 am
just watching the Olympics like crazy…i think i’m addicted…lol
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Me too. Great that the boys scored a bronze. They weren’t expected to win anything. They did a great job.

vickifromtexas @ 08/12/2008 at 12:42 am

alia, we were watching the men’s gymnastics a bit ago. they are incredible.
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I was watching the same thing!
They were amazing…those gymnists are so incredible
we got bronze; I’m so proud :)

fyi2 @ 08/12/2008 at 12:58 am
Three of the kids will be in school next year, Maddox (7), Pax (5), Zahara (4).
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Dang, the kids are growing so fast. Z will be in preschool, Pax will be in kindergarten and I guess Maddox will be in second grade.

vickifromtexas @ 08/12/2008 at 1:06 am

luckyl, i am doing well. thank you for asking. = )

alia and jill, the guys did a great job. such talent and discipline.

LOVE this one by screamingangie too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhtFXwt2LU4

love the song…

LuckyL @ 08/12/2008 at 12:13 am

ROFLMAO! I hope somebody at Vogue clicks on that link I sent them and sees this one:

WTF? @ 08/11/2008 at 11:42 pm

This is a Vogue cover? For the September issue which is the biggest of the year????? WTF? it looks like that supermarket checkout magazine Women’s Day.

Jill @ 08/12/2008 at 1:04 am

fyi2 @ 08/12/2008 at 12:58 am
Three of the kids will be in school next year, Maddox (7), Pax (5), Zahara (4).
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Dang, the kids are growing so fast. Z will be in preschool, Pax will be in kindergarten and I guess Maddox will be in second grade.
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Omg, that is so hard to believe;
it seems like yesterday Madd had his first birthday w/ Angie…

now Madd Pax AND Z are all going to be in school?…crazy how fast kids grow up…wow

no longer a lurker @ 08/12/2008 at 1:18 am

Jolie replaces Cruise for Salt
Author: Clint Morris Date: Monday, August 11th, 2008 Time: 7:45 pm

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Update : Variety has since confirmed our story

Moviehole has been informed by an inside source that Angelina Jolie will replace Tom Cruise as the star of ‘’Edwin A. Salt” - or “Edwina A. Salt”, as the film will now be suitably retitled.

The Philip Noyce-directed thriller is set for a February shoot in New York.

Rumour has it that Cruise felt the role was a little too similar to that of his ”Mission Impossible” character - IMF agent Ethan Hunt - and so left the production (He wasn’t, contrary to what others say, fired from the production).

After her success as an action heroine in films like “Wanted” and “Mr & Mrs Smith”, Jolie was snapped up rather quickly for the role (there is no truth to the rumour that Will Smith was asked to replace Cruise first - Smith was never approached).

http://www.moviehole.net/200814779-jolie-replaces-cruise-for-salt

fyi2 @ 08/11/2008 at 11:11 pm

Thanks for sharing the synopsis. I just revised my estimation: it would take 12 hours minimum, not six, to do justice to the book. It would have to be a very long miniseries. I don’t see any other way they can put it on film.

off to bed bampzsvk…goodnight

Awesome news! Another greast film to look forward to. I’m such a selfish fan…

Only our Angie could pull it off!

Hello to all the regulars!

Good evening to all BAMPZSKV fans. Gawd I’ve been out all day and haven’t posted anything. Gawd policticians want Angie to endorse them. And movie studios want her to star in their movies. And are willing to rewrite them to suit her. Who says Brad and Angie are through in HW and can’t get work. Damn I would love to be through like this.
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I just saw this on the Huffington Post. I don’t know if it has bee posted or not. If so ignore, if not read. Peace

NEW YORK — Newsstand sales of U.S. magazines fell 6.3 percent in the first half of 2008, an industry group said Monday, as rising gas and food costs led consumers to cut back on nonessential spending.

Most top titles, including best-selling Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine, had sharp declines. Of the top 10 newsstand sellers, only People, the entertainment news magazine, and In Style posted gains.

“This is nothing more than really just the impact of the economy,” said John Harrington, an industry analyst with Harrington Associates. “People are shopping very cautiously and less frequently, avoiding impulse buys, which are what magazine purchases are.”

Publishers redouble efforts to sign up subscribers during economic slowdowns because they know newsstand sales will ebb, which they need to offset because advertising rates are based on minimum circulation targets.

Newsstand sales are far more lucrative than subscriptions, though, meaning circulation revenue is dropping at most titles.

“It is easy to manipulate subscription numbers because publishers can sell them at a loss just to meet their rate base,” Harrington said. “The growth may not be high-quality subscribers that will renew.”

Overall magazine circulation, which includes subscription and newsstand sales, was flat at 349.9 million copies in the period, as paid subscriptions edged higher to 290.2 million copies, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in its biannual tally.

Single-copy magazine sales in the six months ended June 30 fell to 44.1 million copies from 47.1 million a year ago. The survey included 467 titles that reported results in both periods.

Like newspapers, magazines have been struggling with declining advertising revenue as readers increasingly go online for news and entertainment. In the second quarter, magazines had 8.2 percent fewer ad pages, the Publishers Information Bureau reported.

Hearst Corp.’s Cosmopolitan magazine, the top-seller on the country’s newsstands, had a 6 percent decline to 1.75 million copies _ nearly 114,000 fewer magazines. Top 10 sellers US Weekly, Woman’s World and O, The Oprah Magazine each posted a double-digit decline in newsstand sales.

People, published by Time Inc., boosted newsstand sales by 5.2 percent and remained the No. 2 best-selling magazine at kiosks around the country. In Style was also able to increase newsstand sales.

“People has been steady over the years and there’s probably more quality to the magazine in terms of what they do” compared with the crowded field of celebrity gossip titles, Harrington said.

In Touch Weekly, down 28.7 percent at the newsstand, and Life & Style Weekly, down 30.2 percent, both added 50 percent to their cover prices in the period.

Everyday With Rachel Ray, the cooking magazine featuring the popular Food Network host, had 6 percent higher newsstand sales and a 36 percent increase in total circulation.

Rolling Stone, the venerable music magazine, said Monday that it will abandon its iconic size for a smaller, more rack-friendly format starting in fall.

Publisher Jann Wenner said the change is not to conserve costs, but partly to offer advertisers and sellers a more uniform size. Wenner Media said the new size will allow for more editorial pages and higher quality paper that will result in sharper photos.

The magazine had 6.6 percent lower newsstand sales of 115,644 issues in the latest period.

Thanks JJ. Angie is a great actress. She can play any role.

It is a great news! I am so happy for Angie and family. All the haters try to put her and her family down but how can good Karma not follow Angie, She is the best with a heart of GOLD. It is UP** UP** UP for Angie. I LOVE her. I have watched Wanted twice and it a great action movie from beginning to the end. JA fans eat your hearts out, too painful to taken in another good news for the JP’s family!

Jill, who is on the Vogue cover? Can you post the link? Thanks. Peace

passing Through @ 08/12/2008 at 2:29 am

Man….poor old Tiny Tom. You know your career is in the crapper when you get dumped from a project you’ve been babying for 3 or 4 years…and then find out you’ve been replaced not by a man, but a woman. I’m sure Tiny Tom finds it cold comfort that the woman is Angelina Jolie. He should look at it this way - at least he wasn’t dumped for his own wife. BBBBBWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I think NYC is a special place for Angie. She has spent a lot of time there for someone who is a citizen of the world. I think she likes to share memories of her childhood with her own children. Just thinking of the museums, Central Park and hot dog stalls…. oh I’m so jealous.

passing Through @ 08/12/2008 at 2:33 am

# 38 felix @ 08/11/2008 at 9:26 pm

CRUISE has A NEW movie/project called FOOD FIGHT.

Check http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3id0839a35f93f478463bf0db809295d98

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ROTFLMAO. Damn. Not only has he been replaced by a woman in a major spy thriller…but now he’s reduced to playing second fiddle to a bunch of kids flinging their school lunch at one another. Can working with puppies along side Owen Wilson be far behind?

passing Through @ 08/12/2008 at 2:36 am

# 51 [☆I n F a m o u s☆] @ 08/11/2008 at 9:49 pm

tom “bowed out”… loonie muthafcukers acting like they got rid of him for her. lmaoooooo stupid-mother-fudge-cakes…

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ROTFLMBAO. Poor old dumb Fuggy. Tiny Tom didn’t “bow out”. They dropped his ass because he’s not worth $20MILLION clams anymore! $20MIL + a cut of the backend is what Tiny Tom is used to commanding and his ass just ain’t worth that anymore. His own studio can’t even pay him that kind of jack. But you keep right on dreaming that his 10 minutes in Tropic Thunder is going to restore his to his former glory. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. But I do so love seeing you tilt at windmills.

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