OlderAngelina 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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# 51 [☆I n F a m o u s☆] @ 08/11/2008 at 9:49 pm
when the movie flops lets see what ppl have to say hahaha
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Ummmm….sumpin’ you wanna tell us, Fuggy?
BIG DEAL @ 08/12/2008 at 2:02 am
a fan @ 08/12/2008 at 2:28 am
Where did you get the information when the The Fighter would be filming? What five projects are you whining about that Brad is connected to work on in 08 and 09. He has done TOL and now IB.
Last thing I read from the director of the Fighter is that it is on hold by the studio. Which is why he agreed to do another movie. Actors often leave if scheduling can’t be worked out. (Remember Damon left for the exact reason) So there is not information that Brad will do this movie
Second have you not read that Brad is doing QT new movie. So as you put it Brad is getting his turn.
a fan @ 08/12/2008 at 2:28 am
BIG DEAL @ 08/12/2008 at 2:02 am
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:O Thank You for Your Concern, now GTFO
Does this creature realize that she is the mother to 6 children, all 7 years old and younger, including two infants? Her place is with them, period. That is called a mother. Show some decency, for once, Angelina.
Yay, Angie. After taking off this whole year, she’ll be back to doing movies next year. Good for her. :)
#209 Anonymous
Gee, Brad and Angie share parenting equally, so are you saying Brad is incompetent as a father? Furthermore, Anonymous, filming is a lot different than being at a 8 to 5 job. You can be on set for an hour one day and spend the next ten in your trailer with your kids and babies. Both Angie and Nicole Kidman are A listers who can have feeding and other breaks written into their contracts. They’ve got the money for help, they’ve got it worked out where they split parenting, they have it worked out where they spend time alone with each child each day…and I say more power to them.
Jealous aren’t you.
Anonymous @ 08/12/2008 at 2:51 am
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My, my, my, look at what we have here. She just gets to you, doesn’t she? :lol:
Anonymous @ 08/12/2008 at 2:51 am
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LOL another hater-fan concerned about Angelina AND BRAD’s children…
LOL!
Haters can’t stand it!
Angie owns you b*tches!
I forgot to include the title of the article.
dina #1 @ 08/12/2008 at 1:37 am 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
Magazine Newstand Sales Drop 6% except People and In Style which see gains.
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.
BIG DEAL @ 08/12/2008 at 3:25 am
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LMAO. You are such an idiot.
Jennifer, aka big deal, a fan, etc, stop being so jealous!
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Angelina just lives her life and she drives these people crazy. I love it.
Big Deal is wacko!
CLINIQUA @ 08/11/2008 at 9:25 pm Whooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!!! Go Angie Babaaaaaay!! She kicks asssssssssssssss!! Replacing Tom Cruise, who else does that??? What WOMAN does that?? No one haters, NO ONE!!!
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My sentiments EXACTLY…
…not even Julia Roberts in her HEY DAY could replace a role meant for a MAN!….I think this is unprecidented!…
DAYUM!….I love this woman and her family more and more each day. She is an inspiration to young girls….of what you can accomplish, even if you’ve had a ‘wild’ youth, even if you have issues with your father, even if you are considered ‘different’ or ‘weird’….
God bless you Ange!
one trick pony, same old same old!tom cruises sloppy seconds as well as jennifer anistons sloppy seconds eeewwww
# lady croft the success of this film was down to the worldwide game phenomenom,not the has been could have put anyone number of better actresses in that game flick but they weren’t interested
# 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…
when the movie flops lets see what ppl have to say hahah
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Whether the movie flops or it doesnt…..its a win for Angie…
REPLACING A MALE LEAD WITH A FEMALE LEAD has never been done….and if done, rarely…
REWRITING a script from a MALE lead to a FEMALE lead…also, never done.
Hollywood studio executives being so confident in a Female actor enabling them to see her abilities to carry a big budget action movie as well as ANY man…..also never done.
SO SUCKIT INFANUS!!!
…hahahahaaha
http://www.variety.com/VR1117990392.html
Jolie replaces Cruise in ‘Salt’
“Edwin A. Salt” is about to undergo a gender change.
Once expected to star Tom Cruise, the Columbia Pictures espionage thriller will be redrafted by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer as a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie. Philip Noyce remains attached as director and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash are producing.
Jolie is close to a deal to 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.
Cruise had long flirted with the project, but that ended recently. The well-regarded script had several male movie stars circling.
Jolie took a liking to it, prompting the studio’s decision to rewrite it. Sources said the project won’t require that much of an overhaul to suit her.
After Universal beefed up Jolie’s role in “Wanted” and then marketed the action film squarely on Jolie’s shoulders and watched it gross $132 million domestically, Jolie reestablished in the wake of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” that she is the rare female who is viable in an action genre that has been almost the exclusive domain of men.
“Edwin A. Salt” will undergo a title change, and if everything falls into place, the film shapes up as a return vehicle for Jolie, who recently gave birth to twins. Another candidate for her return is the Lionsgate drama “Atlas Shrugged,” which has been adapted by Randall Wallace from the Ayn Rand novel.
I see the haters couldn’t wait to read another story about Angelina (snicker.) For someone to not like another person, they sure do spend A LOT of their time on her. Angelina must be flattered to be the center of their world??? LOL!
Gosh, fab news. I thought I had a lorra energy in my 30’s but Angelina takes the ticket - she’s as super in life as she is in her movies.
I hope it all works out swell for the family - my faves’
lorra luv to them all xxxxxxxx
topbrit @ 08/12/2008 at 4:37 am
topbrit @ 08/12/2008 at 4:41 am
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ROFLMAO
Someone needs her antacids!!
Looks like topbrits ULCERS just ERUPTED.
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A few hours ago Michael Fleming’s story announced that Angelina Jolie will be taking what was previously thought to be Tom Cruise’s role in Columbia’s Edwin A. Salt, a high-toned spy thriller that Phillip Noyce will direct. As soon as I saw it on my iPhone, around 4:45 pm today, I e-mailed Noyce to offer congratulations.
It turns out this was Noyce’s first notification that the deal between Jolie and Columbia was signed, sealed and delivered. It took three days to work out the particulars, which is quite fast by Hollywood standards. Deals can take months to cobble together, obviously depending on the particulars. The title will now be “something A. Salt” — the female first name obviously not yet decided. The shoot will hopefully begin in February ‘09.
Cruise had actually lost interest in the Salt part because he felt it was too close to his Mission Impossible character of Ethan Hunt.
I’m trying to think of other parts written for guys that women wound up playing, and all I can think of is Rosalind Russell playing Hildy Johnson in Howard Hawks’ The Front Page.
dina #1 @ 08/12/2008 at 3:25 am
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Dina#1, thanks for your information.
These numbers in particular warm the cockles in my heart:
Top 10 sellers US Weekly, 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.
ROFLMAO.
Like I’ve been saying, when readers work out who tells the bull shlt and who doesn’t, they stop buying the BS, literally and figuratively.
How does she do it,She keeps rising above everything.When the pity party started nearly 4 years ago I remember saying to my sister ‘She better be as tough as she looks because the media is going to eat her for breakfast,lunch and dinner’.Its amazing to watch her live her life,it take a woman who believes in herself to survive and come out stronger than ever like she has done.Its so good to see good things happening to her,she one of a kind.
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