Brangelina Twins Sell Big!

eternal @ 08/22/2008 at 1:16 pm
Brad Pitt Plan B Entertainment
“Hatfields and McCoys,” a Warner Bros. drama about the famous feud between the neighboring farmers
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The Hatfield/McCoy feud is a fascinating bit of American history. Two families fighting and killing each other for almost 30 years. It should make a terrific film. Here is an excerpt from a website which gives all the details:

Hers is the classic story of a girl who loved too much. Young and starry-eyed, she blinded herself to clan hatreds, and one spring afternoon, claimed Johnse Hatfield as her lover and intended husband. Little did she know how completely her happiness was doomed. Nor that she would become fuel in America’s most famous, brutal feud. Before she died of a broken heart eight years later, she would become a casualty in the mountain war that left her alone, pregnant, a family traitor, bereaved of five dead siblings and betrayed by lover, parent and, at last, her own mind and body.

You can read the complete story of the Hatfield/McCoy feud here:
http://www.blueridgecountry.com/hatmac/hatmac.html

# 98 jo @ 08/22/2008 at 1:43 pm The devil is in the details. Do the math. Since People had to split the revenue People nor the other magazine will not recoup the money they spent. Stupid fools. They are in the red with this issue which means failure.

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Jo, I’m amazed at your stupidity. PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE TO SPLIT THEIR REVENUE WITH ANYONE. Hello Magazine HAS ITS OWN CIRCULATION WORLDWIDE. THESE PEOPLE ARE IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY, NOT TO SHOWCASE THE PITTS. They would not have done it if it was going to be a losing proposition. People Magazine’s Board of Directors or Hello’s Board is not going to hand over $7 miliion to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation without their accountants first doing the Maths including considering tax benefits, etc.

“True Story,” from the book of the same name by former New York Times reporter Michael Finkel, is based on the true events of his life that unfold after a murder suspect has stolen his identity. The film will be directed by Kevin MacDonald. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will oversee the project for Plan B.

William Goldman has scripted “The Loner,” a WB film based on a Texas Monthly article about an undercover cop whose diligent work makes him a target. The project is out to directors.

Bennett Miller, the Oscar-nominated director of “Capote,” will direct “The Immortalist” for Paramount Vantage and Brad Pitt’s studio-based Plan B production company.
Described as a “character-driven drama set in the emerging world of life extension”. The script will be written by Dante Miller, who is also developing a project about Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

“Glass Castle” is based on the memoir of New York columnist Jeanette Walls, a woman who must come to terms with her homeless upbringing as the child of an alcoholic, nomadic father and mentally unbalanced mother. Anne Meredith is writing the screenplay.

Paramount Pictures and Plan B have acquired pic rights to the David Sheff memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” and the Nic Sheff memoir “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.” Studio and producer will use the recently published books to frame a movie about drug addiction from the perspective of a young meth addict and the father who finds himself helpless to stop his son’s downward spiral. Both Sheff books were published in February and became bestsellers. Houghton Mifflin’s “Beautiful Boy” is being sold in Starbucks locations around the country as part of the Starbucks Select book series. The movie will be produced in association with Starbucks.

FANTASY AUTHOR Garth Nix has assembled a dream team in order to bring Sabriel, the first book in his Old Kingdom trilogy, to the screen
Nix is co-writing the screenplay with Dan Futterman, actor and Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Capote, and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner at Plan B (Brad Pitt’s company) will produce. The director will be Anand Tucker (Shopgirl, Hilary and Jackie).

Shawn Levy will direct and Nick Kurzon will write On the Clock for Warner Bros. Pictures, based on an original pitch by Kurzon. Levy will also produce the comedy along with Plan B. The high-concept comedy follows a selfish bachelor who wakes up to discover he has a biological clock, and it’s ticking.

“The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights” for DreamWorks.
Based on the 2006 book by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, the story chronicles the series of racially motivated serial killings — black on white — that took place in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. Jamie Foxx will play Sanders, who was one of two black police detectives who led the team that cracked the case. Amid their investigation, Sanders and his partner fought harassment within the police department and organized a union of minority policemen who brought a lawsuit against the city for discrimination, which they ultimately won. Sanders went on to become chief of police.
Matt Carnahan (”The Kingdom”) is adapting for the bigscreen.
Plan B’s Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner will produce alongside Foxx and Jaime Rucker King. Jeremy Kleiner, Marcus King and Shelby Stone will exec produce.

Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt’s Plan B have acquired “Miki Falls,” a four-volume manga series created by Mark Crilley.
Story chronicles the final year of high school for Miki Yoshida, the series’ protag who tries to befriend handsome new student Hiro Sakurai but is met with resistance. Stubborn Miki, however, refuses to take no for an answer, which leads to a surprising revelation about the secretive young man.
TV scribe Sera Gamble has been tapped to adapt.

Paramount Developing “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Obey the Bible As Literally As Possible,” with Plan B.
The book chronicles and examines a year in which A.J. Jacobs’ , Esquire magazine’s editor at large, immerses himself in the rules of the Old and New Testament. Jay Reiss is adapting the screenplay and the company has tapped Julian Farino to helm the movie.

I don’t like Brad, but I soooo love Angie. So if she’s happy with him, I’m happy. I contributed my love to this family by buying both magazines, the one they had Shiloh on cover and this one.

Brangelina’s beautiful family rules the world over…The twins are very cute …shiloh is very adorable ….madd, pax and zahara are amazingly lovely kids….and og course Brangelina are the most sexiest.most beautiful and most photogenic couple on the face of the whole universe…GO BRANGELINA !!! We love you forever.

by the way, the posters C and cook is CHINNIFER…CHINNY PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM Brangelina’s thread…don’t ruin Brangelina’s thread, go away please !!!! be nice now…and don’t about having kids yourself…you don’t want your kid to become CHINNIFER JR.

pinkrose @ 08/22/2008 at 1:47 pm melissa @ 08/22/2008 at 12:40 pm
It did sell, but People did not get the return on their investment, they did not recoup the 14 million dollars paid, this magazine was on the shelf two days early and stayed on the shelf for three weeks, so actually this was not as much of a success as the folks at People were hoping for.
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Melisssa , please use your brain. People only paid $7million. Hello Mag paid the other $7milion and probably made that back, hand over fist, as they had the rights to “the rest of then world”. And the magazines did not pay it to the Pitts. (this money will not show in the Pitts’ annual income) The mags made a donation each to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which means they got a hefty tax write-off.

The mags also made tons of money for online advertising and advertising in the magazine, which probably tripled. Plus, it was never about recouping money, this was all about prestige and positioning in the marketplace, for the mags.

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I couldn’t say it better than you Pinkrose!!!
Just goes to show the power of Jolie and Pitt. They’re the force to be reckon with. Haters can whine and complain, but at the end of the day
they have to admit this couple can weather any thing come their way. Because true love prevails baby!!!!!!!!!!

The Twins @ 08/22/2008 at 1:24 pm Knox and Viv are setting records already.A month old and they’re standing with the biggest stories in History.

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Not only that but they are a few days old and have already earned 14 mil. I am so happy for Brad and Ange on the birth of their adorable babies and if I’m this thrilled for them, I know they must be on cloud nine.

Hey Jolie-Pitt fans. Hope y ou’re having a lovely day. It’s still raining off and on here in Florida. I’m happy we only have a bit of rain in our area. There was tremendous flooding in other areas. Some people even had alligator’s, snakes and fish in their yards. Ewwwwww.

Faye88 @ 08/22/2008 at 1:57 pm
I just wish they had that extra picture of Brad, Angie & the twins that was in the Hello edition.
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Aww man, I didn’t know there was an extra picture!!

Does anyone have a link? :-)

She needs to stop making Babies and start making movies.

Angelina, you can officially dump brad now.

Big Thanks to JJ !

“The issue is the biggest seller in seven years”, Jolie-Pitts rocks.

GOD BLESS THE JOLIE-PITTS!

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