Brad Pitt’s Futuristic Odyssey

THE FACTS:

Jolie pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in reaction to her previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona. On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. where she promoted the bill and in support of it announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.[52] The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been granted.[46]

Now, with the aid of Microsoft and others, Angie GOT her funding…She is AMAZING. I think I’ll just go forward this to the Seattle Times.

If you see any other outlets, getting it WRONG, or dimenishing her contrbutions feel free to pass this along guys.

Seems like Brad is much more serious these days and wants to do more meaningful roles.

Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions are partnering to produce a film version of the novel World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War by Max Brooks (son of Mel). Brooks seems to have a flair for the subject of the “living challenged” as he also wrote the Zombie Survival Guide. Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is adapting the book.

Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned feature rights to Karl Iagnemma’s short story “On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction,” which Heyday Film and Plan B Entertainment will produce.
In “Interaction,” which appears in the author’s short-story collection of the same name, a young academic tries to formulate a series of mathematical equations that will force his randy girlfriend to make a commitment to him.
Kiernan and Michele Mulroney will script. Producers are David Heyman, Brad Grey and Brad Pitt. Guymon Casady will executive produce. Warners senior VP of production Greg Silverman will oversee the project. DeDe Gardner oversees for Plan B.

Plan B Entertainment
2007 Filmography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (R)
Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 75% fresh rating from 142 reviews.
Metacritic, the film had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 31 reviews.

Domestic $3,909,149 Widest Release 301 theaters 133 days / 19 weeks
Foreign $11,092,627
Worldwide $15,001,776
Budget $30 million
DVD / Home Video Rentals $20.41 million 4 months, 15 days
US DVD Sales $10,464,634

A Mighty Heart (R)
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 77% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 175 reviews.
Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 74 out of 100, based on 38 reviews.

Domestic $9,176,787 Widest Release 1,355 theaters 63 days / 9 weeks
Foreign $9,757,784
Worldwide $18,934,571
Budget $15 million Variety, 9/2/2007, p. 13 (”$14 million”) HR, 9/7/2007, p. 14 (”$16 million”)
DVD / Home Video Rentals $23.31 million 3 months, 24 days
US DVD Sales $5,590,886

Year of the Dog (PG-13)
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 70% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 134 reviews.
Metacritic, the film had an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 31 reviews.

Domestic $1,540,141 Widest Release 152 theaters 77 days / 11 weeks
Foreign $56,812
Worldwide $1,596,953
DVD / Home Video Rentals $1.86 million 4 months, 15 days

Sam @ 10/17/2008 at 10:39 am
Hmm looks like a good track record. Critical acclaim, independent movies that will live on in time. A Mighty Heart, and Jessie James will stand the test of time. BP has a striving production company. Not many A list actors can claim the same. Thanks for copying the information posted earlier in previous threads.

bdj @ 10/17/2008 at 10:49 am Sam @ 10/17/2008 at 10:39 am
Hmm looks like a good track record. Critical acclaim, independent movies that will live on in time. A Mighty Heart, and Jessie James will stand the test of time. BP has a striving production company. Not many A list actors can claim the same. Thanks for copying the information posted earlier in previous threads.
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Shouldn’t “The Departed” be on that list?

# 29 ???? @ 10/17/2008 at 8:55 am

Dudette - give it up. Your “1950s housewife” complaint holds no water. The fact that YOU don’t agree with ANGIE’S decisions for her life is your problem. Not hers. And sure as hell isn’t ours!

“Zora,” the Warner Bros. based true story of a woman who is considered a superwoman because of her vast personal accomplishments but finds her true strength when faced with personal crisis. Project started as an Ira Glass report on NPR’s “This American Life.”
“Zora,” at age 6, wrote a list of goals she wanted to achieve by 31, and met every one of them by 21, including becoming a bounty hunter.”

“Katharine Fugate,” a New Line-based tearjerker about a 10-year old boy who tracks down his best friend’s birth mother as his pal’s dying wish. Plan B is producing the project with Wayne Rice and Mike Karz.

“Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Steve Kloves (the “Harry Potter” pics) has adapted and will direct Mark Haddon’s novel about an autistic 15-year-old who uses the sleuthing methods of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, to uncover the killer of a neighbor’s dog. Plan B’s producing with David Heyman’s Heyday Films.

Screenwriter Bill Witliff (”Lonesome Dove”) has been hired to adapt “My Losing Season,” the Pat Conroy coming-of-age memoir about his senior season as point guard for the Citadel basketball team in 1966-67. It is a bittersweet story as the youth must come to grips with saying goodbye to the sport that provided refuge from his bullying fighter pilot father. Plan B’s producing with Gaylord Entertainment.

Pulitzer Prize-winning “Top Dog/Underdog” playwright Suzan Lori Parks has been set to script “Act V,” a fact-based drama about a female director who works with maximum security prisoners to stage act five of “Hamlet.” Like “Zora,” the project was inspired by a report by NPR’s Ira Glass.

Plan B is teamed with Universal and Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Films on “Lou Zamperini,” a memoir about the famed Olympian and his harrowing experience of being captured by the Japanese and singled out for abuse by a camp commander. The long-in-development pic has Antoine Fuqua attached to direct and Cage to star. Robert Schenkkan and Neil Tolkin wrote it.

Brad rocks. I will watch all Brad’s movies.

CLINIQUA @ 10/17/2008 at 10:25 am THE FACTS:

Jolie pushed for The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act in reaction to her previous visit to facilities for asylum seekers in Arizona. On March 8, 2005 Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. where she promoted the bill and in support of it announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.[52] The Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act eventually passed in December 2005. Jolie also pushed for a bill to aid 70 million vulnerable children in the Third World which was signed by President Bush in November 2005, but so far no funding has been granted.[46]

Now, with the aid of Microsoft and others, Angie GOT her funding…She is AMAZING. I think I’ll just go forward this to the Seattle Times.

If you see any other outlets, getting it WRONG, or dimenishing her contrbutions feel free to pass this along guys.

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not to sound sycophant-like, but Cliniqua, you are batting a 1000 today.. The spin stops here with Cliniqua.. O’Reilly, better watch out.. You should write to him to be on that show instead of Dennis Miller.. please..

The Departed (R)
Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 92% fresh rating from 222 reviews.
Metacritic, the film had an average score of 86 out of 100, based on 39 reviews.

Domestic $132,384,315 Widest Release 3,017 theaters 168 days / 24 weeks
Foreign $157,463,039
Worldwide $289,847,354
Budget $90,000,000 HR, 10/16/2006
Ad Budget (Nielsen) $42,300,000
DVD / Home Video Rentals $48.98 million 4 months, 8 days
DVD Units Sold 7,781,331
US DVD Sales $150,854,332
US TV Rights (FX, Dec 2006) $6,000,000 (pro-rated share of $20m package)

The film won four Academy Awards at the 79th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese) (The latter was thought to be long overdue, and some entertainment critics subsequently referred to it as Scorsese’s “Lifetime Achievement” Oscar), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Best Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan). Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, which he lost to Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine.

???? @ 10/17/2008 at 8:35 am I hate how Jolie has become the stay at home mome and housewfie of the 1950s. She used to be so independent. Now Brad is piling up projects like there’s no tommorow. He gets paid MILLIONS for one movie, yet he keeps trying to avoid homelife.
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Hey AJ’s Aunt…or is it brother? Uncle? Cousin? Okay, AJ’s close relative, you need to stop complaining on a blog….It does nothing. Why not call a family meeting, like an AJ we love you but you are becoming a 50’s housewife intervention and express you feelings to AJ and BP, okay?

That’s how family business shoul be handled. Good Luck. ;)