Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken Wins the Christmas Day Box Office
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- Published on Sunday, 28 December 2014 13:03
- Written by Vanity Fair
The film bested Into the Woods and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.Angelina Jolie has just beaten two giants.Jolie’s second work as a director, Unbroken, is now expected to be the top film at the Christmas Day box office, besting Disney’s Into the Woods as well as the final installment of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit.Unbroken is on track to earn $15.6 million in Christmas Day ticket sales, according to Deadline, outpacing Into the Woods, which was initially expected to be the day’s big winner with an estimated $13.6 million in sales.The film, which Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson calls “respectfully, carefully made”, is based on Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling biography of Louis Zamperini, the real life Olympic runner turned World War II airman turned P.O.W. Jolie directed the cast that includes Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Finn Wittrock, and Jack O'Connell. (See Vanity Fair’s photo shoot with the cast here.) Unbroken has also earned an A- at Cinemascore.Jolie told Vanity Fair what she hoped audiences would take away from the film: “The main message [of the movie] is about how you choose to live your life—that there is greatness in everyone.” The box office triumph must be doubly sweet for Jolie, after the hopeful Oscar contender was overlooked by both the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. While she waits for the Oscar nominations to be announced, Jolie has nominations for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and cinematography from the Critics’ Choice Awards (plus Brad Pitt) to keep her warm at night.(...)
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Angelina Jolie Dieted to Support Unbroken Actors
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- Published on Friday, 26 December 2014 11:17
- Written by Newser
Angelina Jolie's film Unbroken is about Louis Zamperini, the former Olympic athlete who first spent 47 days drifting in the ocean during World War II, then two years in a Japanese POW camp—so, needless to say, lead actor Jack O'Connell and others portraying inmates at the camp had to lose a lot of weight. As the director, Jolie showed a lot of solidarity, one of the actors tells RadioTimes.com. "She came to the set every day, giving advice to the actors, and she actually didn't eat much [either]," says Miyavi, who plays the prison guard overseeing the camp. "She was so thin because most of the actors were not able to eat because they're prisoners in the prison camp. So she was so close to us." And, O'Connell adds, Jolie did one more thing: "She did test out all of my stunts before I had to do them," he says. In one scene, he had to spend hours supporting a heavy plank above his head. "The plank—I’m not sure if that can be regarded as a stunt—but, in any case, she was under it before I turned up on set," he says. (One of the Unbroken actors lost so much weight, his contacts stopped fitting.)
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Angelina Jolie Says It's "Hard Work" to Be Married to Brad Pitt
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 December 2014 10:59
- Written by Cosmopolitan
Marriage is tough, even when you're betrothed to one of the best-looking men on the planet. That's according to Angelina Jolie, who says her newlywed life with Brad Pitt is "hard work."In an interview with Australian Women's Weekly, the actress and director says she's "very happy to be married," and still gets a kick out of calling Pitt her husband. (After years together, the pair got married this summer.)But despite a picture-perfect family, says she and Pitt are constantly paddling like crazy to make things work. "[We] work really hard at nurturing our family to make sure that everybody is alright and everyone stays connected," she said.And it's especially tough when you have two high-powered careers in the mix. "Maintaining a marriage and raising kids is hard work," she said. "You have to really make sure that your work doesn't get in the way. That you don't do something that is going to put too much strain on your family." So there you have it: Even with all the money, talent, and good genes in the world, that whole work-life balance thing is hard to master. Ben Affleck gets it.
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Chris Martin says Angelina Jolie 'kidnapped' him to write a song for her new film
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- Published on Monday, 22 December 2014 21:44
- Written by NME
The Coldplay singer jokes about how he wrote 'Miracles' for the movie 'Unbroken'.Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has discussed writing a song for Angelina Jolie's new movie 'Unbroken', joking that the actress kidnapped him in order to ensure his involvement in the project.'Unbroken' was directed and produced by Jolie, telling the story of World War II hero Louis Zamperini. Coldplay contributed the track 'Miracles' for the film, making them one of the contenders for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars.Now, Martin has spoken to Vulture about how it allegedly all came about, stating: ""I got a message [from Jolie] that said, 'Meet in this undisclosed location. You'll be blindfolded and picked up by seven ex-Navy SEALs'."Martin added: "So they kidnapped me, hit me over the head, and sprayed me with Mace. When I woke up, I was in an office, and Brad Pitt was doing push-ups as Angelina Jolie was just sitting there with her crown on. There was also a guy holding a knife to my throat, and she said, 'Write me a song, or else'. And Brad Pitt said, 'Yeah. What she said'."Meanwhile, Chris Martin also recently revealed that he once asked David Bowie to record vocals for a Coldplay song but was rejected by the singer.Martin made the revelation at the BBC Music Awards, a ceremony where Bowie was nominated for British Artist Of The Year and Coldplay performed live. He said: "One time i sent him a song to ask him to sing on it. He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best.' He's got very high standards and I appreciate that. It inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high."Coldplay released their latest album 'Ghost Stories' in May.
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Angelina Jolie, Frozen's Elsa or Megan Fox - this make-up artist can transform herself into almost ANYONE
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- Published on Monday, 05 January 2015 05:28
- Written by Mirror
Mum-of-four Kandee Johnson has become a YouTube sensation thanks to her ability to transform herself into celebrities and characters using JUST make-up.You don't need complicated and risky plastic surgery to transform yourself into Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox or even Frozen from Elsa - not if your Kandee Johnson, anyway.She's become a YouTube sensation thanks to her unique ability to transform herself into some of the world's most beautiful people using just make-up.Using cosmetics and considerable skill, Kandee has shown the world how to look just like the stars through her instructional videos on the social media platform.Boasting more than 2.5 million subscribers, the mum-of-four from Los Angeles has recreated popular celebrity looks, also including that of Kylie Jenner and The Hunger Games character, Effie.Former celebrity make-up artist Kandee has been blogging for more than six years and regular posts snaps of her masterpieces to her 700,000 Instagram followers."I've come a long way since I didn't have anyone to eat lunch with in high school," she writes on her lifestyle blog, Kandeej.com.Kandee is currently dating former American Idol contestant Michael Castro.
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