Wonder in white! Angelina Jolie is sophisticated chic in gorgeous couture gown as she walks red carpet with daughters Shiloh and Zahara
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- Published on Saturday, 21 October 2017 19:16
- Written by Daily mail
She's been making the rounds lately on the red carpet.And Angelina Jolie kept the trend alive as she was spotted in a gorgeous ensemble in Los Angeles on Friday.The 42-year-old actress stunned on the red caret for the premiere of The Breadwinner as she was joined by daughters Shiloh, 11, and Zahara, 12.The original Tomb Raider superstar was a vision in white as she floated down the step and repeat in a couture number.Her lithe waist took center stage as the fashionable dress cinched in the middle and cascaded to the floor.Daring to impress, the ex wife of Billy Bob Thorton went virtually makeup free with only a light eye shadow and bright berry lip.She paired the look with a simple set of gold high heels, a sparkly silver broach, and a thin chain bracelet.The Oscar winner kept her trademark raven tresses long and loose as they brushed over her petite shoulders.Shiloh cut a dapper figure in an all black suit as her hair was kept short and sweet.Zahara looked adorable in a black dress that looked elegant and stylish.Angelina posed with Nora Twomey, the director of The Breadwinner - which is an animated film about a headstrong girl in Afghanistan dressing like a boy to provide for her family. Saara Chaudry - the voice of the young girl in the film - posed as well.The Jolie family gathered for another shot with Saara. Based on the best-selling novel by Deborah Ellis, the film is scheduled to be released on November 17, 2017
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Angelina Jolie almost starred in WHICH sexy teenage 1990s horror with Scarlett Johansson?
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- Published on Friday, 20 October 2017 04:40
- Written by Express
ANGELINA JOLIE, Scarlett Johansson and Reese Witherspoon all auditioned for which cult 1996 horror about teenage witches? It was while they were still young and practicing their, ahem, craft... With hindsight Jolie, especially, seems like she would have been perfect for the movie. But this was 1996, so it still two years until she would unleash the full range of her ability to play extremely troubled characters in Gia and Playing By Heart during her breakthrough year of 1998.However, she was pipped to the post at the time by another rising star, Neve Campbell who was riding high in Party of Five. We still wish we had seen Jolie as a furious, vengeful teenage witch, though.The movie was The Craft and it eventually starred Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True.Casting director Pam Dixon told EW: "We tested over 90 girls and went through probably 600. But [Neve] was by far the biggest name."We tested Alicia Silverstone, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie... but Neve came in and she was really, really good."Perhaps things might have been different, if they had known that Jolie would become notorious for wearing a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood around her neck a few years later.The movie was not expected to do well by the studios and was viewed as a risk due to its female-centric characters and challenging themes of pagan worship, rape and murder.Both Columbia Pictures and the censor believed it was too strong for female teenage audiences who had flocked to see Clueless the year before. They were wrong.Despite receiving a resticted R rating in the US it was the top film in its week of release.Director Andrew Fleming said: “The rating was a surprise because we actually sent the script to the MPAA for rating in advance, and we had held off on any really hard language or nudity or graphic violence because we wanted a PG-13. They said, 'This is an R.' When we asked why, they said, 'Because it’s about devil worship and teens and we don’t want to encourage that.'”
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Angelina Jolie to Voice Star in 'The One and Only Ivan'
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:38
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
Mike White wrote the script adapting the award-winning Katherine Applegate book.Angelina Jolie will voice star in The One and Only Ivan, Disney's adaptation of the Newbery Medal-winning book written by Katherine Applegate and illustrated by Patricia Castelao.Jolie adds the role to the one she already has on the project, that of producer. Allison Shearmur, who was one of the producers on Disney’s live-action take on Cinderella as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is producing the project with Jolie.Thea Sharrock, director of the tearjerker Me Before You, is directing Ivan, which has a script by Mike White and is intended to be a live-action hybrid.Published by HarperCollins in 2011, the book centers on a silverback gorilla named Ivan who lives in a cage in a shopping mall along with an elephant named Stella and a stray dog called Bob. Ivan does not remember life before the mall, but when a baby elephant named Stella enters and Ivan finds himself taking care of her, he begins to rediscover his previous life and concocts a plan to take the baby elephant away from their abusive owner.Jolie will voice Stella.The studio is now beginning to cast the net to find the actress who will play a janitor’s daughter, a character that is key in helping save Ivan and Stella.Jolie has lent her voice to movies before, most notably co-starring in the Kung Fu Panda animated films, in which she voiced the character named Tigress. She also voiced a character in Shark Tale.Jolie is repped by UTA and Media Talent Group.
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Why Angelina Jolie needs to step down from Cleopatra
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- Published on Thursday, 05 October 2017 05:21
- Written by Yahoo ! Movies
This year, British actor Ed Skrein set a new precedent in the film industry by quitting a role in the ‘Hellboy’ reboot because his character, Ben Daimio, is Japanese-American in the source comics. His replacement, ‘Lost’ star Daniel Dae Kim, applauded the move for “championing the notion that Asian characters should be played by Asian or Asian American actors”.Now, with the news that Denis Villeneuve is in talks to direct Sony’s new ‘Cleopatra’ movie, it’s time for Angelina Jolie to follow Ed Skrein’s example by doing the right thing and recusing herself from the role.The actress has long been linked to Sony’s biopic, based on Stacy Schiff’s bestselling biography ‘Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile’, and while there’s no denying she is a great actress and would do a good job in bringing the infamous Egyptian queen to life, she’d be playing a far bigger role in continuing the terrible trend of whitewashing in Hollywood.Cleopatra’s ethnicity has long been debated by scholars. She was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek Macedonian family that ruled Ancient Egypt for 275 years, between 305 to 30 BC, but because of the intermingling with the Persian aristocracy at the time, she was considered to have both Greek and Persian heritage.However, historians don’t know for certain who her mother or paternal grandmother were. It’s assumed that Cleopatra’s mother was the sister or cousin of Ptolemy XII Auletes, Cleopatra V, because of the family’s trend of marrying relatives to maintain the bloodline, but the Pharaoh was known for having several wives and some have suggested he took an Egyptian noblewoman as one.It’s because Cleopatra could speak Egyptian that historians have suggested her mother was native to the North African country because no other ruler in her family could speak their tongue, and, as the historian Duane W. Roller points out, her own daughter “honoured the Egyptian religious elite” in Mauretania (Algeria) – after becoming their queen – which suggests they were her ancestors too.
So, it seems more than likely that Cleopatra was not as white as the women who have brought her to life on screen. She was probably mixed race, of Greek Macedonian, Persian and Egyptian descent, with an olive to light brown skin tone not unlike my own. I am a mix of Caucasian and North African heritage and one thing’s for sure, my skin colour is nothing like Angelina Jolie’s.But, it doesn’t surprise me that the actress has been in talks for the role. Back in 2007 she donned a curly wig and fake tan in ‘A Mighty Heart’ to play Mariane Pearl, a woman of Afro-Cuban and Dutch heritage. She got away with it then but nowadays that sort of whitewashing won’t be accepted. Just look at the backlash over ‘The Great Wall’, ‘Ghost in the Shell’, and ‘Aloha’ which all arguably suffered at the box office in the wake of their negative press.One would think that Jolie would want to be a part of changing this aspect of the industry as the mother of children of varying ethnic backgrounds. Wouldn’t she like to have her kids see more faces that looked like them on screen and telling their stories? It certainly seemed the case with her latest film, ‘First They Killed My Father’, which she was inspired to make because of her Cambodian-born son.It tells the true story of a child soldier serving under the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide and the entire cast, as well as some 3,500 background performers and 500 crew members, were made up of Cambodian natives. Surely she can understand that as a pale-skinned white woman, the idea of her getting to play the role of a mixed race Egyptian queen is pretty frustrating for both ethnic actresses and audiences alike.
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Joachim Rønning to direct Angelina Jolie in Maleficent 2
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- Published on Saturday, 05 May 2018 16:19
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Deadline is reporting that Walt Disney Pictures‘ Maleficent sequel has finally scored a director in Joachim Rønning, one half of the Norwegian directing duo (alongside Espen Sandberg) that made this past summer’s blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which earned nearly $800 million worldwide. He is also being eyed to helm a potential sixth Pirates movie.Despite rumors that she will star in Universal’s Bride of Frankenstein, Angeline Jolie is committed to make the Maleficent sequel the next film on her dance card, with filming expected to start in the first quarter of 2018. “I am now the breadwinner for the family, so it’s time,” she said previously. “We have been working on the script and this is going to be a really strong sequel.” Released in May of 2014, Maleficent earned an impressive $758.5 million worldwide on a budget of $180 million. The film was directed by Robert Stromberg and tells the previously-untold story of the iconic villain from Disney’s 1959 animated classic, Sleeping Beauty. A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal, an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom, and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well.The original action adventure also stars Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville.
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