'Maleficent': Sam Riley Says Angelina Jolie Took Him Under Her Wing
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- Published on Sunday, 23 December 2012 11:30
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
"There are worse jobs," the "On the Road" star says of working alongside the actress/Earth mother. Sam Riley plays literary icon Sal Paradise in the big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road -- but in his upcoming film, Maleficent, the British actor portrays Angelina Jolie's "lackey.""I play a raven -- I'm Angelina's lackey, basically," the 32-year-old actor said Thursday at a Peggy Siegal Company-hosted NYC screening of On the Road.That's not a bad gig? "No, there are worse jobs," he told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that Jolie's make-up in the Disney Pictures' film is "insane" but "she's not Method. She's very nice. She took me under her wing, so to speak. We had a great time." Jolie, 37, portrays the iconic Sleeping Beauty villain in the live-action origins story, which began filming over the summer. Directed by Robert Stromberg, the movie -- slated for release in March 2014 -- also stars Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora and several members of the Jolie-Pitt brood: Pax, 9, Zahara, 7, and Vivienne, 4. Riley, who jokingly described his character Diaval as a "mird" (man-slash-bird), called Jolie "a consummate professional, so I admire that very much." Riley, meanwhile, will soon be seen in limited release Dec. 21 as Kerouac's alter ego in the Walter Salles-directed On the Road, co-starring Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund and Kirsten Dunst. Riley's other credits include 2007's Control, in which he portrayed Joy Division's Ian Curtis, and the Saoirse Ronan-starring vampire thriller Byzantium.
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Angelina Jolie's 'Salt' Sequel Hiring 'Prince of Tides' Writer
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- Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 06:47
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
Becky Johnston is in negotiations to work on the follow-up to the 2010 spy movie for Columbia Pictures. Columbia Pictures is still working to put Salt back on the table.In a move signaling continued interest in a sequel to the 2010 Angelina Jolie spy movie, the studio is in negotiations to hire Becky Johnston to work on the script.In the original, Jolie starred as a CIA officer who discovers she is a Russian sleeper cell agent with a mission to assassinate the U.S. president. Salt grossed $293.5 million worldwide, so Columbia in 2011 hired the movie’s credited writer, Kurt Wimmer, to pen a sequel.Earlier this year, however, reports surfaced that Jolie didn’t think his script was up to snuff and had not committed to the project, which is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash. Johnston's hiring caps off an almost year-long search for a scribe who could reconceive the script with a take that satisfied all parties.UTA-repped Johnston is a left-of-center choice for the project as her most notable credits are the character dramas The Prince of Tides (1991), which starred Barbra Streisand, and Seven Years in Tibet (1997), which starred Jolie’s fiance Brad Pitt.Johnston did work on Wonder Woman as well as Brad Bird’s San Francisco Earthquake project 1906 and has the Colin Firth-Emily Blunt drama Arthur Newman awaiting release next year.
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Angelina Jolie Wanted Jennifer Lawrence's 'Silver Linings Playbook' Role
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 19:38
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Angelina Jolie wanted to be the leading lady in hit comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook, according to filmmaker David O. Russell.Jennifer Lawrence has been tipped for an Academy Award for her portrayal of promiscuous Tiffany in the movie, but Russell thought the 22-year-old star was too young and he had other "major actresses" in mind, including Jolie.At a screening for TheWrap.com, he explains, "Quite frankly, (Lawrence's audition) was like a formality. I didn't think she was really a contender. We had three very serious contenders (already). We had a lot of major actresses in town interested in the role, from Angelina Jolie to some other big stars, because it's a dimensional role for a young woman. Jennifer we frankly thought was too young."The Hunger Games beauty went on to win the part after auditioning over Internet phone service Skype, while Bradley Cooper was recruited to play her love interest, but Russell admits he considered a number of other A-list stars during the casting process.He adds, "I wrote it with Vince (Vaughn) and Zooey (Deschanel) in mind, because I love Vince's cadences... And then Mark Wahlberg, who I love and made three movies with, there was a moment where he was going to do it. That didn't work out... and it was out of my hands... I originally wrote it for other people."But as Matt Damon very graciously said to me about the Christian Bale role in The Fighter - which he was originally intended to play, 'It just goes to show, the right people play the right role at the right time.'"
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Race 2: Is Jacqueline Fernandez's look inspired by Angelina Jolie?
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- Published on Friday, 23 November 2012 05:26
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Actress Jacqueline Fernandez's look in director duo Abbas-Mustan's upcoming action thriller 'Race 2' is reportedly inspired by the one Hollywood star Angelina Jolie sported in 'Salt'. Jolie's role in Phillip Noyce's 2010 thriller was action oriented and 27-year-old Jacqueline's character in the film, also has high octane action sequences."Jacqueline will be sporting jet black, poker straight hair with a fringe just like Angelina Jolie. The makers were keen on giving Jacqueline a very international look and she mentioned the film Salt and the makers seemed very keen on her suggestion," a source from the set said. On her part, Jacqueline trained extensively to attain the desired 'Race 2' look. She worked with a Vietnamese trainer and also practiced sword fighting to fit in the character. 'Race 2' which is the sequel to 2008 hit film Race, also stars Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor and Ameesha Patel. The film is all set to hit theatres on January 25, 2013.
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Angelina Jolie "Really Beautiful" in Maleficent
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- Published on Friday, 23 November 2012 05:23
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Angelina Jolie "Really Beautiful" in Maleficent: "She's Just Incredible!" Says Costar Elle Fanning.We just can't get enough of evil Angelina Jolie in Maleficent! And neither can Elle Fanning. Fanning, who plays Sleeping Beauty's Princess Aurora in the upcoming Disney film alongside Jolie, says that working with the A-list Hollywood mama definitely did not disappoint."It's amazing," Fanning told us of Maleficent at last night's 2012 AFI Fest premiere of Ginger & Rosa in Hollywood. "We just finished it in London. Angelina Jolie, she's just incredible. Meeting her and getting to watch her, she just looks amazing. She has these cheekbones and these horns. It's really, really beautiful."Fanning, 14, says she didn't get to work with Jolie's 4-year-old daughter Vivienne, who makes her acting debut in the film."Vivienne plays young Aurora," she said. "I wasn't on set the day she filmed, but she played little me." While working with Jolie was a blast, Fanning says the best part of filming the fairy tale flick was "getting to be a Disney princess; it's just incredible. I had the long hair and the dresses. It was all magical, the whole world. It's great."
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