What Angelina Jolie Had To Agree To In Order To Get The Tomb Raider Role

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Published on Sunday, 18 July 2021 11:05

Written by Nicki Swift

          Angelina Jolie has been making headlines for decades. Recently, the content behind those headlines has had to do with her fizzled marriage to Brad Pitt and the contentious nature of their split. Jolie has been making big claims as the divorce rolls on, so things are clearly difficult. Will Jolie move on and find love again? That all depends on the person, because she has a really long list of deal-breakers.But before Pitt, Jolie was still a tabloid sensation. People have been obsessed with everything about her, from her most important tattoo to how she deals with personal pain. She also has an impressive net worth, so that's cool too.While Jolie is solidified as a Hollywood A-lister now, she wasn't always at the top of the food chain. In fact, when she was a new actor, trying to land the role in "Tomb Raider," she had to agree to one very unusual rule. Here's what it was.When Angelina Jolie was trying to land the role of Lara Croft in "Tomb Raider," she ended up having to agree to certain rules in order to secure her place. At the time, the actor was viewed by Hollywood as somewhat unpredictable; there were rumors of her drug use and a budding relationship with Billy Bob Thornton, according to E! News. Interestingly enough, this characterization as the wild card was actually appealing to Hollywood executives because it fed Croft's character.However, Jolie still had to agree to administered drug tests. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jolie said to Simon West, the director, "Look, I want to do it, but I know what my reputation is, and I'll do anything you want to prove that I'm worthy. I'll be reliable, and I'll turn up, and I'll work hard." Jolie added, "I don't care if the studio wants to drug test me every day." True to form, Jolie underwent urine and blood tests, which she passed. The film execs also hired people to look after her physical and mental health too, and it was well worth it because "Tomb Raider" was a massive success and Jolie became a worldwide star.

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Angelina Jolie Reportedly Eyed For Tomb Raider 2 Role

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Published on Saturday, 05 June 2021 15:16

Written by We Got This Covrered

           Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider reigned as the highest-grossing video game adaptation ever made for close to a decade after releasing in the summer of 2001, with its box office haul of $274 million remaining the genre’s benchmark for nine years until it was surpassed by Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.The sequel didn’t fare quite as well, though, with earnings dropping by over $100 million when The Cradle of Life arrived just two years later, but it was inevitable that we’d see the console favorite undergo a reboot eventually. Taking the ‘if it ain’t broke’ approach, 2018’s Tomb Raider hired an Academy Award winning actress to play the lead role, with Alicia Vikander proving herself to be a capable action heroine, delivering a perfectly functional if hardly memorable blockbuster that made exactly the same amount of money in theaters as the original, give or take a few hundred thousand dollars.A sequel is now working its way through development as we speak, with Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green replacing Ben Wheatley as director and confirming earlier this month that the first draft of the script has been completed under the working title of Tomb Raider: Obsidian. That’s the extent of the official information we have, but insider Daniel Richtman claims that the studio wants Jolie to play a role in the second installment.Unfortunately, that’s all he has to share on the matter, and these sorts of legacy cameos can often be jarring and detract from the story being told while inviting comparisons to what came before, especially when you’re talking about someone as recognizable as Angelina Jolie. The star has also scaled back her workload significantly over the last few years, but nothing can be definitively ruled in or out until Tomb Raider 2 edges closer to getting in front of cameras.

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The Eternals trailer: Angelina Jolie stands out with blonde hair as Salma Hayek explains 'we have never interfered until now' in first look at the Marvel movie

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Published on Tuesday, 25 May 2021 06:28

Written by Daily mail

          The first full-length trailer and poster for the Marvel Entertainment movie The Eternals was shared on Monday morning.The cast was seen in the riveting clip as The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers, are seen approaching a beach in their space ship.Angelina Jolie is spotted several times with her long blonde hair, gold headpiece and various outfits and her co-star Salma Hayek also makes an appearance as she explains in voiceover that her people have always looked after those on Earth but only now are 'interfering.' The plot is about the beings - who are often mistaken for the gods of human mythology - that have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years but make themselves know as they battle the evil Deviants. This is the first movie from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao since winning Best Picture and Best Director for Nomadland this year. The trailer begins with humans dressed in rags looking over a rocky cliff with an ocean below.The spaceship, which is wide and brown, starts to hover off the seashore as the locals look up in amazement. 'We have watched and guided. We have helped them progress and seen them accomplish wonders,' Hayek’s Ajak says in voiceover.Humanity is seen in a montage from their early stages to more modern era with big, productive cities. There were also flashes of war.'Throughout the years, we have never interfered — until now,' said Hayek's Ajak.  The cast includes Gemma Chan (Sersi), with Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Hayek, Lia McHugh, and Don Lee, as well as Game of Thrones vets Richard Madden and Kit Harington.  The film will be released in November. This comes after Marvel made a big announcement on May 3 via Twitter.The studio has a collection of new films in the pipeline and several of their projects have landed release dates. There were also fresh clips from some of their most anticipated movies in a fast-paced montage video.Among the highlights, Jolie was seen for the first time in The Eternals.Black Panther 2 was given a title and there was more footage of Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow.As far as the release dates, Spider-Man No Way Home will hit theaters on December 17, 2021 and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on July 8, 2022. The video opens with a scene of a crowd in New York City.Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily sit next to each other as they are spied in Ant Man.The Avengers is lined up in a quick clip.There is a scene from Black Panther with Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan staring at other and then a crowd scene. Scarlett Johansson pops up several times in Black Widow which comes out July 8; she is seen in black on a motorcycle and also in white.Guardians Of The Galaxy was also included with several quick flashes as a third installment is coming out May 5, 2023.'Share the moments you will remember forever,' it says on the screen.Then the release dates were flashed on the scene.Spider-Man No Way Home is due out on December 17, 2021.Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, who was behind Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has a July 8, 2022 date. Thor Love And Thunder will be out May 6, 2022.Marvel teased that Fantastic Four - directed by Jon Watts - would arrive after Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, which hits on May 5, 2023.

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A Smokin' hot role for Angelina Jolie: BRIAN VINER reviews Those Who Wish Me Dead

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Published on Friday, 14 May 2021 06:36

Written by Daily mail

        To believe in the almost impressively porous plot of Those Who Wish Me Dead, you have first to believe in Angelina Jolie as a 'smoke-jumper', a specialist firefighter who parachutes out of planes to deal with rampaging forest blazes. Then you have to buy the idea that Jolie's character, Hannah, the only woman in a close-knit band of alpha males, might be the loudest, wittiest and hardest-drinking of them all, able to parry the merest hint of a suggestive remark with a wisecrack like a punch to the windpipe.Hannah has lips and cheekbones like no smoke-jumper in living memory, but her macho colleagues have evidently been trained not to notice them. If they do, they will surely dive into an inferno far worse than was ever ignited by a carelessly tossed cigarette end.Unfortunately, beyond the laddish banter, all is not well with Hannah. She is assailed by post-traumatic guilt, blaming herself for the loss of three young lives, having failed to suss the wind direction.Now, you'd think that her inevitable redemption, amid loads of terrifying footage of fires raging through Montana's forests with incredible, devastating swiftness — just 50 yards slower than Hannah's top sprinting speed, in fact — might be enough to sustain Taylor Sheridan's thriller.But no. It is an adaptation of Michael Koryta's novel of the same name, which means another weighty layer of plot involving a nosy accountant on the run from two ruthless assassins (Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult, perpetuating the curious Hollywood rule that villains, even when they're given American accents, generally have to be played by actors from our side of the Atlantic, not theirs).Anyway, the accountant has discovered something so incriminating that the assassins seem prepared to commit mass murder, to torture a pregnant woman and to burn down half of Montana to stop it getting out. We never learn what it is.All we know is that the poor chap has passed his seismic secrets, on an old-fashioned piece of paper almost as if the internet age never happened, to his cute 12-year-old son, Connor (Finn Little).So, in a dispiritingly tinny echo of Peter Weir's 1985 classic Witness, the baddies' target becomes the kid. Can Hannah, into whom Connor unsurprisingly bumps while belting through a forest, save him? Heck, can she also save the forest? Well, it's Angelina Jolie, so anything is possible.The same is not so of Sheridan, whose credits include some terrific films (he scripted 2016's Hell Or High Water, one of my favourite modern-day westerns). Alas, my high hopes for this movie when I saw his name attached as director and co-writer were soon extinguished, leaving just a small, gently smouldering pile of expectations.The Secrets We Keep is another ropy thriller, set in Eisenhower-era smalltown America.
        Noomi Rapace plays Maja, a Romanian immigrant leading a wholesome suburban life with her kindly doctor husband (Chris Messina) and their young son, until the day she thinks she spots the former SS man who raped her and murdered her sister towards the end of the war, awakening terrible memories.This fellow, Thomas (Joel Kinnaman), turns out to be a European immigrant like her, but Swiss with a record of having worked throughout the war as a clerk in Zurich.Maja is certain he's lying, and by now has done what anyone would do in her circumstances (if only in films like this); belting him in the face with a hammer, bundling him into the boot of her car, and keeping him prisoner in the basement until he confesses to his crimes.Her nice husband is understandably more than a little nonplussed by all this, while Thomas's sudden disappearance sends his own wife frantic with worry.As Those Who Wish Me Dead is to Witness, so is The Secrets We Keep to Roman Polanski's 1994 film Death And The Maiden, dimly resonant but not remotely comparable. It is a thriller fatally devoid of thrills, and the occasional tension feels manufactured.At one point, writer-director Yuval Adler allows his camera to rest on a cinema showing Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest. Presumably, his intention is to fix the year as 1959. But the effect is to remind us of a filmmaker who knew how to electrify rather than anaesthetise an audience.Ironically, the new release least likely to have you slumping on the sofa is Some Kind Of Heaven, a documentary about the world's largest retirement community.There are 130,000 residents of The Villages, in Florida, which is billed as 'Disneyland for retirees'.Lance Oppenheim's film follows a few of them, as well as an elderly rascal who lives elsewhere but hangs out there on the lookout for affluent widows. He had no joy in the bars or the churches but found rich pickings at the swimming pools, in pursuit of his own inflatable version of the American Dream.

Those Who Wish Me Dead is in cinemas from Monday. The Secrets We Keep is on Sky Cinema; Some Kind Of Heaven on digital platforms, from today.

 source : Daily mail