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7 October 2008 9:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie has credited the memory of her late mother Marcheline Bertrand with giving her the confidence to take on her role in new film Changeling.

The devoted mother-of-six plays a woman desperate to be reunited with her kidnapped son in the upcoming Clint Eastwood film, inspired by a real-life story.

And Jolie admits her character's strength grew from the close relationship she shared with her own mother, actress Bertrand, before her death in January 2007.

She tells the New York Daily News, "My mother would fight that hard for her children. (The role made me) confront my worst fear. It made me feel closer to my kids and grateful every night just to know where they are and that they're healthy. Making the phone call (in the film), saying that my kid was kidnapped, was difficult. I don't even like saying it right now."

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7 October 2008 6:04 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Clint Eastwood has claimed that Angelina Jolie's beauty can overshadow her acting talent. The American actor and director has been working with Jolie on period drama Changeling, which premiered in New York at the weekend. The 78-year-old said: "I've always admired her talent. She's somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. She's on covers and (more)

By Sarah Rollo

7 October 2008 5:51 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Anne Hathaway as Kym in Rachel Getting Married

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics So, I saw Rachel Getting Married yesterday and while the film received plenty of praise during the festival circuit I won't be as quick to jump on the bandwagon. The film is well made by director Jonathan Demme and well acted by everyone, but on a whole it just isn't all that pleasing to watch. However, I will save my opinion of the film itself for my review. The discussion here is Anne Hathaway, whom we just learned has signed on to star as the White Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, but it is her portrayal of Kym in Rachel Getting Married that is the buzz today. After the Rachel screening I was sitting around with a pair of fellow Seattle critics discussing the film in which they both said Hathaway would be getting a

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7 October 2008 5:02 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie considers partner Brad Pitt her best friend - and feels blessed to have six children with him.

The Tomb Raider star has three adopted kids and three biological tots - including twins, born earlier this year - with the actor.

And the 33-year-old reveals that newborns Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are developing features and personalities reminiscent of their famous parents.

She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "It's so much fun but it's very hard work. The kids are forming beautiful friendships. They're team mates and they're very loving to the babies.

"The twins are just the sweetest little things. They lay next to each other. They're starting to smile a lot. Knox looks like Brad and Vivienne looks more like me. They are developing interesting personalities. Knox seems more relaxed and Vivienne is more loud."

And the actress feels lucky to have her extended brood, and relishes the time she spends in their company.

She adds: "I feel so blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world and my best friend."

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7 October 2008 12:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Jonny Lee Miller had to re-arrange his April nuptials in just three days after his original choice of ceremony location burned down.

The Brit, who was previously wed to Angelina Jolie, married Michele Hicks in Malibu, California - but it wasn't his first choice.

He explains, "The place we were gonna go and get married actually caught fire a week before we were going there. It was in northern California.

"It turned out better because it actually meant we could have more friends and family there. We were initially eloping.

"A friend of a friend leant us their house and when all your friends pull together for you it was actually quite special."

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6 October 2008 6:28 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie's ex-husband Jonny Lee Miller had to flash his flesh on U.S. TV on Monday when talk show host Ellen DeGeneres offered to pay $1,000 (GBP540) to a breast cancer charity for every tattoo the actor showed off on her show.

Miller showed off six tattoos on his wrists, arms, stomach and left shoulder before covering up.

The reluctant star told DeGeneres, "The rest you don't wanna see."

But the host was impressed - she offered to give $7,000 (GBP3,800) to charity for the big reveal.

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6 October 2008 5:21 PM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Changeling opens - as did George Romero’s Land of the Dead - with a semi-ironic use of an old-time Universal Studios logo, hearkening back to lionized days of old from a present-tense vantage point. The joke of it is that the sentiment, in both cases, is a pose. Like Romero with Land, Changeling director Clint Eastwood is as lost with where movies came from as with where they are - his film (based on the late-20s/early-30s era true story of Los Angeles-residing mother/martyr figure Christine Collins) is a rootless jumble of tones and plots, a desiccated nowhereland, like something waiting to be feasted on by Stephen King’s ravenous Langoliers. There’s hope at first that Eastwood and star Angelina Jolie are using Changeling‘s kidnapping-cum-social reform narrative as a mere framework, the means by which to illuminate Collins’ tempestuous emotional inner life in the way of many a so-called,

6 October 2008 4:18 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

"I didn't know anything about it until I read the script," admitted Clint Eastwood at the New York Film Festival's press conference for "Changeling," his highly anticipated film based on the 1920s Wineville Chicken Murders and an incident in which the police tried to convince a single mother that the boy they had brought to her was her missing son, when he was actually a runaway looking for a free trip to California. Angelina Jolie plays the mother, while John Malkovich is the reverend who comes to her aid. Eastwood discussed making modern day L.A. look antique and how he comes up with musical themes for his films.

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6 October 2008 9:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

As could be expected, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt proved quite an eyeful at Saturday's New York premiere of her new movie. Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood. But, in fact, there was even more to meet the eye on the leading lady: two new tattoos – to complement her ink indicating global birth coordinates of children Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh. Jolie has had the July 12 French birthplace of twins Knox and Vivienne enscribed twice on her left shoulder beneath the latitude and longitude of their other children. – Pete Norman

6 October 2008 5:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie is convinced Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood is the perfect gentleman - because he never loses his temper on-set.

The Tomb Raider star plays a mother desperate to be reunited with her kidnapped son in Eastwood's upcoming new movie Changeling.

And she admits she loved filming her scenes - because Dirty Harry actor Eastwood was the ideal director.

She tells USA Today newspaper, "It's not just in strength or just a sense of cool. He's such a gentleman. When you work on a film with him, he treats every single person on the crew with an enormous amount of gratitude and respect no matter what they're doing.

"And he really makes a point to show it and encourages the best in everybody. If somebody screws up he makes them feel like it wasn't their fault and they can try again. That kind of leadership and grace is very, very rare."

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6 October 2008 4:51 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Almost as soon as I hit "publish" on my Changeling piece earlier saying a negative review had come in a new commentor challenged the article saying I was ignoring all the positive buzz for the film that came out of Cannes back in May. Admittedly I only linked to one positive review and not others (here are one, two and three more), but I also didn't link to three more negative reviews (the only three new Nyff reviews I could find), which I will do right now along with a little paraphrasing: The Playlist: In attempts to portray the injustices of L.A., the film becomes aggravating (the increasing difficulties are relentless and bordering on improbably). And in the effort to reveal mystery of what happened to her son later on in the picture, the film just becomes excessively long and a little exhausting. That's not to say there aren't any profound and powerful scenes.

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6 October 2008 4:24 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Angelina Jolie in Changeling

Photo: Universal Pictures One of the reasons my "The Contenders" section on the site is taking a look at real buzz and not just perceived expectations based on pedigree. Of course I will add the movies from previous Oscar winners such as Clint Eastwood, but while folks want to point to his upcoming film Changeling as some sort of serious Oscar contender I couldn't help but remember a small bit of negative buzz coming out of Cannes despite some overwhelmingly positive reviews. Devin Faraci over at Chud points out a new review from Spout's Karina Longworth in which she pointed out how bad the film is by using a drinking game analogy: We drink every time Angelina hysterically proclaims, "He's not my son!" We get very drunk, and this may be why we can't figure out why Clint Eastwood made a cheap-looking Lifetime movie that eventually

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6 October 2008 1:34 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Angelina Jolie has confessed that her sex life with Brad Pitt has halted since the birth of their twins, Knox and Vivienne. The 33-year-old actress told The Mirror that having six children has made it difficult for the couple to spend time alone. "Even if we lock our door, the children come knocking," she said. "We often try to have a bath alone together at the end of the night and sit and talk, but they hear the water and want to jump in. "But it's fun and it's lovely - (more)

By Simon Reynolds

6 October 2008 12:28 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie almost turned down her role in her latest movie Changeling - because the plot involved a child kidnapping plot.

The devoted mother-of-six plays a desperate mum whose nine-year-old son is snatched in the real-life story.

But Jolie admits she was set to snub the harrowing role, until partner Brad Pitt made her have a change of heart.

She explains, .It was very hard for me. I read the script and I couldn't put it down, but I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to touch something that had to do with children being kidnapped. It scared me because anything happening to my kids is my biggest fear.

.But then I found myself telling Brad the story and thinking about this woman and what she went through.

.Throughout the filming I was very emotional. I was hugging my children more than ever and I wanted to know where they were at all times. I always had one of them on set and it was a hard thing to do . facing my biggest nightmare.

.I'm a mom so it doesn't take much to imagine these things. I don't think I would have played this role with as much emotion and understanding if I wasn't a mother..

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5 October 2008 11:58 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Attending the New York Film Festival screening of her new film,"Changeling," Saturday night, October 4, which was her first red-carpet appearance since giving birth to twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, Angelina Jolie showed off two new tattoos on her left arm. The new tattoos are the longitude and latitude of Nice, France, where the twins were born.

Jolie was accompanied on the red-carpet by longtime partner Brad Pitt. She wore a strapless black Atelier Versace gown, leaving the new tattoos on her left upper arm noticeable for everyone to see. The new tattoos are etched right underneath Maddox, Sahara, Shiloh and Pax's commemorative tattoos.

Also taking time to pose for photographers and answer some questions, Jolie told People, "not nervous as much as I just took a deep breath because it's been so long. It felt a little strange" when being asked if she felt nervous to be back in the spotlight.

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5 October 2008 9:19 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Following earlier speculation that "Batman 3" may fall into its pre-production sometime in early February, another interesting rumor about the follow-up movie of "The Dark Knight" has surfaced. This time, it is said via Film School Rejects that the latest issue of Production Weekly has put director Christopher Nolan in the status of being involved in the project.

Before fans putting high hopes on Nolan signing back in, it should be noticed that there are yet confirmation on the matter from either Warner Bros. Pictures or Nolan himself. Meanwhile, a Warner Brothers executive through IESB has recently thrown down speculation on the production to begin in February 2009.

Some said that "Batman 3" is tentatively titled "The Caped Crusade". Following "Dark Knight" major hit, the possible sequel has been speculated to have baddies like The Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman with actors, such as Johnny Depp, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cher and Angelina Jolie linked to the villains parts.

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5 October 2008 1:30 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Clint Eastwood got a resounding round of applause when he walked into the Walter Reade theater after Changeling screened for critics at the New York Film Festival. And, as you would expect, he didn't seem to particularly notice or care. He was there to talk about the movie he made, his second film in a row, after Million Dollar Baby, highlighting the struggles of women who must operate in a world dominated by men. The movie is based on the true case of Christine Collins, whose son disappeared in 1928 and was allegedly "returned" to her six months later-- except the boy was not her son. Seeking good publicity, the Los Angeles Police Department ignored her requests that they continue looking for her son, and eventually threw her into a mental asylum to get her to keep quiet. Clear-voiced and funny, Eastwood talked about directing Angelina Jolie in the lead role,

5 October 2008 12:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

He's won Oscars and ridden to the top of the box-office charts – so Clint Eastwood knows his movies. And his stars. Of Angelina Jolie – the leading lady in his latest directorial effort, the period drama Changeling – Eastwood, 78, says: "I've always admired her talent. She's somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. She's on covers and all that stuff. "But," Eastwood told veteran movie journalist Lillian Ross at a Saturday Q&A sponsored by the New Yorker magazine at the Directors Guild of America, "she is a great talent, and it would be easy to overlook that,

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4 October 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Having landed in New York earlier in the week, Angelina Jolie arrived with Brad PItt and walked the red carpet at the New York Film Festival for Saturday night's premiere of her movie Changeling, a 1920's thriller directed by Clint Eastwood. Asked if she felt nervous to be back in the spotlight, Jolie told People, "Not nervous as much as I just took a deep breath because it¹s been so long. It felt a little strange." The Manhattan visit marks the first time since the birth of their twins, Vivienne and Knox, that Jolie and Pitt have been in the city with their children.

Mary Green

3 October 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I haven't been moved at all to do an Oscar Update because nothing has happened that warrants any kind of real attention. Either predictions are being made on films that haven't been seen or much ado is being made about nothing. However, I can't make it seem like I have abandoned "The Contenders" section so I was able to pull a Ton of little tidbits together and bring you what I believe to be a rather impressive update if I may say so myself. We can start with a few of the Oscar contenders I saw recently. I reviewed Blindness (D), Appaloosa (B), The Duchess (C-) and Miracle at St. Anna (D+). Obviously I wasn't all that impressed with three of them and those three are going to struggle for an Oscar nom outside of costume and art noms for The Duchess. As far as any topline awards go, all four are out of contention.

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