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  • Quentin Tarantino to head jury at Venice Film Festival

    Reservoir Dogs director Quentin Tarantino will head the jury at the Venice Film Festival later this year.

    The hit filmmaker, who was behind movies such as Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction, will be at the head of the panel who award the festival’s main gong, The Golden Lion.

    Last year’s head of the panel was director Ang Lee, who awarded the Golden Lion to Israeli flick Lebanon.

    The festival will be held on The Lido in Venice from September 1 to 11.

    Tarantino picked up the Palme D’Or award at the festival in 1994 for Pulp Fiction, which starred Uma Thurman and John Travolta.

    Source: Splash News

    2010.05.07 / no responses / Category: Film Festivals

  • Actor George Clooney shows his new lover Elisabetta Canalis the high-life as they arrive at Venice in style

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    Actor George Clooney shows his new lover Elisabetta Canalis the high-life as they arrive at Venice in style.

    Clooney, 48, and Italian Elisabetta Canalis arrived at the Venice Film Festival on a luxurious speed boat.

    The 30-year-old seemed overjoyed be at the festival with George, who is there to promote his new film Men Who Stare At Goats.

    The film is based around British journalist Jon Ronson’s book about the US army’s experiments with paranormal warfare.

    Elisabetta and Clooney have spent the last two months together.

    Source: Splash News

    2009.09.08 / no responses / Category: Film Festivals, George Clooney

  • Matrix star Monica Bellucci was burgled as she attended the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival

    Matrix star Monica Bellucci was burgled as she attended the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.

    Monica, 45, and husband Vincent Cassel appeared on TV from the south of France and later found their Paris apartment had been burgled and over £80,000 of cash had been stolen.

    The burglars also got away with jewellery as well as computer and video equipment worth more than £160,000. The Italian actress’ passport was also stolen in the burglary.

    An officer investigating the burglary said: “It was clearly a meticulously planned burglary.”

    The officer added: “The thieves are believed to have struck just as the stars were appearing on television in Cannes on Sunday evening. They entered the fourth-floor apartment via a balcony, smashing a window in the process.”

    The officer added: “Then they pretty much cleared the flat out of anything that was valuable and could be removed easily.”

    The officer added: “There have been plenty of cases of the homes of professional footballers being targeted while they are playing in high-profile matches, but this appears to be the first time that the same kind of thing has happened to actors.”

    Source: Splash News

    2009.05.26 / no responses / Category: Film, Film Festivals, monica bellucci

  • Brad Pitt has a hazy recollection of accepting role in Tarantino’s new movie Inglourious Basterds

    Brad Pitt has revealed that his appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie came after the pair enjoyed a boozy session and a “smoking apparatus”.

    The 45-year-old movie star spoke at a screening of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds at the Cannes Film Festival – confessing he couldn’t remember agreeing to make the film.

    Pitt said: “Quentin came to visit some time at the end of the summer – we talked about backstory, we talked about movies – I get up the next morning and see five empty bottles of wine right on the floor, five, and something that resembles a smoking apparatus – I don’t know what that was about – and apparently I had agreed to do this film.”

    Pitt plays an American army officer leading a group of Jewish-American soldiers around Europe taking violent revenge on Nazis in the Second World War movie.

    2009.05.25 / no responses / Category: Brad Pitt, Film, Film Festivals

  • Quentin Tarantino won over Brad Pitt with five bottles of wine

    Brad Pitt, a father of six, somehow found time to down five bottles of wine before saying yes to a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

    The film with its deliberately misspelt title has set Cannes abuzz at its premiere and Pitt has been warm to the press. One American television reporter got close enough to pinch his cheek while interviewing him.

    Pitt said of Tarantino’s invitation: “He had me at ‘hello’.”

    “Quentin came to visit with the script. We talked about the backstory and about movies. I got up the next day and there were five empty bottles of wine lying on the floor – five – and something resembling smoking apparatus. I don’t know what that was about.

    “Somehow I agreed to do the movie and six weeks later I was in a uniform playing Aldo Raine.”

    Tarantino has tagged the World War 11 story a “Jewish revenge fantasy”.

    The Pulp Fiction director has not shed any light on the film’s odd title, which was inspired by Enzo Castellari’s 1978 movie Inglorious Bastards.

    He said: “Here’s the thing. It’s not a typo. I’m never going to explain it. When I do an artistic flourish like that, to describe it would be to invalidate the whole process.”

    Source: Splash News

    2009.05.20 / no responses / Category: Actors, Actress, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Film, Film Festivals

  • Madonna: My pain over adoption

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    Pop superstar Madonna opened her heart about her “painful” adoption struggle yesterday — comparing it to natural childbirth. The 49-year-old singer, talked openly about her and husband Guy Ritchie’s controversial battle to adopt Malawian child David Banda, two.

    Madonna said: “It was painful and a big struggle and I didn’t understand it. In the end I rationalised that when a woman goes through natural childbirth, she suffers an enormous amount. I went through my own kind of birthing pains — dealing with the press on my doorstep, accusing me of kidnapping or whatever. But I had to go through some kind of process and in the end it made me stronger so I can’t complain.”

    Madonna also hit back at accusations that David was adopted without his father’s consent — and that his mother had not really died of Aids.

    She said: “Yes his mother did die of Aids and yes, I met his father and he absolutely agreed to the adoption. There is nothing controversial about the adoption. It is just there’s a lot of bureaucracy and administration. This adoption essentially was the beginning of the creation of adoption laws in Malawi.”

    She said she now sees herself as the role model for future adoptions there.  Madonna was speaking at a press conference about her new documentary I Am Because We Are — which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The film, featuring David, paints a stark picture of life in Malawi and shows kids orphaned by Aids.

    Ex-US president Bill Clinton and Archbishop Desmond Tutu appear in the movie.

    2008.05.23 / no responses / Category: Film Festivals, Life, Madonna, Movie Premiers, Movies, Music Artist

  • Brangelina’s Having a Baby

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    After much speculation, it has been confirmed. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are expecting another child. This will be their second child together and will be their fifth child total. They have adopted children Maddox (age 6), Pax (age 4), and Zahara (age 3). They already have one birth child, Shiloh (age 1).

    Angelina finally showed the baby bump as she and Brad attended the Film Indeendent’s Spirit Awards on Saturday. A source close to them says, “They are very, very happy.”

    2008.02.26 / no responses / Category: Angelina Jolie, Awards, Brad Pitt, Celebs Pregnancy, Film Festivals, Hollywood, Hottest Celebrity, Selebs Kids

  • Theron ‘wants US soldiers home’

    Theron plays a detective looking for the missing soldier
    Hollywood actress Charlize Theron, who is promoting her latest movie at the Venice Film Festival, has said she hopes US troops in Iraq can come home.
    The 32-year-old stars in the film, In The Valley of Elah, based on the true story of a soldier who goes missing after serving in Iraq.

    “Nothing would give me more joy than to see them back in America,” the Oscar-winning star said.

    Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon play the missing soldier’s parents.

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    Theron said: “[The soldiers] are doing a very, very important job and it’s a dangerous one. Hopefully they can come back and be looked after, that’s the least we can do for them.”

    The movie is the second Iraq drama at this year’s festival – the first, Brian De Palma’s Redacted, premiered on Friday.

    The Valley of Elah was written and directed by Paul Haggis, whose last film was the Oscar-winning Crash.

    “I laugh when I hear these statements that Hollywood is jumping on the bandwagon because the American public is turning against the war,” Haggis said.

    “We started work on the film in 2003, when the president had an 80% approval rating, everyone even in the neighbourhood where I live was driving around with flags on their cars, and the president was saying it was unpatriotic to even question this war,” he said.

    He said financing the film was hard and thinks at the time it was “risky” to make.

    Meanwhile, director Ken Loach also premiered his new film, It’s A Free World at the festival.

    The movie takes a look at the exploitation of migrant workers in the UK.

    Loach said he hoped it would generate attention on the plight of immigrants – legal or otherwise – who have flocked to the country from eastern Europe in recent years.

    “On the one hand people say the economy couldn’t survive without the immigrant workforce. On the other, the right wing is saying, ‘Get these people out of our country’. It’s hypocrisy,” he said.

    2007.09.02 / no responses / Category: Actors, Charlize Theron, Film, Film Festivals, Hollywood, Movie Premiers, Movies, News, Photos, Politics, Television

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