Angelina Jolie was spotted departing her New Orleans home on her way to a private airport earlier today as Brad Pitt was looking extremely handsome filming a Meet the Press interview with Brian Williams. Her last philanthropic trip was solo when she trekked to Bosnia, but this time they worked together. On the fifth anniversary of the Katrina disaster Brad’s drawing attention to his Make It Right housing project and helping his celebrity friends document the progress being made. His and Angelina’s kids skipped this short visit with Mom and Dad, though Vivienne and Knox go to come along to travel with Angelina to Budapest last weekend.
Angelina Jolie’s schedule is rapidly filling up. Earlier this week, it was revealed that she’ll be writing and directing her first feature, a love story set during the Bosnian War, which she’ll also produce with Graham King. Now, she may have a new starring role coming up as well, for a movie that King will also produce.
The producer’s GK Films is developing a feature adaptation of the 2009 U.K. miniseries “Unforgiven” for Jolie to star in, Deadline reports. A director hasn’t been set yet, but “The Usual Suspects” writer Christopher McQuarrie is taking care of the script.
“Unforgiven,” not to be confused with the Oscar-winning 1992 Western starring Clint Eastwood, follows a woman who is newly released from jail after serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of two police officers. The killing happened when attempts were made to evict her and her family from their home. Now free, all the ex-con wants is to live in peace, a desire not easily fulfilled thanks to a revenge plot staged by one of her victims’ two sons.
The original U.K. version aired as a three-part miniseries early last year. Suranne Jones starred as Ruth Slater, the role that Jolie is up for. Jones has done a fair bit of U.K. television, and is probably best known for her role as Karen McDonald on the soap opera “Coronation Street.”
Jolie is having a strong year at the movies. Earlier this summer, she starred in the box-office hit “Salt,” a Russian-spy thriller that has so far grossed more than $200 million worldwide. In December she stars opposite Johnny Depp in “The Tourist,” a King-produced thriller directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck that was recently moved up from its previously planned 2011 release.
Angelina Jolie in an interview about great Jane Goodall.
Joint meeting, Jane’s Journey – the journey of life of Jane Goodall
July 2010 Documentary
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall, now 75, decided to give up her career as a primatologist, as well as her private life, in order to devote her entire energy to saving our endangered planet. Since then she’s been spending 300 days a year scouring the globe on her mission to spread hope for future generations. She has taken on the responsibilities of a UN Messenger of Peace, has been honoured with countless awards, was appointed “Dame of the British Empire” and was even admitted to the “Légion d’Honneur”, the highest decoration of France.
In “Jane’s Journey”, we accompany her on her travels across several continents, with unprecedented access to her intense and exciting past. From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we embark to ‘Gombe National Park’ on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in Tanzania, her second home. This is where she began her groundbreaking research nearly half a century ago, and where to this day she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her the internationally recognized activist so loved and deeply respected.
“Jane’s Journey” is an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon — an exceptional woman, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time, whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be among the most important of the past 100 years.
The visual scope of “Jane’s Journey” spans a fascinating arc from the beaches of Bournemouth to the flatlands of Nebraska, and from the rainforests of Gombe to the melting glaciers of Greenland, offering spectacular footage of Jane’s touching encounters with animals both wild and domestic as well as with humans, from Hollywood celebrities to traumatized children in African refugee camps. Whoever encounters Jane Goodall irrevocably falls under her spell. As The Boston Globe once put it: “To be with Jane Goodall is like walking with Mahatma Gandhi.”
To be delivered in 2010, the year of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Goodall’s ongoing chimpanzee research project in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
Angelina Jolie had two-year-old Knox and Vivienne for company as they checked out the sights in Budapest,
Hungary today where she is reportedly researching locations for a new movie about Bosnia after a stop in the nearby country earlier in the weekend.
The trio has been making the rounds in Europe while Angelina promotes Salt with premieres in Berlin,
Paris and London.
Angelina happily revealed that this overseas jaunt is her special twin time which included this sunny Saturday afternoon with the blond toddlers.
Angelina was sporting one of her standby black dresses, but she’s actually incorporated some color into her fashion picks this week.
She’s also been doing a handful of international interviews,
where of course the conversation topic of choice is her family life and Angelina has nothing but gushing words about her partner Brad and the beautiful chaos they create together. popsuger
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Angelina Jolie is discussing parenting with Brad Pitt on GMTV.
While traveling on her European press tour for Salt, Angie chatted with GMTV about her personal life.
Angie dishes on the “beautiful chaos” of her life with Brad and of her six kids. She shares how she tries to pack lunches for her kids, how she’s amazed by how much food they go through and how she keeps her relationship with Brad great.
Reuters – Hollywood star Angelina Jolie said after a visit to Sarajevo on Saturday she would soon start work on a love story set during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.
Jolie said in a statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for whom she is a Goodwill Ambassador, that shooting for the movie would begin in autumn on the tale of a couple who meet on the eve of the war and the effect it has on their relationship.
“The film is a love story, not a political statement,” the statement said.
Jolie arrived on Friday for a surprise visit to Sarajevo and on Saturday met members of Bosnia’s inter-ethnic presidency to discuss ways to help thousands of returning war refugees.
Jolie visited returnees in eastern Bosnia in April with her partner Brad Pitt and promised then to come back.
She also said the movie’s cast would be comprised of actors from the various ethnicities of the former Yugoslavia.
“I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can”, Jolie said.