Angelina Jolie has pulled out of a talk in Italy because she has discovered she is pregnant, say reports.

Jolie was planning to appear at the Pio Manzu Centre in Rimini to speak about the future of mankind.

However, according to the Italian press, the actress was forced to scrap her speech as she is expecting another child with Brad Pitt.

A spokeswoman for the Hollywood star commented: "She cancelled. I can't confirm her pregnancy but the Italian papers are correct in their reports."

Pitt and Jolie have three adopted children and daughter Shiloh Nouvel already. However, Pitt claimed in September that they were keen to extend their family.

By Alex Fletcher

Source: Digital Spy.

Jolie And McAvoy are gun happy

Universal have supplied us with the first pictures from Wanted, Timor Bekmambetov's (Night Watch) upcoming action movie, based on Mark Millar's graphic novel series.

The film stars James McAvoy – officially nicest and most delightfully Scottish man in the world – as Wes, a disaffected office drone with a boss who hates him and a girlfriend who ignores him*. That is until he meets the aptly named assassin Fox, played by Angelina Jolie.

Following the murder of Wes's father, Fox recruits him to join the Fraternity, a secret society that teaches Wes to unlock powers of lightning reflexes, enormous speed and above average sexiness. But, as with any mysterious sect, the Fraternity is not all it seems.



Bekmambetov has already shown that he has no shortage of ideas for action sequences with Night Watch and Day Watch. Those films were a little lacking in overall coherence, but we're pumped to see what he can do with a proper Hollywood budget and the combination of Jolie and McAvoy is one that excites us in all possible ways – that's a lot of charisma to fit on one screen. The premise of the original Wanted comic book series, which we haven't actually read, is said to take inspiration from across the DC universe sounds like juicy material too. Very excited to see how this one turns out.

Source: Empire Online.

Angelina Jolie takes her oldest son Maddox, 6, for the ultimate toy shopping spree at KB Toys in Beverly Hills on Sunday afternoon. Maddox seemed to enjoy the talking parrot the most!

Momgelina and Maddox came out carrying three huge bags full of toys, some of which I’m sure are for Mad’s brothers and sisters!

Toy purchases include a Warrior Playset, a Rapid Fire Dart Blaster and Pop Rocks candy.

And best of all, Angie picked up The High School Musical East High Yearbook Dress-Up Collection! YES!!! GO WILDCATS!!! Princess Zahara might be a cheerleader or Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) for Halloween!!!



Source: Just Jared.

Brad Pitt has rubbished rumours his relationship with Angelina Jolie is in trouble.

The 43-year-old actor insists Angelina is the love of his life, and they live a happy family life with their 17-month-old biological daughter Shiloh and adopted children, Maddox, six, Pax, three and Zahara, two.

Brad said: "I don't really read any of the gossip columns or listen to any of the rumors but it's all rubbish.

"Angelina is my love, my partner and she is the mother of my children.

"We're a normal family - a mother, a father and kids."

Last month, Angelina also dismissed claims their romance was on the rocks, insisting: "These rumors don't affect you if you don't pay attention to them.

"We will grow old together. Brad is the first man to understand me and give the impression we are a team."

In August, it was reported Angelina and Brad had a huge argument about politics which ended with her throwing a glass of wine over him.

A source said: "They got into a huge fight about politics. Angie was cursing at him and ended up throwing a glass of wine in his face.

"Brad was absolutely disgusted by Angelina's behavior. Their romance is falling apart."

Source: AZ Central.

It was the morning of the day after, and Brad Pitt, the man who plays Jesse James in his latest film, was reflecting on what it feels like to be a hunted man with a bounty on his head.

He knows - better, maybe, than even Jesse James.

At the North American premiere of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," which had taken place the night before at the Toronto International Film Festival, things turned into a mob scene. The description of the event was not pretty.

Pitt and the somewhat well-known mother of his child, Angelina Jolie, were being driven from the movie to a party that was to take place in a roped-off street area. When they were spotted, crowds of people blocked their car. Seven people threw themselves onto the hood or front grill. Some people got out of their cars - leaving them parked in the street - to run up and get a look and take pictures with their cell phones. One woman pressed her baby up to the window. Jolie, looking like a paralyzed zombie in the back seat, was saying, "Get back to the hotel" while Pitt was yelling at the driver, who could move the car only an inch at a time.

Nonetheless, a nonplussed Pitt, 43, showed up for his news conference the next morning, even though his blue eyes looked a bit more tired than in the movies. He was wearing a tan shirt and a grey newsboy cap. He said the cap was necessary because his blond hair has a "skunk stripe" down the middle for a Coen brothers movie he's shooting in New York.

He validated the description of the night before, but he didn't seem to be uptight about it. "Sure, it got a bit chaotic, but I guess it meant something to those people. I'm just glad the kids weren't here."

Jolie, 32, his "life partner" and co-star in the 2005 hit "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," was nowhere in sight. Presumably, she was somewhere behind locked doors and not likely to come out. Their children - Maddox, 6; Pax, 3; Zahara, 2; and Shiloh, 1 - were back in New York. Jolie adopted the three older children from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Coming on top of a furor at the Venice Film Festival, you'd think Pitt would be flustered. Going into the theater in Venice, he was attacked by a woman who grabbed him from behind.

"I haven't been jumped like that in a while." At the conclusion of a news conference there, his table was stampeded by 200 journalists who rushed forward - all at once. The couple's house has been broken into several times.

"It's all a part of the deal," he said, seeming weary but resigned. "I refuse to get paranoid about it. If you want the benefits, you pay the price, but it's a constant negotiation to keep everyone safe and to survive with any kind of family life.

"We get to travel the world. We are paid very well. It's the price you pay, but it is a very delicate balance to try and have a real life and a family experience. They try to take pictures up Angie's dress. They push cameras in the kids' faces and call them by name. We've been run out of every town we visit."

The phenomenon called Brangelina reached fever pitch when the media stood vigil in remote Namibia, Africa, last year to record the birth of their biological child, Shiloh. They have homes in Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans but seldom visit them - staying on the road.

Of the rumors of a breakup, he said, "She's my life partner, the mother of my children. We're a team."

Does she help him choose scripts? "She reads everything, and she's very opinionated. Sometimes she ticks me off. That's healthy."

It would seem Pitt has more than just the same hometown in common with Jesse James, one of the first such celebrities in Americana. They are both from Springfield, Mo. "I go back there to visit the family," Pitt said. "It's the quiet place in my life."

James, with the possible exception of Billy the Kid, is the most famous outlaw in Western myth. Pursued? He was hounded and eventually was killed by a worshipful member of his own gang. His myth was furthered by dime-store novels in the same way Pitt's is in tabloid newspapers. Souvenirs of the outlaw's exploits (phony bullets and photographs, cowboy hats) were sold by profiteers in his name. When Pitt read Ron Hansen's 1983 novel about James, he wanted to play him - even though the character has been done many times.

"I'd call it more a psychological drama than a Western. I had no interest in doing a standard shoot-'em-up. They've been done better before. I think Jesse didn't adjust as well as I have - or am trying to. He was paranoid. He became afraid of everyone - even the members of his gang."

The 2 hour and 40 minute movie opens today at the Regal Columbus Stadium 12 theaters in Virginia Beach. Features glorious vistas, it was shot in Canada, near the same location where Pitt shot "Legends of the Fall" in 1994.

Even in the wilds near Calgary, photographers stalked the set, hiding in trees. One wore a camouflage outfit to crawl through the grass, Pitt said.

Traveling with a posse of bodyguards and family, the couple globe-hop constantly to movie sets and to support their causes. Hers is refugees, his replacing homes in destitute sections of New Orleans.

After a few more questions, Pitt headed back out onto the street where a Toronto mob was waiting. Fame is his job, and he knows the requirements.

Maybe Jesse James couldn't handle it, but Brad Pitt can.

By Mal Vincent

Source: Hampton Roads.

She is a Hollywood icon and one of the world's most desired women. But fame can come at a terrible price – even if you're Angelina Jolie.

Here's what the average Joe thinks about Angelina Jolie: she makes movies, she makes millions, she's with Brad Pitt, she globetrots, she collects children from all over the world the way people do souvenirs. Life must be good if you're Angie.

Now, here's what we think. Yeah, she is a movie star, yes, she makes millions, and yes, yes, yes a zillion times to be with Brad Pitt. But the truth is, all isn't hunky dory in Jolie's world. Here are five reasons why you wouldn't want to be Angelina Jolie.



Parental problems

When Angie's mom Marcheline Bertrand passed away, it was a blow she couldn't come to terms with. Now in normal circumstances, one would turn to their other parent for support. Not Jolie. Not with dad Jon Voight, a man she disowned a long time ago. Instead, Jolie cut herself off. From the world, from the man she loves, from the brother she loves, from food even. Her weight plummetted.

Her eyes lost their sparkle. And despite the career of her dreams, Jolie has the people who love her worried sick. To make matters worse, Voight says it was Marcheline who turned their children away from him. In a recent statement, he said, "I feel it comes from their inability to let go of years of programmed anger from their mother."

Attention seeker

Pain was something Jolie learnt to live with at a very young age. From her teens, she started cutting herself, so that she "could connect with other human beings". It was a cry for help that went unnoticed. As a result, she would go to extremes. Part of that attention-grabbing tactic included sharing a passionate kiss with her brother Haven.

She followed that by questionable behaviour with her father. Soon after, came her marriage to Johnny Lee Miller. Jolie walked down the aisle in a white t-shirt with Miller's name written in her blood. Then came Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie proudly declared that she wore a vial of Thornton's blood around her neck.

Media madness

Initially, media hype might be fun. It might even be what many dream of. But after months of being hounded, the magic dies. Imagine not being able to take your kids to the park, not cuddle with your boyfriend, not even have a bad hair day, without it being immortalised on some paparazzo's camera. No wonder Jolie seems a shadow of her former outgoing self. Who wouldn't want to hide from a world with such prying eyes?

Invaded by insecurities

Being with a man as desirable as Brad Pitt is every woman's dream. But it comes the constant insecurity that being with someone like Pitt can bring on. First up is Pitt's close relationship with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. When he decided to work with Aniston on an upcoming project, Jolie is said to have gone ballistic. To make matters worse, he's now signed up to star with ex-fiancee Gwyneth Paltrow in a new movie.

So what can Angie do, short of walking out on a man she loves? Withdraw? Argue? Fight? Make matters worse? She ended up keeping an even tighter reign on a man who naturally wanted to break free from those shackles. As things stand now, Jolie says their relationship is rock solid. But if that was true, where's the light in her eyes? Where's the girl who once was but can't be any more?



Being skinny sucks

While women secretly hate other women who lose their post-pregnancy fat in a blink, in Jolie's case, the speed at which her fat has melted away is alarmingly sad. At the premiere of A Mighty Heart, Jolie said, "Saying that I'm thin is not a compliment. This year I lost my mom and I've gone through a lot. It's been hard." Listen to her words. "Been hard", "Gone through a lot". Doesn't this sound like another cry for help? But who's listening? The media, who just want another story? Brad, who just wants someone normal in his life? Her brother, who's powerless to do anything but stand by and watch?

But hey, before you go and pity the harsh life of this poor little rich girl, all's not lost. Jolie's role in A Mighty Heart is screaming Oscar success. She has an international family, the hottest man in Hollywood, millions in the bank and lips to die for. Even if she does have her share of problems, even if she struggles for love, struggles to connect, struggles every step of the way, she's got more love than most. She's got the love of millions of fans. And if someone has that, inner happiness can't be too far away.

By Mubashera Asgher

Source: Gulf News.

Angelina Jolie uses her motherly instincts while filming more scenes with kid costar Devon Conti on the set of The Changeling in Pasadena, Calif. on Friday.

The mother-son pair filmed in front of the Daniel Webster Elementary School, where one of the placards read: “Where All Students Achieve Success.”

In the Clint Eastwood-directed film, Conti, 10, plays the son of Angie’s character named Arthur Hutchins. Angie’s character suspects the boy who comes back to her after being kidnapped is not hers.

Wild-haired producer Brian Grazer was also on set.



Source: Just Jared.

Angelina Jolie and costar Jeffrey Donovan film scenes for their upcoming movie The Changeling at the historic Santa Fe Train Depot in San Bernadino, Calif.

“The scene does involve an old railroad station, but not the one in San Bernardino. It’s to replicate another Southern California station,” said Mike Fortunato, property manager for the depot.

This was the last day of shooting at the depot.



Source: Just Jared.

Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston have been pitted together once again, but this time it is not over Brad Pitt. The two actresses will hash it out on the front of W magazine. The magazine has put both women on the cover of their latest issue, informs Finditt Entertainment.

A new poll has put Aniston in the no.1 title of whose celebrity face sells the most magazines. Jolie might have won over Pitt, but it the poll is right she won’t be winning this battle.

Apparently Aniston is tired of keeping quiet about Jolie and Pitt’s relationship and is ready to dish the dirt on her ex and his new love. Recent reports have claimed she already told Pitt she hated him, and is ready to reveal all in an interview.

W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Considered one of the most fashionable monthly publications, W is filled with ads for high fashion houses and rivals Vogue and Vanity Fair for sophistication and style.

The magazine is ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall–has grown in popularity, and can be found at many retailers in the U.S. The scope of W has always been the haute mode, initially with a focus in couture, but shifting easily into the realm of high-end women's pret-à-porter.

Often the subject of controversy, W magazine has featured stories and covers which have provoked mixed responses from its intended audience.

Even more recently, W was chosen to produce and exhibit a 60-page Steven Klein portfolio of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt entitled "Domestic Bliss". The shoot was based upon Pitt's idea of the irony of the perfect American family; set in 1963, the photographs mirror the era when 1960s disillusionment was boiling under the facade of pristine 1950s suburbia.

Source: Moldova.

In good news for economic rationalists, it finally appears that Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's magnum opus, is finally set to become a movie blockbuster. This follows the novel having been planned as a Hollywood movie for the last few years.

Vadim Perelman has been confirmed as the film's director, whilst Angelina Jolie will play Dagny Taggart, the railroad executive who encounters so much opposition and resistance - until she meets the protagonist, John Galt.

These exciting developments follow the 50th birthday of the ground-breaking novel, often said to be the second most influential book in America - second only to the Bible. Andrew Bernstein wrote an article, 'Productivity a moral virtue' published in The Australian on October 8 this year, to commemorate the anniversary.

Many people today criticise Ayn Rand's philosophy and championing of pure capitalism. And whilst such criticisms are often valid, (pure capitalism is a very imperfect system, even if it is far better than socialism) this is by no means a legitimate excuse for ignoring the central message of Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas is set in the early 20th century, in an American society with socialistic moral values which promote altruism and collectivism, and an economy which is increasingly being crippled by market-destroying government regulations. The more Dagny tries to advance the interests of her company, the more she is opposed by Government bureaucrats who resent her abilities and despise her successes. This is happening to all talented individuals who have created their own fortunes, as Government policy seems intent on ensuring that the proceeds of their work are shared evenly throughout the nation.

The major lesson from Atlas Shrugged still has great relevance today, particularly since the left today are continually questioning economic rationalism, and accusing its proponents of being "market fundamentalists", among other silly labels. Simply put, the primary message of Atlas Shrugged is this: that values which promote innovation, productivity and genius are superior to moral codes which do not value these traits. As a result, rational ethics will value individualism, moderate selfishness and freedom of choice above values to which many of us are more accustomed, such as self-sacrifice and substantive equality. A social system which rewards people for creating their own wealth, rather than enjoying the wealth of others, is always going to produce a wealthier and more peaceful society than one which does not provide such incentives.

Reality does support such attitudes. For instance, it is true that capitalism has resulted in far fewer deaths than socialist dictatorships, whether they be fascist or Communist in name. Further, capitalism and economic rationalism have brought the prosperity we enjoy today, whilst nations which have clung to the Socialist dream have suffered from abject despair and poverty, time and time again. Discouraging intelligence and hard work is effectively killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, as these qualities are indispensable to wealth being abundant in society.

Atlas Shrugged also provides strong rebuttals to the moral relativism of many in the left, such as those who support "mushy multiculturalism" and oppose citizenship tests. As Ayn Rand shows, values are an indispensable base that society must have in order to become free and prosperous. In order to have freedom and prosperity, it is vital that the majority of people in a society also value freedom, self-interest and hard work. Karl Marx once wrote that the economic system which exists in a society determines the values and dialectic which exists in that society. The reverse is in fact the case: values provide the intellectual and moral basis for the social and economic systems which exist. The left hence stands corrected in its view that socialist and other fundamentalist values are harmless, and should in fact be encouraged.

Not only would I recommend that you go and see this movie when it's out, I would also recommend that you bring as many socialist sympathisers along as possible, so that they too can witness the ultimate consequence of their political leanings in practice.

By Leon Bertrand

Source: Online Opinion.