Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino’s latest action adventure film. In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Starring Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Kruger, Cloris Leachman, Mike Myers, Inglourious Basterds will be released on August 21, 2009.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie inspired by the 1921 short story of the same name. The film received 13 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Brad Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson.
Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells a story of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), a man who is born as an 86-year-old baby and grows younger each day. Taraji P. Henson plays Queenie, the "mother" who found Benjamin and decides to keep him despite his deformed look. As the people who surrounds Benjamin grows old and dies, Benjamin is left to deal with sadness which comes and goes so often. After spending 16 years at the nursing home, Benjamin leaves Queenie and everyone else behind to travel the world after meeting Captain Mike (Jared Harris). Even though, Benjamin does reconcile with Queenie and then falls in love with Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the end part is simply touching and heart-warming.
While Brad Pitt leads the movie with an ever awe-inspiring performance, actress Cate Blanchett has an equal strong performance as Daisy Fuller, the woman whom Benjamin loves all his life. Taraji P. Henson’s performance as Benjamin’s surrogate mother is simply outstanding.
Overall, even though the movie is 166 minutes long, time moves really quick, just like how Benjamin grows younger. The film is meaningful and affecting while the special effects are seamless, and the actors are just incredible. This is a masterpiece.
Burn After Reading is a comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. The movie is about two unscrupulous gym employees who found a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent and attempt to sell it. The movie is directed by Coen brothers of No Country for Old Men fame.
People magazine has won the bidding for the North American rights while Hello! magazine gets the international exclusive. It was reported People and Hello! magazine have paid a combined of $14 million for use of the images, with all proceeds going to charity.
The photos are scheduled to appear in Monday’s new issue of People and will debut on People.com on Sunday, 7pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).
Angelina Jolie gave birth to a son and daughter Saturday at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, according to her doctor.
“The babies are doing well. The operation went just perfectly,” Dr. Michel Sussmann said on Sunday. “Angelina is in very good spirits. Brad Pitt was at her side. He was there and all was well.”
Sussmann confirmed the Nice-Matin newspaper report that Jolie gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarean section on Saturday night. Knox weighed 5.03 lbs, and Vivienne 5 lbs.
The twins are the fifth and sixth children for Jolie and partner Brad Pitt, who are already parents to Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to turn their twins into the most lucrative newborns ever by fielding bids upwards of $25 million for the exclusive rights to the first pictures of the “Brangelina babies”.
The couple sold the pictures of their first natural child, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, for nearly $5 million and donated the money to charity.
The twins are already honored by the Mayor of Nice even before birth.
According to reports, if they are girls one baby will be given the middle name Marcheline, and the other will be called Jane after Pitt’s mother.
August 19, 2008 is the anticipated date for the twins.
Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is an old man who physically ages backward. He is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth.
