Seriously? OMG! WTF?

This is Angelina Jolie in her latest film role – as the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl. Jolie, 31, has effected an astonishing transformation to become French freelance reporter Mariane Pearl, who was five months pregnant when her husband, 38, was kidnapped while on assignment in Pakistan in 2002. He was eventually beheaded by Islamic terrorists, despite pleas from his family and colleagues. The film is based on Mrs Pearl’s story of the tragedy, A Mighty Heart, which details the moment her husband disappeared through to the birth of their son Adam, now four. Filming began this week in India. P It is being made by Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B, with him as producer and Briton Michael Winterbottom directing. Jennifer Aniston was originally lined up to play the lead, already tipped by industry insiders as a potential Oscar contender. But following her divorce from Pitt, in which she relinquished part ownership of Plan B, he handed it to his new flame Jolie. There has, however, been some controversy over the casting. Some black campaign groups say it amounts to a "whitewash" – because Mrs Pearl is mixed race. One website, blacklooks.org, claims: "It is 2006 and I had assumed that the days when white actors took on roles of black people had long passed away." Another blogger adds: "This is just another example of the white washing of history. There are mixed/black women actresses who could have done a damn good job in this role. You can’t tell me that Halle Berry, Judy Reyes or other women of African descent wouldn’t have been a better choice." But Mrs Pearl has welcomed the casting, saying: "I’m delighted Angelina Jolie will be playing my role. I deeply admire her work." US actor Dan Futterman plays the role of Pearl. Jolie has described A Mighty Heart as being about "cross-cultural understanding and the values that people of all faiths share".

Daily Mail

Umm didn’t Halle Berry just take a role where she will be playing a white woman, where is the uproar over that?
Now back to Mariane Pearl she is a French woman who asked to be part of the US 911 fund for her husbnand’s death and also had an affair with a married man who left his wife and children for her. So count me out for seeing this movie. Daniel Pearl was admirable, Mariane Pearl is far from it.

As David Beckham’s international football career comes to an end it appears he has already lined up a new job as a children’s soccer coach. And the Real Madrid player’s first pupil on his books is none other than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s adopted son Maddox. The footy-mad five-year-old has already enrolled at the David Beckham Soccer Academy in Los Angeles, and now Pitt, 42, wants the ex-England captain to give Cambodian-born Maddox some one-on-one coaching. And the middleman behind this bizarre arrangement is former Wimbledon hard man Vinnie Jones. The 41-year-old footballer turned actor, who starred alongside Pitt in hit gangster movie Snatch, has become pals with Beckham thanks to his promotion work for his U.S. soccer schools and asked him to take a look at the kid. A source told The Sun: "Brad has asked if there is any chance of David giving a one-on-one tutorial. "It seems all the all the ex-pats from the UK join a local football team in Hollywood. Celebs like Robbie Williams, Jason Statham and Vinnie know each other through having a knockabout." The source added: "Maddox was being coached by an English guy over there who happened to tell Vinnie." The training request from the Fight Club star will no doubt please wife Victoria, 32, as they have been trying to establish Brand Beckham stateside for some time are keen to make friends with the Hollywood elite. The Beckhams already count Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes among their pals and are rumoured to want to move to LA after he retires from football.

Daily Mail 

I guess he found his next career move!

THE horrendous beheading by terrorist jihadis of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl while he was on assignment in Pakistan four years ago will be commemorated in a film to be made in India starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Last-minute arrangements for shooting the film adaptation of A Mighty Heart by Pearl’s widow, Marianne Pearl, are being made in the city of Pune with the Hollywood couple expected to arrive there on October 1. Pune is reported to have been selected because of the area’s similarity to the country between Pakistan’s two major cities, Islamabad and Karachi, where the drama surrounding the abduction and murder of Pearl took place. Pitt and Jolie are expected to spend at least a month in Pune, and local hotels have been booked out for the production crew that will accompany them. The film will reportedly also star Bollywood actors Irrfan Khan and Aly Khan. According to local hoteliers in Pune, security officials have been to the city to ensure the safety of the glamorous Hollywood couple. Given the subject of the film, it seems likely to incur the hostility of the usual suspects who support the jihadi cause. Previously, Pakistan has refused to allow filming, and there can be no doubt security concerns played a part in considerations, given the strength of jihadi fervour in the area.

The Australian

This has Oscar written all over it. 

People 

Is there anything she can’t do? 

Angelina Jolie has signed on to star in "A Mighty Heart," the adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s best-selling memoir about the kidnapping and murder of her journalist husband Daniel Pearl by Pakistani militants.The book focuses on her frantic search for her husband after he was snatched in Pakistan. He was then killed by his captors, suspected to be terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda."I am delighted that Angelina Jolie will be playing my role in the adaptation of my book," Pearl told Variety. "I deeply admire her work and what she is committed to. I am also happy that Michael Winterbottom, a versatile and talented director who genuinely loves truth, will be working on this project as well."
Production in the film is expected to start in the next five weeks.Jolie will next be seen in the "The Good Shepherd" with Matt Damon, which hits Canadian theatres on December 22.

Jam! Showbiz

So she is delighted to have Angelina play her, seriously what woman would not want Angelina to play her. And both women have something in common, both had husbands leave their wives for them. I take that back, Angelina did not steal Brad from Jen, but that is whole other post. 

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