Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Christmas Vacation Cost Them a Reported $18,000 Per Night

While we were white-knuckling it through another cramped family Christmas,Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie went ahead and sprung for the five-figure holiday of our dreams. You know the one—where an entire body of water and security team protect you from unwanted relatives, and the accommodations are so luxe that Page Six is contractually obligated to breathlessly report each five-star detail.

Per said report, Pitt and Jolie are spending the holiday season in Phuket, Thailand—an island so exotic that it once starred in a Kim Kardashian Instagram scandal. More specifically, the recent By the Sea co-stars are said to be staying in a $18,000-per-night, 10-bedroom villa at the Amanpuri beach resort—an accommodation so exclusive, apparently, that it is not even featured on the resort’s Web site. Page Six assures us, however, that Pitt, Jolie, and their brood—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, andKnox—are getting their money’s worth: the “two-floor, mammoth spread . . . comes with a staff of eight servants, private gym and a pool surrounded by ‘minipagodas.’”

And if the Pitt-Jolie holiday lair is anything like the resort’s measly 9-bedroom villas, it also features ocean views, a Thai chef, king-size beds, media room, massage room, steam room, personal bar, sound system, and Wi-Fi. The resort’s Web site additionally boasts of its ancient Ayutthayan architecture and pristine location on the Andaman Sea, where it is “interspersed throughout a mature coconut plantation.”

In addition to hanging out at their $18,000-per-night digs, the family also jet-skied, swam, sailed on a yacht, played mini golf, and visited a local Hindu temple according to Us Weekly.

Before the holidays, the family spent some time in Cambodia, where Jolie is directing her latest film—the Netflix project First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers—with the help of son Maddox.

Source:http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-holiday-vacation

Angelina Jolie Pitt & Brad Pitt Vacationed in Vietnam Together!

Brad Pitt and his wife Angelina Jolie Pitt spent a pre-holiday vacation together in Vietnam!

The 40-year-old director/actress/activist and the 52-year-old actor were seen boating in Ha Long Bay together over the weekend. They left town on December 22 after visiting the homeland of their 12-year-old son, Pax.

Angelina and Brad also reportedly visited Old Quarter in Hanoi and some other tourist attractions around the country. Angelina and Brad were also seen visiting Cambodia in the recent weeks, which is where 14-year-old Maddox was born.

To check out photos of Brad and Angelina in Vietnam, head on over to Us Weekly.

Source:http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/24/angelina-jolie-pitt-brad-pitt-vacationed-in-vietnam-together/

Universal Is Really Wooing Angelina Jolie To Direct & Star In A Bride Of Frankenstein Remake! Get The Monstrous Deets HERE!

Universal is pulling out all the stops to reboot its new era of monster movies!

Last month, it was reported that the studio was in talks with Tom Cruise toproduce and star in a Mummy remake — which would launch an Avengers-style multi-verse and have cross-over capabilities with other monster movies!

And Universal has already been trying to woo another A-list actor to step to take the leading role of Bride of Frankenstein: Angelina Jolie Pitt!

The By The Sea writer-director-star has been rumored to be in talks to star and direct the film about the undead newlywed, and execs are doing all they can to charge up her enthusiasm!

Most recently, Universal tapped legendary writer David Koepp to pen the script of the remake — whose past work includes writing Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and War Of The Worlds!

Angie is supposedly waiting to read the script before she makes her decision. If all goes well for the studio, Koepp will craft a script so brilliant that she'll just have to say yes!

We're not sure how we feel about a multi-verse of monster movies yet, but we think Jolie could do amazing things with this role!

What do YOU think about the monstrous movies to come?

Source:http://perezhilton.com/2015-12-18-angelina-jolie-bride-of-frankenstein-remake-universal-monster-movies#.VnVGqbZ961s

Brad Pitt discusses family life with Angelina Jolie

 Brad Pitt says his family life with Angelina Jolie is a dream come true.

The 51-year-old actor opened up about the 40-year-old actress and their six children in a recent interview with The Telegraph. Pitt told the publication he always wanted a large family, and joked he and Jolie were initially "aiming for a dozen" kids.

"Everyone talks about the joy of having kids ... but I never knew how much I could love something until I looked in the faces of my children," the star said. "[There's] a lot of love, a lot of fighting, a lot of refereeing, a lot of teeth-brushing and spilling... Chaos, total chaos. But so much fun."

Pitt and Jolie are parents to 14-year-old son Maddox, 11-year-old Pax, 10-year-old daughter Zahara, 9-year-old son Shiloh and 7-year-old twin son and daughter Knox and Vivienne. The actor also shared his love for Jolie, saying he's "surprised" at how much their history means.

"That have this story together," he elaborated. "That we know each other. That we watch each other getting older, through amazing moments, joys, pains ... It means so much to me. I don't know. I'm just surprised, because you hear people talking about the old ball and chain, and people trying to recapture youth, as if that's the impulse -- but it's not the impulse, it's not the impulse at all."

Pitt and Jolie have been together since 2005, and married in August 2014. The couple's latest film, By the Sea, opened in theaters Nov. 13 to mixed reviews, and the pair previously told Entertainment Tonight they worked with son Maddox on the movie.

"We want to make it a family affair and have the kids running in and out of set," the actor said. "It's fun to see your boy grow up and take responsibility and [it's] very nice."

"Mad and I are now producing a film in Cambodia about his country and his history, so we love working together," Jolie added of First They Killed My Father. "It makes it so much nicer for me to not have to divide my time at home with my time at work."

Pitt will next appear in The Big Short with Christian Bale and Steve Carell, and is also slated for War Machine with Will Poulter. Jolie will direct and produce First They Killed My Father, and is rumored to star in Salt 2 and Maleficent 2.

Source:http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2015/12/01/Brad-Pitt-discusses-family-life-with-Angelina-Jolie/4401449000653/

Here's why you likely won't see Angelina Jolie's vanity project 'By the Sea' in this year's Oscar race

It had all the makings for a project that would appeal to Oscar.

A movie star writing, directing, and starring in a romantic drama, in which her fellow-movie-star husband plays opposite her.

But the opening weekend confirmed what many in Hollywood already knew: Angelina Jolie's latest directing effort, "By the Sea," is not going to be an Oscar contender.

"By the Sea" stars Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt as a married couple struggling to recapture the flame in their relationship following a traumatic event in their lives. They travel to a small French village to vacation, but that mostly entails Jolie's character perched on her balcony all day while Pitt's character gets drunk down the road at a cafe.

An intimate tale with little dialogue and even less happening (though it does have intriguing moments about being in a relationship), it will likely go down as a vanity project by Jolie that will be quickly forgotten or find an audience a generation from now at the repertory theaters.

So why was the movie even made?

The Pitts are still huge movie stars, and with "By the Sea" being touted as the pair's first time together on the screen since 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," many were intrigued.

Jolie also has a strong relationship with Universal, the studio that released the film. Her last directing effort, "Unbroken," was made at the studio. To keep the relationship secure with one of its big stars, Universal made a relatively small gamble in forking over $30 million ($10 million budget, the rest for prints and advertising).

But with negative reviews (the film currently has a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), the chances for "By the Sea" to do well in its opening weekend were slim.

On Sunday, "By the Sea" came in with a disappointing $95,440 in 10 theaters for a per-screen average of $9.544. But Universal isn't giving up. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio will expand the movie to 100 theaters in 40 markets next week.

But that's more to show it's not burying the movie. Universal has no intention of campaigning it for the awards season, a source close to the studio told Business Insider.

Tom O'Neil, of awards tracking site Gold Derby, told BI that early screenings of the film proved its lack of awards buzz.

"Audience reaction was mixed," O'Neil said of the screenings. "Some people view it as a lightweight vanity production brimming with arthouse pretension. Others truly appreciate the film, but don't feel passionately enough about it to champion for Oscars."

The film currently has a 100/1 shot to win Best Picture, according to the odds Gold Derby lists for the movies that could be eligible for the Academy Awards. That's one very long shot.

Source:http://www.businessinsider.in/Heres-why-you-likely-wont-see-Angelina-Jolies-vanity-project-By-the-Sea-in-this-years-Oscar-race/articleshow/49807927.cms

By the Sea Review: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt's Drama Gets 1.5 Stars, Enters Into "Gigli-Ville" Territory

In theaters Friday, Nov. 13

1.5 stars (out of 4 stars)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith have taken a trip to the Maltese Coast. And wow, are they miserable.

Don’t keep them company.

That’s the big takeaway from a pointless and glacially paced vanity project from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Written, produced, directed by, and costarring the missus, the film will be remembered — if it's remembered at all — as the couple’s ill-conceived turn into Gigli-ville. At least it’s significantly more gorgeous.

Strip away the pair’s sizzling and playful chemistry from their hit 2005 action flick. In this drama, the two play a married couple in the 1970s who, from the moment they arrive at the sleepy French beach hotel, palpably despise each other. He’s a writer named Roland; she’s a former dancer named Vanessa. Yet at no point will you not think to yourself, “That is Brad Pitt. That is his wife, Angelina Jolie. They are married in real life. I wonder how weird it was for her to direct her husband. It's crazy that they have six kids.” (Such is the downside of a super-famous Hollywood couple paired up on-screen).

“We’re here to get away from it all,” Roland explains in perfect Francais to the hotel owner at check-in. Indeed, judging from their stilted conversations and her penchant for self-medicating, there’s an underlying issue haunting them. (It’s so unoriginal that you will guess it within the first 30 minutes.) But this movie isn’t about solving a mystery — if only!

Jolie would rather capture fleeting scenes from a tormented marriage. For much of the pic, she smokes on the sun-kissed balcony and gazes forlornly into the horizon. It’s like she only wants to film herself looking as glamorous and bored as possible. (The woman even goes to bed in full makeup, complete with false eyelashes.) He drinks heavily and engages in wistful conversations with the seen-it-all owner. If there’s a narrative treasure in here, it’s buried deep in the sand.

These long days and nights at the beach perk up a bit upon the introduction of the young French honeymooners vacationing in the room next door. They’re friendly and in love, which piques Vanessa’s curiosity to unsettling degrees. With the discovery of a small hole at the bottom of the conjoined wall in her room, she becomes a 24/7 voyeur. She can’t stop watching them have sex and talk about having children and have more sex. Even after Roland catches her on the floor with a guilty smile on her face, the two watch together. But he does it as a form of bonding with his distant wife, while she just lets the rage burn deep inside her.

In a more sophisticated piece of work, this could have laid the foundation to a fascinating psychological thriller — one in which an emotionally pained housewife is determined to slowly sabotage her marriage, as well as the union of two perfectly happy strangers, in a dreamy international backdrop. And all her helpless husband can do is watch the drama unfold through a tiny peephole. Keep the original title; lose almost everything else.

Source:http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/by-the-sea-review-angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-drama-gets-15-stars-20151011#ixzz3r8xmGeXl

Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt Are a Stunning Red Carpet Couple at Event in N.Y.C.

One of Hollywood's most glamorous couples – Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt – stunned on the red carpet Wednesday night. 

The A-list pair stepped out for the WSJ Magazine 2015 Innovator Awards, where they kept close to one another on the red carpet at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. 

The pair might play a couple struggling with their marriage in their upcoming film, By the Sea, but there were certainly no signs of strife between the real-life couple Wednesday. The couple sweetly stayed close for most of the evening, and when Jolie Pitt stepped away for solo photos Pitt cast a protective eye over her to make sure she looked comfortable. 
The duo sat with Robert De Niro inside the event, and the Oscar-winning actor presented Jolie Pitt with the WSJ Innovator Award for Entertainment/Film.

Source:http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-pitt-brad-pitt-wsj-magazine-innovator-awards

Angelina Jolie's ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton looks completely different these days

He's been married SIX times and his most famous wife was Angelina Jolie .

But Billy Bob Thornton looks very different to when he was pictured with the Hollywood beauty during their marriage in the early 2000s.

The 60-year-old star was almost unrecognisable at the premiere of Our Brand Is Crisis in Los Angeles with his new wife Connie Angland last night.

Showing off a slimmer physique, the filmmaker walked the red carpet in a pair of baggy jeans, a black sleeveless t-shirt and garish black shoes with a matching bling belt.

He matched his rock and roll look with a pair of shades and held onto his wife's hand as they made their way past the paps.

Tattooed Billy was married to Angelina from 2000 to 2003 before she tied the knot with hunk Brad Pitt and they wore 'vials of blood' around their necks during their marriage.

Speaking about their bizarre decision, Billy said: "Angie came home one day with … you know those lockets you buy that are clear and you put a picture of your granny in it or something like that and wear it around your neck? That’s what it was. She bought two of those.

We were apart a lot because she's off making Tomb Raider and I'm making Monster's Ball. We were on opposite ends, we see each other for two weeks and whatever.

"She thought it would be interesting and romantic if we took a little razorblade and sliced our fingers, smeared a little blood on these lockets and you wear it around your neck just like you wear your son or daughter's baby hair in one. Same thing."

Billy married Connie, who is ten years his junior, last year and the pair have a daughter together, Bella, who was born in 2004.

Source:http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/angelina-jolies-ex-husband-billy-6714403

Angelina Jolie is enjoying acting again

The 40-year-old star, who previously claimed she wanted to focus solely on directing in the future, still doesn't see herself appearing in front of the camera forever, but admits she appreciates her career more now.

She said: ''What a crazy job! I'm almost enjoying it more now that I see it as something I've been fortunate to be part of.''

But the Oscar winner is still planning to cut back on the number of roles she takes on in order to pour her focus into her six children; Maddox, 14, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, nine, and seven-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, whom she has with her husband Brad Pitt. 

She said: ''Maybe in the next few years I'll finish being in front of the camera. I'll be happier behind it. 

''I'm happy to be home. I want to really focus on my children, doing the best I can to guide and protect them before they are out of the house. These are their most important years.''

Asked about her other plans for the future, she added to Vogue magazine: ''I'd like to be part of international work, and see where I can be useful, whatever way that takes shape. I still don't know what I'm capable of.''

Source:http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/182241/Angelina-Jolie-is-enjoying-acting-again