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Angelina Jolie Might Yet Get A Salt Sequel – New Writer Hired

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

If you look at the original Salt’s box-office or Cinemascore a sequel seems like an obvious move. At the same time, do you know anybody clamouring for more?

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Now, A Full Length Shot Of Angelina Jolie As Maleficent

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

After yesterday’s carefully posed and colour corrected image of Angelina Jolie as Sleeping Beauty‘s villainess, the evil sorceress Maleficent, here’s a full length costume shot. It’s worth bearing in mind that paparazzi shots won’t ever do a movie costume justice. …

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First Look At Angelina Jolie As Maleficent

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Angelina Jolie has always looked a little like a cartoon character to me, so I was confident she’d make a good Maleficent. Disney have sent us this image of her in costume and make up, and I think my instincts …

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Sharlto Copley Is The King In Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent Movie

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Sharlto Copley is in the frame to play King Stefan in Maleficent, the revised Sleeping Beauty story that is going to star Angelina Jolie as the titular big bad.

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Tim Burton Out, Robert Stromberg In For Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

For a while, Tim Burton was going to direct Maleficent, the topsy-turvy take on Sleeping Beauty that will refocus on the evil queen and let the docile blonde get on with sawing logs. Coming after Alice in Wonderland it would …

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Wanted 2 Brings Original Writers Back, And Mark Millar Hints At More Adaptations

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Hannah Shaw-Williams

The sequel to the 2008 adaptation of Mark Millar‘s graphic novel Wanted has been floating around in the aether for a long time. At one point it was supposedly canned after Angelina Jolie refused to return, mainly because [INSUFFICIENT SPOILER …

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Angelina Jolie Wants To Sequelise Salt, In Frame For David O. Russell Picture

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

David O. Russell, now divested of the Uncharted movie, can spread his attentions that little bit thicker. One of his in-development works is an adaptation of The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick’s novel about a man attempting to reconcile with …

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Hailee Steinfeld’s Sleeping Beauty Don’t Need No Stinking Kiss

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: Without doubt, one of the stars of Oscar season was Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit‘s Mattie Ross. Mattie demonstrated through word and deed that she was the equal of any hired gun when it came …

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Alien Prequel Not An Alien Prequel Anymore But Prometheus, Rapace Cast, Jolie And Theron Under Consideration

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

So, that Alien prequel we’ve been talking about for so long now? Seems it isn’t an Alien prequel anymore. Nope. All change. Here’s Ridley Scott’s own explanation: While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of …

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Laurent Cantet Adapting Joyce Carol Oates’ Foxfire

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

There’s already been one movie made of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang; a 1996 adaptation best known for giving Angelina Jolie an early role. That iteration was not entirely faithful to the source, not least …

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Angelina Jolie Rushes Special – Permit Off, Permit On, Controversy And Cameron

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Earlier this week, Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut – an as yet unnamed romance set in Bosnia – hit something of a hiccup when Bosnian officials revoked her filming permit. However, she was not at the time shooting in the country, …

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So It Looks Like Sandra Bullock Will Star In Gravity After All – But Why Did Jolie And Portman Pass?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Long story, cut short: Alfonso Cuaron wants to make a rather technically ambitious sci-fi movie called Gravity and, by all accounts, Warner Bros. are quite keen that it has a bankable actress in the lead role. Apparently, they’d consider it …

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Natalie Portman Offered Lead Role In Gravity

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Last week, the question was: who could get Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity the greenlight now that Angelina Jolie has passed on starring? Today, the answer looks to be: that little pixie from Garden State. As per Risky Business, Portman has been …

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Down With Gravity, Up With Code Name Sasha – And Sleeping Beauty Gets Back On Her Feet?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

It looks like everybody wants to be in Gravity except Angelina Jolie, and Angelina Jolie wants to be in everything except Gravity. Having already passed on the project once, Ms. Jolie has just given Alfonso Cuaron the cold shoulder for …

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Angelina Jolie Spills: Maleficent, Cleopatra, Scarpetta, Aranofsky’s Serena, Wanted 2

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

And you thought the IMDB In Development section was just a rusty bucket full of unfounded rumours and lies. MTV‘s Josh Horowitz played the Let’s Make a Headline game with Angelina Jolie at the Salt junket and came up trumps. …

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Angelina Jolie Says Call Me

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

I think the number one reason I’m interested in about Salt is that a features a main role for a woman that was initially written for a man. Will it ring hollow? Or will it be refreshing to see a …

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Not Avatar Plug Of The Week: Chase Variant

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Rich Johnston

I’ve got a new comic book out in the USA today, and in the UK tomorrow. Comic shops stocking Chase Variant for the shelf are listed at www.chasevariant.com and yes, I can’t believe the domain name was available either. Comic …

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