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Angelina Jolie to replace Tom Cruise

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will replace Tom Cruise in the thriller movie 'Edwin A. Salt'. The film is being rewritten to cater to Jolie.

Once expected to star Tom Cruise, the Columbia Pictures espionage thriller will be redrafted by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer as a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie. Philip Noyce remains attached as director and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash are producing.

Jolie is close to a deal to play the title character, a CIA officer who's accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy and must elude capture long enough to establish her innocence.

Cruise had long flirted with the project, but that ended recently. The well-regarded script had several male movie stars circling.

Jolie took a liking to it, prompting the studio's decision to rewrite it. Sources said the project won't require that much of an overhaul to suit her.

After Universal beefed up Jolie's role in "Wanted" and then marketed the action film squarely on Jolie's shoulders and watched it gross $132 million domestically, Jolie reestablished, in the wake of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," that she is the rare female who is viable in the action genre, which has been almost the exclusive domain of men.

"Edwin A. Salt" will undergo a title change, and if everything falls into place, the film shapes up as a return vehicle for Jolie, who recently gave birth to twins. Another candidate for her return is the Lionsgate drama "Atlas Shrugged," which has been adapted by Randall Wallace from the Ayn Rand novel.

Jolie, who also provided a lead voice in the DreamWorks Animation hit "Kung Fu Panda," drew strong notices at the Cannes Film Festival for her starring role in the Clint Eastwood-directed drama "Changeling" for Imagine and Universal. That film opens in late October.


Brangelina Sell Their New Orleans Home

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly sold their New Orleans home. The sale of their $3.5 million home - which they bought two years ago while Brad was filming ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ - has fuelled reports the couple want to settle permanently in Europe.

Brad and pregnant Angelina are currently living in a leased property in the South of France as they prepare for the birth of their twins.

The 880-acre estate boasts 35 bedrooms, a banquet hall, chapel, lake, moat, two pools, a gym and even a recording studio which has been used in the past by rockers Sting and Pink Floyd.

Despite the move, Brad, 44, will maintain strong links with New Orleans, which is home to Brad’s Make It Right NOLA charitable foundation. However, a spokesperson for the couple has denied the couple have sold their property, saying: “This rumor going around that they’ve sold or are selling their house in New Orleans is not true. It’s just made up, as are a lot of things that are said about them.”

The city conveyance office also did not have any record that the couple had sold their New Orleans home, which they bought under the name Mondo Bongo Trust.

Angelina Jolie Thinking About Settling In France

Angelina Jolie has hinted she is planning to settle in France by enrolling her son Maddox in a local school.

The pregnant actress and her partner Brad Pitt, who recently splashed out $70 million on a property on the French Riviera, seem intent on staying in the country and educating their six children there after Angelina gives birth to twins.

A source said: “They have enrolled Maddox at a local school in Brignoles, it’s the nearest school to their chateau, and he’ll carry on where he left off at his French school in New Orleans.”

“They are trying to get the other kids into a local nursery in September. They both want the kids to live normal lives, and they’re going to stay in France.”

Angelina - who has three adopted children, six-year-old son Maddox, four-year-old Pax, Zahara, three, and two-year-old biological daughter Shiloh, with Brad - has even hired a private tutor to ensure the whole family become fluent in French.

The source added to E! online: “Maddox has got a French teacher to help him over summer and to make sure he doesn’t forget how to speak French, and the kids are all watching cartoons in French as well, rather than via English cable like they had at their last place.”

“The French teacher is coming three times a week and spending time with all of the children, as well as Brad and Angelina.”


Angelina Jolie Giving Her Children The Childhood She Always Wanted

Angelina Jolie is giving her family the childhood she always craved.

The Oscar-winning beauty - who has three adopted children, Maddox, six, Pax, four, and three-year-old Zahara, as well as two-year-old biological daughter Shiloh with partner Brad Pitt - revealed it has always been her dream to have children from different countries because it will help them develop a more mature outlook on life.

Angelina - who is expecting twins with Brad - said: “When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other.”

“I look at Shiloh - because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little - and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.”

Maddox was adopted from Cambodia, Pax from Vietnam and Zahara was rescued from poverty in Ethiopia.

Angelina and Brad also make sure the nannies they employ to help look after the children are from different walks of life.

She added to Vanity Fair magazine: “We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and backgrounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher - wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.”

Angelina Jolie And Father Jon Voight Hope To Mend Relationship

Actress Angelina Jolie has been estranged from her father Jon Voight for a long time, but recently the two have started to mend their relationship.

In fact, the actress said in a recent interview that they were starting to repair their longstanding rift.Voight, 69, told People.com, that he thinks his daughter looks very happy right now.

He added that after looking at photos of her from the Cannes Film Festival, “She looks like she’s having a couple of babies.” Jolie, who is already the mother of four, is expecting twins with partner Brad Pitt.

During an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Jolie said about Voight, “We are going to try to get to know each other and maybe try not to be this daddy and daughter, but to be there for each other as friends in the coming years.”

Angelina Jolie’s Slave Has Evil Media-Deceiving Twin
June 4th, 2008 at 15:00 by Shawn Lindseth

It’s been a long couple of weeks for Angelina Jolie. Not only has she given birth to twins (one of them with the spine on the outside), but she’s also uncovered a previously unknown breed of dinosaur in her new French backyard, and her food cravings just before birth caused her to break through a bakery’s glass window pane and eat the little man she found in there frosting cakes.

Except for the man she ate none of that’s true, of course, but it really doesn’t matter. If Angelina’s assistant has free reign to invent stories for the press then so do we. Or should we say her fake assistant.

Yes, Jolie’s got some woman posing as her assistant going about issuing press statements construed primarily of falsehoods and deceit – that’s where the recent untrue news Jolie gave birth in France came from.

Such horrific lies! Now that’s our kind of woman.Angelina Jolie’s been walking around with Brad Pitt’s new babies stuck inside her for over a year now, and she thinks it high time they came a’shootin’ out. What she doesn’t realise is she can’t poop them just yet, because although the typical human body needs only nine months to sufficiently materialise, acting ability of any calibre needs an additional three months.

Actually, Ang hasn’t been pregnant that long. If reports are to be believed the exact conception date can be traced back to a day in late November when Brad came home with a box of chocolate Twinkies (they’re in the oyster family). If reports aren’t to be believed than we have absolutely no idea how long the twins haven’t been separate sperm and egg.

A lady posing as Angelina’s assistant to several press outlets thinks those babies have been brewing long enough, and cooked up this story:

“According to reports in France, Angelina Jolie gave birth on Sunday at a Catholic clinic in the Aix-En-Provence region, OK! Magazine said Friday. French gossip sites reported that the babies were named Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane, in honor of the girls’ grandmothers.”

Look familiar? It should – we reported it a bit ago. But it’s a lie, and it hurts us to know we could be used to pass such falsehood unto you, our dearest friends. On a side note did you know it’s recently been discovered that Shaquille O’Neal is the son of legendary Hulk actor Bill Bixby and Murder She Wrote vixen Angela Lansbury? That one’s absolutely true – we swear. It’s been double checked!

Anyway, here’s the real scoop on the fake assistant, as phrased by Jolie’s something or other:

“A random individual has engaged in a scheme to intentionally harm my client and deceive her fans, the public and the media through illegal and tortuous impersonation of Ms Jolie’s long-time assistant, Holly.”

Such imposter-ism hasn’t been known in Hollywood since Skeletor made that blue He-Man - remember that? All of Eternia was duped - and we heard it made Teela afraid to love again. But what’s worse is the fact that Jolie’s fake-Holly’s apparently been at it for over a year. We don’t know what other stories she’s ruthlessly pushed on the public - perhaps the one where Jolie once kept manwhich in her butt for three whole days - but we certainly hope truth shall prevail!

Really we don’t care either way, but a strong paragraph-ender was really needed up there.


Angelina Jolie Open to Peace with Her Dad
Angelina Jolie may be opening the door to a future relationship with her estranged father, Jon Voight.

"I am hoping my relationship with my father will be more private in the future," Jolie told the U.K.'s Evening Standard newspaper in an interview this week. “At the end of the day we both wish the best for each other and we'll try to start communicating in some way."

Jolie and Voight have had little, if any, contact since 2002, when Voight made comments to Access Hollywood suggesting that she was unstable. The 32-year-old actress has made it clear in interviews that she had no time for Voight, whom she also claimed cheated on her late mother, French actress Marcheline Bertrand.

In the interview with the Standard, Jolie praises the parents of partner Brad Pitt for accepting her and her children she had adopted. "When I first met them I came in with two adopted children from other countries and I didn't know how they were going to be. But they equally love with them."

She also addresses her thinner figure, which she says is the result of trauma, not dieting."I've always been lean and this year I lost my mom and I've gone through a lot. I have four kids and I finished breastfeeding - it's been hard to get my nutrition back on track. Instead of people saying I look like a person dealing with something emotionally, they assume it's because I want to fit into skinny jeans."

Jolie has been seemingly everywhere this week, culminating with the New York City premiere of her new film A Mighty Heart. One major challenge in filming the movie, she says, was a scene in which her character gives birth. (The actress delivered her own daughter, Shiloh , by Caesarean.)

"Michael [Winter bottom, the director] had to explain labor to me because he was with his wife when she had children,"she says. "It was very funny having a bunch of men explaining how to scream at the top of my lungs."