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Who else is excited for this time next week? The Cannes Film Festival kicks into gear soon and Inglourious Basterds is set to debut on May 20th as part of the competition. This is excellent news for PittWatch people!
If the movie starts on the 20th, that means there’s a good chance that we’ll see photos of Brad Pitt arriving at Cannes as early as the 19th. Then we know we’ll get two sets of photos on the Wednesday because there’s always a photo call for the press early in the day, followed by the red carpet arrival photos later on.
While there’s nothing official out there yet, we can all figure there’s a really good chance that Angelina Jolie will be on the red carpet with Brad Pitt the night of Inglourious Basterds. Not only do they both always support each other on the red carpet whenever possible (notable and understandable exception – right after Angie gave birth to Knox and Vivienne of course!), it’s quite possible it will be the first time that Brad and Angelina get to see the movie themselves.
I have heard whispers that Angelina got time off from shooting Salt in order to accompany Brad to Cannes, but that it will be a very in-and-out visit due to her schedule, so it will just be the two of them. While I’d love to see the kids too, I’m perfectly happy with just seeing Brad and Angelina on the red carpet thanks.
Time has a nice piece up about the Cannes Film Festival in general, where they mention that Brad is practically a staple of the event:
As for Brad Pitt, he’s been a regular eminence here. He was on-screen in 2006 for Ocean’s Thirteen but stayed in Namibia to be with Angelina Jolie as she gave birth to their daughter Shiloh, was here in 2007 for Babel, and accompanied Jolie last year when she starred in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. Now he’s the star of Quentin Tarantino’s World War II epic Inglourious Basterds. So, to fanciers of ambitious films and soulful beefcake, Pitt and Depp will be battling for the title of Sexiest 45-Year-Old to Walk Up the Red Carpet.
(If I may make an aside, I see no need to battle it out. As far as I’m concerned, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp can just stand side-by-side and call it a tie while I drool.)
Later in the article they mention Quentin Tarantino and Inglourious Basterds again:
Tarantino, who’s as much a movie fan as a moviemaker, is always welcome here; last year his two-hour conversation with film critic Michel Ciment filled the 900-seat Debussy theater to overflowing. Inglourious Basterds marks his first competition effort since he copped the Palme d’Or, Cannes’ top prize, in 1994 with Pulp Fiction. His war movie, with Pitt leading a squad of Jewish-American soldiers against the Nazis, is the centerpiece selection a week from today.
I am very eager to not only see the red carpet Cannes photos (and see what Angelina wears this year – last year she wore my favorite green dress, as pictured above!), I can’t wait to hear what the critics say about Inglourious Basterds. They showed a brief trailer of it in the theater on Saturday while showing a quick selection of upcoming summer blockbusters, and it seriously looks like a great flick.
There’s no telling what stories and photos will be available over the next few days – maybe more grocery outings, Brad hanging out with the kids, or Salt set photos – but stick close to PittWatch this time next week because I guarantee I’ll be very busy getting photos and videos of Brad Pitt (and Angelina Jolie!) at the Cannes Film Festival up online!
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477 days ago
Looking forward to next week. I was hoping to see the whole family, but now that I am thinking about it, it would be good for just Brad and Angie to go. This would give them a little bit of quiet time to catch up. I have the feeling that PopPop and Grammie have come to help out right now with both Brad and Angie being busy working. He has to take care of business also. Looking at the schedule of Brad’s up and coming films it looks like he will be filming and Angie will be watching the children.
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477 days ago
joliepittfanatic
May 13, 2009 at 9:37 pm
It is strange that the mags. don’t talks about the twins. I guess because they are the second round of bio kids and shi was first, and every one thought they would only adopt. The novelty wore off, besides they are too busy trying to say they broke up. they would probably talk about the twins more if there were pics to go with it, out of site out of mind.
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477 days ago
Kim, I agree with you. If Brad and Angelina were being seen more together (as in if they weren’t both busy right now), the twins might be more of a topic, but as it is they’re so occupied with trying to report tabloid-worthy headlines over how they’re constantly splitting up that they haven’t had time!
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476 days ago
taylor- I never said that. In fact, I understand completely why we don’t see the twins. I’m just saying that, when Shi was little, people practically got up in arms whenever she wasn’t seen out with the older kids, and said things like “Where’s Shiloh?” “Why do Angie and Brad treat Shi different than their adopted kids”?, etc.
However, now the twins are rarely seen, and no one says a word. I’m simply wondering what made the h8ters come to their senses this time around!
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476 days ago
kim- You’re probably right. I was actually referring more the h8ters among the general public (even on this very blog, people would complain about Shi not being out when she was younger. Of course, thanks to the comments being moderated, they were pretty tame compared to what people were saying on other blogs!), but what you said probably applies to them as well. :)
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476 days ago
I just came up with a new theory as to what could be at least partially the reason why people aren’t up in arms when the twins aren’t seen out and about, even though they were when Shi wasn’t out when she was younger.
Remember how, in January 2007, Angie referred to Shi as a “blob” in her Elle interview. People blew that way out of proportion and acted as though Angie had used a cuss word to refer to her daughter or outright said she h8ted her daughter or something! Of course it was actually the interviewer who suggested the term and Angie just agreed with it, but the h8ters conviently forgot that.
Angie also said in her interview that she felt more for Mad and Z because they are “survivors” and weren’t born priveleged like Shiloh. The h8ters jumped on that, too, claiming that Angie h8tes Shi and favors her adopted kids.
Anyway, I can’t help but wonder if that fueled the “Where’s Shiloh?” complaints. With the twins, Angie has always spoken of them lovingly, so naturlly the h8ters can’t claim that she h8tes them.
I also wonder if part of it could be that, when Shi was little, the amount of times she was seen out could only be compared with the times Mad and Zee were seen out as babies, whereas with the twins, the amount of times they’re seen can be compared with Shi.
What I mean by that is, people can’t really say that the twins not being out means that Angie is favoring her adopted kids, as Shi also wasn’t seen out very much when she was a baby. Whereas with Shi, her only older siblings at the time were adopted, so it was the adopted vs. biological thing going on.
A third thing I wonder about is if people are simply more understanding of the fact that Angie and Brad don’t always take all the kids out now that there are six kids altogether, as opposed to just three and then four (when Pax was adopted).
Anyway, I hope I’m making at least some sense here! :)
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476 days ago
Okay, let us rewind information of Cannes in 2004. Brad was with Jennifer for Troy and Angie was there too for Shark Tales. They already filmed part of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. If you watch the uncut version of MMS dvd, some scenes were filmed in January 2004. Jennifer was already jealous of Brad and Angie’s friendship. I read somewhere from a blog that Angie did not attend most of the gala dinners and stayed in her hotel (may be with Maddox). Remember, her prime residence in 2004 was a suburb of London. After the Cannes festivities, Brad and Jen went to Paris, sort of a romantiic vacation to be close together. There were a couple of pictures taken outside a Bistro. Of course Angie in the same year was also promoting Alexander with Colin. But in May 2004, Brad and Angie already knew each other but did not speak to each other at Cannes for obvious reasons. This is why I am furious with the tabs whenever they label Angie to be the homewrecker when she had given all respect for Jennifer’s feelings.
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476 days ago
i agree with u lucy.anyways hope to see angie on the red carpet with brad.
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475 days ago
hi jp fans. first post. hope it goes through.
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