There are plenty of powerful women working in Hollywood today and innumerable great beauties. But there is, arguably, only one actress whose glamour can bear comparison with the screen idols of 1950s Hollywood: Angelina Jolie.

Johnny Depp, her co-star in her most recent film, The Tourist, called her and Brad Pitt ‘the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of our era’, a not entirely outlandish description. Read the rest of this entry…

Angelina and Brad arrive at the Los Angeles premiere Of DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Kung Fu Panda 2′ held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

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Angelina and Brad Pitt attend “The Tree Of Life” Premiere during the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival.

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FilmDistrict has been tapped to release Angelina Jolie’s feature directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey, which is now slated to open Dec. 23 in the U.S.

The pact was announced Sunday in Cannes by Graham King and his producing partner Tim Headington, together with Peter Schlessel, CEO of FilmDistrict, the new production and distribution company that GK Films launched last year.

GK Films also produced the film, which Jolie wrote as well as directed.

Land is set against the backdrop of the Bonsian Civil War in the 1990s, and Jolie said, “The film is specific to the Bosnian War, but it’s also universal. I wanted to tell a story of how human relationships and behavior are deeply affected by living inside a war.”

It stars Zana Marjanovic (Snow), Goran Kostic and Rade Serbedzija (In the Rain). Jolie worked with a completely local cast, filming the project in both Serbo-Croation, the language spoken at the time of the war, and English. FilmDistrict will be releasing the English-language version.

“The former Yugoslavia has a rich history of dramatic arts. The cast was extraordinary. I was privileged and honored to work with them and I am very excited for everyone to see their immense talent,” Jolie added.

The project reteams Jolie with King, who produced last year’s thriller The Tourist, in which she starred with Johnny Depp.

“Working with Angelina on this film and story has been a great collaboration and I am extremely proud of this film,” said King. “The filmmaking is impeccable, and signals the arrival of a visceral and compelling storyteller.”

GK Films has several other titles that will also be released stateside in the fall: The Rum Diary, starring Depp, will be released by FilmDistrict on Oct. 28, and Martin Scorsese’s foray into 3D, Hugo Cabret, will be distributed by Paramount on Nov. 23.

Jolie, who has been in Cannes this week to promote DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2, in which she voices the character of the Trigress, directed the 2007 documentary A Place in Time before making her current move into helming a narrative feature.

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Angelina attends the ‘Kung Fu Panda II’ Photocall during the 64th Cannes Film Festival at the Carlton Hotel on May 12.

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With an Oscar, Brad Pitt as a beau and a face as recognizable as any on the planet, Angelina Jolie doesn’t fluster easily.

Stick her in a recording studio with her kids, though, and she’s a jangle of nerves.

“They know when Mommy’s funny and when Mommy’s not funny,” she says over tea at Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel.

Jolie, who stars opposite Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda 2 (in theaters May 26), says her six children — Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2 — were fixtures on the set and became “part agents, part managers.” Read the rest of this entry…

I have added pictures of Angelina and Jack Black from the upcoming film “Kung Fu Panda 2″, pose for a portrait in Glendale.

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