The couple that cries together, predicts Oscar picks together.

At least, that seems to be the case for A-list supernovas Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt who, according to Ange, shared a tender moment together while watching Ewan McGregor’s performance in the upcoming film The Impossible.

Jolie hosted a special screening of the movie — which centers on a family dealing with the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami — in London Monday night where she gushed about McGregor.

His harrowing performance as a distraught father is gaining Oscar buzz, and a glowing endorsement from Jolie is sure to help his chances.

“I have known you for years and you are one of my favorite actors and I’ve always loved to watch you, but I watched this and I didn’t recognize you,” Jolie told the Scottish actor. “To say it is one of the best performances of the year, really doesn’t give it credit, because it doesn’t feel like a performance. It’s from such an honest place and so deeply emotional.”

She went on to say that McGregor was so good, in fact, that he moved both she and her fiancé Brad Pitt to tears.

“You rarely see this emotion from a man on screen and I called (McGregor) later to tell him how much he made me cry,” she added. “I was crying, and I looked over at Brad and he was crying. It’s just really, really powerful. As an actor, I’m in awe.”

The Impossible also stars Naomi Watts and is set to hit theaters Dec. 21.

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On November 20, toys, school uniforms and playground equipment donated by Angelina Jolie and the Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, were given to children in the Koda settlement for internally displaced persons (IDPs), in the Tetrtskaro region.

Encouraged by the NGO– “Coalition for Justice”, internally displaced children made colorful drawings for Angelina Jolie for World Refugee Day in June of this year. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Georgia sent all the drawings along with children’s messages to the world-famous actress.

“I am touched by the emotions and enthusiasm put into these drawings,” Angelina Jolie said and expressed her good will to the children residing in the Koda settlement.

“In exchange, I’m sending you school uniforms and toys. But most of all, I hope that one day we can meet, and I can come and see you,” says Angelina Jolie in her video message to the children in the Koda settlement.

The UNHCR addresses the protection and assistance needs of some 276,000 persons of concern in Georgia, which includes more than 270,000 internally displaced people, around 1,500 de-jure stateless persons and 450 refugees.

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On Wednesday morning, as we readied the kids for school amidst a few of the usual complaints about not wanting to go, I saw a headline on the cover of The New York Times: Taliban Gun Down a Girl Who Spoke Up for Rights. The Taliban claimed that 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai “ignored their warnings, and she left them no choice.” They approached her school bus, asking for her by name, and shot her in the head for promoting girls’ education.

After reading the article, I felt compelled to share Malala’s story with my children. It was difficult for them to comprehend a world where men would try to kill a child whose only “crime” was the desire that she and others like her be allowed to go to school.

Malala’s story stayed with them throughout the day, and that night they were full of questions. We learned about Malala together, watching her interviews and reading her diaries. Malala was just 11 years old when she began blogging for the BBC. She wrote of life under the Taliban, of trading in her school uniform for colorless plain clothes, of hiding books under her shawl, and eventually having to stop going to school entirely.

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Hollywood Actress Angelina Jolie will cameo in Paolo Sorrentino’s upcoming project “La grande bellezza”, which means “The Great Beauty”.

Sorrentino said, “Hollywood beauty Angelina will have a “cameo role”.”

According to media sources, Sorrentino is angling a strong role for the Hollywood beauty. The movie cast features cameo by Jolie along with Italian actor Toni Servillo as a La Dolce Vita-style journalist.

Sources added that the project will be shot at Rome. The project is scheduled to be released sometime in 2013. Filmmakers vowed that if everything is done as it is scheduled; the project will land at the “Cannes Film Festival” where Sorrentino’s past five films have premiered in competition.

Angelina is currently filming her Disney film “Maleficent” which is about the wicked witch from the Sleeping Beauty cartoon.

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The Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been named as victims of phone hacking allegedly carried out by journalists at the News of the World.

Prosecutors in London alleged that two members of staff at the now-defunct Murdoch newspaper conspired to intercept the voicemail messages of Eunice Huthart, an associate of Pitt and Jolie, and other unnamed people connected to the actors.

Huthart is a former stunt double for Jolie and participant in the Gladiators game show.

The actors’ names emerged as prosecutors announced charges against eight people, including Andy Coulson, the former director of communications for the British prime minister, David Cameron, and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.

Seven of those charged are named in an alleged conspiracy that is said to have involved 600 victims – including a number of celebrities and politicians – over six years between 2000 and 2006.

Coulson and Brooks are charged in connection with the hacking of the phone of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

The announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in London means some of Rupert Murdoch’s former top aides have been charged with criminal offences. Also charged were Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, Ian Edmondson, former news editor, Greg Miskiw, another former news editor, Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter, James Weatherup, former assistant news editor, and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions, said 19 charges would be brought. Thurlbeck and Weatherup are alleged to have conspired to intercept the voicemail messages of “persons associated with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who included Eunice Huthart”, the CPS said.

Thurlbeck, a former chief reporter at the News of the World, said he would fight the charges laid against him. He said he was “most surprised and disappointed” at the the announcement. “I will vigorously fight to clear my reputation,” he said.

Brooks said: “I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship. I am distressed and angry that the CPS have reached this decision when they knew all the facts and were in a position to stop the case at this stage. The charge concerning Milly Dowler is particularly upsetting, not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime. I will vigorously defend these allegations.”

The announcement follows a Scotland Yard investigation that began in 2011,, after police had repeatedly said there was no need to reopen the investigation.

In July 2009, the Guardian began running a series of articles that claimed phone hacking was more widespread than previously admitted.

On Monday, police said they believed there were 4,775 potential victims of phone hacking, of whom 2,615 had been notified. The Metropolitan police deputy assistant commissioner, Sue Akers, told the Leveson inquiry that her force had notified more than 702 people who were “likely” to have been victims.

The CPS has received files from the Met’s Operation Weeting team covering 13 individuals, including 11 journalists from the News of the World and Mulcaire.

Source: Guardian

Brad Pitt has turned into a groomzilla.

The hunky actor can’t wait to tie the knot with partner Angelina Jolie and has been meticulously planning their big day for late September, even down to the placements and hymns.

The couple are set to tie the knot on their sprawling estate Chateau Miraval in France in front of just 20 guests including their six children Maddox, 10, Pax, nine, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Angelina isn’t so bothered about when they tie the knot — it’s Brad who is piling on the pressure.

“He wants the main house to be finished when the event takes place, even though the close friends and relatives who are invited aren’t the types to care.

“He wants everything to be absolutely perfect.”

Meanwhile it has been claimed the couple — who met on the 2004 set of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ — had plans to get married from the start of their relationship, according to the man who designed their engagement ring.

Robert Procop said: “Brad and Angelina are a very romantic couple. They always knew they’d be together forever and get married one day, right from the start.”

Robert also believes their relationship has matured with time.

He explained: “The relationship may have been all flying planes and riding motorcycles at the start, but any new relationship is exciting that way.

“Now though, they’ve settled into this wonderfully strong family unit and it’s beautiful how in love they are.”

The designer added: “They’re both lovely, very talented people that complement each other . . . when you’re with them, you can see how strongly in love they are.”

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We’re happy to report that Angelina Jolie’s dad Jon Voight is over the moon about her engagement to Brad Pitt.

We caught up with the proud papa at the Savages premiere in L.A. where he gushed to us all about his daughter’s impending nuptials.

Cue the wedding bells!

“I’m always excited for Angelina and Brad and my grandchildren,” Voight, 73, told us.

“I’m always happy when my children are happy, as every father is,” he told reporters. “I’ve seen the kids recently and everybody’s healthy. So it’s wonderful.”

“We truly have no [wedding] date,” Pitt recently told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival. “We actually, really, truly have no date. We’re still hoping we figure out marriage equality in the States before then,” adding that the couple’s engagement was “something that made sense.”

Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 48, have been together for seven years but got engaged just over two months ago.

So what kind of wedding gift do you get the couple that already has it all?! Voight laughed, “They’re just folks.”

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reported to be planning to tie the knot in the UK.

The Daily Star claims that the Hollywood megastars want to get married in a simple ceremony here before staging a larger celebration in France.

A source told the paper: “They’ve always planned to have the official part secretly with just their kids and family.

“They’re looking at Windsor register office, where Charles and Camilla and Elton John and David Furnish tied the knot. It allows same-sex marriages, something the couple passionately believe in.”

Both Brad and Ange are currently working in the UK, with Brad filming The Counselor and his wife-to-be working on Maleficent.

It has previously been reported that they are planning to marry this summer, but they have made no official announcement on the date or venue yet.

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Angelina Jolie’s wedding gown has already been sketched by Versace, it has been reported.

Insiders claim that the Italian fashion house has pooled ideas for what is set to become one of the most hotly anticipated bridal designs in the history of showbiz.

The rumours are supported by the fact that Angelina often wears the label’s creations for her biggest moments in the limelight – this year alone, the star chose Versace gowns for both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.

“Angelina wears Versace for special occasions, almost exclusively,” a source told British magazine Heat. “She hasn’t made a final decision, but Versace already have some early designs.”

Since becoming engaged to Brad Pitt in April of this year, Angelina’s possible couture choice for the big day has caused feverish speculation. Donatella Versace herself stated earlier this year that the brunette beauty looks wonderful in her designs.

“Angelina Jolie wears Versace spectacularly well, as she did at the Golden Globes this year,” she said.

Other creative forces have drawn up sketches of potential contenders in the hope to win the coveted commission.

Mark Badgley and James Mischka submitted a sketch of a classic, vintage-inspired gown to People, while Monique Lhuillier sketched a Chantilly lace gown with a beautiful V-neck. Meanwhile, Reem Acra envisioned Angelina in a “body-skimming ivory satin gown complete with a dramatic embellishment at the shoulder”.

Source: Belfast Telegraph

Forbes.com ranked Angelina Jolie as their 13th Most Powerful Celebrity just behind Tiger Woods and Taylor Swift. Her soon-to-be husband, Brad Pitt, ranked in the 28th spot. The #1 this year is Jennifer Lopez, who also topped Oprah Winfrey.

Source: Forbes