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May 16 2013 09:09 AM ET

Cancer center details Angelina Jolie's treatment

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Angelina Jolie’s mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer, and her maternal grandmother also had ovarian cancer — strong evidence of an inherited, genetic risk that led the actress to have both of her healthy breasts removed to try to avoid the same fate, her doctor said Wednesday.

Jolie, 37, revealed on Tuesday that she carries a defective BRCA1 gene that puts her at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. She had mastectomies in February followed by reconstruction with implants in April, Dr. Kristi Funk said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Funk treated Jolie at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills and detailed her care on the center’s website. She would not disclose when Jolie learned she carried the faulty gene, which gives a woman up to an 87 percent lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and up to a 54 percent chance of ovarian cancer.

“This family history would certainly meet any insurance carrier’s criteria to cover genetic testing,” Funk wrote. READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2013 01:21 PM ET

Brad Pitt calls Angelina Jolie 'absolutely heroic' for undergoing a double mastectomy

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Today, actress Angelina Jolie announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy earlier this year — a revelation which many hailed as brave. That list now includes her fiance Brad Pitt. “Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I find Angie’s choice, as well as so many others like her, absolutely heroic. I thank our medical team for their care and focus,” Pitt told the London Evening Standard. READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2013 12:56 AM ET

Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy to prevent cancer likelihood

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Angelina Jolie recently underwent a double mastectomy after genetic tests determined the actress faced a high probability of developing breast cancer.

The Girl, Interrupted Oscar-winner revealed the news in a New York Times column published Tuesday titled “My Medical Choice,” saying that she wanted to avoid the same fate as her mother, who died at age 56 after battling the ovarian cancer for nearly a decade.

“I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made,” Jolie wrote in the essay. “My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.” READ FULL STORY »

Feb 25 2013 11:39 PM ET

Angelina Jolie teams up with the Coen brothers

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Joel and Ethan Coen have signed on to work on Angelina Jolie’s next project, EW confirmed Monday. The Oscar-winning screenwriters (Adapted for No Country For Old Men, and Original for Fargo), have agreed to rewrite the script for a film about Lou Zamperini, a former Olympian who was captured by the Japanese Navy while serving as an Air Force pilot in World War II. Jolie will direct.

The script will be based on Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling 2010 novel Unbroken, but the idea of a Zamperini project has been in the works for decades, with versions by screenwriters such as William Nicholson (Gladiator) and Richard LaGravanese (The Bridges of Madison County). After Zamperini’s B-24 crashed in the Pacific, he and two crew mates (one died at sea) survived on a tiny raft for 47 days, only to be taken prisoner and held in a Japanese internment camp for two and a half years. Assumed to be dead, Zamperini received a hero’s welcome upon his return to the United States and later returned to Japan to carry the Olympic torch at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, not far from where he had been imprisoned during WWII.

This will be Jolie’s first narrative feature since In The Land of Blood And Honey, her directorial debut. The Coen brothers, meanwhile, are best known for their success writing and directing their own projects – though they have written scripts for other directors, including Michael Hoffman’s Gambit, with Alan Rickman and Cameron Diaz, which should be released in the United States sometime in 2013. Regardless, this is an interesting, high-profile partnership on a story that seems to have awards potential written all over it.

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Read More:
EW Review: ‘Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption’
EW Review: ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’

Jan 14 2013 04:21 PM ET

Disney moves 'Maleficent' to summer 2014, claims summer 2015 for Capt. Jack Sparrow

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After a period of relative quiet in the House of Mouse’s feature film department, Disney’s magic cinema cauldron is brewing once more.

The studio announced today that Angelina Jolie’s live-action Maleficent — a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story from the perspective of its wicked villain — has been shifted from its original release date of March 14, 2014 to the far more high profile release of July 2, 2014, smack in the middle of the Independence Day holiday. It will also be released in 3-D.  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 23 2012 08:23 PM ET

Casting Net: Angelina Jolie's kids Pax and Zahara join her in 'Maleficent.' Plus: Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore

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• Giving a new meaning to the term “family film,” Angelina Jolie‘s children Pax and Zahara Jolie-Pitt will join their mother for small roles in Disney’s live-action fantasy movie Maleficent. The 8-year-old and 7-year-old (respectively) join 4-year-old sister Vivienne, who is playing the young version of Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning). Visual effects and production designer Robert Stromberg is making his feature directing debut. [Deadline]

• Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner, and Julianne Moore are all attached to Imagine, about an aging rock star (Pacino) who tries to right the rocky ship of his life after finding a letter sent to him by John Lennon when he was 19. Renner will play his son, and Moore the woman running the hotel the rocker checks into as he attempts to work out his life. First-time feature director Dan Fogelman (who penned Crazy, Stupid, Love) also wrote the script. [Deadline]

• Natasha Henstridge (Species) and CJ Adams (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) will star in Against the Wild, a family-geared action film about two children trapped in the Alaskan wilderness after their plane goes down. Richard Boddington (The Dogfather) is directing from his script. [Variety]

• Derek Jacobi (The King’s Speech, Gladiator) is joining Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco, as the blue blood who helps American movie star Grace Kelly (Kidman) learn how to become the Princess of Monaco. Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Parker Posey, Milo Ventimiglia, and Paz Vega (Spanglish) costar. Olivier Dahan (La vie en rose) is directing from a script by Arash Amel (The Expatriate). [Variety]

• Character actor David Paymer (The Five-Year Engagement) will appear in the Tom Clancy thriller Jack Ryan as a diplomat. He joins Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, and Kenneth Branagh, who is also directing. [Variety]

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Sep 4 2012 09:00 AM ET

Mary Pickford: The Angelina Jolie of her day, but much more famous

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Big eyes, a luscious mouth, Oscar-winning star of dozens of movies, fame on an enormous, worldwide scale, the daughter of actor parents, a feisty, independent and ambitious nature, one half of an enviously beautiful Hollywood power couple, trailed by fans and paparazzi.

Sounds like Angelina Jolie, right?

Actually, it also describes the woman who, many years earlier, when movies were black-and-white, emotionally gut-punching and entirely silent, staked her claim as “America’s sweetheart” and paved the way for Jolie, for Brangelina, for Hollywood as we know it: Mary Pickford.

You may hear Pickford’s name more and more these days, even if you don’t recognize it at first. A biopic on the actress, The First, will go into production in 2013, starring Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) as Pickford, and Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) as her first husband, Owen Moore. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced partnering with the Mary Pickford Foundation on a multi-year initiative to promote her long legacy.
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Sep 1 2012 05:29 PM ET

Notes for Charlize Theron: What are the challenges to making a journalist biopic?

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The lives of war correspondents are ripe with both lulls and action, and they’ve been translated, both truthfully and stuffed full of fiction, onto film for decades.

Charlize Theron is in talks to co-produce a biopic of slain war reporter Marie Colvin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story is based on the Vanity Fair article “Marie Colvin’s Private War” optioned by producer Basil Iwanyk and Thunder Road’s Peter Lawson. Theron would not only be taking on the challenge of representing a real-life journalist in a believable yet cinematic way, but a female journalist, which brings added complexities.

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Jun 19 2012 10:35 AM ET

First Look: Angelina Jolie as the evil sorceress 'Maleficent'

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“I’ve already got my horns fitted. My kids are very happy.”

Most moms don’t get the chance to say something like that, but Angelina Jolie is an unusual case. When she said this to EW, plans for the film version of Maleficent were still a few months off, but production is now underway on the update to the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty.

Disney has released the first image of the actress as the villainess in this live-action twist, which focuses not on the good princess Aurora, but on the backstory that led Maleficent to turn against the fairy-tale kingdom.

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Jun 8 2012 12:06 AM ET

Angelina Jolie to direct 'Fifty Shades of Grey'? Dream on ...

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The notion of Angelina Jolie directing a Fifty Shades of Grey movie is — to put it lightly — simply fan fiction.

Wishful thinking has turned into rumor, which in Hollywood is good enough to trigger many wild headlines that are followed by question marks. (Just like this one.)

Speculation began with a Deadline.com report that Angelina Jolie was being sought to direct the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey. Except … not really. Sources close to the project tell EW there is nothing to these reports but bogus speculation.

As Focus Features and Universal Pictures put together a plan to adapt the best-selling erotic novel (which started life as Twilight fan-fiction, only to transform into the year’s hottest literary sensation), agents and executives have engaged in much the same guessing and projecting that ordinary fans do: Who should direct? Who should write? Who should star? READ FULL STORY »

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