Brad Pitt

  • ‘Basterds’ Stays Hot Overseas

    Overseas total is $59.1 million, a small 29% drop from its debut weekend.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Weinsteins Sell ‘Basterds’ to the Masses — Cool!

    Say what you like about Harvey Weinstein. But when it came to marketing “Inglourious Basterds,” he hit it out of the park. The movie beat even the highest box office projections by more than $10 million. That’s worth a closer look. Here are the raw elements: A period film. Mainly in French and German. With…

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  • If Brad Pitt Smokes Weed …

      Anyone who watched Brad Pitt on Bill Maher’s show Friday learned some unexpected news: Brad smokes dope. Or used to. Apparently this somewhat inarticulate hunk (Who cares how he talks? … Just sit there and look pretty!) has a party past that includes being the perfect joint-rolling machine. As Bill Maher teased him about…

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    Naomi Serviss

  • Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’ Pleases; IFC Buys Loach, ‘Antichrist’

    You had to get up pretty early to score a spot at the very first screening of “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s new revenge fantasy set during World War II. Thousands of journalists mobbed the Palais de Festival, and even Harvey Weinstein himself was seen running frantically from one entrance to another as guards told him…

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  • Clooney, Madonna Call for Release of Burmese Leader

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate has been imprisoned for 13 years.

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    Amy Kaufman

  • Hollywood: Faster Change on Darfur!

    With their man now in the White House, George Clooney and others are starting to demand results

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    Michael Janofsky

  • Clooney Blogs on Darfur

    Actor and activist George Clooney has already brought his plea for peace in Darfur to the White House. In separate meetings last month, he pressed both President Obama and Vice President Biden to resuscitate diplomatic efforts to end the atrocities and starvation in  war-torn Sudan. Now the 47-year-old actor is blogging about his experiences on…

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    Johanna Neuman

  • Waiting for Oscar

    Oscar weekend is upon us, and your intrepid reporter is sharpening her stilettos and dusting off the same white Ralph Lauren pantsuit that takes her through the gauntlet of cocktail parties, shindigs, ceremonies and champagne receptions every darn year, all in the service of you, faithful reader.  I have this to say about ye olde…

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  • After Tony Scott’s Death, Scott Free Production Suspends Work on ‘The Counselor’

    Ridley Scott is directing the film, which stars Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt

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