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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie to Star in The Counselor?

For the first time since the 2005 action-romance that brought them together, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may be set to burn up the big screen together. The Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-stars are in talks to appear alongside Shame’s Michael Fassbender and Javier Bardem in The Counselor , directed by Ridley Scott. According to reports, Brangelina’s project is set to begin in a few months, and the movie will shoot in Europe. Both the Jolie-Pitts and Scott have homes in France. Fassbender will play the title role of a respected lawyer who gets tangled in the drug business, while the film will reportedly deal with very gritty themes. Unlike when they shot Mr. and Mrs. Smith , however, Jolie and Pitt are a bona fide couple – with six kids. Until now they have alternated film projects. “We’re not ones to repeat ourselves, but we’d like to, because now, we’re hopscotching films so one can be with the kids and one’s free to work,” Pitt said. “And why aren’t we doing [movies] together? Why aren’t we doing everything together?” Looks like they soon will be.

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Brad Pitt Negotiating to Play Assassin in Adaptation of The Gray Man

According to Variety, Brad Pitt is negotiating to play the title role in the assassin thriller The Gray Man , adapted by Adam Cozad from Mark Greaney’s 2009 novel. The role would see Pitt as Court Gentry, an ex-CIA operative known for his lethal skill who goes on the run after his last job goes wrong, with action taking place across the globe. Could this be Hollywood’s next Bourne -style property?

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Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’

What a difference a few months make. When we profiled Josh Hutcherson in The Verge last August , he was a promising young actor in two low-profile films that failed to do much business. This year, though, his career has taken off with a bang: not only was he heavily considered to play the title character in the reboot of Spider-Man , but the 17-year-old has supplanted Brendan Fraser as the star of their franchise, Journey to the Center of the Earth . And then there’s Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right : as Laser, the young son who spurs his mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) to meet the sperm donor who fathered him, Hutcherson turns in a winning performance in one of the best films of the year. Last month, I sat down with the up-and-comer to discuss how shocked he was that people found Kids to be a comedy, what exactly is going on with the troubled remake of Red Dawn , and how he feels when he loses out on a major role (in what turned out to be a prescient conversation).

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Kate Winslet’s New Role

Kate Winslet is back at work despite recently ending her seven-year marriage. The Oscar winning actress, seen here on set in New York, is currently filming the upcoming HBO mini series, Mildred Pierce where she will play the title role. Set during the great depression, Winslet’s character is a newly divorced single mother who takes a job in a restaurant and soon finds herself caught up in a web of intrigue and murder. It’s the kind of part tailor-made for the 34-year-old, who has made a career of taking roles in period pieces. Mildred Pierce is a remake of the 1945 critically acclaimed film of the same name and earned Joan Crawford an Academy Award for her portrayal. Filming is expected to continue throughout April and will be aired later this year.

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