In this episode of 'THR Presents,' cinema legend and #Maria cinematographer Ed Lachman discusses collaborating with star Angelina Jolie on the @netflix biographical film about the life and inner world of the great 20th-century opera diva, Maria Callas pic.twitter.com/J9S1VK8zRx

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 9, 2024

Angelina Jolie delivers a "hypnotic" performance as Maria Callas in "Maria," Pablo Larraín’s striking biopic about the legendary soprano. Streaming Dec. 11 on Netflix — read @colemanjspilde's review here: https://t.co/HkiKtSfmVB

— Salon (@Salon) December 9, 2024

 

Announcing this year's list of highest-paid actresses: https://t.co/v0UmeALt8J pic.twitter.com/bRsajPaO8g

— Forbes (@Forbes) October 2, 2020

Angelina Jolie ranked No. 2 with $35.5 million. One of the few actresses on the list to pocket nearly all of her money from traditional films, Jolie’s biggest paycheck comes from her starring role in 'The Eternals,' the upcoming Marvel movie that has a $200 million budget pic.twitter.com/PvM16Gk1GT

— Forbes (@Forbes) October 2, 2020

Sofia Vergara tops our new ranking of the world’s highest paid actresses with $43 million, as the TV star led a surge of small-screen paydays that eclipsed those in the movie business pic.twitter.com/SrvmM2LR3u

— Forbes (@Forbes) October 2, 2020

METHODOLOGY

Earnings estimates are based on data from Nielsen, Box Office Mojo and IMDB, as well as interviews with industry insiders. All figures are pretax; fees for agents, managers and lawyers (generally 10%, 15% and 5% respectively) are not deducted.

Mendelson makes interesting statistical comparisons.  But I find some of his arguments less than convincing.  I seriously doubt MMoE was advanced from May 2020 in order to get it to Disney+ faster.  There is already an abundance of material for Disney+.  But I could imagine that Eternals' release in November 2020 might have played a role since a 6-month gap between them would mean an overlap in their campaigns with both prominently featuring Angelina in fantasy roles.  Disney has a lot more riding on Eternals which anchors phase 4 of the MCU and their first priority would be to protect it.  When they announced the change in MMoE's release date in early March this year Angelina would have already been signed for Eternals.  Her involvement was leaked in late March.

If they had gotten a truly competent director, the change in release date may not have mattered.  As it is, Disney could have tweaked MMoE into a better film, crafted a more effective promotional campaign, and MMoE could have benefited from a summer release.  The difference would be the gap between MMoE's eventual haul and M's $758M.  

We'll have to wait til Frozen 2 is released to judge how well MMoE held.  Its week to week hold has been good so far, down 32% (domestic) from the previous weekend, down 38% for the week --  a reflection of good word of mouth and its audience score.  Mendelson points put that MMoE has already done better than Alice TTLG, Dumbo and Mary Poppins Returns.  All had much lower audience scores of 48%, 50% and 66% respectively.


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In a random Tuesday box office update, Walt Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer, earned $1.74 million yesterday, falling just 20% from last Tuesday and jumping an absurd 106% from Monday. I don’t know if that’s a record (non-holiday) Monday-to-Tuesday jump, but it’s almost certainly among the very biggest. The Angelina Jolie flick has now earned $87.824 million as it remains on track for a $115 million domestic total. That’s a sharp comedown from Maleficent’s $242 million domestic cume in the summer of 2014, especially as this sequel cost about the same ($180 million) as its predecessor. It has earned just 22% of its global total in North America. As such, Mistress of Evil should cross $315 million overseas and $400 million worldwide today.

Alice Through the Looking Glass ($299 million in 2016),  
Dumbo ($350 million in 2019) and  
Mary Poppins Returns ($349.5 million in 2018).

Oz: The Great and Powerful ($492 million in 2013) and
Cinderella ($542 million in 2015).

Rio 2 ($131 million/$500 million worldwide in 2014)),  
Ready Player One ($137 million/$587 million in 2018),  
Transformers: The Last Knight ($130 million/$605 million in 2017) and  
Life of Pi ($125 million/$609 million in 2012)

Fate of the Furious earned $226 million in North America in 2017, which is the lowest domestic total for any Hollywood flick that earn on to earn even $900 million worldwide, let alone its eventual $1.236 billion global cume.  
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw earned $758 million despite “just” $173 million domestic, the third-lowest domestic total for a live-action $700 million-plus Hollywood release after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($172 million out of $794 million in 2017) and
2012 ($166 million/$769 million in 2009).

The Last Samurai ($111 million domestic and $457 million worldwide in 2003),  
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ($104 million/$415 million in 2010),
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ($102 million/$403 million in 2008),  
Pacific Rim ($101 million/$411 million in 2013) and  
Troy ($133 million/$497 million in 2004). And it should be noted that there has yet to be a fourth Mummy or Narnia flick while Pacific Rim: Uprising earned just $290 million worldwide in 2018.

Even if Mistress of Evil, which I will argue was a better movie than its predecessor, won’t be a blow-out hit, just breaking even is a qualified win for this one. That’s both because it was (arguably) dropped into theaters this year instead of May 2020 in order to get it onto Disney+ faster and because it shows that the live-action Disney fairy tales can potentially justify sequels, especially if they can keep the budgets in check. Moreover, even if they lose a few bucks spending too much on Maleficent 2, they still have a mega-budget theatrical offering to tout as a “big deal” when that movie arrives on Disney+. And, yes, folks spending money on Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is folks not spending money on non-Disney movies.

If the goal is market share, then even a box office disaster like the (as of now) $145 million-grossing Terminator: Dark Fate (which Fox/Disney is distributing outside of North America and China) helps the Mouse House. Between October 17 and December 25, Disney had/will have the second-biggest global grosser of the fall (between Joker and It Chapter Two), the two biggest global live-action flicks of the Thanksgiving season (Terminator: Dark Fate and Fox’s Ford v Ferrari, unless Doctor Sleep pulls a Conjuring for Warner Bros.), the biggest toon of Thanksgiving (Frozen II) and Christmas (Spies in Disguise) and presumably the biggest movie of the post-summer calendar (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker). At least for the end of 2019, Disney’s acquisition of Fox will allow it to totally control market share.
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I enjoy shooting with multiple cameras - and on big shows like Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, they let you. I tend to design the shots with the “A” camera, then line up the other angles. It demands a lot from the camera crew which in this case was led by the brilliant DP, Henry Braham. The extra coverage this way of shooting produces has helped me out in editing numerous times. It is truly a privilege for a filmmaker to be able to work like this @disneymaleficent Now playing #maleficent (📸 also, the BTS shots I’ve been posting lately are all taken by our amazing set photographer, Jaap Buitendijk!) 🖤

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— CBS Local (@cbslocal) November 6, 2019

I have never been a fan of Forbes' lists which are generally unenlightening and simply attempts to fish for hits.  Even their "top earners" lists are far less informative than Vanity Fair's.  But for those interested, this is the latest.

Angelina Jolie earns one of the biggest paychecks in Hollywood: http://t.co/7i8t16uKn6 #Celeb100 pic.twitter.com/npxhhZiaRc

— Forbes (@Forbes) July 3, 2014

2014's most powerful actresses: 1. Jennifer Lawrence 2. Sandra Bullock 3. Angelina Jolie More: http://t.co/dTdZK2w0n7 #Celeb100
— Forbes (@Forbes) June 30, 2014

Angelina Jolie

After taking some time out of the spotlight to undergo a preventative mastectomy, Jolie is back. In Disney's hit movie "Maleficent," she managed to make Disney's classic "Sleeping Beauty" villain sympathetic, brave and campy. While earning one of the biggest paychecks in Hollywood, Jolie still finds time to advocate for human rights. Most recently she's turned her activist attention to encouraging governments to investigating and prosecuting war rape.

Forbes continues with another list that repackages old data.


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Jay Z And Beyonce Top Our List Of The Highest-Earning Celebrity Couples

Jay Z and Beyonce Knowles are so much more than just the first couple of hip-hop: They’re a combination of two of the savviest businesspeople in entertainment. They made more than any other celebrity couple this year with an estimated $95 million in earnings between June 2012 and June 2013.

Both are musicians at the top of their games, with multiple hits under their belts. Jay Z’s recent Watch the Throne album went platinum and launched a world tour that brought in $1.4 million per night in America. Knowles, who took a short break when her daughter Blue Ivy was born in January last year, was back with a vengeance this year with her Mrs. Carter world tour, which grossed an average $2 million per night.

Then there are their other interests. Jay Z is a part owner of the new Barclays BCS -2.4% Center in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Nets play. He sold his stake in the team and now has to dump his share in the arena, too, because he’s started his own sports agency: Roc Nation Sports, which represents star athletes like Kevin Durant and Victor Cruz. Knowles has a fragrance collection and a clothing line called House of Deron. Blue Ivy could soon join the family business. She’s already been on one of her Dad’s songs and her parents have petitioned to trademark her name for the right to use it on anything from baby clothes to toys.

Bey and Jay earned $15 million more than the No. 2 couple on our list: Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. Like Jay Z and Knowles, Brady and Bundchen have used their fame to build bigger businesses around themselves. We estimate the couple earned a combined $80 million between June 2012 and June 2013. The highest-paid model in the world, Bundchen out-earned her football star husband by $4 million. In addition to her modelling money, Bundchen earns big off of her line of flip-flops from Brazilian footwear company Grendene. She is a part owner of the company, and its shares have doubled since 2012.

Off the gridiron, Brady earns from endorsement deals with companies like Uggs and Under Armor. His new contract with the New England Patriots, which included a $30 million signing bonus, will have him playing in the NFL until he’s 40 years old.

To compile our list we talked to managers, agents, producers and other in-the-know folks to come up with estimates for each celebrity’s entertainment-related earnings. Our research was done for our Celebrity 100 list, which measures earning between June 2012 and June 2013. We did not subtract for taxes, agent fees or other expenses related to being a celebrity.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt rank third with a combined $50 million in estimated earnings. Unlike the other top couples on our list, they don’t have larger businesses built around their fame — the vast majority of their money comes from their film pay. Pitt did earn an estimated $7 million from his Channel No. 5 commercial last year, but only because it’s so rare to land Pitt as a spokesperson.

After a brief hiatus to have a voluntary double mastectomy, Jolie is back with a big-budget Disney film, Maleficent. The re-imagined tale of Sleeping Beauty is set to hit theaters next summer.

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Angelina Jolie Is The Most Powerful Actress On Our Celebrity 100 List

 

Dorothy Pomerantz, Forbes Staff

Angelina Jolie didn’t have to tell the world why she had been out of the spotlight for months. She could have said that she was just spending time with her large family or taking a much-needed break after years of working nonstop.

Instead the actress chose to open up about her preventive double mastectomy. Jolie, who carries a gene that puts her at an elevated risk for breast cancer, explained her decision in a New York Timesop-ed that sparked both support and controversy.

Jolie’s ability to shape a national conversation while earning one of the highest paychecks in Hollywood makes her the most powerful actress on ourCelebrity 100 list. Jolie ranks 41st overall with $33 million in earnings. Much of that comes from her upfront pay for the movie Maleficent, Disney’s new take on the old Sleeping Beauty story. Jolie stars as the wicked queen in the movie, which is scheduled for release next summer.

The second most-powerful actress on our list is newcomer Jennifer Lawrence, who ranks 49th with $26 million. It’s hard to think of an actress who had a better year than Lawrence. She started 2012 withThe Hunger Games, which grossed $690 million at the global box office, making it one of the highest-grossing movies of the year. Lawrence was paid less than $1 million upfront for her work on the film but she made up for that with a much fatter paycheck to revisit the role of Katniss Everdeen for the sequel,Catching Fire.

Angelina Jolie

Never one to shy away from controversy, Jolie recently shared with the world that she had undergone a voluntary double mastectomy because she carries a gene that puts her at a high risk for breast cancer. Her revelation sparked plenty of debate and showed again why Jolie is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. It also explained her recent time out of the limelight but she's back in full force now with a big payday under her belt for Maleficent, Disney's new spin on the Sleeping Beauty story.

Johnny Depp And Britney Spears Fail To Make The 2013 Celebrity 100

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Few actors can demand $20 million or more per film, like  Johnny Depp. Yet the actor failed to rank on our Celebrity 100 list this year.
Don’t be alarmed, Depp fans: he is indisputably still one of the most powerful celebrities in Hollywood. But in our time frame, June 2012 to June 2013, Depp had something of a career lull. He earned an upfront fee for playing Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer‘s update of The Lone Ranger last year and his big 2012 movie, Dark Shadows, was something of a dud, bringing in $245 million globally, not enough to cover the film’s expenses, meaning no big back-end payout for Depp.
Depp also suffered because he avoids social media, a key component in our revamped Celebrity 100 algorithm. Expect the actor to return to our list soon.
Another star who fell off in 2013: Britney Spears. The singer ranked sixth last year with $58 million in earnings and plenty of fame. With no tour in the past 12 months though, her earnings fell dramatically. We estimate that Spears brought in $24 million over the past 12 months. A lot of that came from her one-season hosting stint on The X-Factor, but it wasn’t enough for her to compete with power pop stars like Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
Adele is another singer who made a big splash on our 2012 list, debuting in 24th place with $35 million. But like Spears, Adele didn’t have a tour in our time frame. For better or worse, tours are now the main source of income for musicians. Adele earned an Oscar for Skyfall, her first James Bond theme song, but with only an estimated $30 million in earnings, it wasn’t enough to land her on this year’s Celebrity 100.
Reality stars, who have thrived on our lists in the past few years, stumbled in 2013 with our revamped algorithm that eliminates cover stories as a key metric. Khloe Kardashian ranked 73rd last year with $11 million in earnings but failed to make this year’s list. Her sister Kim is the only reality star on our new Celebrity 100. The new mom ranks 66th with $10 million in earnings thanks to her undeniable fame.
Another reality star who fell off of our list is Bethenny Frankel. Our 2011 cover girl, who ranked 97th last year with $12 million, just didn’t have the money or fame this time around to make our list. With her syndicated talk show about to hit the airwaves, the star has a good chance of finding her way back onto our list in the next few years.



Complete Coverage: The Celebrity 100

Rank	Name	Pay	Money Rank	TV/Radio Rank	Press Rank	Marketability Rank	Social Rank
41	Angelina Jolie	$33 M	59	14	20	32	76
42	E.L. James	$95 M	3	68	51	100	79
43	Toby Keith	$65 M	19	75	83	54	45
44	James Patterson	$91 M	6	89	70	78	57
45	Howard Stern	$95 M	3	52	95	93	73
46	Carrie Underwood	$31 M	61	56	64	14	28
47	Kenny Chesney	$53 M	33	64	92	41	41
48	Usain Bolt	$24 M	71	29	22	60	26
49	Jennifer Lawrence	$26 M	67	20	21	32	88
50	Drew Brees	$51 M	36	79	69	41	61

The Celebrity 100: How We Create The List

We’ve revamped our algorithm for the 2013 Celebrity 100 with the goal of making a cleaner list that better reflects what accounts for celebrity power. In the past, we’ve given extra weight to magazine covers based on the logic that publications only select powerful, popular people for their valuable cover space.
But that emphasis had started to reward reality stars who know how to work the tabloid media but don’t actually have what we would consider power.
So we’ve scrapped that part of the metric. In its place we’ve turned to E-Poll Market Research, an Encino-based company whose E-Score Celebrity metric ranks 6,600 celebrities on 46 different attributes. We’re using the company’s E-Score number to come up with our Marketability Rank, a measure of how desirable each celebrity is to marketers.

We’ve also improved how we evaluate social-networking power. In our connected world, celebrities have an amazing opportunity to connect directly with their fans and push their music, movies and sponsored products. Some celebrities, like Justin Bieber, who is our most-social celebrity, take advantage of this. Others, like Jennifer Aniston, avoid social networking like the plague.
We used to just look at Facebook FB +2.11% and Twitter numbers to gauge social-networking pull. This year we worked with Starcount, a Singapore-based Internet company that measures social networking power across 11 platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Orkut and Weibo. Each star’s number is a reflection of how popular he or she is on the Internet.
We still track print media and television and radio mentions using Factiva.
The Celebrity 100 is based on entertainment-related earnings plus media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online). We consider film and television actors, TV personalities, models, athletes, authors, musicians and comedians.
To compile our earnings numbers, we talk to industry insiders, including agents, lawyers, producers and other experts, to come up with an estimate for what each celebrity earned between June 1, 2012, and June 1, 2013. Earnings consist of pretax gross income. Management, agent and attorney fees are not deducted.
All of the data is processed through an algorithm that creates our power ranking. Earnings carry the most weight. Print mentions, TV mentions, social-networking power and marketability all carry equal weight.
We then divide the celebrities into categories like musician, actor, actress and personality.
Sources: Google, Factiva, The Nielsen Co., Pollstar, Box Office Mojo, Euromonitor International, Publishers Weekly and IMDBPro.

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Kevin Shinick (@KevinShinick) talks to us about Deadpool, Avenging Spider-Man, theater, & his date w/ Angelina Jolie.

Kevin Shinick on Deadpool and 'Avenging Spider-Man'

The Robot Chicken and MAD writer talks to Crave Online about comics, theater and even his date with Angelina Jolie.

By Andy Hunsaker

October 02, 2012

Avenging Spider-Man is in the middle of a wild and woolly two-part story about Wade Wilson trolling around in Peter Parker's subconscious at the behest of the legendary Hypno-Hustler, in a tale that brings to mind some of the hijinks of the venerable Joe Kelly run on Deadpool's first ongoing series back in the 1990s. AvSM #12 is already out, the conclusion will hit comic shops next week with #13, and hopefully it's not the last time writer Kevin Shinick will get to play with either one of these wisecracking heroes.
Shinick is currently one of the creators behind the animated sketch-comedy series MAD as well as a veteran of Robot Chicken, so you know he's got a cracked sensibility. Yet, he's quite multifaceted, with an extensive Broadway history that includes, acting (you may have seen him in Grimm), writing and directing a stage adaptation of the wall-crawler that predates the trouble-plagued musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark by years, and impressing Jon Voight enough that he managed to land a date with Angelina Jolie before she was famous. Yes, I asked him about that in this interview, and he was kind enough to actually answer that personal question.
So let's have a chat with Mr. Shinick, shall we? We may learn something about the history of Deadpool and what he may or may not have coming up as far as comic projects go.

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CRAVE ONLINE: I'm a old-school Deadpool fan, and Avenging Spider-Man #12 finally started reviving some of my love for him. How big a Deadpool nerd are you?

KEVIN SHINICK: My entry into Deadpool was Spider-Man, because I was a Spider-Man nerd first, but once I started getting into him, with the Kelly version of #6, #11 and stuff like that, I was sold. Any world where someone can outdo Spidey in terms of wackiness and jokeyness, I was all on board. I just love him.

CRAVE ONLINE: It is very rare that Spider-Man plays the straight man to anybody.

SHINICK: I know. That's what was so bizarre in approaching this. I thought 'he is the straight man, clearly.' But he also has his own reputation, so you've got to give him a little bit of a leg to stand on, at least in the corniness aspect, anyway.

CRAVE ONLINE: Yes. I've seen people try to write them together before, and Spidey is way too serious, although I suppose it would make sense that he'd overdo the responsibility in the face of Deadpool's complete and utter disdain for it.

SHINICK: It's true, and you know what's so funny - it's a fine line that I had to ride with this comic book. The editor kept reminding me that this is not a Deadpool comic, it's a Spider-Man comic. So I had to make sure that it's family friendly and still get as much as I could out of Deadpool and what you expect from him in a Spider-Man comic. I liken it a lot to Robot Chicken vs. MAD. The network came to me and said 'look, we're looking to a do a Robot Chicken that can air in prime time, that's not so obscene, not so blue, that we can air at 8:00 at night." It's easy to fall on a joke that's a kick in the groin or bleeping out half your dialog, but when you're in prime time, you have to find the funny without having to rely on those things. In a sense, this comic brought those two worlds together. To me, Deadpool is like Robot Chicken. He's raunchy, he's ridiculous, and Spider-Man is more family friendly and funny, but just more approachable. I was trying to marry those two sensibilities that I spend my day jobs doing into this comic as well.

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CRAVE ONLINE: It does feel very much like a Deadpool comic. An "Inception" parody with the Hypno-Hustler is very f-ing Deadpool.

SHINICK: Good! That's awesome. Once I landed on that, I thought 'oh my god, this could be a ridiculous romp that I think I'm going to thoroughly enjoy.' To be honest, I try to take on projects as an audience member. I want to write stuff I want to see, whether it's movies or TV or comic books, I'm my harshest critic, because it's just stuff I want to see and I want to read. I go to it from that angle.

CRAVE ONLINE: That's the way you should. There's just one more issue in this arc, right?

SHINICK: Yeah, just one more. It's funny, because there's so much I wanted to do with this story, too, but people forget - or I think they forget - the challenges of wrapping these things up in essentially 40 pages, two issues, 20 pages each of story. The visuals play a big part, so you don't want to crowd a lot of stuff. I had a lot of deeper stuff, too, that I was trying to get in there, but at the end of the day, I had to trim it down and make it fit into a two-issue arc. But I think it works, and I'm excited for the second one to come out.

CRAVE ONLINE: Do you have any more work in the pipeline for Marvel or DC?

SHINICK: I do. Nothing I can talk publicly about yet, but this, obviously, has gone over very well. So they've been talking to me about doing some more, and I've happily obliged, because I really enjoy doing this. I enjoy Spidey, I enjoy Deadpool, and if I can continue with them, fantastic. But I'd take on more of either, to be honest, because I just love this world. My first foray into comics was a ten-page story in this 80-page giant back in 2009, I think. I had a great time with it on a different level. I spend a lot of my day doing comedy, and I really wanted to get into the characters and the issues they have and not really have much comedy in it. I was able to do that, but again, I think a lot of people's biggest complaint was 'oh, I wish this went on longer,' and I thought 'you and I both!' But when they give you a deadline of 10 pages, you're like 'all right, I've got to make it work in here.'

CRAVE ONLINE: Which story was that, by the way?

SHINICK: It was a Mr. Freeze story called "What Falls Below," and it was really a conflict between Comissioner Gordon and Mr. Freeze on a night where a huge blizzard overtakes Gotham and everything becomes frozen. I had a really good time with it. At the time, I was really looking to stretch those dramatic muscles, if I can call them that. By the time Spidey came around again and they offered me that, I was ready to jump in and have a good laugh time.

CRAVE ONLINE: Do you have time to write comics, with Robot Chicken and MAD and everything else?

SHINICK: You know, I am so incredibly busy, but I always try to take projects that really excite me and work on things that I enjoy doing, so I will carve time out of my schedule to do these things, because it's what I like to do. It keeps me sane, to be honest. I'm also an actor - I was on an episode of Grimm last month. It's things like that that allow me to come back to the day job - the best day job ever, writing MAD - but it takes the pressure off one. You change focus, so that you're refreshed and you can come back to something with new eyes, after you've gone out and used a whole different muscle, be it acting or writing comics or whatever.

CRAVE ONLINE: You also wrote a Spider-Man stage production that was notably NOT "Turn Off The Dark."

SHINICK: I did it for about $60 million cheaper, from what I'm understanding. Yeah, back in 2002, 2003, I was approached by these Broadway producers that I knew, and they had the rights to the country's first theatrical feature-length adaptation of Spider-Man, and would I be interested in writing up a treatment? I thought 'my god, yeah!' My background is also theater. I was on Broadway for a number of years, and I thought 'what a great opportunity to marry, again, a couple of things that were close to my heart.' I wanted to do it justice for the Spider-Man fans out there, but I also knew it would be attracting a younger audience to the theater for the first time. If you do this right, you'll make a fan of kids for a long time, who will want to come back to the theater again. We were playing Radio City Music Hall for one stop, and I just went no holds barred. I wrote this treatment that incorporated everything I thought you could possibly do on the stage, including explosions, multimedia, great acting, great numbers and fight choreography. They said 'yeah, we love it, let's do it!' Marvel said they loved it. And we were sitting around trying to figure out who would direct this thing, and after spending a day trying to brainstorm, I finally said to them "look, I'm totally happy being just the writer, but when I write this stuff, I'm directing it in my head, and I"m just going to say that once." And a month later, they came back and said "yeah, we want you to direct it, too." So that's how that came about.

Beyoncé's audition went surprisingly well, but she insisted on renaming the character "Bugga Boo."

CRAVE ONLINE: Aside from the budget, what would you say is the main difference between yours and "Turn Off The Dark?"

SHINICK: I don't want to knock Turn Off The Dark, because I know some of the people involved in it and it's a huge boulder rolled up that hill, but I think it starts from finding someone who loves this property. I know that the director loves theater and has made such inroads and such lasting memories, but I don't know if she was a Spider-Man fan. All I felt when I left that was that there were a lot of missed opportunities, I thought. Again, I'm looking at it from, I guess, my ten-year-old eyes, even, but just simple entrances - you know, you're like 'wow, that's how you introduce that guy?' That should've been a huge great intro for somebody. I think that was my biggest complaint. A lot of missed opportunities.

CRAVE ONLINE: Was yours a musical?

SHINICK: The two biggest questions I get are 'was it a musical?' and 'was it on ice?' (laughs) No to both. It was just a stage adaptation, which came out the same year as the movie. I wrote it before the movie came out, so they're very similar up until the point where he becomes Spider-Man, and then they go off into their own directions. Still Green Goblin focused.

CRAVE ONLINE: I have to bite on something I've heard about you. You got to go on a date with Angelina Jolie?

SHINICK:  (laughs) Oh my god. Well, like I said, I spent a lot of my early career doing a lot of Broadway stage, and my first Broadway play ever, right out of college in the early '90s - this still blows my mind - but it was a production of The Seagull by Anton Chekov, with Tyne Daly, Ethan Hawke, Laura Linney, Jon Voight, Tony Roberts, Maryann Plunkett and myself. It was like I'd won tickets on a radio show, or I'd won an auction for a walk-on. It was just me surrounded by these heavy hitters. Jon Voight and I just became really friendly during that run. At that point, I don't think Angelina had appeared in anything, really, and one day, he said to me "hey, my daughter's coming to town, how would you feel about taking her to dinner?" And I was like "sure, why not?"

Where should we go tonight? Well, what are you hungry for?

So in walks this beautiful woman, but definitely still in her goth phase - pale face, black lipstick, black hair. We were very different personalities, but we had a lovely dinner. She lived in Los Angeles at the time with her mom, and she was just visiting her dad, so we had one lovely dinner, and then she went back to LA. But as I've said in other places, I like to think, to this day, Brad Pitt doesn't let his kids watch MAD because he knows, somewhere deep down, there are still feelings. (laughs)


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Hollywood's it couple announced they would finally tie the knot in 2012, after seven years together and six kids. It will be a powerful union: Together they earned $45 million last year.



Mary Pols ‏@MaryPols

Paging Brad Pitt and his deep pockets: Wright Masterwork Is Seen in a New Light: A Fight for Its Life http://nyti.ms/RyRBj2

Nick Moran ‏@NickMoranArtist

Finished filming my scene for ‘Maleficent’ at Pinewood but will have to wait until 2014 to see the results http://dld.bz/bNWmP

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Flexible Lining Prod ‏@Flexible_Lining

Brair Rose Productions at Pinewood Studios source another batch FLP geotextiles for "Maleficent", a feature movie staring Angelina Jolie.


 Russell Crowe ‏@russellcrowe

Ark is leaking. @LoganLerman @douglasbooth More caulking boys. Good that we found out now. #NOAH




This may not be a recent sighting but an old sighting just recently recounted to the poster since she writes that they are having a family reunion.  The report is 2nd hand so its hard to tell if what she wrote is accurate, but there is also nothing that proves to me that it isn't true.  We know that Angelina is in the region and Monte Carlo is just a quick helicopter ride away from Miraval so we can't totally discount the possibility that she made a day trip.  I am familiar with the Cafe de Paris as well as the Cafe of the Hotel de Paris.  I would think Angelina would be more inclined to  visit the latter.  Regardless, as with all things, its FYI.

Tracey Kent ‏@TraceyKent

My MotherInLaw who is French, ran into AngelinaJolie in the ladies room in CafeDuParis in Monaco. The words, "tall, too thin, ghostly white" 

10:51 AM - 2 Oct 12  

Photo from Team Jolie
Shopping with Zahara and Shiloh in Monaco - 12th May 2008

Forbes' Power Lists

The World's Most Powerful Couples In 2012

13 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Hollywood's it couple announced they would finally tie the knot in 2012, after seven years together and six kids. It will be a powerful union: Together they earned $45 million last year.

Who says women can’t have it all? On the 2012 FORBES list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, 70% are married, with an average 2.1 kids. Often, these women don’t do it alone. Some have the help of extended family or a stay-at-home husband. Others marry their power equals and scramble to make it work. Here’s a look at the world’s most powerful couples, and what it takes to house two top careers under one roof.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton together form the world’s top power pair. Hillary, the second most powerful woman in the world, made history as one of a handful of women to ever run for U.S. president. In her current role, she is the nation’s chief foreign advisor and is constantly on the go, traveling to over 40 countries in 2012 alone. Meanwhile, Bill served two presidential terms as ruler of the world’s largest economy and remains an active diplomat today.
“Successful couples make lots of different arrangements; it’s not scientific,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor and author of business innovation book SuperCorp. “With a power couple like the Clintons, it was a trade off. She went to Arkansas for him to be governor. He moved to New York with her partly so she could run for Senate.”
In the case of power couple Bill and Melinda Gates, they met on the job. Fresh out of college, she was a new hire at his tech company, Microsoft. They married seven years later, and now are among the world’s richest—and most generous—people. Melinda, the original driving force behind their giving, serves as chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has made more than $25 billion in grant commitments to poverty eradication, public health and education. Bill has served as the chairman of Microsoft since 1981, and they have three kids.
How do they juggle their demanding schedules? “We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that…sometimes every week,” Melinda has said. “[It’s] very much a collaborative effort. We come at it from slightly different angles, but that’s why it’s natural for us to do it together.”
Several of the world’s most dynamic duos independently rose to power and then joined forces. Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt led separate lives and marriages before they became a pair in 2005. Seven years and six kids later, they are finally planning to tie the knot. It will be a powerful union: Together they earned $45 million last year.
Similarly, performers Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z raked in their own fame and fortunes in the music industry before marrying in 2008. Together, they are music’s most influential couple, with almost 30 Grammy awards between them. In January, they had their first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter. Only five months later, Knowles left Blue Ivy with Jay-Z and hit the stage for a sold-out, four-night performance she dubbed “Back to Business.”
“I’m watching the next generation,” says Moss Kanter, “and the men are really involved with the children–even the men with significant careers. They work it out.”
Among the other most notable twosomes are U.S. royals Barack and Michelle Obama; mixed-media stars Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols; television comediennes Portia and Ellen DeGeneres; and business tycoons Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg.

The Sun

Lady Gaga more powerful than Queen

Battle ... Gaga is placed higher than The Queen in magazine's findings

By ELLIE ROSS

Published: Today at 19:13

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LADY Gaga is officially more powerful than THE QUEEN, a new survey reveals.

The Born This Way singer clinched a higher place than the British monarch in business bible Forbes magazine’s annual survey of the world’s most powerful women.
Gaga – real name Stefani Germanotta – made it into the 100-strong list at 14, ahead of Elizabeth II who only made it to number 26.
Aged 26, Gaga is the youngest woman on the list, while the Queen is the oldest at 86.
The only other Brit to feature in the annual rundown is Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, 47,who ranked 78th.

Brit ... J.K. Rowling came in at 78

Crazy In Love singer Beyonce also made the cut in The World's 100 Most Powerful Women – featuring at 32 - six places ahead of Jennifer Lopez.

Super star ... Beyonce

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, 37, came in at 37 while singer Shakira was fortieth.

 A-lister ... Angelina Jolie

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the world’s most powerful women, coming in first and second place.
The list covers women in politics, business, media, entertainment and non-profit organisations.
Their rankings are determined by calculating wealth, media presence and overall impact.
It is not the first time Lady Gaga has cemented her power – the pop star is also the queen of Twitter with the most followers on the social media site.
She has over 28.6MILLION followers — closely followed by Justin Bieber with nearly 27m followers, Katy Perry on over 25m.

Final Jubilee present as Queen jumps 20 places in Forbes Most Powerful Women list (but Kate doesn't feature in top 100)

By Helen Lawson
PUBLISHED: 18:16 GMT, 22 August 2012 | UPDATED: 19:54 GMT, 22 August 2012

The Queen was today announced as one of the most influential women in the world as the impact of the Diamond Jubilee sent her soaring 20 places up the annual Forbes most powerful women list.
The monarch has risen to 26th in the magazine's annual list after a year where she celebrated 60 years on the throne, dazzled viewers with her appearance along side Daniel Craig's James Bond as she opened the Olympics, and also made the historic gesture of shaking hands with former IRA commander Martin McGuinness on a trip to Ireland.
At 86, the Queen is the oldest woman on a list that represents leading figures in politics, technology, entertainment and philanthropy, but there is no sign of the Duchess of Cambridge, a year after her wedding to Prince William.

There's no place on the Forbes annual list of the world's most powerful women for the Duchess of Cambridge - yet - but the Queen soars up the list to 26th place

Instead, Kate, 29, is tipped by the magazine as a woman to watch over the coming year as she embarks on her charity work.
For the second year running, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the list, cited as the 'lead player in the eurozone economic crisis' and praised for embracing social media by answering citizens' questions on YouTube.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff hold their second and third places respectively.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds the top spot as the world's most powerful woman, commended for her leadership in the eurozone crisis

U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is second on the list for the second year running, while Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff retains third place

Clinton is planning to bow out of public life after the upcoming American elections in November, despite praise for her handling of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables crisis, while Rousseff is enjoying approval rates of 77 per cent among Brazilians ahead of running for another term in 2014.
The women on the list were ranked according to influence, the amount of money they control or earn, and media presence.
Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman, said: 'These power women exert influence in very different ways and to very different ends, and all with very different impacts on the global community.'

Michelle Obama's campaigning against childhood obesity and commitment to military families sees her at seventh place on the Forbes annual list

Jennifer Lopez, left, is a new entry on the 2012 list for her philanthropy while Lady Gaga's campaigning sees her stay in the top 20 at number 14

Beyonce Knowles came in at 32nd after a year where she promoted her album 4, had her first child and supported Obama's 'Get Moving' campaign

The average age of the 100 power brokers from 28 countries is 55. They have a combined 90 million Twitter followers.
Also in the top five were Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, and Jill Abramson, the first woman executive editor of the New York Times.
Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress, rises one place to number six in the list since last year, while U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama moves up from eight to seventh.
The list featured newcomers such as actress and performer Jennifer Lopez and the widow Apple founder Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, a billionaire philanthropist.
Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi rises from 26 to 19 in the 2012 Forbes rankings.
Leading figures from the media include Oprah Winfrey at 11, Diane Sawyer at 23, and British-born U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour at 51.

U.S. Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is acknowledged as the world's 51st most powerful woman while pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi rises to 19th

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is ranked as the 10th most powerful woman in the world

Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman (18th) and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (21st) show the growing influence of women in technology

Celebrities such as singers Lady Gaga (ranked 14) and Shakira (number 40) are lauded for their charity work.
Notable exclusions from this year's list include Republican politicians Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann after failed bids for the White House. In 2011 they were ranked 22 and 34 respectively.
Forbes said: 'So many of these women are in policy or political roles, and their influence ... is only growing so it's not surprising that someone like Merkel or Clinton would continue to be present on the list year to year.'

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has overseen a drop in poverty rates and a rise in GDP

Actresses Angelina Jolie and Sofia Vergara make the list in 66th and 75th respectively. Angelina is acclaimed for her humanitarian work and Sofia for business ventures

Television giants ABC's Diane Sawyer, 23rd, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour, 55th, are acknowledged by Forbes for their influence

Colombian pop singer Shakira's Barefoot Foundation promotes education and school construction for young children around the world

FORBES' TOP 100 OF WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL WOMEN

1 Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany, 58, Germany, Politics
2 Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States, 64, United States, Politics
3 Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil, 64, Brazil, Politics
4 Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 48, United States, Humanitarian
5 Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, New York Times Co., 58, United States, Media
6 Sonia Gandhi, President, National Congress Party, India, 65, India, Politics
7 Michelle Obama, First Lady, United States, 48, United States, Politics
8 Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 56, France, Humanitarian
9 Janet Napolitano, Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security, 54, United States, Politics
10 Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook, 42, United States, Technology

11 Oprah Winfrey, Entrepreneur and Personality, 58, United States, Celebrity
12 Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, 56, United States, Business
13 Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Kraft Foods, 59, United States, Business
14 Lady Gaga, Musician and Philanthropist, 26, United States, Celebrity
15 Virginia Rometty, President and CEO, IBM, 54, United States, Technology
16 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina, 59, Argentina, Politics
17 Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO, Xerox 53 United States Technology
18 Meg Whitman, CEO, Hewlett-Packard, 56, United States, Technology
19 Aung San Suu Kyi, Chair and Parliamentarian, National League for Democracy, Burma, 67, Burma, Politics
20 Maria das Graças Silva Foster, CEO, Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil, 58, Brazil, Business

21 Marissa Mayer, CEO, Yahoo, 37, United States, Technology
22 Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney/ABC Television Group, Walt Disney, 54, United States, Media
23 Diane Sawyer, Anchor of World News, ABC, Walt Disney, 66, United States, Media
24 Angela Braly, CEO, WellPoint, 51, United States, Business
25 Susan Wojcicki, Senior Vice President, Google, 44, United States, Technology
26 Queen Elizabeth II, Monarch, United Kingdom, 86, United Kingdom, Politics
27 Julia Gillard, Prime Minister, Australia, 50, Australia, Politics
28 Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, United States, 72, United States, Politics
29 Arianna Huffington, Editor-In-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group, AOL, 62, United States, Media
30 Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister, Thailand, 45, Thailand, Politics

31 Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Service, 64, United States, Politics
32 Beyonce Knowles, Actress, Entrepreneur and Musician, 30, United States, Celebrity
33 Diane Von Furstenberg, Owner and Fashion Designer, Diane von Furstenberg Studio, L.P., 65, United States, Business
34 Helen Clark, Administrator, U.N. Development Programme, 62, New Zealand, Humanitarian
35 Georgina Rinehart, Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting, 58, Australia, Billionaire
36 Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony, 54, United States, Media
37 Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization, 65, China, Humanitarian
38 Jennifer Lopez, Actress, Musician and Philanthropist, 43, United States, Celebrity
39 Sheri McCoy, CEO, Avon Products, 53, United States, Business
40 Shakira, Musician and Philanthropist, 35, Colombia, Celebrity

41 Mary Barra, Senior Vice President, Global Product Development, General Motors, 50, United States, Business
42 Zhang Xin & family, Co-founder and CEO, Soho China Ltd., 46, China, Business
43 Alice Walton, Chairman, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 62, United States, Billionaire
44 Laura Lang, CEO, Time Inc., Time Warner, 56, United States, Media
45 Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry Group, 52, United States, Business
46 Sue Naegle, President, HBO Entertainment, Time Warner Cable, 43, United States, Media
47 Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian, Personality and Philanthropist, 54, United States, Celebrity
48 Safra Catz, President, CFO, Oracle, 50, United States, Technology
49 Laurene Powell Jobs & family, Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective, 48, United States, Billionaire
50 Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart Stores, 49, United States, Business

51 Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue, Conde Nast Publications, Inc., 62, United States, Media
52 Helene Gayle, President, CEO, CARE, 57, United States, Humanitarian
53 Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN, Time Warner, 54, United States, Media
54 Rosalia Mera, Investor and Philanthropist, 68, Spain, Billionaire
55 Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American, 55, United States, Business
56 Cher Wang, Co-founder and Chair, HTC, 53, Taiwan, Technology
57 Abigail Johnson, President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services, Fidelity Investments, 50, United States, Business
58 Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco Systems, 51, India, Technology
59 Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Bank, 50, India, Business
60 Gail Kelly, CEO, Westpac Banking Group, 56, Australia, Business

61 Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration, 57, United States, Politics
62 Ellen Kullman, Chairman and CEO, EI du Pont de Nemours, 56, United States, Business
63 Drew Gilpin, Faust President, Harvard University, 64, United States, Humanitarian
64 Shari Arison, Investor and Philanthropist, 54, Israel, Billionaire
65 Mary Schapiro, Chair, US Securities and Exchange Commission, 57, United States, Politics
66 Angelina Jolie, Actress and Philanthropist, 37, United States, Celebrity
67 Miuccia Prada, Owner and Fashion Designer, Prada, 63, Italy, Business
68 Carol Meyrowitz, CEO, TJX Cos, 58, United States, Business
69 Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme, United Nations, 55, United States, Humanitarian
70 Sue Gardner, Executive Director, WikiMedia Foundation, 45, Canada, Technology

71 Joyce Banda, President, Malawi, 62, Malawi, Politics
72 Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, World Bank, 49, Indonesia, Humanitarian
73 Bonnie Hammer, Chairman, Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, NBCUniversal, Comcast, 62, United States, Media
74 Koong Chua Sock, Koong Group CEO, SingTel, 53, Singapore, Technology
75 Sofia Vergara, Actress and Entrepreneur, 40, Colombia, Celebrity
76 Ho Ching, CEO, Temasek, 59, Singapore, Business
77 Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek, IAC/InterActiveCorp., 58, United States, Media
78 J.K. Rowling, Author, 47, United Kingdom, Celebrity
79 Chan Laiwa & family, Philanthropist, 71, China, Billionaire
80 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Founder, Chair, Biocon Ltd., 59, India, Technology

81 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Nigeria, 58, Nigeria, Politics
82 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia, 73, Liberia, Politics
83 Gisele Bundchen, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Supermodel, 32, Brazil, Celebrity
84 Mary Meeker, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 51, United States, Technology
85 Shaikha Al-Bahar, CEO-Kuwait, National Bank of Kuwait, Business
86 Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson, 65, United States, Media
87 Solina Chau, Director, Li Ka Shing Foundation, 50, Hong Kong, Humanitarian
88 Jan Fields, President, McDonald's USA, McDonald's, 57, United States, Business
89 Weili Dai, Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group, 50, United States, Technology
90 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 57, United States, Humanitarian

91 Sun Yafang, Chair, Huawei Technologies, 56, China, Technology
92 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates, 53, United Arab Emirates, Politics
93 Guler Sabanci, Chairman and Managing Director, Sabanci Holding, 57, Turkey, Business
94 Greta Van Susteren, Anchor, FOX News, News Corp, 58, United States, Media
95 Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase, 45, United States, Business
96 Mindy Grossman, CEO, HSN, 54, United States, Media
97 Patricia Woertz, Chairman, CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland, 59, United States, Business
98 Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation, 67, United States, Humanitarian
99 Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair - Public Policy, Ernst & Young, 53, United States, Business
100 Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani, Chair, Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar, 29, Qatar, Humanitarian