Marvel Comics is eyeing another big time actor to headline its next super hero movie.

After snagging Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man and Edward Norton for The Incredible Hulk, the Latino Review reports that Marvel is looking to pick up Oscar-nominated actor Brad Pitt to star in their latest movie project, “Thor”.

The new flick is about the Thunder God superhero with long blond tresses, rippling biceps and a horned helmet—the latter of which is all that Pitt is missing.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is scheduled for a summer 2010 release.

Movie pals Brad Pitt and George Clooney are to open this year’s Venice Film Festival in Italy with their new Coen Brothers film.

The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ stars teamed up to shoot spy comedy ‘Burn After Reading’ and now the movie has been selected to launch the European film event in August.

Source: IOL

Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are hoping to star in another movie together.
The actors met while filming 2005 action film Mr & Mrs Smith and after Pitt finalised his divorce from Jennifer Aniston in August 2005 , the pair announced they were dating.
And Jolie insists she enjoyed working with Pitt and is hoping they will be able to repeat their big-screen success with a future project.
She says, “We liked filming together and we have got our eyes open if it comes our way.” Pitt and Jolie now have three adopted kids - Maddox, six; Pax, three, and Zahara, two - and their biological child, 20-month-old Shiloh.

Source: Pr-Inside.com

Brad Pitt is in talks to climb into “Tree of Life,” a drama Terrence Malick wrote and will direct.

River Road is financing, and Bill Pohlad is producing with Sarah Green (”The New World”) and Grant Hill.

Pitt, who recently ankled the Universal Pictures drama “State of Play,” would replace Heath Ledger, who was skedded to star with Sean Penn in the Malick-directed drama, which begins production in the spring. Though Penn is booked to play the title character in the Gus Van Sant-directed “Milk,” he’s still expected to play a supporting role in “Tree of Life.” Penn has an allegiance to River Road’s Pohlad, who co-financed with Paramount Vantage the Penn-directed “Into the Wild.”No deals have been made with Pitt or Penn. Pitt would have earned $20 million against gross to star in “State of Play,” but he’ll likely sign on to “Tree of Life” for nearly no upfront money.

Brad Pitt has pulled out of Universal’s political thriller “State of Play” because of script concerns.The move comes after a couple of weeks of meetings between Pitt and director Kevin Macdonald (”The Last King of Scotland”) in an attempt to iron out the concerns. The script cannot be worked on because of the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike.

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