By the Sea is very much an art film. Angelina Jolie Pitt's brutally honest romance wears its European influences on its sleeve. Read our By the Sea review.
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We're in full awards season swing, as gross as that process can be. (Just see the attempts to tear down Selma for a good example of the nasty part of this season.) But the guild nominations and awards are always somewhat interesting, if only because they represent the efforts of a focused group to recognize…
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The Christmas vacation week has been a great time for movies for many years now. Knowing that people are on vacation and (possibly) eager to escape the odd family obligation or two, studios plan big releases for Christmas day, which is also conveniently one of the last big release dates of the year, making the…
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Get the Unbroken early buzz as the first reactions roll in for Angelina Jolie's WWII epic. Jack O'Connell stars as real-life war hero Louis Zamperini.
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Angelina Jolie takes her second turn as director with Unbroken, which adapts the book by Laura Hillenbrand to tell the story of Olympic competitor and WWII hero Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell). The film's first trailer focused quite a bit on Zamperini's upbringing, but this new Unbroken trailer focuses primarily on the war and its aftermath, during…
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Watch the Unbroken trailer. Angelina Jolie directed the World War II epic, which stars Jack O'Connell as Olympian-turned-soldier Louis Zamperini.
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Unbroken is the story of Louis Zamperini, an American Olympian who competed in 1936, and a World War II veteran who survived a plane crash at sea during the war only to be picked up by the Japanese Navy and interred in a POW camp. Angelina Jolie directs the film as her follow-up to In the…
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Our first look at Angelina Jolie's sophomore directorial effort Unbroken wasn't really a first look at the film, but a lovely photo of her with its real-life subject Louis Zamperini. But now that production is actually underway, Universal has some more movie-centric pics to offer. The latest set photos from the survival epic show Jolie…
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When is a first look at a film not actually a first look at the movie? In this case, it's when Universal sends out a shot (above) of Angelina Jolie with Louis “Louie” Zamperini, who is the subject of her new directorial effort, Unbroken. But in this case it's a good call, because Zamperini is a…
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Briefly: Angelina Jolie has impressive talent working with her behind the camera for her second directorial effort, Unbroken. Roger Deakins is shooting the film, and Joel and Ethan Coen are doing a pass on the script that also bears work from William Nicholson and Richard LaGravenese. The film is based on the book Unbroken: A World War…
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When Angelina Jolie signed on last year to replace Francis Lawrence at the helm of Unbroken, she became the latest in a long line of filmmakers who've tried to bring the Lou Zamperini tale to the big screen. And I mean long: Universal has been attempting to make a biopic of the Olympic track star…
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After cutting her teeth on last year's In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie has picked up a second directing gig in Unbroken. The biopic centers around Louis Zamperini, an Olympic track star turned U.S. Air Force officer. After his plane crashed over the Pacific during World War II, he survived for 47 days…
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Currently number two on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller list, Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption has been purchased by Universal Pictures as a potential directing gig for Francis Lawrence. The book centers on the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who endured…
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