Angelina! Penelope! Jude!

The world's biggest stars have been gathering this week for the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival in France, showing off their gowns, diamonds, and cleavage galore.

And while Angelina Jolie looked stunning as always (if a bit goth) at the premiere of Brad Pitt's new movie "The Tree of Life" on Monday, she was shown up in the sexy department by new "X Factor" judge Cheryl Cole.

New mama Penelope Cruz looked ravishing (and considerably curvier) at Saturday's "Pirates of the Caribbean" premiere, while Jude Law provided a little eye candy for the ladies.

From Jolie to Cole to Rachel McAdams, let us know: Who's the sexiest star at Cannes?

'Kung Fu Panda' Co-Stars Jack Black And Angelina Jolie Ponder Their Inevitable Live-Action Team-Up

It feels somewhat off to call "Kung Fu Panda 2's" Jack Black and Angelina Jolie co-stars. Their animated characters Po and Tigress spend on-screen time together, but Black and Jolie solely worked off-screen, lending their voices to the upcoming sequel of their wildly successful 2008 flick.

But that doesn't mean moviegoers may never get to see them on film together someday. MTV News caught up with the stars at the Cannes Film Festival's "Kung Fu Panda 2" premiere, and they discussed the possibility of working together on a live-action movie at some point down the line.
"We haven't really talked about it, even in a joking way," Black admitted, "We haven't talked [about] it in any type of way." But things soon got rolling when Jolie chimed in about the idea of working with Black again in a different capacity: "I would love to."

"Well, that benefits me, let's talk about this," the funny man said, who then looked over at Jolie and pondered, "What project could we do together?" It didn't take long for Black to get inspired for an idea for he and the beautiful Oscar-winner as he recalled the 1955 comedy "Artists & Models."

Black explained, "Jerry Lewis did a really funny movie with Shirley MacLaine and she was a hot number and he was just a clown and I thought, 'That could work for us, too.' 'Hot Number and the Clown,' that's the title!"

It shouldn't take long for studios to come calling for "Hot Number and the Clown," or any other Black-Jolie movie for that matter, as it's already Jolie-approved. After Black came up with his idea for their next feature together, the stunning actress told MTV: "Sounds good... I'd love to do something with Jack."

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Cannes is known for being a visual feast, and we are not talking just about the films. With night after night of endless premieres and screenings the red carpet in Cannes is turned into a catwalk for A-list stars.
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Yesterday Angelina Jolie looked stunning as she arrived for the premiere for Tree of Life wearing a chocolate brown Atelier Versace dress floor length creation which contained all the components for ruling the red carpet.

It was all about the dress and THAT leg split which soon became the star of the show, so much so that her hair was simply au naturel and her makeup, well barely there. Talk about red carpet confidence.Not only did the dress provide us with a show from the front, but from the back Angelina looked equally as glamorous with a scrunch effect.

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It's been reported today that Tim Burton has dropped out of Disney's Maleficent, which is kind of a huge bummer, because if Burton's doing something scary/sexy/weird, you know it's going to be good. Actually, I retract that statement. I was thinking of Burton's Beetlejuice era, not the most recent Alice in Wonderland.

Burton's currently working with Depp (obvi) on Dark Shadows. And he's also rebooting the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Essientially Maleficent is Wicked, just without the Rachel Berry wannabes singing "Gravity" at every chance they get. This isn't a bad thing, if Hollywood's gonna be all into the rebooting of things these days they might as well do something with a twist.

David Yates is rumored to be one of the directors that Disney is looking at to fill the Burton void. Yates has done the last four Harry Potter movies (read: the best Harry Potter movies), so this is still a postive story for the film.

Oh, and did I mention that Angelina Jolie is rumored to be the film's title character? I almost forgot. Mostly because it's Angelina Jolie and she hasn't been any fun in a good long while. Motherhood ruins everything.Although I could give less of a poop about Angelina, I won't deny that this casting rumor is pretty phenominal.

I think she could maybe stop taking herself so seriously for a few days in order to play the evil witch. I hear she's going full method on this one and will actually turn into a dragon for it. (I mean, I would. Have you seen how toolish Brad Pitt looks these days?)

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She made not one, but two unreported (because she didn’t tell anyone) trips to visit wounded troops . . . no paparazzi, no attention whoring, good for her.

Angelina Jolie made a trip to the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington, D.C. back on June 26th. No one reported on this until now because she didn’t tell anyone. She spent several hours with wounded soldiers and gave each one a gift bag which included, among other things, a $1000 gift certificate to Best Buy.Angelina Jolie on the other hand went to Ramstein Air Force base in Germany four days ago to visit wounded soldiers, but there were no paparazzi pictures and it wasn’t in the press, because she didn’t tell anyone she was doing it. It was the same way when she went to Walter Reed. Because for her, that’s not the point.

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Angelina Jolie‘s a funny one. She’s a good actress and a giant movie star, but at least for this writer, she’s barely made any good movies. Michael Winterbottom‘s “A Mighty Heart,” which features the actress’ best performance, is great (and underrated), and “Girl, Interrupted,” “Changeling” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” all have their defenders, but personally we can’t find much to like in any of them. But, if the actress gets her way, there’s one project on her dance card which certainly has our attention.

The actress is attached to star as the legendary Egyptian queen in “Cleopatra” for “The Social Network” producer Scott Rudin, and the two have been making their way through Hollywood’s A-list directors to find the right man to helm it, with both James Cameron and Paul Greengrass flirting with the film before ultimately turning it down. MTV caught up with Jolie at Cannes, where she’s currently promoting “Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom,” and the actress confirmed that she’s got another big name in her sights, one that’s already been connected with the film. David Fincher, who worked with Rudin on both “The Social Network” and the upcoming “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” was reported to have been approached for the project a few months back, and when MTV asks about that, Jolie confirms that there have been talks, although “It’s all very early. Fincher’s been an old friend, so we’ve always been looking for something to do.” The director, of course, worked with Jolie’s partner, Brad Pitt, on “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Fincher’s theoretically meant to go on and make “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” once he wraps up “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” but we certainly would rather that he’d take on Brian Helgeland‘s Egyptian script than the undersea adventure. The fact that talks still seem to be going on is certainly a good sign, but we imagine that Fincher may not want to commit until later in the year. But if Disney can land a new director for “Maleficent,” which Jolie is attached to star in, after Tim Burton left the project yesterday, then that may become the actress’ priority. Although we hope not.

Jolie also confirms that she’s producing “Churchill and Roosevelt,” which Anthony Hopkins revealed a few weeks ago that Jolie had approached him about, although it seems that reports that she’d make it her second directorial effort after Bosnian drama “In The Land of Blood and Honey” are exaggerated. She says right now that “I just want to see it get done,” and also reports that no one is currently attached as Roosevelt. “Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom,” meanwhile, lands on May 27th.

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It's not as serious as some of her films, but Angelina Jolie says she cherishes being a part of the Kung Fu Panda movies – because they're both entertaining and educational for her children.

Kung Fu Panda 2 resonates in particular because it has an adoption theme. And of course, three of the six Jolie-Pitt children – Maddox, Pax and Zahara – are adopted.

"The words adoption, birth mothers [and] orphanages are happy words in our household, and we talk about those subjects all the time," Jolie, 35, said Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where her movie is premiering.

The Oscar winner voices Tigress in the Panda films. "I'm especially excited to be in this movie because of my daughters," she said. "She's one of the best characters I've ever played. My kids love it, and in many ways I did it for them." Jolie, who wore a belted, beige Ferragamo dress with jewels from her own line with Robert Procop, said her partner Brad Pitt and the family are all with her at the festival. "The kids are back at the hotel, running around, having a great time and probably causing a mess," she said. "They love it here."

Pitt, 47, is in Cannes for work: His film, The Tree of Life, premieres later on during the festival.

Jolie said the Panda movies reflect her own sense of family. "At the end of the day, we're all big kids," she said. "Life is very much about family and the family you choose. You can define your own destiny despite what happened to you in the past."

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Angelina Jolie's latest body art sparked brand-new adoption rumors last month -- but chill out, folks!

The world-famous mom of six has her arm stamped with map coordinates that correspond with the birthplaces of her six kids: Maddox, 9 (Cambodia), Pax, 7 (Vietnam), Zahara, 6 (Ethiopia), Shiloh, 4 (Namibia), and twins Vivinne and Knox, 2 (France). During a humanitarian visit to Tunisia in early April, a tank-top-clad Jolie, 35, showed off a seventh, blurry set of coordinates.

But during a new interview with Extra, Jolie (promoting Kung Fu Panda 2 alongside Jack Black) seemed surprised and irked when asked if the stamp meant a new adoption was on the way.

"Well, if they know that it's latitude and longitude they would have figured out quickly that it was Brad's birthplace," she snapped of her love Brad Pitt, 47. "It doesn't take much investigation to figure that one out. [The coordinates are] Shawnee, Oklahoma."The Oscar winner added that another adoption isn't a possibility "at this time." But her new flick actually "deals with family and adoption," she said, and she worried that her brood of biological and adopted kids might be bothered by "such a heavy issue"

Not to worry. "The kids loved it! They laughed out loud hysterical."

Added the happy mom: "We talk very openly in our house. 'Orphanage' and 'birth parents' are happy words in our house."

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are being sued for £75,000 by a secretary at their French chateau who claims she was sacked for 'absenteeism' while on sick leave.

The woman worked as a bilingual secretary at the Hollywood couple's sprawling 25 million pounds estate in the heart of the southern Provence countryside.

The former employee's lawyer Emmanuel Ludot said he had deliberately chosen to publicise the matter while Pitt and Jolie were in France for the Cannes Film Festival.

The woman was fired by another manager at the chateau on the grounds her absence was detrimental to the smooth-running of the property, Mr Ludot said.

He added: "This amount is a drop in the ocean for these stars.

"She has nothing against them personally and says she was always treated well. But they did not step in to prevent her being dismissed. "Mr Brad Pitt, who is also famous for his charity work and adoption of children, should understand that my client needs compensation as soon as possible, and that she's not asking for millions, just a fair amount for unfair dismissal.

"We hope they will both be faithful to their reputation for humanitarian causes."

His client needed to remain anonymous in line with the 'draconian' confidentiality clauses that she had to sign before being employed by the film stars.

The couple bought the Chateau Miraval, near the village of Brignolles, for 35 million dollars in 2008.

The 35-bedroom residence has a private vineyard, moat and lake, and it is surrounded by a huge forest to give complete privacy to the couple and their children Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, Zahara, six and Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

It also has a fully equipped gym, sauna and health spa, a helicopter landing pad and Brad is said to considering building his own motorcycle track at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

An industrial tribunal in the town of Draguignan, southern France, would issue its verdict on the case in June, Mr Ludot said.

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Angelina Jolie can get away with murder, or solving crimes, or just about anything as long as she looks sexy in her butt-kicking heels. So it’s only okay for a woman to be aggressive if she’s beautiful? Yes, but here’s the shocking part, it’s other women that prefer the heroine to be a hottie, according to a recent study. The researchers found that women surveyed thought pretty, aggressive women were good role models for today’s youth, but unattractive aggressive women — not so much.

The study compared the work of Angelina Jolie and Kathy Bates. (For the record, if Kathy Bates happens to read this, we think you are beautiful, too). The researchers coded Jolie as the attractive heroine and Bates as the unattractive heroine. More than 100 volunteers filled out questionnaires about their status as role models after viewing scenes of the two actresses in aggressive and non-aggressive roles.
Jolie was seen as a good role model when she was both looking feminine and aggressive, which is considered more of a male trait. When Bates displayed aggressive behavior in movies, however, she was not seen as a good role model. And the passive heroine, whether she was attractive or not, did not garner a lot of support as a role model. So it seems a good female role model can act like a man, as long as she’s stereotypically pretty.

Of course past studies have shown that being attractive is helpful, be it in getting a job or landing a well-off partner. Now, it could be argued that we also like our leading men to be buff hotties with incredible jaw structures while they’re saving the world from Armageddon.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why are we all holding onto the same generic image of Superman and Superwoman?

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Angelina Jolie's toughest critics? Her six kids with Brad Pitt.

The actress, who voices Master Tigress in Kung Fu Panda 2 (in theaters May 26) tells USA Today that her large brood -- including Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2 -- became "part agents, part managers" on set.

"They'll sit in a room and say, 'That's just not funny,'" Jolie, 35, says, adding that their fresh opinions "keep you competitive, even if they think Jack Black is always cooler than mom."

Though the film's 2008 predecessor was a blockbuster hit -- and "one of the kids' favorite movies" -- Jolie admits she often doubted her vocal talents.

"You know, when you hear your own voice, you can find it quite boring and uninteresting," she explains. "Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I'm not musical and I don't know my voice."

To gain confidence, Jolie looked to Black, 41, for support. "I was crazy about him. I had seen him in everything he'd done, but what I really knew him for was music," she says. "I don't have musical talent, so I always thought it was really cool that he could be an actor to a lot of us but equally a rock star."Jolie's nerves came back again when she and Pitt, 47, took the children to DreamWorks studios to see a rough cut of the film.

"I wondered how they'd respond to the themes of the film," she says, noting that she and Pitt were "sensitive to see if there was going to be a big discussion that night about adoption and orphanages."

Fortunately, there wasn't. "But that's because we talk about those issues at my house all the time, very openly," she asserts. "We've had those discussions so often, they're such happy, wonderful discussions."

"We've got kids of all ages," Jolie continues. "So we joked that we had our own focus group."

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Who needs a director when you have six very opinionated - and honest - children?

Angelina Jolie has revealed how her brood of six children became a regular fixture on set while she recorded her new animated movie Kung Fu Panda 2.

Describing them as like a 'focus group' she said they became 'part agents, part managers'.

And they certainly didn't hold back when it came to expressing their opinions.

Jolie told USA Today: 'They'll sit in a room and say, "That's just not funny,"' admitting the scrutiny from her children keeps her 'competitive'.

The 35-year-old actress, who voices kung fu master Tigress, has six children with partner Brad Pitt - Maddox, aged nine, Pax, aged seven, Zahara, aged six, four-year-old Shiloh and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. The elder three are adopted.

But despite their brutal honesty - and thinking co-star Jack Black was 'cooler than mommy' - Angelina says bringing them along to recording sessions was very rewarding.However, Jolie did admit she had concerns regarding the adoption issues raised in the flick, especially when they visited the Dreamworks studios to see a rough cut of the movie.

'I wondered how they'd respond to the themes of the film,' admitting that herself and Pitt were 'sensitive to see if there was going to be a big discussion that night about adoption and orphanages'.

But in the end there were no questions. As Jolie explains: 'That's because we talk about those issues at my house all the time, very openly.

'We've had those discussions so often, they're such happy, wonderful discussions.'Kung Fu Panda, the original, was 'one of the kids' favourite movies,' Jolie said. And reinforcing how they inspired her during recording, she explained: 'If you look at your own children, you want to do something you know will be better than the first one.'

However, the Oscar-winning actress conceded that she did have hang-ups about the sound of her voice.

While she would usually have her brooding good looks and presence to light up the screen, animation is clearly different.

Jolie told the publication she hates the sound of her own voice.

'You know, when you hear your own voice, you can find it quite boring and uninteresting.

'Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I'm not musical and I don't know my voice.'

Kung Fu Panda 2, which is released on May 26, marks the third animated film between Jolie and Black.

Before the original, in which they both featured, they also paired in the 2004 flick Shark Tale.

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7 March, 2011 - Actress Angelina Jolie, the mother of six and a ‘woman for Brad’ as she once referred herself to in a television interview, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan. The two-day visit of Brad Pitt's long-time partner is part of her role as United Nations High Commissions for Refugees (UNHCR) goodwill ambassador.
According to the Agence France Presse, Jolie stayed to meet with hundreds of refugees for two days. The actress then capped her visit by calling on to the international community for more actions reintegrating former exiles into the Afghan society.

"The focus needs to be put now on reintegration and that means not just putting up shelter but making sure there is water, job opportunities, a school for the children and medical clinics," Jolie was quoted by the AFP as saying in a statement released by the UN agency.

Citing the UNHCR, the AFP said that millions of Afghans have returned to the country in the last ten years. An estimated 5.5 million people are reportedly back to the war-torn country since the Taliban was overpowered by the US-led invasion in 2002.

The war in 2002 had killed hundreds of Afghans and displaced millions of others who sought refuge in Iran and Pakistan. But with their arrival after almost a decade, the population of Afghanistan has shown an increase by 20-percent.

Johnny Depp Calls Jolie "Shockingly Great Mother"

Johnny Depp has praised his fellow superstar Angelina Jolie's "shockingly great" parenting skills, saying he would "probably be in prison" if he had to cope with as much as her.
The Tourist actor admitted his co-star - who raises six children with partner Brad Pitt - does a fantastic job of juggling her mothering duties with her career, and thinks he would "probably be in prison" if he had so much to deal with, reported Contactmusic.

"She is such a versatile, wonderful person who can portray anything. She is a down to earth, clever, funny, woman and shockingly great mother. She is very calm even if she's surrounded by paparazzi. I don't know what I would do. I could've been in prison by now!"

The 47-year-old star - who has been in a relationship with French actress-and-singer Vanessa Paradis since 1998 - also joked that he "can't remember" the intimate scenes he shot with Jolie in The Tourist.

"I didn't tell my family that I was shooting the film. I can't remember, I wasn't in it, I didn't take the role and this film doesn't exist. Angelina who? I can't remember her name, so I'm clean," said Depp.

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