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Depp stalling ‘Shantaram’

(HT) ‘Johnny Depp wasn’t keen to come to India. What happened with Brad and Angelina Jolie in Mumbai during A Mighty Heart scared him off.’ Depp wanted to recreate Bombay in Mexico; Nair said no. She’s now working on an Amelia Earhart biopic.

Wag the Dog, for celebs

(NYT) During the ‘marriage-breaker’ scandal, Angelina Jolie is accused to diverting attention with a Pakistan trip. At the ‘A Mighty Heart’ premiere, she insisted on control over how the interview was used... She made $14M for pix of her kids (!)

A mighty baby switch

(NYT) ‘Changeling,’ in which Angelina Jolie suffers not knowing if her only child has been murdered, puts her back in the wrenching territory of ‘A Mighty Heart.’

‘A Mighty Heart’ flopped at box office

(WSJ) ‘A Mighty Heart’ (Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Irfan Khan) lost about $15M. The dark, funny academic comedy ‘Smart People’ (Dennis Quaid) also did poorly.
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‘A Mighty Heart’ suited Jolie

(NYT) Jolie is not a weeper. She seems capable of only playing variations on herself, which is why she was persuasive holding back tears as a steely Mariane Pearl in ‘A Mighty Heart.’