Top Reads Brad Pitt: Another lawsuit Earlier this summer, Brad Pitt made headlines when it was revealed that he is suing Angelina Jolie over the sale of her share of Chateau Miraval. A court had previously approved Angelina’s request to sell her part of the estate, and the new owners, Tenute del Mondo were filing By Lainey • Sep 07, 2022 01:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s search for good luck Brad Pitt is really popular in Japan – they call him “Burapi” there – so interesting to see him promoting Bullet Train there right now, on multiple levels. The film was adapted from Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka’s novel Maria Beetle. There have been accusations of whitewashing with the movie or, as By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 10:18 am
Brad Pitt Salma pulls up for Angelina Angelina Jolie was making headlines most of last week for her personal life as details from her Freedom of Information Act claim against the FBI were made public, alleging that Brad Pitt abused her and their children during that private flight in 2016 that led to their separation. As we By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 02:17 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt gets away Brad Pitt has been making headlines all week – and even with the assist from major entertainment outlets, they’re not the kind of headlines he and his PR team would be happy with. Let’s start with Make It Right, Brad’s foundation. Make It Right made Brad Pitt look By Lainey • Aug 19, 2022 11:09 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt: Media and PR connections As I wrote in my previous post today about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt , it’s been interesting following the media coverage and specifically how Brad Pitt’s position is being presented. On that note, this is what Omid Scobie, who was working at Wenner Media’s Us Weekly when By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 02:29 pm
Media Manipulation Himpathy for Brad Pitt Over the last few days, since Puck News reported an update on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed anonymously by Jane Doe (aka Angelina Jolie) against the FBI, I’ve been wondering how the mainstream media and major entertainment outlets would handle the situation. Both Angelina and Brad Pitt By Lainey • Aug 18, 2022 11:53 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and the FBI Back in April, Politico reported (via TMZ) that a woman referred to as Jane Doe filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the FBI to hand over documents related to a domestic violence investigation that happened when she and her children were travelling on a private plane in 2016. By Lainey • Aug 16, 2022 10:47 am
Douchebags Brad Pitt’s Sh-t List Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who currently stars in Bullet Train with Brad Pitt, made headlines this week when he revealed that Brad has a “sh-t list” of people he won’t work with. Aaron told reporters at a press conference at the Locarno Film Festival that: “[Brad] is in a new chapter By Lainey • Aug 10, 2022 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt in Bullet Train Bullet Train is a frustrating film. Intermittently funny, intermittently entertaining, intermittently painfully loud, intermittently offensive, it never settles into one groove but skips all over the place like a hyperactive kid telling a story. This one time, a guy gets on a train and he’s a bad man and By Sarah • Aug 05, 2022 01:54 pm
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt’s Fluffy Headlines Here’s a good example of media distortion, shocking by the Daily Mail. They’ve posted a story about Brad Pitt today with this headline: The article clearly claims that Brad is “seeing someone”, suggesting that he’s dating a specific person. When you read the article though, the information By Lainey • Jul 27, 2022 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt is not Oscar Isaac Like I said yesterday, Brad Pitt is doing the most right now with his wardrobe on the press tour for Bullet Train…which, to be fair, is his job. It is his job to promote a movie, it is his job to make sure people know about the movie and By Lainey • Jul 20, 2022 12:43 pm
Style Brad Pitt’s Pastel Phase Brad Pitt is currently promoting Bullet Train and the press tour is in Europe right now. On the weekend he showed up in Paris in a peach coloured pantsuit. Today he’s in Berlin and he’s wearing pink. He does look good. He’s cut his hair a bit, By Lainey • Jul 19, 2022 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews She Said has a Brad Pitt problem One of the obvious big players for award season is She Said, a film adaptation of the 2019 book that told the behind-the-scenes story of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal in the New York Times. The film is directed by German filmmaker Maria Schrader, who By Sarah • Jul 15, 2022 02:49 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt: More Mythology I love an Andrea Long Chu book review. We linked to her piece on Hanya Yanagihara’s writing back in January and she articulated everything that frustrated me about reading A Little Life and her most recent book To Paradise. And it’s not that I necessarily agree with Andrea By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 11:21 am
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt: Strategic Gossip Nostalgia Brad Pitt’s f-cksh-t on Angelina Jolie has been the reason he’s been making headlines lately – and that f-cksh-t has been going on for a long time. While at this point most people understand that most celebrities manipulate the media to their advantage, the culture holds this against women By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 10:58 am
Douchebags Angelina vs Brad’s “false narrative” Brad Pitt used the media to advance his position earlier this week when it was somehow leaked through the press that he’s suing Angelina Jolie for selling her shares in Chateau Miraval to a company, Tenuto del Mondo, that happens to have initiated court proceedings against him for failure By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 09:37 am
