Everyone is wondering why Hollywood’s A-listed couple namely Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt didn’t show up at the event of the year – the Oscars.

Sources told E News that Angelina is busy filming “The Tourist” and couldn’t make time for the Academy awards. But E Online points out that Hollywood actors can take a break from shooting in order to attend a big event. Like Jake Gyllenhaal headed back to Canada immediately after the show to resume filming his latest flick. And moreover Brangelina have the luxury of private jet which travels really fast.

Several news portals claim that the couple chose to take their kids to a birthday party in Venice on the awards days. The couple has bunked the Oscars for the third time in a row. Reports claim that since neither of them received an individual nomination they decided to give it a miss even though Pitt’s “Inglorious Basterds” was up for the Best Picture. They didn’t turn up in 2008 when neither Joliet nor Pitt get any nomination and also in 2007 when Pitt’s Babel was nominated for Best Picture.

Source: Entertainment and Showbiz

Angelina takes son Pax Thien and daughter Shiloh to a childrens birthday party at Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s, Director of The Tourist, Venice property.

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- Takes Pax and Shiloh to a childrens birthday party in Italy – 7th March 2010

Angelina Jolie and Darren Aronofsky are in discussions to adapt Ron Rash’s 2008 novel “Serena: A Novel.” The project would be a starring vehicle for Jolie, while Aronofsky would direct. Chris Kyle (Alexander, K-19: The Widowmaker) wrote the screenplay.

The following is how publisher HarperCollins describes the book:

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons’ intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

Rash’s masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.

Jolie is currently shooting The Tourist with Johnny Depp, but she has nothing lined up next. The untitled Kay Scarpetta project is one possibility.

Source: ComingSoon.Net

Angie and Brad leaving their apartment in Venice with their kids. The family boarded a launch to head out for the day.

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- With Brad and their children leaving their apartment in Venice, Italy – 28th February 2010

Angelina Jolie is currently in Venice, Italy, shooting for “The Tourist,” a film that will also star Johnny Depp. While photos of her on set are emerging online on a daily basis, some fans are outraged she’s been chosen for a part in a film that will only go into production later this year, that of forensic investigator Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Daily Mail reports.

Dr. Scarpetta is a popular fictional character created by US writer Patricia Cornwell, a well respected author of crime books, which are believed to have inspired some of the most famous crime series now running on TV. She has sold the rights for a long feature adaptation and, as per ongoing reports, plans are in place to make of the first film the basis of a successful and long-lived franchise. Angelina Jolie was chosen as the lead, but fans of the novels fear she might be too “exotic” for how the character was initially conceived.

“Angelina Jolie has sparked fury among the fans of Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling crime novels by being chosen to play its heroine Kay Scarpetta. Many say Jolie is ‘too glamorous’ and ‘exotic’ looking to play the screen version of the medical examiner. The character in 17 best selling books is a petite, middle-aged woman with short blonde hair – much like the 53-year-old author herself,” the Mail reports.

Mrs. Cornwell herself says Jolie was not her first choice but she was more than happy to have her when she heard she was available. “When Angelina came out of the left field last year, I was floored. Angelina had pithy things to say about what she wanted to do,” Mrs. Cornwell says of how the first meeting with Jolie went. “She was direct and goal-oriented. She waited on everyone, getting them their lunch, while her own staff was seated. She was aware intuitively how other people were feeling and wanted to make them comfortable. It was not typical for people of her stature,” the writer adds.

Fans writing on the message boards on Cornwell’s official website, though, are a far cry from seeing things her way. Most of them have read all her books and Jolie is the last person they would see play the main character, because she’s “exotic,” while the forensic specialist has “class,” is “striking” and of an athletic build. A better choice would have been Jodie Foster, they say, as per the above-mentioned publication.

Source: Softpedia

Mark Millar has revealed that Wanted 2 is “certainly going ahead” without Angelina Jolie.

Speaking to STV, the movie’s creator refuted yesterday’s news that Universal had pulled the sequel because of Jolie’s non-involvement.

Millar said: “Wanted 2 will be certainly going ahead, because the first one made too much money for them not to do a sequel.

“What was funny was originally Wanted was just going to be one movie, and Angelina dies at the end, Morgan Freeman dies at the end – sorry to anyone who hasn’t bought it yet.”

He continued: “The idea was that it was going to be self-contained, but the movie cost $75 million to make and it made $314 million back just theatrically. At the premiere the tracking was really good and everything, and the producer came up and said ‘What are we going to do for Wanted 2?’ and I was like ‘I don’t have any ideas!’”

Source: Digital Spy

Angie films a scene for her new movie in Gare de Lyone railway station in Paris today.

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- On the Set – February 25, 2010

Angelina continues to film scenes for ‘The Tourist’ at Belle Epoque Cafe in Colette Square today.

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- On the Set – February 24, 2010

Getting down to business, Angelina was spotted hard at work on her new movie “The Tourist” in Paris, France today.

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- On the Set – February 23, 2010