Showing posts with label war movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war movie. Show all posts

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Tina Fey Reporting from Afghanistan?

Tina Fey heads to Afghanistan in first ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ trailer (Video)
The Celebrity Cafe
Daniel S Levine
December 17, 2015

Tina Fey has a new movie opening this weekend and you might see the trailer for her next one ahead of it.

Fey stars in the new Paramount comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which was directed by Crazy Stupid Love team Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It is based on Kim Baker’s 2012 memoir The Taliban Shuffle, about her days as a photojournalist during the war in Afghanistan.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Brad Pitt to Star as General Stanley McChrystal

Brad Pitt to Star as General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan War Film The Operators
E News
by BRUNA NESSIF
Apr. 14, 2014

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Brad Pitt is locking in yet another war flick on his list of films.

Angelina Jolie's handsome significant other is going to star as Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, in the upcoming movie The Operators, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The military drama will be written and directed by Australian director David Michod, who was behind the indie film Animal Kingdom a few ago, and will be based off of journalist Michael Hastings‘ 2012 book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan.

McChrystal made headlines when he was fired in 2010 after making some controversial remarks in a Rolling Stone profile by the late Michael Hastings, in which General McChrystal and his staff criticized administration officials, the president and his advisers.
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

WWII veteran meets Brad "who" Pitt

War veteran had never heard of Brad Pitt
Star Pulse
Dave Simpson
September 27th, 2013

Brad Pitt cracked up laughing when he met a World War II veteran serving as consultant on new movie Fury because the 90 year old had never heard of the Hollywood superstar.

The actor personally invited Peter Comfort to the U.K. set to watch him shoot the movie, in which the actor stars as a tank corps commander close to the end of the Second World War.

Pitt was eager to hear all about the former tank driver's experiences, but he was in for a surprise when he came face-to-face with the Brit.
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