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The first trailer of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, which stars Brad Pitt as a Nazi-killing commander, was released today.

Inglourious Basterds sees Pitt play Lt Aldo Raine, commander of a unit whose mission is to kill and dismember Germans during the Second World War.

The film – inspired by 1978 Italian war movie The Inglorious Bastards – follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to spread terror among the Nazi occupiers.

The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a cinema in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Based on the trailer, which is nearly two minutes long, cinemagoers will be in for the usual bloodthirsty and violent Tarantino style seen in his previous work, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill films.

In the teaser, Pitt tells his troops: ‘We are going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis.’

Speaking over a sinister rock soundtrack, he continues: ‘We will be cruel to the German. And through our cruelty they will know who we are.

‘They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disembowelled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.’

He continues: ‘Each man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps.’

The trailer also shows clips of incredibly violent scenes. The strapline reads: ‘You haven’t seen war, until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.’

Inglourious Basterds features a large cast including Pitt, Mike Myers and Samuel L. Jackson and is due to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

It is scheduled for release in Britain in August.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt drew huge cheers from the crowd at the British Academy Film Awards Sunday in London.

Jolie, in a black silk crepe Giorgio Arman evening gown, walked the carpet with Pitt and signed autographs for fans.

But the night belonged to the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire, which took home seven prizes, including best film.

Kate Winslet won for best actress for The Reader (she was also nominated for Revolutionary Road). She thanked her friends and her parents, who were with her at the ceremony. She joked that she couldn’t look at them or she would burst into tears.

The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke won for best actor.

In the supporting acting categories, Penelope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the late Heath Ledger was named best supporting actor for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight.

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A few years ago she wished for a ‘rainbow’ family of seven children from around the world.

Yesterday, Angelina Jolie was probably wishing she’d been born with a few more pairs of hands.

The actress and her partner Brad Pitt struggled through Narita Airport near Tokyo with their brood of six – just one child short of Miss Jolie’s dream family.

Before the trend for celebrities adopting poverty stricken orphans from around the world took off, Miss Jolie declared: ‘I want to create a rainbow family.
‘That’s children of different religions and cultures, from different countries. Actually, I’d love to have seven, a small football team.’

Her comments, made five years ago before she had met Pitt, were treated with scepticism.

Now the Hollywood actress has finally got her wish.

It is the first time the entire Jolie-Pitt clan has been pictured together.

They were arriving in Tokyo from LA where they had attended the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards.

The family are in Japan for the premiere of Brad’s latest film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

They are expected to return to their native US next month for the Oscars, where both Brad and Angelina have been nominated for Benjamin Button and Clint Eastwood’s film The Changeling respectively.

Attached to her mother’s chest in a sling, blue-eyed little Vivienne, born with her twin Knox in July last year in the south of France, looked the spitting image of her older biological sister Shiloh Nouvel, two, seen here holding her mother’s hand. They both had their mother’s famous rose-bud lips.

Shiloh, the couple’s first natural daughter, was born in May 2006 in Namibia. The name is of Hebrew origin and means ‘the peaceful one’ or ‘His gift’.

Wide-eyed Knox riding on his father’s chest was also styled like him – with both wearing grey jumpers and tweed flat caps.

The twins have certainly earned enough to keep the whole family in expensive threads in their short lives so far. Their parents negotiated the most expensive magazine deal ever when they sold pictures of the twins to People magazine and Hello! a month after the births for £7.5million.

However the money was donated to the Jolie-Pitt family’s charitable foundation.

Gripping tight hold of Brad’s left hand is Zahara Marley. She was adopted from an orphanage in Ethiopia when she was just five months old in July 2005. The adoption came two months after Miss Jolie first visited the country with Pitt.

To Brad’s right is Pax Thien who was adopted from a Vietnamese orphanage in March 2007.

Abandoned at birth he was called Pham Quang before being renamed by Jolie. Pax is Latin for Peace and Thien is Vietnamese for heaven.

Trailing slightly behind the group is Maddox. In June 2002, Jolie and her then husband Billy Bob Thornton adopted the Cambodian orphan.
He was nine months old at the time. Jolie had decided to adopt after visiting the country as a goodwill ambassador for the UN in 2001.

Brad and Angelina – dubbed ‘Brangelina’ by showbusiness commentators – recently complained they spend the entire life jet-setting with their family. Their gruelling schedules promoting films and endorsing products have made them two of the highest-paid celebrities in Hollywood.

Miss Jolie said: ‘Our kids are always packing. They like to pack – it’s a game in our house.

‘It can get very hard trying to find 20 minutes to close your eyes if you’ve been up since four in the morning. We travel so much, we never have to adjust. We change school time to four in the afternoon if we have to.’

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt praised each other on the red carpet at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

Asked if she likes having Pitt as her date at award shows, Jolie told E!’s Giuliana Rancic, “We’ve been doing it together for four years – it’s aways nice. I don’t think I’d want to be doing it alone. It’s nice to be doing it with your best friend … and have a laugh in the middle of the show.”

She declined to answer a question about how Pitt has changed her, but she said that “he’s a wonderful man … the person I admire the most in the world. I think he is extraordinary.”

Jolie wore a Max Azria dress, Tiffany earrings and ring and Christian Louboutin shoes.

“I just like to be comfortable,” she said of getting ready. “I see what comfortable options are out there.”

Do the kids help her prep?

“They play, they get their nails done, they run around,” she said. “Most of the time, they’re a bit bored…. They don’t find it that interesting.”

Pitt did a separate interview. When told by Rancic that Jolie’s beauty never gets old, he said, “No, it never gets old – I am here to testify.”

The actor also called Jolie “amazing … a fantastic mother.”

Like Jolie, he declined to answer a question about how the actress has changed him.

“I don’t want to get into it,” he said. “We’re happy to be here.”

Both are nominated for their leading dramatic roles: Jolie, for Changeling, and Pitt, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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Brad Pitt’s had it up to here with fame. And he’s happy to talk about it.

Angelina Jolie’s other half opened up about his troubles during a roundtable discussion alongside other stars with Newsweek.

“This publicity machine is out of control. It’s everything we didn’t sign up for,” he says on the press tours that come with releasing a film.

“There’s this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares.”

Although Pitt shot and published intimate photos of Jolie and their six children for W magazine – and has sold first photos of several of his children to magazines – the “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” actor says he’s “never made peace” with the fame game.

“Somehow you’re not supporting your film if you don’t get out on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this.”
Frank Navarre, founder of photography agency X-17, recently told the Daily News that, to Pitt, fame “is not a game – it’s war.”

“Everything he does is calculated … Brad Pitt is somebody who is obsessed with it.”

But the 45-year-old Oscar nominee says he’s never “Googled” himself, adding, “I don’t really know how to operate a computer.”

Pitt, who has “nothing to prove anymore,” also says he’s glad he’s not getting his start as an actor these days. “I feel for the people who are just getting into the business. It sets the wrong focus.”

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may want to dust off the mantle and make room for matching his and her Oscar trophies after picking up Best Actor and Best Actress nominations Thursday.

Pitt, whose film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button collected 13 Oscar nods, including Best Picture, called the nominations “a great honor for the movie,” while giving props to his director. “I’m especially happy for David Fincher, for without him there would be no Ben Button,” said Pitt, who was last nominated for a supporting role in Twelve Monkeys in 1996.

Oscars aside, Changeling star Jolie also had words of gratitude for her director: Working with Clint Eastwood “was a reward in itself that will last me a lifetime,” she said.

Yet, the actress is still humbled about her nomination for her role as a mother whose son goes missing in Changeling. “To receive a nomination from the Academy on top of that is a privilege beyond any expectation,” she said Thursday. “It has been an exceptional year for acting, and I am honored to be in the company of these talented actors whose performances all deserve this recognition.”

Also nominated for Best Actress are: Meryl Streep in Doubt; Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married; Melissa Leo in Frozen River; and Kate Winslet in The Reader.

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“Jimmy Kimmel Live” was full of surprises as Dustin Hoffman joked about Brad Pitt’s anatomy, performed on the piano and discovered that while the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” parking lot security guard Guillermo has never seen one of his movies, he loves “Grease.” Then, jet pack pilot Eric Scott returned for a repeat demonstration following December’s malfunction to successfully fly from the Hollywood High School football field all the way up to the studio roof with a jet pack strapped to his back. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” also aired a special montage of all the reason’s President Bush will be missed.

Tonight, watch as Sarah Silverman makes a special appearance and Kevin James challenges host Jimmy Kimmel and parking lot security guard Guillermo to a Segway race down Hollywood Blvd! Musical guest Delta Spirit performs.

The star repeatedly tried buying the complete works of Hungarian cult director Bela Tarr from a small DVD store in Budapest as a Christmas present for Angelina Jolie, but whenever he called the place, they thought it was a joke and hung up on him. “He tried several times on the phone but had to give up. They just didn’t believe him,” an aide to Pitt tells Britain’s Daily Mail. Finally, he got a friend in the city, opera singer Laszlo Domahidy, to buy the collection for him.

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