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Inglourious Basterds to premiere at Cannes!

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino have a real Cannes-do—or, at the very least, Cannes-go—attitude about their new movie.

The box-office boys are set to bring their highly anticipated war epic Inglourious Basterds to the Cannes Film Festival come May. Per Variety, the movie will not only have its world premiere at the Riviera-based fest, but will also screen as part of the competition.

The Weinstein Co. has not commented on the film’s selection, and festival organizers will not unveil the event’s full lineup until April 23.

Tarantino already has a rich, and successful, history with Cannes, having taken home the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction in 1994. Ten years later, he retuned to serve as president of the festival jury.

Cannes, arguably the most glamorous of the world’s film festivals, runs May 13-24. The film opens on Aug. 21.

Brad Pitt is going back to Cannes.

His upcoming WWII epic Inglourious Basterds (directed by Quentin Tarantino) will compete at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 13-24, Variety reports. (The movie — which centers on a group of Jewish-American soldiers trying to take down Nazis — opens wide Aug. 21.)

Pitt is no stranger to Cannes.

Last year, he and Angelina Jolie dominated the prestigious film festival as she debuted Changeling and Kung Fu Panda.The fest was also the spot where Jolie’s Panda costar Jack Black famously let it slip that she and Pitt were expecting twins.

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You can’t blame a media outfit for trying: E! Entertainment Television donated $250,000 to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year.

Theirs was one of just four donations to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s joint charitable fund. The others were Angie ($1,194,911) and Brad ($956.961) themselves, and “Ocean’s Eleven” (Twelve and Thirteen, too!) producer Jerry Weintraub ($5,000).

Not even People magazine, often accused of getting exclusives from the couple by tantalizing them with remuneration, is listed in the now available federal tax filing from 2007.

Who knows what E! thought it was buying? Maybe some extra face time on the red carpet? They certainly weren’t going to get it with headlines like this one from their online gossip back on February 20, 2009: “Angelina — From Sex Kitten to Emaciated Mama.”

It’s not clear whether E! curried any favor with the couple because of their donation. Other than using the Pitts to film a “Wild On…” episode on the beaches of Cambodia, or making an E! True Hollywood Story about the Darfur genocide, the payback results are unknown.

The E! donation certainly added to the stunning amount Jolie & Pitt gave away through this foundation in 2007: $3.4 million.

Where did the money go? The couple put the money to causes they’ve been vocal about. The largest single recipient was Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation in New Orleans, which got $1,364,320 million. They also split $1 million evenly among three different UN based organizations working in Darfur, Pitt’s other pet cause. Another $400,000 went to Cambodia’s children’s causes, a country from which they adopted a child, plus $150,000 to a project in his name: the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center.

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It was family night at the theater in New York City for the Jolie-Pitts.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took their children to see a Wednesday evening showing of The Little Mermaid on Broadway (Suri Cruise is also a fan of the play).

Pitt carried daughter Shiloh, 2, and held the hand of son Pax, 5, who sipped on a drink as he exited the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Jolie held daughter Zahara, 3, while Maddox, 7, walked in front of them.

Missing: Their newborn twins, Knox and Vivienne.

Jolie — who just returned from Hollywood for the Oscars with Pitt — is in the Big Apple as she prepares to shoot the espionage thriller, Salt.

After she wraps up filming, Jolie has said she plans to take a break from acting to focus on being a mother.

“I like being home a lot,” the mother of six has said. “First and foremost, I have a lot of children, and I need to make sure they’re growing right and they’ve got us there for them.”

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