Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is already dividing critics and will surely divide audiences too. Inglourious Basterds looks like Brad Pitt in a World War II romp. Don’t be surprised if you spend a lot of the time with two German characters played by actors you don’t know.

“To me the film has three leads,” Tarantino said. “It has Aldo, Shoshanna and Lando. Even the structure of the movie, the first three chapters are setting up these leads. Then, chapter four and five is okay, now the adventure begins. The other aspect though is you can say that everybody in this movie is an inglourious basterd. Doesn’t just have to mean the one little group.”

That said, the group of Jewish Nazi killers that Pitt leads are basically background players. “If you consider the Basterds the six other guys in the background, yeah, they become incidental to the actual mission themselves once the story gets going on.”

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In his current movie opening Friday, Quentin Tarantino’s R-rated WWII movie Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt plays a southern lieutenant whose squadron, among other bloody deeds, scalps Nazis.

“Yeah,” Pitt, 45, confirmed to interviewer Ann Curry on Tuesday’s Today show, “people lose some hair.”

When Curry counters that Pitt – the father of six – ought to make a kids movie, the leading man steps forward with the announcement that he is doing just that, by providing the voice for an animated feature in which he’ll play a “superhero who wants out.”

Pitt says that movie will costar the voices of Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr., and trade reports identify the project as Oobermind, from DreamWorks Animation and Madagascar co-director Tim McGrath. An update since the Pitt-Curry sit-down also indicates that Will Ferrell has replaced Robert Downey Jr.

The movie, now in post-production for a November 2010 release, reportedly opens with Pitt, as the super heroic Metro Man, being accidentally killed by the super villain Oobermind (Ferrell), who has a change of heart about being bad and so creates a new hero, Titan (Jonah Hill) – much to the confusion of a local newscaster (Fey).

It’s not autobiographical, Pitt told Curry, who inquired if he might be doing the movie in order to appear heroic to his and Angelina Jolie’s children: Maddox, 8; Pax, 5; Zahara, 4; Shiloh, 3; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 1.

“It’s just something they’ll enjoy,” he responded, “and that’s cool.”

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Brad Pitt won’t be joining the cast of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes after all.

London’s Daily Mirror reported that he is set to arrive in London this week to begin filming scenes as Holmes’ nemesis Moriarty. He is expected to shoot all over the city, including the Royal Victoria Dock, Pontoon Docks, Pinewood and Chatham Docks in Kent, the paper claimed.

Ritchie – who last worked with Pitt in 2000’s Snatch – decided to add Pitt to the cast, which includes Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson – after seeing the first edit, according to the report.

But a studio rep tells Us: “The report in today’s London Mirror is completely inaccurate. Brad Pitt is not joining the cast of Sherlock Holmes and we’re extremely pleased with the production of the film. As planned, it will be released on Christmas Day, 2009. In order to complete the movie, we’ve scheduled a few days on set to shoot a couple of additional scenes, obtain pick-up shots, and perfect some of the visual effects elements, all of which is standard filmmaking practice.”

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Brad Pitt is spotted drinking and partying away, without Angelina Jolie, in NYC as he attends the afterparty of the movie “The Time Travelers Wife”. He is seen flirting with a blond woman, and enjoying drinks along with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams.

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Pitt on TODAY…

Pitt on being mayor: ‘I don’t have a chance’

Aug. 13: In a TODAY exclusive interview, Ann Curry talks to actor and activist Brad Pitt about his work to rebuild New Orleans, rumors of his political aspirations and his definition of true love.

I just finished this book last night, and man – what a book! I’m slightly upset, though, because I know that Hollywood is going to mess this book up. I can tell – just from the previews that things have been changed.  Yes, I know things are always changed when it comes to making the movie – I just hope it’s not too much!

Here is the premiere of the film, last night – where Brad Pitt made a surprise visit!

Pictured: Rachel McAdams,  Ron Livingston (who plays Gomez), Eric Bana and Brad Pitt!

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins, who celebrated their first birthday on July 12, have reached a major milestone.

“The twins are great. They’re walking,” Angelina told Life & Style at the Aug. 10 LA premiere of Brad’s new movie, Inglorious Basterds.

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Angelina, who wore a sexy black leather dress and was smiling from ear to ear as she walked the red carpet alongside Brad, couldn’t help but brag about her beautiful children. “I hope to get all of my kids involved [in humanitarian efforts]. I hope to raise them properly so that they have a good conscience, and they’re good people.”

And what about expanding the Jolie-Pitt clan? “Angelina laughed off questions about whether she planned to have more children,” says Life & Style’s reporter.

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