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Brad Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie took their brood to the Odeon Cinema in London. The couple took their kids to see ‘Smurfs’.

Do the kids know their dad is a real-life hero? According to RadarOnline, Brad rescued a woman from being trampled!

Since Brad Pitt’s recent rescue of an extra on the set of World War Z, the 47-year-old superstar is being hailed as a hero. And, now, Star magazine reveals that the big-screen stud has a history of coming to the rescue!

While filming the apocalyptic action flick in Scotland on August 24, Brad jumped into action when a woman slipped in a stampede, saving her from being trampled in the street.

“He didn’t have time to speak to her because it was mid shoot,” an eyewitness recalled. “But she said afterward how grateful she was.”

Just two months earlier, Brad had come to the aid of another damsel in distress.

“I got a cramp in my back and couldn’t straighten myself,” actress Katinka Egres tells Star. “Brad called a medic and insisted on me being examined.”

Now, she has some words for her knight in shining armor. “Thank you again for your kindness and attentiveness,” she says.

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Angelina Jolie graces the latest cover of Vanity Fair. In the article she promotes her new passion project, “In the Land of Blood and Honey” which is a movie about a couple in love during the Bosnian war. She talks about how her partner, Brad Pitt, supported her throughout filming, and answers yet again whether or not she’ll get pregnant or adopt any more children.

Despite recent reports, Angelina Jolie assures Vanity Fair contributing editor Rich Cohen that there is “no secret wedding” in the works for her and Pitt. “I’m not pregnant. I’m not adopting at the moment,” the star tells Cohen.

“Brad thinks I’m going to be a nightmare,” Jolie jokes, telling how directing her new movie, In the Land of Blood and Honey, has changed the way she will approach her acting career. “I had such a good experience he thinks I’m going to be impatient with directors, which I already am. I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.”

“I’ve never felt more exposed. My whole career, I’ve hidden behind other people’s words,” Jolie tells Cohen of her screenwriting and feature directorial debut. “Now it’s me talking. You feel ridiculous when you get something wrong.”

“I had the flu,” Jolie says of how she came to write the script. “I had to be quarantined from the children for two days. I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn’t know any other way.” She says she then let Brad take the script to read on a trip: “He called and said, ‘You know, honey, it’s not that bad.’”

Jolie admits she did not initially intend to direct the film. “It was something I didn’t trust out of my hands,” she explains. “So by default I ended up putting myself in as director.”

Of her decision to use all unknown actors from the region, she says, “It couldn’t be anybody else. It’s their story. It was important that they were willing to do it. If none of them were willing, I wouldn’t have made it.”

Jolie does elaborate on Brad’s supportive role throughout the project. “He’d come in and say what he liked or what he didn’t understand. Like any woman, I would listen to most of it and fight a few things. He’s been so supportive. But it’s hard to separate the person that loves you from the critic, so I don’t think he’s a fair judge.” But she goes on to say that “people will judge for themselves. I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.”

Before shooting, Jolie says, she sent the script to “reporters and writers, people of Serbian and Bosnian nationality who’d been through the war. I was gauging the accuracy…. If they said no, I wouldn’t have done it.”

I really wonder if this movie is going to be any good. Filming a movie with no-name actors works sometimes, and others – not so much. I think she should have thrown Brad Pitt in there somewhere.

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Brad Pitt was spotted filming ‘World War Z’ in Glasgow, England earlier today, transforming the city into downtown Philadelphia.

Yellow cabs, US traffic signs, SWAT vans, Philadelphia police cars, and posters advertising local events in the American city have been erected in the city centre location over the last few days.

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill grace the cover of New York Magazine, ahead of their new movie ‘Moneyball’ being released next month. I cannot WAIT to see this movie! It has all the elements of a good – family film. It’s going to be really nice to see Brad Pitt in something the whole family can watch. I nice feel-good movie. It’s been a while!

TRAILER TIME!! Watch Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in ‘Moneyball’!

Here’s a bit from the interview, which talks about how ‘Moneyball’ almost didn’t happen, how the movie was an obsession of Brad’s, and how it almost cost Stephen Soderbergh his career. Makes me want to see the movie even more!

The closer we get to fall, the more we root for long shots. And Moneyball, which opens September 23, is one such underdog. Michael Lewis’s 2003 book focused on Billy Beane, the general manager of the then-impoverished Oakland A’s, who used a kind of quantitative analysis known as sabermetrics to create a winning team and, more miraculously, to combat the huge payroll inequities between baseball’s richest and poorest organizations. Beane’s quixotic ­attempts to reform a hidebound system and turn a ragtag starting lineup of last-chancers into champions forms Moneyball’s heart. But consider that the above summary hinges on words like sabermetrics and payroll inequities, and you begin to understand why—even with the dogged support of Brad Pitt—Moneyball took nearly a decade, three directors, three writers, an almost complete recasting, and a public collapse before it got made. “There were some hard days,” says Pitt. By which he means years.

…There were problems, beginning at the source. Lewis’s book is less a narrative than a riveting Gladwellian case study in which a single outlier occasions a series of meditations on the risk-averse institution of baseball. This is not something that screams adaptation, Pitt says, citing “the difficulty of making a movie whose front window is dressed with economics and science and math.”

Pitt came aboard in late 2007 to play Beane and quickly “became obsessed” as well. “I saw it as a story about justice,” he says. “How is a team with a $40 million payroll going to compete with a team with a $140 million payroll and another $100 million in reserves? Any talent they grow is going to get poached by the rich teams. That became really interesting to me.”

For Pitt, Moneyball also evoked “films about process,” particularly the seventies movies he loved. “I thought of The Conversation: How do you tap a phone? Or Thief, with Jimmy Caan: How do you crack a safe?” Pitt says. “And I saw in it a guy who had an obsessive quality like Popeye Doyle,” from The French Connection. “I don’t really like big character-arc epiphanies. What I most loved about those seventies films is that the characters were the same at the end as at the beginning. It was the world around them that had shifted.” In Beane, he says, “I saw a man going up against a system, questioning the reasoning: Just because we’ve been doing it this way for 150 years, why shouldn’t we change it?”

[Director Bennett] Miller knew Hill socially and felt he could thrive in the role. “Jonah is brilliant in a way that might not be evident from the roles he’s played before,” Miller says. “He has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of movies. And I also knew he was interested in breaking out of whatever box he was in.” For his part, Hill felt he’d found a project—and a director—that might allow him to grow up a little. “A lot of times you’re funny as a way of not having to say anything real about yourself. Bennett knew that there are whole days when I’m not funny at all,” he says, laughing. “And this character has sweet moments, but no jokes or wisecracks.”

“Jonah’s a revelation in this thing—he’s a study in reserve,” says Pitt, who saw Hill’s potential in his earlier films. “I think the most interesting work that’s been going on in the last couple of years is what the comedy guys have been doing. Guys like Jonah and Russell Brand and [Seth] Rogen and a few others … they picked up on an irreverence that started with Adam Sandler and continued with Will Ferrell, but they’ve been grounding it in a kind of pathos and humanity. I find it really strong work.”

“I don’t mind the struggle as long as the work amounts to something in the end,” says Pitt, who ended up with a producer credit as well. “It was really Bennett who finally cracked it. His anxiety not to do anything conventional ultimately formed what this would be. At the same time, everyone involved in Moneyball, at every stage, was very passionate. But what most everyone gleaned from the book was very different. I look at the movie now, and I feel everyone’s fingerprints are on it. It’s been … well, listen. It’s been an interesting process.”

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Tabloids all across the globe have been keeping track of Brad Pitt, and his cute assistant (blurry – behind him) on the set of ‘World War Z’ in Scotland. The two have been photographed together multiple times, which means – of course – that Brad is cheating on Angelina.

SCOTS fans who have failed to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt since he arrived in the country must wish they had his personal assistant’s luck. When the Hollywood hunk started filming in Glasgow yesterday, the pretty brunette got to keep a close eye on him – and she gets paid to do it.

Brad was sharing jokes with the sexy young woman in tight jeans and a figure-hugging black top. And it seems mirroring the star’s every move is one of the requirements of her job. While Brad was on set, his assistant was doing everything from bringing him drinks and escorting him back to his personal trailer to carrying his umbrella.

The first day of filming in Glasgow for his zombie blockbuster World War Z was disrupted by heavy rain. Brad, who had given hundreds of fans at Glasgow Central station the slip when he arrived on a specially chartered train with his family on Tuesday, arrived on set shortly before 9am yesterday.

He was quickly whisked from a blue Jaguar into private rooms in Glasgow City Chambers to avoid the public glare. The A-lister started filming a car scene in Cochrane Street – re-named J F Kennedy Boulevard for the purposes of the shoot – around an hour later. But filming was interrupted repeatedly after the heavens opened at 11am.

Several streets around George Square were closed to the public – but that didn’t stop passers-by from trying to get snaps of the movie idol.

Nearby offices buzzed with excitement and local pub The Piper got into the spirit of things by making staff wear zombie masks. Bar operator Brian Warwick even produced commemorative T-shirts.

While Brad was filming, Angelina and their six children spent the day at Carnell Estate near Hurlford, Ayrshire. The mansion will be their home for the next two weeks while Brad films the horror movie. The George Square scenes – which are thought to involve a battle between soldiers and zombies – are expected to feature prominently in the final cut.

No, I don’t believe Brad is cheating. If he did – it certainly wouldn’t be with an assistant – it would be with a costar. That’s more his style.

Anyway – here are a bunch of pics of Brad on the set of his new zombie film, set in Scotland!

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Brad Pitt is seen taking a coffee break on the set of his new zombie thriller film World War Z in Glasgow, Scotland.

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