Brad Pitt Gives Us The Update on the Twins, People
Brad Pitt will have audiences laughing out loud as a knucklehead fitness employee in Burn After Reading, but what makes PEOPLE's two-time Sexiest Man Alive chuckle in real life? "My kids," Pitt, 44, told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival gala screening Friday for his new Coen Brothers comedy also starring George Clooney. Speaking of his kids with Angelina Jolie, newest additions, eight-week-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, are great, he added. "Everyone is healthy," said Pitt. "No sleep t

Stars in Rewind: McDormand and the Coens, 'Blood Simple' '80s-Style
The latest wacky work from Ethan and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, is headed to screens next week. As you might have seen from the trailer, the flick has brought together the awesome collection of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand. But this is certainly not the first Coen movie that Frances has graced. In fact, they jump-started her career in 1984 with Blood Simple. Above, you can check out the trailer for the film, which follows love triangles and murder. McD

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More photos of Brad Pitt and the cast and crew of Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins are also seen sharing the stage with Joel and Ethan Coen. « day before del.icio.us | comments (0) | vfxy | cool photoblo

Pitt plays dumb in Coens' 'Burn After Reading'
Brad Pitt has wanted to work with the Coen brothers for ages. Then he got wind of the birdbrain they had written for him to play. "I've been knocking on the brothers' door for a few years, so I was really happy when they called me," Pitt told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, a day after Joel and Ethan Coen's comedy "Burn After Reading" premiered there. "Until I read the piece, and I was real upset," Pitt jokingly added. Pitt's character, an ignoramus in way over his he

Pitt plays dumb in Coens' `Burn After Reading'
Brad Pitt has wanted to work with the Coen brothers for ages. Then he got wind of the birdbrain they had written for him to play. "I've been knocking on the brothers' door for a few years, so I was really happy when they called me," Pitt told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, a day after Joel and Ethan Coen's comedy "Burn After Reading" premiered there. "Until I read the piece, and I was real upset," Pitt jokingly added. Pitt's character, an ignoramus in way over his he

Video: "Burn After Reading" Red Band Trailer
A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Also stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt.

Reel Screening - Burn After Reading
In our latest edition of Reel Screening, we have passes up for grabs to see the dark comedy, “Burn After Reading,” starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. To win your free pass to the advance screening of “Burn After Reading” in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD, all you need to do is be one of the first 25 people to answer our question below in Reel Screening. That’s it! “Burn After Reading” plot: A dark spy-comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen. O

SHORT TAKE: “Burn After Reading” (*1/2)
I think the Coen brothers are probably the only filmmakers who can generate such a reaction.  The entire film is expendable.  It doesn’t even work on the grounds of slapstick, really.  It’s a series of events strung together, no point, no thematic ingenuity, a tapestry of…stuff. And that’s obviously the point.  The film willfully aimless.  Like J.K. Simmons says at film’s end, “I’ll be damned if I know what happened.”  And I stand on my chair and applau

TIFF Review: Burn After Reading
When the worlds of Washington, DC political intrigue, infidelity, fitness centers and internet dating intersect and collide in a darkly hilarious fashion, you must be watching a film by the Coen brothers. Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to last year's critically lauded award winner, No Country for Old Men, was actually written by the duo as they were adapting No Country, but the two films couldn't be more different. The colliding worlds in Burn After Reading involve a CIA analyst name

Video footage of Brad Pitt and cast at TIFF
This video clip of Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, and Tilda Swinton on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival shows the level of pandemonium one man can create when he’s an enormous star. Both John and Tilda got very excited welcomes with people calling their names in hopes of autographs and photo ops. They were also both very gracious. However, when it’s Brad Pitt’s turn to hit the autograph line it becomes insane with an incredible level of screaming and freaking out. B

Brad Pitt’s Kids Make Him Laugh, Seeks Sleep
The 44-year-old actor was spotted while attending the Toronto International Film Festival gala screening Friday for his new Coen Brothers comedy also starring George Clooney. When asked what makes him laugh, the “Babel” actor admitted: “My kids. Everyone is healthy. No sleep though.” He added to reporters: “Sleep is something you long for, but it’s alright. We’ll get it.” Despite the lack of sleep, co-star and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton shares a piece of ad

Coens follow Oscar-winning drama with 'knucklehead' comedy starring Pitt, Clooney
TORONTO - When critical acclaim culminates in an Oscar for your dramatic work it follows that the next move, if you're the Coen brothers, is to release a screwball caper and cast two of Hollywood's hottest leading men as, well, morons. George Clooney has been down this road before with Joel and Ethan Coen in both "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Intolerable Cruelty." This time, Clooney is joined by Brad Pitt to portray "knucklehead" characters in "Burn After Reading" - roles penned especially for them.

Movies opening this week
Opening Friday"Burn After Reading" (R): The Coen brothers follow "No Country for Old Men" with a dark comedy about two inept gym employees who get hold of a CD-ROM containing a CIA operative's memoirs. The high-profile cast includes Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, George Clooney and Tilda Swinton. "A Girl Cut in Two" (not rated): Claude Chabrol's suspense drama centers on a female weather reporter (Ludivine Sagnier) pulled apart by two male pursuers, an older married author and the schizoid y

Interview: Brandon T. Jackson of ‘Tropic Thunder’ Breaks Out With ‘Booty Sweat’ Calling Card
CHICAGO– For “Tropic Thunder” star and Chris Tucker protégé Brandon T. Jackson, the fictional Booty Sweat literally is his Hollywood calling card.The Red Bull-like energy drink is a scripted creation of writer, director, producer and star actor Ben Stiller in the new comedy. The film’s talent list, which includes both “A”-list actors and up-and-coming actors, is longer than two or three typical films today combined.Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller, left) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr., right) a

Malkovich gets mad in Coens’ ‘Burn After Reading’
AP - TORONTO (AP) ? The Coen brothers’ new movie gave John Malkovich a chance to blow off some steam. Malkovich’s seething character in "Burn After Reading" bursts out in perpetual tantrums, a nice exercise in anger management, according to the actor. While he has not played explosive people that often in films, he has done many such roles on stage. It’s great therapy for anyone with a temper, Malkovich said. "I couldn’t recommend it more highly," Malkovich said in an interview at

Brad Pitt’s New Interview on Twins:’Everyone’s Healthy, Everyone’s Great’
New dad Brad Pitt looked dapper in a dark suit and tie with spiky hair at the Toronto International Film festival — and in the middle of the red-carpet pandemonium, he stopped for our own Jann Carl to deliver the goods about his new twins with Angelina Jolie! "All good; everyone’s healthy, and everyone’s great," he told Jann, adding, "Sleep is something we long for, but that’s alright, we’ll get it [soon]." The A-list star knew how to work the crowd, sig

TORONTO '08 | Tilda, Lyons and a Coen
"I'm not even sure it's an undertone," joked Ethan Coen at the press conference of "Burn After Reading" at Toronto's Park Hyatt Hotel. Half of the film's writing, directing and producing duo had been asked by a Toronto reporter about "Burn"'s "dark undertones," particular as portrayed through its characters. "They are pretty terrible [people]," he said. The film - which is having a generally warm but occasionally confused reception in Toronto - premiered last night. Ethan Coen (left) is pictured at the f

Brad Pitt & Jen Aniston to Have Run-In at Toronto Film Festival
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could reunite at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, when the exes are debuting their new flicks just two days apart.Pitt, 44, is among the stars who will walk the red carpet gala at the festival for the North American premiere of hisCoen Brothers' flick Burn After Reading on Sept. 5. (Pitt is also expected to attend the Venice Film Festival, where his film screens on August 27.) Meanwhile,Aniston, 39, is scheduled to attend the Toronto fest to promote her roma

Sleeping and Severed Toes: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen on the Art of Screenwriting
In a further trip into the Faber & Faber archives, we open the pages of Tricia Cooke and William Preston Robertson's The Making of The Big Lebowski to get a rare look at the reclusive Coen brothers creative process.

'Burn After Reading' Poster Premiere!
Cinematical is absolutely stoked to be premiering this exclusive poster for Burn After Reading, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen -- whose last film, No Country for Old Men, caused quite the stir last year online, in theaters and at the Academy Awards. Not sure if you heard of it ... something about a cowboy and a weird haircut? Yes? Maybe? Anyway, one thing the Coen boys are known for are their casts, and Burn After Reading is no exception; this flick boasts appearances from, well, read the p

Looking Good, Bb!
That George Clooney sure is….. clingy. The former Facts of Life star was all over Bradley Pitt on Wednesday afternoon! The pair gamely posed at a photocall for their new film, Burn After Reading, directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, at the Lido in Venice. The pic will officially launch the the 65th Venice International Film Festival [...]

Coen brothers win best director(s)
I'm a little surprised - I thought Paul Thomas Anderson would take it for "There Will Be Blood". But, there you go, their third Oscar in total, and their second for the night.

Coen brothers cast 'Serious' men
The Coen brothers have tapped a pair of relative unknowns to star in their next pic, "A Serious Man." Michael Stuhlbarg, a Tony-nominated actor with little experience in front of the cameras, and Richard Kind, a character actor best known for his role on ABC's "Spin City," will star as brothers in the period black comedy. Set in 1967, story centers on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor whose life begins to unravel when his wife sets out to leave him and his socially inept brother (Kind)

Brad Pitt Making His Film Festival Rounds
Fresh off winning the award at the Venice Film Festival, Brad Pitt hope to capture another one in Toronto, Canada for his artistic work in the film, Burn after Reading. Looks like Brad is making the bacon while Angie is home with the adorable children. We one called Brad the most festile man in America, because 5 years ago he had no children and now he has a whole brood, but kudos to him it shows that he is a generous person and that he is not selfish. The plot of the Movie: Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich)

BURN AFTER READING, EH!
Proving that he’s a true fan’s movie star, Brad Pitt spent over 30 minutes meeting and greeting with fans as he arrived at the Burn After Reading premiere held at Roy Thomson Hall during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Joined by his costars John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton, the 44-year-old actor was all smiles as he made a slew of wisecracks about pal George Clooney who was seemingly missing in action despite being seen earlier today at the Milan Airport en route to Toronto. Mean