Tomb Raider

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
 
Directed by Simon West
Produced by Lawrence Gordon,
Lloyd Levin
Written by Sara B. Cooper,
Mike Werb,
Patrick Massett
Starring Angelina Jolie,
Jon Voight,
Daniel Craig
Music by Graeme Revell
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) June 15, 2001
Running time 100 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $115,000,000
Gross revenue $274,703,340
Followed by Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a film adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video game series featuring the character Lara Croft. Directed by Simon West, it was released during the summer of 2001. Lara in the screen role was played by Angelina Jolie.

The film opens with Lara Croft in an Egyptian tomb, she is seeking what appears to be a diamond on a display at one end of the chamber. As she approaches, however, she is suddenly attacked by a large robot. After an intense chase and battle with the robot, she manages to disable it by ripping out key motivational circuits. She then takes the diamond, which is actually a memory card labeled 'Lara's Party Mix,' and inserts it into a laptop computer inside the robot, whereupon it starts playing music. It is revealed that the scene took place in a practice arena in Lara's own home, and her assistant, Bryce, programmed the robot (nicknamed SIMON), to train and challenge her in combat.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)

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Directed by Doug Liman
Produced by Lucas Foster
Akiva Goldsman
Eric McLeod
Arnon Milchan
Patrick Wachsberger
Written by Simon Kinberg
Starring Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Vince Vaughn
Kerry Washington
Adam Brody
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Bojan Bazelli
Editing by Michael Tronick
Distributed by 20th Century-Fox
Release date(s) 10 June 2005
Running time 120 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $75 million (estimated)
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 action/comedy film, directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell. The film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a bored married couple who learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.

The action opens with John and Jane Smith, a couple who have been married for five or six years, attending marriage counseling. There, they tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.

In reality, however, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field, and each concealing their true profession from their spouse. When both are assigned to kill a man named Benjamin Danz (nicknamed "The Tank"), they encounter each other on the job and discover the truth. Both employers ask one Smith to eliminate the other, and each must choose between their personal and professional lives. This personal, emotional struggle continues through the film.

At the peak of their attempted killing of each other (with their house in utter destruction), they wind up with guns in each other's faces. Mr. Smith balks, and lays his gun down. Like him, Mrs. Smith cannot shoot (even when he is unarmed) and succumbs to his love instead; Mr. and Mrs. Smith then engage in love-making and, in essence, reunite and rediscover each other (Mr. Smith later states "We'll have to redo every conversation we ever had.").

It turns out that there is a $400,000 bounty for Mr. Smith and a $400,000 bounty for Mrs. Smith (which is discovered when John's best friend, Eddie - also an assassin - is given the duty of taking them both out). Later, both of the Smiths find out the truth from Eddie, and find that he is also not willing to go after the Smiths.

The Smiths decide they will fight together. They decide to take Danz out of his high-security prison in order to give their employers something they want more than the Smiths. Danz then confesses that he was hired by their employers, who discovered that the Smiths were married and created a joint task force to have them kill each other.

In the final part of the film, the Smiths successfully handle an extended attack by a large number of SWAT-like armed forces, with a long shoot-out and battle inside a home-improvement store.

The film ends at the marriage counselor where they state how much their marriage improved recently.
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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt


Brad Pitt at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2007
Birth name William Bradley Pitt
Born December 18, 1963 (age 44)
Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Years active 1987-present
Spouse(s) Jennifer Aniston (2000-2005)
Domestic partner(s) Angelina Jolie (2005-present)

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. He became famous during the mid 1990s after starring in several major Hollywood films. Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, both of which were for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.

Pitt is consistently cited by popular media as one of the most attractive men alive and is regarded as a Hollywood A-lister. His former marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and current relationship with actress Angelina Jolie have been widely covered in the world media.He is the father of four children with Jolie, one biological, all of whom have also received media coverage. Since his connection with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues, both domestically and internationally.

Early life

Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner. Along with his brother Doug and sister Julie Neal, he grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. Pitt was raised a Baptist. He attended Kickapoo High School, where he was involved in sports, debating, student government, and acting. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton
 

Billy Bob Thornton
Birth name Billy Bob Thornton
Born August 4, 1955 (age 52)
Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States
Spouse(s) Melissa Lee Gatlin (1978-1980)
Toni Lawrence (1986-1988)
Cynda Williams (1990-1992)
Pietra Dawn Cherniak (1993-1997)
Angelina Jolie (2000-2003)
Official site BillyBobapalooza http://www.billybobmusic.com
 
Billy Bob Thornton(born August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, including 2003's Bad Santa. Thornton has been described in media reports as "Hollywood's go-to alpha male".


Thornton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the son of Virginia Roberta (née Faulkner), a psychic, and Billy Ray Thornton, a high school history teacher and basketball coach. Thornton has three younger brothers, Jimmy Don, born in 1958 and now deceased, Jim Bean, and John David, born in 1969. Thornton lived in both Alpine, Arkansas and Malvern, Arkansas during his childhood, and also spent time with his grandfather, Otis Thornton, a forest ranger, in a small shack in the woods. Thornton is the cousin of noted professional wrestlers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk.

Thornton was raised Methodist. A good high school baseball player, he tried out for the Kansas City Royals, but was let go after an injury. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Dept., he attended Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he studied psychology but dropped out after two semesters.

In the late 1980s, Thornton settled in Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor alongside future writing partner Tom Epperson. Thornton initially had a difficult time succeeding as an actor, and worked in telemarketing, off-shore wind farming and fast food management while auditioning for acting jobs. He also played drums and sang with South African rock legend Piet Botha's band Jack Hammer. While Thornton worked as a waiter for an industry event, he served film director Billy Wilder and struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a screenwriter.
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Jonny Lee Miller

Jonny Lee Miller
 

Jonny Lee Miller at a presentation for Peace One Day in 2005
Birth name Jonathan Lee Miller
Born 15 November 1972 (age 35)
Kingston upon Thames, England
Spouse(s) Angelina Jolie (1996-1999)


Jonathan Lee Miller (born 15 November 1972) is an English actor.Contents


Miller was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, the son of Anne (née Lee), who worked in theatre production, and Alan Miller, a stage actor and later a stage manager at the BBC.Miller's maternal grandfather was Bernard Lee, famous for playing the character M in the earlier James Bond films. Miller has fond memories of being at Television Centre with his sister and watching Top Of The Pops and Blue Peter being made.x Miller was educated at Tiffin Boys' School in Kingston upon Thames where he gained his first acting experience and played in the Tiffin Swing Band. Miller left school, aged 17, to pursue his acting career.
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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie

Jolie at a photo op in Washington, D.C..

Birth name Angelina Jolie Voight
Born June 4, 1975 (age 32)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Film actor, producer, director
Years active 1982, 1993–present
Spouse(s) Jonny Lee Miller (1996-1999)
Billy Bob Thornton (2000-2003)
Domestic partner(s) Brad Pitt (2005–present)
Parents Jon Voight
Marcheline Bertrand





Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actress and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.

Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of videogame heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as a biological daughter, Shiloh. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.
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