Angelina Jolie Set To Write, Direct & Produce Bosnian War Love Story

Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is set to make her feature film directorial debut. A love story set during the Bosnian war in the early '90s, the film focuses on a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the war has on their relationship. She is working on the flick with GK Films which was founded by Academy Award-winning producer Graham King in 2007.

Based on an original screenplay written by Jolie, the actors will be solely compromised of various ethnicities from the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Jolie will produce the film alongside GK Films’ Academy Award winning producer Graham King and King’s business partner Tim Headington.

Jolie will not be in the film, and filming is expected to take place this fall, with no locations being announced due to security concerns. The Goodwill Ambassador for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees frequently makes trips to the area, visited Sarajevo last weekend to discuss the refugee situation with some of the country's leaders.

"The film is a love story, not a political statement," Jolie said in a statement released by the UNHCR during her visit to the region last week. "I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can."

GK Films produced her upcoming Johnny Depp co-starring release, "The Tourist," set to hit theaters in December. She is also slated to star in Tim Burton's "Sleeping Beauty" as the film's evil queen, Maleficent, and will assume the title role in "Cleopatra."

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Source: GK Films Blog, MTV

Tim Burton to head 63rd Cannes Festival Jury

Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton, known for making animation and fantasy films, will head the jury at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. He says it's like a dream come true.

"It's a great honour and I look forward, with my fellow jurors, to watching some great films from around the world. When you think of Cannes, you think of world cinema. And as films have always been like dreams to me, this is a dream come true," Burton was quoted as saying by hollywood.com.

Some of Burton's movies are Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland.

Cannes festival president Gilles Jacob said: "It's the first time an artist, whose origins are in animation, will preside over the jury of the Festival de Cannes. A filmmaker with a heart of gold and silver hands, Tim Burton is first and foremost a poet.

"He's a magician of visual delights who turns the screen into a fairy wonder. We hope his sweet madness and gothic humour will pervade the Croisette, bringing Christmas to all."

Burton was a member of the main jury under Isabelle Adjani in 1997. His feature Ed Wood screened at the festival in 1995. This year’s festival runs from May 12 to 23.

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Photo Source: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Trailer

Johnny Depp (The Mad Hatter) & Helena Bonham Carter (The Queen of Hearts)

From the looks of the new trailer for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, movie-goers will be in for a wild and colorful ride.

The Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of Alice in Wonderland all-star cast includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Australian actress Mia Wasikowska as Alice.

Alice In Wonderland is due out March 5, 2010, "a very important date."

Visit the Alice in Wonderland website for more amazing concept art images.

Post-apocalyptic Animated Movie '9': Extended Clip

The Year of 9: Shane Acker's 9 , Peter Jackson's District 9 and Rob Marshall's Nine.

Shane Acker's upcoming animated movie 9 is a weirdly original and surreally beautiful movie produced by Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley.

It takes place in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world in which a band of courageous rag dolls battles for the survival of civilization. Featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reilly. 9 will be previewed at this week's Comic-Con in San Diego and opens in theaters on 9-9-09.

Looks like Pixar's UP will have some serious competition come awards season!

Source: Scifiwire.com