Angelina Jolie Pregnancy Update
Angelina Jolie Pregnancy Update
She was admitted to the maternity ward of Lenval Hospital in Nice, France earlier this week. And it has just been announced that Angelina Jolie’s doctor will be addressing the press regarding the “Girl, Interrupted” actress’ condition within the hour.
Hospital spokeswoman Nadine Bauer confirmed that Ang’s doctor, Michel Sussmann, will be giving a report to the media at 11:30 am ET.
“Madame Jolie’s doctor will be updating her condition at the hospital and giving medical details,” said Bauer. “Madame Jolie is doing very well.”
Also of note, Angelina has received a few visitors already today - her partner Brad Pitt, as well as two of her kids, Zahara (3) and Shiloh (2). Stay linked to the for all the latest in the Brangelina pregnancy world.
Angelina’s Doctor Is In
Angelina Jolie is in a French hospital to give birth. But who will liberate the twins?
Local ob-gyn Michel Sussman is the doctor in charge of her pending delivery at Lenval hospital in Nice, the facility’s spokeswoman, Nadine Bauer, tells News exclusively.
Bauer says Sussman will be making a statement following the birth, but there is no word yet on when Jolie’s twins are due to arrive.
Despite some media reports that Jolie’s stateside doctor, Jason Rothbart, would be flying to France to tend to the delivery, he remains at his Los Angeles-area office seeing patients.
Rothbart, who also handled the births of Tori Spelling’s two children, delivered Jolie and Brad Pitt’s first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel, on May 27, 2006, at Cottage Medi-Clinic hospital in Namibia.
Reporting by Matt Donnelly
Brangelina Babies Almost Out!
Independence Day could be coming early for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s latest spawn.
The Oscar-winning actress checked into a French hospital about 10 p.m. Monday to deliver her twins.
“Angelina was admitted last night and is very happy and in excellent health. Everything’s going very well,” Nadine Bauer, spokeswoman for the Lenval hospital in Nice, tells News.
“This is something she had planned with her doctor for the end of her pregnancy for some time. She had been advised it would be a good idea to rest during the final days and it has been booked for a while now,” says Bauer.
“There was no medical emergency that was the reason for her being admittedit’s standard procedure,” Bauer explains.
Jolie is expected to remain in the $500-per-night private room (with a sea view, of course) until after her twins are born.
“It’s lovely, and the nurses pay attention to your every need,” Lucie Coleman, a Nice resident who recently gave birth to twins at the hospital, tells News. “The rooms are lovely and airy, with views out over the sea, and they have televisions and private bathrooms.”
And Jolie’s treatment while in the hospital will, by the sound of it, be top-of-the-line.
“The food menus are healthythings like chicken with asparagus and pasta and fresh fruitand she’ll be delivered her meals three times a day in bed. And if she feels like a snack or drink at 3 a.m., they’ll get it for her,” adds Coleman.
“Going in early before a birth with twins is very common in France, as the final weeks are so hard going.”
There was no immediate comment from the couple’s reps.
Confirmation of Jolie’s admittance came after France’s Closer tabloid jumped the gun earlier this morning, announcing that Jolie had already given birth. The publication has since retracted the report, claiming Jolie instead is biding her time in the hospital and not expected to give birth until later this week.
The twins will be kids Nos. 5 and 6 for Jolie, 33, and Pitt, 44, joining siblings Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.
Audiences Wanted WALL-E, Jolie
The robot fought Angelina Jolie to a draw.
WALL-E, the new Disney/Pixar film about a lonely little robot, grossed $62.5 million to top the weekend box office, according to Exhibitor Relations estimates today.
But pound for pound, Wanted was the bigger film.
Debuting at about 800 fewer theaters than WALL-E, Wanted, the Jolie action film, outgrossed the animated movie by nearly $500 per screen. It’s a statistical win that can be credited to its star’s pull with young men, yes, but also to its wealth of full-price admission tickets. (Wanted is rated R, while WALL-E is rated G for “good for a kid’s discount.”)
In the box office standings, Wanted finished second, with a $51.1 million take.
According to Box Office Mojo stats, WALL-E’s opening was the best for a Pixar film since 2004’s The Incredibles, and was a substantial upgrade over last summer’s critically acclaimed though rat-addled entry, Ratatouille, which debuted with $47 million.
Wanted becomes Jolie’s biggest opener ever, outdoing the first Lara Croft movie and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which costarred Brad Pitt.
The box office’s latest one-two punch, coming a few weeks after the Kung Fu Panda/You Don’t Mess with the Zohan combo, helped push Hollywood into the black. For the first time in a long while, ticket sales are up over where they were at this point last year. Overall attendance, however, is still down.
WALL-E and Jolie, after all, are only two people. Well, one robot and one pregnant-with-twins superstar.
Other notable box office doings:
- Last weekend’s No. 1 movie, Steve Carell’s Get Smart, fell to third, but hung tough (i.e., ticket sales were down less than 50 percent). Its $20 million gross pushed its overall take to $77.3 million.
- Last weekend’s disappointment, Mike Myers’ The Love Guru, fell from fourth to sixth, and saw its modest business plunge 61 percent. Its $5.4 million gross pushed, if that’s the word, its overall take to, um, $25.3 million.
- Kung Fu Panda (fourth place, $11.7 million) kept on keeping on, and neared the $180 million cumulative mark.
- Sex and the City (ninth place, $3.8 million) moved past the $140 million mark.
- A moment of silence, please, for Iron Man, which slipped out of the Top 10 after eight scorching weekends. The film still came up with another $2.3 million, and saw its league-leading overall gross hit $309.2 million.
- Also dropping out of the Top 10: the horror-thriller The Strangers ($611,000, per Box Office Mojo), which has $51.5 million in the bank after five solid weekends.
- Abigail Breslin’s Kit Kittredge: An American Girl cleaned up again in limited release. The film took in $106,000 at five theaters, Box Office Mojo said. It goes wide on Wednesday.
- Trumbo, the new documentary about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, did well, grossing $28,500 at three theaters.
Here’s a recap of the top-grossing weekend films based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
- WALL-E, $62.5 million
- Wanted, $51.1 million
- Get Smart, $20 million
- Kung Fu Panda, $11.7 million
- The Incredible Hulk, $9.2 million
- The Love Guru, $5.4 million
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $5 million
- The Happening, $3.9 million
- Sex and the City, $3.8 million
- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, $3.2 million