Angelina Jolie Now Box Office Poison?

Angelina Jolie and her non husband Brad Pitt heavily promoted "A Mighty Heart" in interviews and with loads of free press.  The film is based on a book by Mariane Pearl about her husband Daniel Pearl who was killed pursing a story. "Mariane and Daniel are both journalists. Obviously, they were trying to report on events and make sure they give as fair a view as they could, director Michael Winterbottom said.

Angelina Jolie Now Box Office Poison?

He added, "We didn't want to build any opinions into the film; to try to tell it as accurately as possible. Why change it? Why try to dramatize it? Tell it as truthfully as you can."

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The drama all came from Angelina and Brad and once the smoke cleared the movie was a box office bomb.  Is Jolie now box office poison?  A document was produced during the promotion of the film that demanded reporters not talk about Jolie's personal life and that they present Jolie only in a positive light.  Roger Friedman reported that she tried to ban Fox news from the Gotham premiere.

Another report claimed that she banned Us Weekly from the premiere as well.  Jolie only went on NBC and CNN to promote the film with an odd appearance on Comedy central as well.  None of it worked.  American tuhed Jolie out for her second film in a row.

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She and Brad had a mega hit with Mr. and Mrs. Smith but that is when the couple were receiving tons of tabloid press for the Jennifer Aniston, Brad and Angie triangle.  Since then, The Good Shepherd stalled and now Brad and Angie's own project, 'A Mighty Heart' bombed.

Us Weekly notes that it pulled in only $4 million this weekend, coming in tenth place behind such films as Evan Almighty, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Ocean's Thirteen, Surf's Up and Nancy Drew.  A poll here asks, "Why didn't you see A Mighty Heart?"