Will the new Mrs. Pitt own part of Plan B?

[Guest]

I can't imagine being with someone for 7 years and 6 kids and signing a pre-nup. That is just pathetic.

[Levan1]

Aniston never was the boss or had shares with Plan B, just an investor no matter how involved she was unoffically.

The investors are everything. Without the money, you can't do anything. Money buys or options the scripts. Without the scripts theres no Plan B. Money, the investor, is the keystone.

True but obviously: she was replaceable. Pitt (and Grey) were/are both powerplayers with lots of connections in the filmbusiness, more so than Aniston will ever be. They didn't desperately need her, the company did and does just great without her. In fact, she herself checked out when it became too big, that's how much she cared as an investor.

Seems to me Pitt took her in unofficially as a token of his love but it was his and Grey’s company alone, it was their passion not hers and he made it clear by not including her in the partnership. You can’t possible think that this company would have gone down if Aniston wasn’t included?
Aniston’s imput was minimal and so was her influence on the runnings of it. Investors can be found everywhere, especially when you look at the immediate succes of Plan B and the influential people who owned it. I do believe that she could have her say and that she would try and get deals, absolutely, they were a couple after all and she was a part of the business after all but Pitt is a calculating perfectionistic Bleet and he didn’t give her any real power. He wouldn’t hand over the decisions to his wife just because she was his wife and she happened to be generous enough to invest and support the company with ideas.

You loons love to minimize Jen's involvement with Plan B - I think it makes you feel better about Brad not including Angie in it but the fact remains that Jen did have input with Plan B and Brad valued her opinions. Marianne Pearl met with Brad & Jen at their home because Jen had read the book and wanted to option it - Marianne signed the deal way before Angie was ever involved. Jen also suggested the new Willy Wonka movie with Johnny Depp which was very successful. Jen also introduced Brad to The Time Travelers' Wife. No Fiction

No fiction, her quote on her "removal" of Plan B:

"Me and Brad did have a little company before that sort of changed. I've removed myself from that. I just took a couple of projects from it that I love. It kind of got bigger. It grew ten heads and became this huge thing, which is wonderful. It took on an amazing life really fast, but I kind of sat back and thought about it deeply, and asked myself if it was something that I was interested in being a part of."

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/1 ... -No-Plan-B

It’s funny how she thinks that she removed herself from it. They got divorced and she had no say her position as investor. He mentally checked out of the marriage and he wanted her out of the company.You said that she was the one who suggest "Charlie" (a blockbuster so you know a high-profile moneymaking project), Pearl (high-profile again) but she herself states that she got out because it got "too big". Right, very passionate huh? When it’s gets too big (e.g. a lot of energy and time to manage), she “removes” herself from the business? Yeah, wouldn’t want to do business with her, you might get successful and have to step up your game (the shock and horror!). Also funny how she states that she asked herself if she wanted to be a part of it suggesting that she wasn't after the deals were done or maybe even before but that doesn't sound right if she's the one who pitched Charlie right? When she does her part then the big boys take over and finish it.

total immersion in every part of Pitt's life

Fiction. It's well-known they had more of a long distance relationship and mostly kept contact over the phone due to their busy careers. Most common reason why the famous can't work out a relationship is because they are NOT immersed in each others life, how can you when you're always travelling, promoting, being public property? They immerse themselves in themselves.

[Just Wonderin']

Plan B had success at first with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Departed which came out shortly after the breakup. Plan B then a string of movies that didn't perform well at the box office. A Mighty Hear, Jesse James, etc. didn't do well. I read an article discussing the many homoerotic aspects of the Jesse James movie and wondered if Pitt was hoping it could have been his coming out role. The public didn't like that movie much but it was unclear if they found it boring or just badly done. As long as Pitt can get others to bankroll the movies he produces, he'll keep it up. After all, it is Money that does the talking in HW.

[Guest]

Back in New York, in her quest to spread the word about Danny's kidnapping, Mariane recently sold the rights to her book for a six figure sum to a film company headed by Hollywood's celebrated star couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The film version of her book will be produced by the couple's company Plan B, under the auspices of Warner Brothers.

"There was a lot of hesitation initially of course," Mariane says about her deal with Pitt and Aniston. "It seemed scary. But then I watched some really good films made by Hollywood, I realized if they make a good film, it will be an extremely viable and powerful means to communicate with people."

The movies she saw included All The President's Men, the Watergate story based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, and Z and Missing -
two political thrillers by Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras.

"When I thought about it, if they [Pitt and Aniston] make a movie like Missing, then it will be great," Mariane says. She adds that the director and cast for the film have still to be selected.

Meeting celebrities and political leaders has not changed Mariane's life perspective. Her focus, she says is not to shake the hands of presidents and neither is she star struck in the presence of the likes of Pitt and Aniston, and Oprah Winfrey, who visited her apartment to interview her for Oprah magazine.

http://marianepearl.com/press.php?pressId=21

[Guest]

Daniel Pearl, the movie – Starring Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt

by Nitin Pai on 3RD JANUARY 2004 in ASIDE
Yes, its true. Vogue Magazine features an interview with ‘Rachel Green’ from Friends:
(Jennifer) Aniston and (Brad) Pitt, along with Brad Grey, have formed a production company, Plan B, and they hope to make a film together about Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan. Pearl’s wife, Mariane, initially refused to sell the rights to her book, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, but changed her mind after meeting with the couple. “She is one of the most inspiring and courageous women I’ve met in a long time,” says Aniston. “And if the film is something that seems worthy of the story that she told, if it’s done in the right way, then it will be made. That was sort of the deal that we all set with one another, as well as with her, because it’s such delicate subject matter.”
Aniston, who says she would love to play a purely dramatic role someday (“I can see it”), is tentative when I ask her about playing Mariane Pearl. “If it works,” she says, “I would love to think that I could, but I reserve the right not to. We’ll have to see when it happens. I’m just excited about nurturing it.”

When I interviewed Aniston a year and a half ago, she worried out loud about needing to be better educated about current world events. Taking on the Pearl film would appear to be part of her making good on a promise to herself.

Let’s hope they consult Bernard Henri-Levy too, for his book “Who Killed Daniel Pearl?” provides a made for Hollywood script.

http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2004/0 ... brad-pitt/

[JuJuBee]

Wow, lot's of people losing their marbles because I thought (and still do) that Plan B can also stand for Plan Brad considering two Brads founded the company . I replied to Just Wonderin' that my first thoughts were also Plan B as in Plan B (back-up plan) and that I didn't dismiss it entirely. Oh well...

As for the realness of the Variety article: I wouldn't expect people who frantically quote any rubbish tabloid that speaks badly about JP to be skeptical about a site that has sources in the industry (just like The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, the Hollywood Index). You know, real news instead of vapid gossip. For all the times that anti's say they are intelligent, this speaks exactly against them. Still going on about how they THINK Aniston was a major part of Plan B when she clearly just was an equity partner (no power or control at all). Keep slamming that keyboard in capslock, it doesn't matter. Offically she was just an equity partner whether you like that or not. They could've run the company together yet never took measurements which means that Grey and Pitt clearly just wanted her input (how small or big) from a distance while they took charge and again, seeing as she does almost nothing with Echo and only talks about wanting to direct and produce, Pitt made a good choice. Anyway, they both moved on and they both have their own company so they both can do whatever they want. Win-win.

Love it-love it-love it...not just ignorant, but proudly waving the "I am ignorant" flag in the Ignoramuses R Us loon parade. This is on a par with the loon who did the backwards countdown: wait for it...1, 2, 3. Maybe this is the same loon?

[Levan1]

Wow, lot's of people losing their marbles because I thought (and still do) that Plan B can also stand for Plan Brad considering two Brads founded the company . I replied to Just Wonderin' that my first thoughts were also Plan B as in Plan B (back-up plan) and that I didn't dismiss it entirely. Oh well...

As for the realness of the Variety article: I wouldn't expect people who frantically quote any rubbish tabloid that speaks badly about JP to be skeptical about a site that has sources in the industry (just like The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, the Hollywood Index). You know, real news instead of vapid gossip. For all the times that anti's say they are intelligent, this speaks exactly against them. Still going on about how they THINK Aniston was a major part of Plan B when she clearly just was an equity partner (no power or control at all). Keep slamming that keyboard in capslock, it doesn't matter. Offically she was just an equity partner whether you like that or not. They could've run the company together yet never took measurements which means that Grey and Pitt clearly just wanted her input (how small or big) from a distance while they took charge and again, seeing as she does almost nothing with Echo and only talks about wanting to direct and produce, Pitt made a good choice. Anyway, they both moved on and they both have their own company so they both can do whatever they want. Win-win.

Love it-love it-love it...not just ignorant, but proudly waving the "I am ignorant" flag in the Ignoramuses R Us loon parade. This is on a par with the loon who did the backwards countdown: wait for it...1, 2, 3. Maybe this is the same loon?

Haha, everybody is the same poster according to some. Still think Plan B can stand for Plan Brad

[Guest]

It seems likely that Burton will avoid many of the problems faced by the 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. Mel Stuart, the director of the original film, told a startling tale about its production in his book, “Pure Imagination”. The 1971 film was bankrolled entirely by Quaker Oats Corporation who wanted the film as a promotional tie-in to the company’s new line of Wonka-branded candy bars. They did not get the 100-minute candy infomercial that Quaker probably wanted. Stuart’s film was a satirical and oddly dark musical aimed more at adults than children. Although it is cult favourite that still sells well on DVD, the Gene Wilder reading of Willie Wonka left space for a different take. Felicity Dahl finally granted the film rights to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston who have created a production company called “Plan B” and their declared intention is to make excellent high quality films for children. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is their company’s first film. They are currently preparing the script from the award-winning children’s hit “The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time”.

http://www.ratherronge.co.za/html/sub_c ... viewid=143

[Guest]

Wow, lot's of people losing their marbles because I thought (and still do) that Plan B can also stand for Plan Brad considering two Brads founded the company . I replied to Just Wonderin' that my first thoughts were also Plan B as in Plan B (back-up plan) and that I didn't dismiss it entirely. Oh well...

As for the realness of the Variety article: I wouldn't expect people who frantically quote any rubbish tabloid that speaks badly about JP to be skeptical about a site that has sources in the industry (just like The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, the Hollywood Index). You know, real news instead of vapid gossip. For all the times that anti's say they are intelligent, this speaks exactly against them. Still going on about how they THINK Aniston was a major part of Plan B when she clearly just was an equity partner (no power or control at all). Keep slamming that keyboard in capslock, it doesn't matter. Offically she was just an equity partner whether you like that or not. They could've run the company together yet never took measurements which means that Grey and Pitt clearly just wanted her input (how small or big) from a distance while they took charge and again, seeing as she does almost nothing with Echo and only talks about wanting to direct and produce, Pitt made a good choice. Anyway, they both moved on and they both have their own company so they both can do whatever they want. Win-win.

Love it-love it-love it...not just ignorant, but proudly waving the "I am ignorant" flag in the Ignoramuses R Us loon parade. This is on a par with the loon who did the backwards countdown: wait for it...1, 2, 3. Maybe this is the same loon?

Yeah, she has plenty of alters. Gotta love the "frantically" quoting line as well. First she tells other posters that they don't know anything and need to do their research. Then when they do exactly that, she denigrates them by dismissing them as "frantically quoting." I'm also LOL at her assertion that she knows more than Aniston about the details of Aniton's involvement with Plan B. "I don't know why she (Aniston) would say that (Aniston stated she took a couple of projects from Plan B during the divorce and left the rest)" the loon says. This loon is seriously deranged. Maybe she should be calling Aniston and telling her how it really is -- take that back; I'm sure she would feel completely entitled to that if she possibly could. This loon's arrogance and ignorance knows no bounds.

[Guest]

The short answer to the OP's question is no. Brad has shown no inclination even after six kids to do anything but dole out a fraction of his wealth for her benefit, and only on rare occasion when she really needs it and he is guilted into it. He is not going to give her any ownership in his assets. The bottomline is that unlike Aniston, he can't trust her.

[Guest]

It doesn't matter how many articles antis bring forth with links proving that JA was an important part establishing Plan B, loontard will never admit it because it is more than likely that Pitt will always keep Plan B as his baby and not let the OTT Ho's talons on anything of his from before the brand liason. Ho was a female VanDamme before him, pretty but an asshole, he took her to the top of the Hollywood pinnacle and now they are both A+++Tabloid Fodder, although he is still higher than her on the A list now, no ones higher than her on the red carpet.

[Guest]

It doesn't matter how many articles antis bring forth with links proving that JA was an important part establishing Plan B, loontard will never admit it because it is more than likely that Pitt will always keep Plan B as his baby and not let the OTT Ho's talons on anything of his from before the brand liason. Ho was a female VanDamme before him, pretty but an asshole, he took her to the top of the Hollywood pinnacle and now they are both A+++Tabloid Fodder, although he is still higher than her on the A list now, no ones higher than her on the red carpet.

The HATER'S meltdown still in full swing I see.

[Levan1]

Equity.Partner. The end
Aniston was outta there after the divorce: not needed, replaceable. Bye marriage, bye company, bye projects.

[Levan1]

Oh and PLAN BRAD

[Guest]

:rotflmao:
Equity.Partner. The end
Aniston was outta there after the divorce: not needed, replaceable. Bye marriage, bye company, bye projects.

Oh, Nishag. Poor ignorant Nishag. You haven't a clue what equity partner means contextually. You never could just count your losses, could you? You always have to have your ass kicked all over the place before you crawl away. I'm thinking of an exchange I recently read where another poster had to proverbally beat you over the head with tons of proof that you had fraudulantly misquoted a Newsweek article.

What a loser.