According to US Weekly, Mrs. Brad Pitt (ew, I hate saying that, it’s so degrading)–Angelina Jolie is quite depressed over the horrible box office numbers of her acclaimed but forgotten film A Mighty Heart. It got good reviews and her performance was praised, but it made a sadly small dent in the box office and it will likely be old new come Oscar time.

US Weekly says:

The actress is “devastated” by the audience rejection of her movie A Mighty Heart (it has earned just $9 million).

“She poured her heart into the story and can’t believe people don’t understand how important it is,” the insider tells Us Weekly in this week’s issue.

Helping to lighten her mood: a vacation in France with Brad Pitt, 43, and their four kids.

Damn. Maybe this is God’s way of getting you back for stealing somebody’s husband.

Tomorrow A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie’s new film about Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, comes out in theaters. It’s been getting a lot of buzz obviously because of the Brangelina craze, with Brad Pitt being one of the producers of the film, also because of the tragic story the film is based upon, and Jolie’s hypocritical actions toward the press as of late.

Either way, the movie looks like it’ll be some good, and her performance is getting good reviews, even if her accent in the trailer sounds horrendous.

Here is a synopsis of the film from the official Paramount press release:

On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband
Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story
on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had
promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane
he might be late for dinner. He never returned.

In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the
power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort
to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and
Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was
carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam
to the father he would never meet.

Transcending religion, race and nationality,
Mariane’s courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues
to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life
she and Danny shared.

It happened guys! Jennifer Hudson won herself a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Now I just need her to win that damn Oscar! And how many did Miss Overexposed double nominee Beyonce win? Zero. Zilch. Nada. Not even the one she and her daddy were EXPECTING to win, Best Original Song–which went to Prince, a no-show (at the time–he showed up later).

After all that talk of how you lost 20 pounds, worked with an acting coach for 6 months, how you’ve always dreamed of an Oscar since you were a little girl, how your first choreographer TOLD you you were meant to play Deena, and how different you and Deena are from each other, you still walked away from the Golden Globes with egg all over your face.

Maybe she actually did win and they decided to change their minds at the last minute because she showed up looking like New York from Flavor of Love. This is the Golden Globes, honey, not the VMAs. You don’t show up in a dress you bought from Drag Queens ‘R’ Us and 10 different weaves in your damn head. Class it up a little.

Here’s video of Jennifer’s emotional speech. Girl had me cryin’.

Meryl Streep took the award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy/Musical for her fantastic portrayal of Miranda Priestly (cough, Anna Wintour, cough) in huge blockbuster hit The Devil Wears Prada, and ended her hilarious speech with her signature line from the movie, “That’s all.” Helen Mirren took the lead award in the drama category for her performance in The Queen, Forest Whitaker and Sacha Baron Cohen took the Best Lead Actor awards for Drama and Comedy/Musical respectively.

Whitaker was expected, and is expected to win the Oscar as well, and Cohen’s only competition in the category was probably Ferrell or Eckhart, though both weak. This win gives Cohen better odds at nabbing an Oscar nomination, though the fact that he was snubbed at the SAG awards isn’t a good sign. We’ll see how it turns out.

Babel managed to beat out The Departed and The Queen for an undeserved win in the Best Motion Picture Drama category. For whatever reason, the Globes were way up Babel’s ass, as they also gave it a win for Best Director. Babel is honestly one of the most overrated films I’ve seen in years, and I can honestly say that every single film it was up against in that category deserved it more.

It’s no surprise, Dreamgirls edged out The Devil Wears Prada, Little Miss Sunshine, and Borat for a win in the Best Motion Picture Comedy/Musical category, cementing it as an even bigger Oscar contender than people thought before. It looks like Dreamgirls and The Departed are gonna be battling it out for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Over in the Television field, it was a good night for Ugly Betty. The new hit ABC comedy won Best Comedy Series as well as took home the Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for its star America Ferrera. I was disappointed the brilliant Marcia Cross didn’t take home the award, but she wouldn’t have been there to accept anyway, and America is great on Ugly Betty.

Grey’s Anatomy won for Best Drama Series even though Katharine Heigl (my favorite cast member) lost to the very deserving Kyra Sedgwick in the Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for The Closer.

You can view a full list of last night’s winners here.

Apparently in the January issue of Vogue, Angelina Jolie talks about wanting to have a meeting wit Jen. What purpose that would serve I really don’t know. You’re a homewrecking, husband stealing, bitch…and she’s been in two failed relationships in the past 5 years. What is there to discuss?

Don’t even fret, Jen. Angelina’s ass came in second for most unpopular movie-star with movie-goers. Right behind the one and only Mr. Tom Cruise. Hmm..I wonder why?

Go adopt another African baby while the children of America go hungry and motherless, ‘kay?

Find out which mega-celeb couple is being threatened by Al-Qaeda after the jump.

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Looks like a great movie. I love me some Matt Damon.

FX’s biggest hit Rescue Me was just renewed for a fourth season–hot off it’s first Emmy nomination for star Denis Leary a little over a week ago.

Variety says FX made the announcement Wednesday during the Television Critics Association press tour.

Angelina Jolie’s next project is a movie called “A Mighty Heart“. In the film she’ll play a widow of a murdered journalist that is desperately searching for her husband who was abducted and beheaded by militants in Pakistan in early 2002.

It was also announced earlier this week that Jolie would take part in the animated feature Kung Fu Panda, in which Nacho Libre funnyman Jack Black will also star. Jolie’s next project to be released, which has already been filmed, is the CIA drama The Good Shepherd–Academy Award winner Matt Damon also stars.

Hugh Laurie, star of FOX drama House is being given a hefty pay raise.

When the new season of the Emmy and Golden Globe winning show starts up in the fall, Laurie will be paid 300,000 dollars an episode.

I still don’t understand how it’s possible Laurie got stiffed this year with the Emmy nominations, especially since the show itself was nominated. It’d be like giving an Oscar to Erin Brockovich but snubbing Julia Roberts. She makes the movie, Laurie makes the show.

Recently a new poster for Spider-Man 3 was released:

And the renegade Christians lose another battle in the “culture war”. Basically, a court ruled that these “family” (translation: Christian) film companies that take films they feel are inappropriate and edit them for content then distribute those DVDs must close down their businesses immediately. They are violating copyright law by basically mutilating these filmmakers’ work.

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Music downloads soared by 77% at the beginning of 2006, while album sales dropped by almost 5%. Tsk, tsk. People never learn. You always embrace new media–never reject it.

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Though reports came out earlier this week that Vitamin Water was forcing Kelly Clarkson to lose weight before they officially released her own flavor, Clarkson herself is claiming that is in no way true–and that they’ve already shot the promos.

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Christina Aguilera will not give up her career to have children. Go Christina!

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Randy Jackson, one of the judges of American Idol is smack dab in the middle of some serious racial controversy thanks to a new Oreo ad he appears in. From what the article says about the ad–I’m absolutely disgusted that Nabisco would run an ad campaign like this–even moreso that Randy Jackson would take part in it.

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The more attractive and talented half of Brangelina will be joining Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda, an animated feature due in theaters in 2008.

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We reported quite a while back that Constantine Maroulis and Kellie Pickler were dating–but at this point it looks like that’s a wrap. Or at least Constantine thinks it is. She hasn’t called him. What a bitch.

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American Idol winner Fantasia is teaming up with Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin on a record that will appear on both of their upcoming albums.

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Michelle Monaghan, who you know from Mission Impossible 3 and North Country, is ready for some heartbreak.