Here are some photos of Brad Pitt in Tokyo this week, promoting War Machine. Facially, this is the best he’s looked in awhile, right? Brad has lost a lot of weight in the past nine months or so, and you could really see the weight loss on his face. But all of a sudden, his face looks a bit tighter. Hmm. Good night cream or did Brad get a little tuck? Who knows?
Brad actually had a rough week last week. He was mourning the loss of two friends, Brad Grey and Chris Cornell. Pitt and Cornell were apparently friends for years, and they had kids the same age. As for Brad Grey… Grey completely changed the trajectory of Pitt’s career. There might not be a “Brad Pitt” as we know him without Brad Grey. According to sources, Brad was “devastated and in shock. He is trying to process the loss of two great friends. This has hit him very hard. With Brad Grey, Brad Pitt was one of the few people who knew he was sick. Grey was told he had a few weeks to live, but he didn’t even get that long. He was gone way too soon.”
As for Pitt going all the way to Japan… I realize that I don’t 100% understand the economics of Netflix (I don’t even 50% understand it), but is it necessary to do an international promotional tour for a movie that will ONLY premiere on Netflix? I’m really asking. It’s not like there will be international box office receipts, and it’s not like Japan is a strong potential audience for a movie about America’s military overreach (Japan has been there, seen that and gotten the t-shirt). Granted, I think Brad went to Japan because he’s a huge movie star and he always gets a good reception in Japan, and why not? He probably went to Japan as a way to visibly support Netflix in general. He’s been saying words about how, without Netflix, “this movie wouldn’t have been made” and it’s a “risk” that most studios don’t want to make.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I don’t know about Netflix financing either! I’m curious how it works.
Id read about that. The funding source is so diffuse, how do you determine the return on investment?
I mean there are some top notch analytics that can be used to determine viewing habits, user experience and flow, etc. They must use some intense stats and collect a ton of data.
Definitely different from the studio model though.
Their data is much more accurate especially if they bring the movie viewing experience fully to the digital age. How we used to rent DVD/VHS can now be personalised to the max the way Youtube operates. Theatre is no longer needed for a movie premier. The shift will happen similar to that for the music industry. And after that, the death of “movie stars”. Which is great because there will be democracy for content-making. Woody Allen or Stephen Spielberg will soon be stories of the past. But Asian market will accelerate this change not the US though. There is too much resistance.
I can imagine the data gives them better risk assessment than standard theatrical film. Also agree that getting an early foothold in Asian markets is highly desirable and will prove lucrative.
But what’s the income stream? Subscriptions. And selling on to standard TV networks after X length of time. How much money is in that? Is there growth in it? Will we always be free from ads?
Data mining and bog standard tax evasion.
I heard that Netflix is expanding and looking for more audiences in Asian countries. Many of them don’t have Netflix yet and the US market is not enough for Netlix (to make money).
IMO, Netflix is making better movies than HW at the moment, so I can see them being extremely successful worldwide in a few years.
How do you determine the success of a Netflix movie? By the amount of people who (fully) watched it?
Those glasses are very dated and something is off with the rumpled white/off white suit and sneakers.
Glasses say old man, sneakers with suit do not say that. Sartorial dissonance or too many wrinkles, either way no bueno.
No bueno is right. I don’t like any of it. Especially the tinted glasses.
Like he just rolled out of bed and put a jacket over his pajamas
i always assumed he constantly wears these glasses because of stoner eyes. now that he is supposedly clean, he should throw them away. or is he?
Older people sometimes wear tinted lenses because their eyes are more sensitive. It’s something I associate with the elderly thats for sure. And those no frame glasses were very fashionable in 2005.
He’s said previously that he is light sensitive and has to wear glasses on the red carpet.
I love the white on white and the fit of the outfit. He looks wonderful and he hasn’t looked this upbeat and happy in a long, long time. Hope he keeps up whatever he is doing. Not drinking, nutritious meals, working on, all good for him. Glad he is getting his swagger back, it looks great on him. Go Brad.
He looks like a lost Backstreet Boy who took a wrong turn during a dance routine.
hahahaha!!! on point!
Hahahahahahahaha!! That made me laugh out loud. You nailed it!!
That’s what i though too!
Looks like he joined the Gulity Remnant
Haha! I kinda like it, though. His outfit. Looks cool.
I think this is Brad’s real style, how he’d dress if he preferred.
Dapper scarf Brad was a PR persons thing, to show how erudite and sensitive, yet mature, he is.
detritus, probably right. I should have known the dapper scarf Brad wouldn’t stick, though I much preferred it.
Brad Pitt is the male equivalent of “I’m a cool mom” character in Mean Girls. You are not Justin Bieber ca. 2012 Brad!
Perhaps he wears glasses so people will forget the enormous wriggle eyes he has.
Netflix is all over the world. And they are marking to their International Audiences. To build that base. And what better way than to seen a HUGH Star there to plug it. The entire Plan B team was there along with the Director. (I point this out because there was some BS story that the team was not backing Brad or that there were some conflict). Looking at video of them they are all very close and still very friendly with each other. There have been some snark about his outfit choice. I think he looks great in what he is wearing. I just saw at least 4 women at some premier event wearing all white. Women never get hit for wearing all white.. Men on the other hand..
He looks good. I don’t care about the sunglasses. But I don’t hate the all white outfit. I liked the first one he wore better; but it’s good to see him looking better. He looks happy. And his laughing looked more real to me.
Netflix understands that they are straddling TV and Cinema in a very opportune way. I think they are using War Machine and an A lister Brad to drive that home in newer markets before a rival company does. Parts of Asia have the widest internet connectivity and fastest in the world, obviously a smart place to push market dominance early. This IS the future and Brad is smart to get on board early. But I hope he also keeps opening doors for brilliant socially aware Cinema. I just rewatched Moonlight last week amd that ending is still making me well up.
You could bounce a quarter off those tight cheeks. Last year Vanity Fair published a series of photographs of actors without makeup, touch ups or photoshoped. Pitt’s laugh lines were nowhere to be seen..I thought yep..no shade for Pitt if he wants drink from the fountain of youth ..but geez what happened to aging gracefully. I have noticed certain actor’s faces look pulled and tight…it’s not attractive. Is this the new normal?
Right? Hes looking tight and waxy, like billy bob thorton waxy.
I’m just not seeing what you’re seeing here. He looks like a well kept man in his 50’s to me. He may have done something but I don’t see anything that screams artificial myself. In the Allied photos he did looked altered and weird though. As bad as all that filler and Botox looks on women, it looks ten times worse on men.
Yep, he looks much better than he did during this whole Allied thing.
He looks like he’s aging naturally to me. You can see faint lines on his forehead and wrinkles around his eyes. His face looks guant. To me, it looks like he’s not doing anything. I think he had in the past but I don’t think he is now.
IAWY.
Brad is beautiful and brilliant as ever. I love him in the rumpled suit.
Brad is iconic and will never fade away.
I think he should eat a hamburger or two but that’s it. I don’t think he had something done, he’s looking good.
Total white. Hell no.
I think he is doing something to his face: the front, and cheeks looks too good and too rested for me.
Weird, to me he looks rather worn, not like he’s done anything!
Doesn’t look like he’s doing something to his face, looks pretty natural. He had some years where he was using Botox but it doesn’t look like that now.
I’m not into the white outfit but otherwise he looks good here.
Netflix is a data analytics machine. I’m sure they have several algorithms that can determine who signed up specifically to watch a new movie/show, so that could help them determine return on investment. Also they know who watched it, how long they watched it, and how many times.
Oh and Brad’s looking great, he’s always been a handsome man.
Well, he looks better than he did a month ago….
I can’t wait to see War Machine, I loved the trailers. Okja from Plan B looks also really good.
That’s all I have to say =)
Yes, I came to say that Okja is also Plan B. I never would have thought that a blonde blue eyed Ken doll from the Mid West would use his clout to open so many doors for film makers of color and so many stories with POC protagonists. I will always love him for that.
Brad looks fine, or at least better. And I hope the film does well.
Brad needs to get it together (and hopefully these are signs that he truly is) because those kids need him fully engaged and pulling his weight as a parent. No one wins if Brad (or Angie) falls apart.
I have no problem saying that as a full-on Angie fan who has been ripping Brad to shreds these past months.
@Abby He should look pretty good, he is not with his kids full time. He does not have the stress of worrying about them full time.
I sense that Brad would be pulling more weight and find a way to share custody if he is given the chance. Right now it appears that he doesn’t have the chance. The kids are full time, all the time with Angelina. When the divorce and custody are finalized I expect to see the kids with Brad more. But he has said he is not fighting her to get full shared custody anymore. That he is leaving it up to him. During this time when he doesn’t have custody, his time is his own to do as he pleases. Happy to see him so upbeat and frankly amazed at how much play he is getting as people drool to see who he will date next. Brad is a true movie star.
Stop talking lies, in the GQ interview itself, Brad confirms that he abandoned his children and his family, closing down, over drinking, isolating , working too much . He was not available to his children, and when he was he was an authoritarian father, who only screamed, angry and did not explain to his children what was going on with him. He himself says that he has become everything he has always hated.
That it was only because of the divorce that he realized that he did not have a strong affective bond with the children. We saw Angelina’s brother and Angelina’s friends helping her take care of her children while Brad ran away from responsibility long before the incident. He says the family is important now … that movies are not important, but it’s all a lie, he’s going to make a new movie, and he has several as a producer.
Brad’s makeup artist gave that ridiculous interview saying that they are lonely, that they like to spend together is a retarded, a friend that no one needs, it only helps Brad be irresponsible that he became, she left her daughter with Angelina to care in Cambodia and went to care for Brad kkkk good mother …. I have never seen any friends of Brad with his children …. he does not have strong relationships ….. someone who speaks that can not be happy equal to one African mother who lost several relatives ….. this person who appears making grace, all tidy, happy “is just the Brad facade …..
Agree bap and Jilly!
His actions speak way louder than all his words, and he’s already committed to one movie starting in July, and trying to get WWZ2 filming asap to follow.
Yet the divorce and custody issues have yet to be finalized, and until that happens the children are still not settled into whatever their new normal is going to be.
Someone has to work and make money. Angelina’s focus on teaching and doing good all over the world is nice, but doubt it is paying for the kids braces. She said she gave away the salary for the perfume. Also nice, but who is paying for all of her high powered lawyers. I’ll bet Brad is paying for everything. He is a stand up guy and would want to pay for everything. The new house? My money is on Brad. The divorce is not final so new property likely belongs to the joint estate, still to be determined as to who gets what. Brad has always been the primary breadwinner. That allows Angelina to work, profitably, very little. Brad is a movie star. He makes movies. That pays the bills. Doubt that will change any time soon. Seems that Angelina is no low maintenance ex. The kids nannies that are with them constantly, the bodyguards, the cars, the private planes, the therapists. Who do we expect is paying for all of that. The dad. Brad. He’d better get out there and work. It will be good if Angelina appreciates that and makes it easy for him to see the kids when he can. Which I understand is one reason for the new home in close proximity.
Friend…. LOL
Angelina works less, but earns much more. Brad makes small films as a producer, and only WWZ he must have earned a higher salary.
Angelina never spent with houses, motorcycles, art, architecture, Brad spends much more.
She did not ask for financial help for her. And even the wife of Patrick Dempsey, she bought a house during the divorce of 6 million …. the divorce did not go forward and they reconciled she sold the house. Angelina can afford to buy a house, her only high investment was in the purchase of Miraval with Brad. The properties in Cambodia are very cheap with less than $ 100,000 she bought large land properties.
Brad and Angelina have always been careful with the money, the organizations she helped create are pretty much paid for or with great partnerships like KIND which is with Microsoft, and other big companies, law schools, law offices. They donated money from the photos of the children, Angelina campaigns like Louis Vuitton, Mon Guerlain perfume, Robert Procop jewelry collections that she Funded Girls School in Kenya, Afghanistan, Cambodia ….
Angelina started helping a big doctor in Cambodia, renovating the school and providing medication to the hospital, from which she and Brad built a hospital in Ethiopia, but she says it helps a lot in the beginning, but what’s important is that people from these countries continue with the work that this projects can be self-sufficient …. or partnerships with the government. She at one of these meetings with politicians got Germany to commit to financing the construction of houses in Bosnia for war victims …..
And work is no problem, Brad left the family, turned away, became a drunk, nothing to do with money or work. like Johnny Depp who made a lot more money than Brad and Angelina together and lost everything.
Money does not bring happiness, security, love, peace …. if you do not know how to use can earn millions that will lose everything.
Probably Angelina truly knows what he really looks like, but she will never tell.
He looks good, but that outfit is awful. À little too Miami Vice
Japanese know how to greet real superstars 🙂
Brad’s handsome and War Machine looks awesome, I’ll be watching.
So this film is coming out on Friday and he started to promote it in May. Guess then that Angelina will start to promote her Netflix film in August or September.
Both look good and happy which means to me that things are moving in a positive direction.
he is fine
He’s one gorgeous man. I have nothing against his outfit, the glasses are not that great.
He totally looks like 90’s/early 00’s Brad Pitt again, not in a good way. It’s strange considering he was starting to do the “silver fox dad” thing with Angie.
He’s looks good. He also looks to me like he had a peel or resurface, not a lift.
He looks like an older more mature looking mid 90s Brad. I don’t like the glasses or the all white outfit, but his face looks good.
He probably keeps his hair dyed, because he is not blond for now.
Guilty Remnant trying to see life through rose colored lenses.
That all I got.
I was wondering about Netflix financials too the other day when it was announced they will pick up Rihanna & Lupita’s movie.
I don’t want to see that movie on TV. I want to see that in theaters. Does Netflix produce movies for theaters too or just on tv?
He probably keeps coloring his hair so the gray hairs will not be noticed. In 7 months he will be 54 years old. He is a middle age man probably wishing for his youth to return.
He wears those glasses because of the wrinkles under his eyes. He wears makeup for the bad skin and long scratch on his right cheek he acquired a couple of years ago, how who knows. He wears lipstick to cover the freckles on his lips. Remember when Angie said he spends more time in hair and make up than she does.
I don’t dig the all white look but to each his own. Something isn’t right with him. I wish him well and hope he can stay on the right track although he lied in his previous GQ spread. He didn’t stop smoking when he started his family and I believe his drinking had gotten worse sooner than 1 year ago.
I think Angie hit him hard and he hasn’t let go like he said he did.
@tete Hi Some fans are delusional regarding Pitt looks. Some media outlets keep repeating over and over he never ages. He probably made Benjamin Buttons for his own ego, he probably really believes the hype that he can never get OLD.
He is a good looking man. Keeping himself up well. The weight loss looks great on him. I’m sure he dresses, wears his hair, and keeps his skin the best he can. He is a movie star. Looking good is important. As for the glasses. After years and years of the flash bulbs he probably needs some respite. He seems to squint without glasses. Needs them. And he is no youngster. So, the weight loss, the good nutrition lately, all help him look his best. Everyone wants to look their best. And he is on the covers of magazines. He is conscious of how he looks.
I think he looks great given he’s lost everything…looks like he’s over the shock of his split with his family. I think being able to see his kids helps. Doing good dad Brad!!!
I think he looks great under the circumstances of what he’s been through, like every human I know, life has a way of bringing you full circle, good luck brad on your future journey.
His fans worry about what he has gone through but not worry about what he put his children through.
ikr? Amazes me the comments calling him a good dad, ‘over’ the shock of the split. He doesn’t have to worry about getting 6 children out of bed and dressed in the morning, arranging 6 individual schedules, no more school cares, not out buying them new shoes, doesn’t have to haul his ass out of bed early for weekend soccer games… he’s got it made as far as being a dad goes. See the kids once a week and spend the rest of the week on himself. Why shouldn’t he look good now?
If he had his way, I bet he would love doing all of those things. Angelina decides otherwise. She wants full time mother and she has it. When she is off doing other things, he may get a chance to full time dad then. If not, his life will go on. As it should. He is a very handsome, good natured and loving man. And he has a boat load of money. Lots of women looking for that. He can’t spend time with them doing dad things if he is forbidden having them with him. Hope to see him with the kids soon. Looking forward to see him out and about dating and enjoying his life. We only have one. Best to enjoy the time we have left rather than fretting over the past.
@LadyD Thank you for the truth!!
A lot of the public can not wait to see who he dates or marries next because they believe he is the catch of all catches. The public is counting Angelina OUT, she has six kids who would want to be saddle with that. I like that Angelina is the underdog because Angelina’s been counted out all her life and yet rises.
So let the public and media under estimate her again and again Yet Angelina Rises.
No one is counting angelina out. She will get whatever man she wants. Surely. People are watching her relationship with Hollywood to see if she can still command big, expensive director gigs. And big movie roles. But, no one counts her out. She is known to be a woman who gets what she wants. No one expects that to change. People, I think, would rather watch to see if she keeps herself healthy and allows the kids some semblance of stability. The watch is on to see where she goes next and when she will allow the children to spend time alone with their dad. No one thinks angelina is a shrinking violet. They just don’t hold her in the same affection as Brad. Mostly, they never did. But, everyone is watching to see her next action. In life, in the divorce, as a mother. Angelina is a fascinating person to watch.
No one holds her with as much affection and is waiting to see if she can get big budget director or acting gigs? wtf?
Brad can’t stop her work and definitely did not hire her before during or now after him. That woman was already established. No the as a director but she has only has one big budget film which was received well. The other two were fluff and small budget.Donyou think she only got them.because of Brad Pitt? When she clearly stated she had to work hard at pitching Unbroken.
She has already turn down Ridley Scott because she couldn’t commit to a summer start up. She has Maleficent 2 and Shoot like a girl waiting. I’d what she will do next. She spaces thsee out like that for a reason.
Probably the public will buy anything he does as long as he keeps up his looks for them.
He’s saying words?