Fans at tonight’s Burn After Reading premiere in Berlin. Credit: my husband

Pitt disappoints fans at Berlin Burn After Reading premiere
We waited for three hours at the premiere of Burn After Reading in Berlin tonight, but Brad Pitt was a no show despite the fact that he’s in Berlin with his family. Pitt was not listed as an attendee on the handout given by the company handling press, but it was thought that he might show up at some point since he’s living here. Fans waited and looked for him for well over two hours, and advance buzz was all about Pitt, but he just didn’t come. It was mostly German celebrities. Tilda Swinton was included on the list of expected attendees, and she wasn’t there, either. The disappointment was palpable at the end of the night.

Last Tuesday it was reported that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had moved to Berlin while Brad was filming Inglorious Bastards in nearby Potsdam. Photos of the large estate where they had moved were posted online, and it was reported that the entire family was seen arriving Tempelhof airport on Tuesday and that they’d employed a large staff.

Jolie-Pitt family visits an indoor playground, buys toys
It’s been over a week since they arrived and we were beginning to doubt that Angelina and the kids were here because the only evidence was this grainy faraway video that only showed Brad and Zahara and a figure that may or may not have been Angelina. We visited the house and spoke to one of the paparazzi, though, and he seemed pretty certain that Angelina and the kids were there. The Morgenpost reports today that the whole family visited an indoor playarea in Prenzlauer Berg and later bought toys for their kids. (The story is in German and there aren’t more details. Here is a link to the only indoor playplace we found in that district.) They only say “recently” in the article and don’t give a specific date, so I guess we can’t assume that Brad went out with the fam during the day and then blew off his film premiere that night. Brad, Angelina and the gang went almost completely unnoticed and it’s clear they evaded the 6-8 paparazzi we saw waiting outside their estate over the weekend. Morgenpost also reports that a private jet is waiting at the airport to take them to NY for the premiere of Jolie’s film, The Changeling, at the NY Film Festival on Saturday. Maybe that’s why Pitt couldn’t be bothered to make it to his film premiere in Berlin.

Brad Pitt is next expected to start filming this weekend in Saxonia, (link is to German language article) which is in the east of Germany near the border with Czech Republic. If Angelina goes to NY for her premiere he may have to stay here to work. How hard would it have been for him to blow in and out of the premiere in Berlin? It’s not even a half hour drive from his house.

Here are some photos from tonight’s premiere. Thanks to my husband for taking them.

Germany’s Next Top Model Winner Season 1, Lena Gehrke [thanks Antje]

Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt

German actor Wilson Ochsenknecht

Director Volker Schlondorff