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Angelina Jolie in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 26, 2013

Angelina Jolie's big heart has made an even bigger difference: The UNHCR Goodwill ambassador exclusively confirms to E! News that she has opened a school in Afghanistan. Jolie chose to fund the girls-only primary school in an area just outside of Kabul, a region that traditionally favors boys' education over girls'.

Angelina picked the village as the site of the school due to its high refugee population — regional fighting caused many locals to flee when their homes were destroyed, but since the collapse of the Taliban regime, families are slowly starting to return to the once-devastated area.)

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The school itself currently educates between 200 and 300 girls and has already proven to have a huge impact on the local community.

Meanwhile, Jolie's not stopping there, and already has plans to open other similar institutions, vowing that this will be just the first of many. As for how Brad Pitt's fiancée is bankrolling her goodwill gesture, Jolie is releasing her personally designed jewelry collection, the Style of Jolie, to retail stores for the first time. She will use the profits from the line's no doubt hefty sales to build even more schools around the world.

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"Beyond enjoying the artistic satisfaction of designing these jewels, we are inspired by knowing our work is also serving the mutual goal of providing for children in need," Jolie told E! News exclusively.

And how can you get your hands on the Jolie-designed range? The newly expanded collection will go on sale this week. And 100 (yes, 100) percent of the profits will go towards Jolie's new foundation, The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

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Jolie and her long-term jewelry designer, Robert Procop, have spent years collaborating on the collection.

"We launched this collaborative collection with the intent that 100 percent of the profits will go to charity," Procop said. "The intention was to create something beautiful but more importantly to provide children an opportunity to have an education.

"The beauty of these creations is matched by the beauty of spirit behind Angelina's most heartfelt mission—to empower children in crisis. The first funds from our collaboration together have been dedicated to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict and we have recently completed a school in Afghanistan.

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"For me it's an honor to have the opportunity to be a part of creating this line with Angie, as we both believe every child has a right to an education."

Many of the pieces in the collection are based on a unique design Jolie created for a necklace she gifted to Pitt—a historic tablet shape. As for the rest of the line, Angelina spent countless hours exploring coloring, gemstones and different shapes she was drawn to.

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"These designs are timeless; they reflect her chic sense of style and also feminine strength," Kam Heskin, the spokesman for the Robert Procop Design Studio, told E! News. "There are so many pieces that make this collection beautiful and unique."

The Style of Jolie will be available exclusively in Tivol, a Kansas City jeweler. Tivol will be holding a special event to launch the collection this Wednesday.

"Tivol, with their historic reputation and dedication to family values is a wonderful retail partner to launch our collection in the U.S.," Jolie told E! News.

"Tivol is a quality company known for carrying high-end jewelry brands that has been family-owned for several generations," Procop added. "The Tivol family has been so gracious and instrumental in planning this event."

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Did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt finally get married? It's an answer you've been waiting for since the last time there was a rumor that the two had secretly tied the knot.

Today's rock-solid proof that the A-lister and her betrothed are still just engaged comes from a new TMZ video and a truth-seeking paparazzo in Los Angeles.

"Is that a wedding ring, Angelina?" the voice shouts off camera. "No, it's not," Jolie says through the back of her head as she's ushered into a waiting SUV.

So there you have it. The gold band she was wearing on her left ring finger during a recent humanitarian trip to Africa is still nothing more than just a piece of jewelry. The fact that she actually deemed the question worth answering -- after being with Pitt for 8 years -- strikes us as a bigger deal at this point than her answer.

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After going way over budget and undergoing script rewrites and re-shoots, "World War Z" is finally coming to the screen -- and it looks to have all the trappings of a thrilling zombie blockbuster.

Just as director Marc Forster (of "Quantum of Solace" fame) has been working against the clock, budget problems, and unhappy producers to finish the film, so, too, Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) must beat the odds. With only 90 days to stop a zombie apocalypse, Lane, a United Nations worker, must leave his family to hunt for clues around the globe, interview survivors, and find out how to stop the zombies.

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"I think these things have a weakness," Pitt's character says.

According to the latest trailer, which dropped Monday, something in Russia may hold the key. As Lane says "weakness," the trailer shows a boy crouching as zombies run past him, paying him no attention even while destroying everything else in their path. So what exactly is the secret then? It’s tough to tell, but Lane must leave his family to find it.

Naturally, there are some stunning visual effects, such as when a plane is blown open in flight, à la the "Iron Man 3" trailer. There are mountains of fast zombies, which are nothing like those in "The Walking Dead" or the original "Dawn of the Dead" films. No, the "World War Z" zombies move, climb and destroy with incredible pace. In fact, the newly released poster has a whole swarm (herd? gaggle? army?) of zombies piled atop one another, mercilessly pulling a helicopter out of the sky.

And, of course, lest we forget, there’s also the genre's hallmark: super serious dialogue. "I can’t leave my family," Pitt’s character says. "Don't pretend your family is exempt when we talk about the end of humanity!" a stern officer volleys back.

Over-the-top dialogue aside, the trailer shows that "World War Z," based on Max Brooks' novel of the same name, straddles action and mystery with equal importance. And we can’t wait to follow Brad Pitt and company along for the ride.

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Brad Pitt at a screening of the film "Killing Them Softly" in New York on Monday, Nov. 26.

Brad Pitt might have raised a few eyebrows -- and been the butt of a few jokes -- with his Chanel No. 5 ad, but the actor is standing by the spots.

Access Hollywood’s Michelle Beadle sat down with the actor at the junket for his latest movie, “Killing Them Softly,” where he spoke candidly about the perfume campaign.

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“I’ve been overseas, so I’ve been blissfully protected,” the 48-year-old actor said when asked about people’s reactions.

“I haven’t [seen the parodies], but I say absolutely fair play, fair play,” Brad continued.

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Despite the ad’s random and off-the-wall feel, the actor told Access he enjoyed the final product.

“I kind of liked it ... I respect what they do,” he said of the fashion house. “They do some really quality things.”

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Brad might be proud of his Chanel ad, but when asked if he could identify the scent on the street, the actor was less confident.

“That I can’t,” Brad said.

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For his latest role, Brad had to do something he put behind him -- smoking -- something he’s quit and started doing again and again.

"[I’ve quit] several times, I’m really good at it," he said about lighting up again for the role where he plays an enforcer in the Andrew Dominik-directed movie, which Brad also produced.

“It’s great, it’s great,” he said of having to smoke in the movie. “But you have to know that you’re going to have to quit on the other end and that that ugly day is coming, so you over enjoy it I guess.”

The actor was glad to leave the habit on the big screen.

“I very conscious of health now and I want to be around for my kids, I don’t have that drive anymore,” he said. “I don’t crave it all.”

“Killing Them Softly” hits theaters on Nov. 30, 2012.

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Brad Pitt in "Killing Them Softly."

REVIEW: A juicy, bloody, grimy and profane crime drama that amply satisfies as a deep-dish genre piece, "Killing Them Softly" rather insistently also wants to be something more.

Writer-director Andrew Dominik, whose extraordinary Western "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" proved too long and arty for the masses, repositions George V. Higgins’ 1974 Boston mob-world novel as a metaphor for the ills of American capitalism circa 2008, a neatly provocative tactic. But he also shamelessly shows off his directorial acumen; unlike the leading character, who’s all business, Dominik makes sure you notice all his moves. Tight, absorbing and entertainingly performed by a virtually all-male cast topped by Brad Pitt, this Weinstein Co. release should generate solid mid-level business this fall.

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A lawyer, professor and assistant U.S. Attorney who long investigated organized crime in addition to writing 27 novels, Higgins knew well of what he wrote. His first novel, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," was made into a fine film and his third, "Cogan’s Trade,"  the basis of this one, consists of torrents of exceptionally vivid Beantown wiseguy dialogue with bits of plot tucked almost incidentally into the chatter.

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Moving the action to decimated post-Katrina New Orleans without a tourist in sight, Dominik has done a keen, disciplined job of coaxing the plot out of the shadows while retaining the flavor of underclass lingo and attitude. With the background dominated by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama’s optimistic speeches stressing the availability of “the American promise” to all, some bottom-feeding criminals plot what looks like a no-risk scheme: Old-timer Johnny Amato (Vincent Curatola, the great Johnny Sack of "The Sopranos") hires unwashed kids Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) to raid the regular card night run by Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta), who once robbed his own game and got away with it.

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While allowing these low-enders to emerge in all their miserable glory, Dominik also adds his own flourishes right from the outset, from striking lateral camera moves to amusingly supplying one of the young hoods with a pathetic little dog. Despite their general ineptitude, the boys pull off the job, but this is bad news for Markie, as it’s going to be assumed he’s run the same scam a second time.

At least this is what is suspected by the unnamed and unseen corporate mob, which has cog-in-the-system “Driver” (Richard Jenkins) engage shrewd hit man Jackie Cogan (Pitt) to deal with this disruption of business as usual. Needlessly, Markie gets horribly beat up, Cogan brings in another hired killer, Mickey (James Gandolfini) to help him with a double-killing, and plenty more blood gets spilled before order is, after a fashion, restored.

Although the plot bases are dutifully, if briefly, covered, this is a crime story like so many others in which it doesn’t really matter if you can follow who everyone is and why awful things are happening to them; it’s basically a given that everyone on view is guilty of something, so you can’t feel too badly when they come to grisly ends.

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What matter more are style and attitude, which Dominik ladles on like sauce on ribs. Russell’s drug-addled disorientation is represented by multiple distortions of time, visual perception and sound; the pursuit of one victim is imaginatively covered entirely from the outside of the building in which the chase is consummated; Cogan arrives on the scene to the accompaniment of Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around”; the just-scraping-by 21st century hoods drive late-‘60s/early-‘70s cars like a Riviera and Toronado; and one man’s execution is rendered from many angles in a slow-motion explosion of breaking glass and penetrating bullets so elaborate and prolonged that it resembles a self-standing art installation.

In a related way, some of the dialogue scenes, especially a couple of near-monologues superbly delivered by Gandolfini as a booze-guzzling, sex-obsessed, past-his-prime hit man, almost have the feel of brilliant, free-standing acting class scenes; they serve the film’s purposes, to be sure, but there’s a self-consciously showy aspect to them that makes you easily imagine students using them as audition pieces.

The film is terribly smart in every respect, with ne’er-a-false note performances and superb craft work from top to bottom, but it never lets you forget it, from Pitt’s pithy excoriation of Thomas Jefferson’s hypocrisy right down to his “Crime is the business of America” final line that is bound to be widely quoted. 

The film noir crime dramas of the late 1940s and early 1950s were about a palpable unease in the country, but this remained a subtext rather than the overt subject of the films. Here, Dominik explicitly articulates his intended meanings, which have to do with money, institutional rot and what happens when you don’t keep your economic house in order. Either approach is valid but, perhaps in this day and age, audiences need their messages to be quick and direct. "Killing Them Softly" delivers them that way.

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"Killing Them Softly" star Brad Pitt continues to kill folks with kindness. The always-generous actor, who was filming his upcoming film "World War Z" in London on Thanksgiving, donated $1,100 to Southhampton Hospital's neonatal unit in Dorset, England.

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According to the BBC, Pitt made the on-the-spot donation when Tricia Wilson-Hughes, a fundraiser who was collecting money from the movie's film crew on behalf of the medical facility, approached Pitt's security guard to see if Angelina Jolie's other half might be willing to pitch in a few bucks.

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The guard then proceeded to make his way over to Pitt and returned minutes later with the money.

"I couldn't believe it, I was completely dumbstruck," Hughes told the BBC. "He said if he had more he would have given it. I said honestly that is more than enough, but if he wants to do anything in the future that is absolutely fine ... I am in awe of him."

You took the words right out of our mouths, Ms. Hughes.

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Hey, you know what we don't see enough of in modern entertainment? Zombies. Someone should really resurrect (sorry) that trend. Ha, kidding -- the undead have eaten up more than their share of media dollars thanks to TV's "Walking Dead" and movies like "28 Days Later." But as we all know, they cannot be stopped.

The zombie apocalypse movie "World War Z" was originally planned to hit theaters this December, but has now been delayed till next June. It's based on the much-praised book by Max Brooks, son of moviemaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. But as CinemaBlend points out, and the new trailer backs up, book fans may be disappointed in the film. (Ha, that never happens, right?)

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Brad Pitt stars in "World War Z."

"World War Z" the book is a fascinating history of a zombie war, with chapters ricocheting from the viewpoint of different people in different countries, incomes, and levels of involvement in the conflict. But the trailer focuses on Brad Pitt trying to protect his wife (Mireille Enos) and their two kids as the zombie apocalpyse apparently makes itself known through a really bad traffic jam. Lots of kids in peril scenes that will freak out sensitive parents, lots of long-haired Pitt in protective dad mode, not a lot of visible zombies.

Now maybe that's just how the trailer was cut. Pitt plays a UN employee who travels the world to interview survivors, which gets at more of the book's style. Still, it's easy to envision a trailer cutting between Pitt interviewing and various people the world over telling snippets of their zombie story. We've seen the dad-protecting-kids thing many times before. (Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds," anyone?)

Watch the trailer and judge for yourself. "World War Z" hits theaters June 21.

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Brad Pitt is proving, once again, he's more than just a pretty face. It was announced on Wednesday that the actor has agreed to donate $100,000 to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, on behalf of the group's marriage equality efforts.

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Pitt has agreed to match contributions from HRC members and supporters up to $100,000 in order to direct resources to the marriage campaigns entering their final week in several states.

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"It's unbelievable to me that people's lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days," Pitt wrote in an email sent to HRC members and posted on the HRC website. "In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples -- our friends and neighbors -- are worthy of the same protections as everyone else. But that's the system we have and I'm not going to back down from the fight of loving and committed couples to have the ability to marry."

This isn't the first time Pitt has lent his support to marriage equality. He also gave a similar contribution to the unsuccessful effort to defeat California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, in 2008.

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Brad Pitt still hasn't said very much about his wedding plans with Angelina Jolie. One subject he opened up about a bit more on Friday? Drugs.

"I'm Brad Pitt and I'm a drug addict," the "Killing Them Softly" star, 48, joked, laughing, at Friday's "The House We Live In" screening in Los Angeles, where he introduced filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, whose new documentary investigates the drug epidemic in the U.S.

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"No, my drug days have long since passed," clarified the engaged father of six. Pitt (who announced his engagement to Jolie, 37, this past spring) has been frank about his marijuana use in the past. In a controversial Parade interview from September 2011, Pitt said the earlier phase of his superstardom (including his marriage to Jennifer Aniston) left him depressed -- and smoking pot. "I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out." Pitt told Parade.

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Slamming efforts to squash the illegal drug trade in the U.S. the star said at Friday's event: "It's certainly true that I could probably land in any city, in any state, and get you whatever you wanted. I could find anything you're looking for, give me 24 hours or so. And yet we still support this, I have to say, this charade called the drug war."

The actor-humanitarian continued of the "drug war": "We've spent a trillion dollars, it's lasted, it's gone on, for over 40 years -- a lot of people have lost their lives for it. And we still talk about it like it's a success. And yet it's a flawed, a backwards system/strategy that actually perpetuates itself."

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Pitt's love Jolie and their children were last spotted in the South of France (near the brood's Chateau Miraval) in September. No definitely word yet on when Jolie and Pitt tie the knot.

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Brad Pitt has joined the growing list of Hollywood talent, such as Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman, who have expressed a desire to work in Bollywood.

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"Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace. I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and color in the films there,” Pitt told Indian news agency IANS in an email interview. “The filmmaking, I hear, has evolved a lot in India, and of late we have witnessed some good films making a presence at the Oscars and the world stage.” 

Added the 48-year-old actor: “That tells you a lot about the quality of the actors and the films. You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.”

Pitt has visited India, most notably as a co-producer on 2007's "A Mighty Heart" starring Angelina Jolie. She portrayed Mariane Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 in Pakistan. The film was partly filmed in Mumbai and other locations.

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Pitt almost had a chance to work with top Bollywood actress and 1994 Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan when she was offered a part in director Wolfgang Peterson's 2007 epic "Troy,"  which she turned down. “Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, because she's a versatile actor," Pitt said. "She is one of the most popular actresses of Bollywood, who has achieved huge acclaim in the west for her style, beauty and acting skills. I think we missed an opportunity to be cast together for 'Troy,'” he said.

Pitt also congratulated India's version of “Brangelina," top actor Saif Ali Khan and actress Kareena Kapoor, who are going to be married in October. “To be honest, I really think Saif and Kareena can be called Bollywood's sexiest couple so far," said Pitt. "I am glad to know they are getting married soon. I wish them all the success for a happy married life."

Pitt's upcoming release, mob drama "Killing Them Softly," will open in India on Oct. 5.

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Rumors of a weekend wedding between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sent photographers and reporters rushing to the couple's chateau in southern France on Thursday, but local officials said they had no knowledge of any impending nuptials.

Local newspaper Var Matin categorically denied a France 3 TV report that the wedding could take place on Saturday and village hall staff said no banns had been published. 

Security was tight at the 17th-century Chateau Miraval in the Var, which the couple, dubbed Brangelina by celebrity media, bought in 2008. No frantic preparations were visible, according to a Reuters reporter at the scene. 

"We don't know anything about it," Patrick Mareschi, deputy culture secretary of the nearby village of Correns, told Reuters. 

"Under French law couples have to get married at the town hall. Unlike with a religious wedding, there's no way a couple can hold a civil ceremony at their own home," he added. 

But one source told The Hollywood Reporter  that "it's really happening," and said that there's a big tent at Chateau Miraval.

Numerous outlets have speculated that if there is a bash at the Pitt-Jolie estate this weekend, it could be in honor of his parents' 50th wedding anniversary instead, and not a Brangelina wedding.

Since Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement earlier this year, rumors have been swirling that they could tie the knot this summer at their French estate. 

Representatives of the Hollywood power couple did not return calls for comment. 

Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter contributed to this report.

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