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Angelina Jolie directs, Deadpool rises from the dead: The latest from Hollywood: On the Lot
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Angelina Jolie directs, Deadpool rises from the dead: The latest from Hollywood: On the Lot
Is Angelina Jolie more comfortable behind the camera? The superstar and activist is focusing now on directing. And "X-Men's"Deadpool gets his own movie.
Actress Angelina Jolie speaks ahead of a screening of her new film 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' at the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) on May 29, 2012 in London.
Jolie directed the film Unbroken, which opens this Christmas. And the actor has two other directing jobs in the works.
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Is Angelina Jolie more comfortable behind the camera? The superstar and activist is focusing now on directing. And "X-Men's"Deadpool gets his own movie.

She's an A-list actor, married to an A-list actor, but like everyone else in Hollywood, what she really wants to do is direct. Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" will open in theaters on Christmas Day.

But, so far, says Rebecca Keegan of the Los Angeles Times, no one has seen it yet — apparently that doesn't worry executives. Jolie has also signed a deal to direct a film about the conservationist Richard Leakey, and has, yet another, directing job in the works.

Keegan also fills us in on the latest "X-Men" spinoff to get a release date. This one is "Deadpool," the profane, wise-cracking super-anti-hero. 20th Century Fox says the movie will be released in early 2016, after years of being in development limbo. This YouTube video of test footage, which got a big response from the fans, helped turn the light from yellow to green. (Note: Clip contains profanity.)

Also in On the Lot, a preview of the New York Film Festival, which opens later this week, and features the premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson's movie, "Inherent Vice," along with a documentary on Edward Snowden.