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| Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have furiously
refuted talk that they are romantically involved. But the A-list
tandem looked the part of a family unit Thursday as they went to
Ethiopia to pick up Jolie's newly adopted
daughter. | As Hollywood action flick "Mr.
& Mrs. Smith" to debut in many cities in China Friday, huge interests
attached to the two stars' off-screen romance have flared up
domestic movie goers.
"Audiences could detect whether the rumors are true or not through
their performance," said Liu Jianzhong, chairman of the board of Huaxia
Film Company, the movie's Chinese distributor.
Liu seems happy to let Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's rumour goes as
China has a large amount of Pitt's fans.
"I am overwhelmed by Pitt, and I heard that Pitt's divorce with
Jennifer Aniston may derived from this film, so I come and watch," Zhang
Weiyan, who attended the film premiere launched in a Beijing cinema
Wednesday, told Xinhua.
Though Pitt and Jolie who play husband-and-wife assassins in the movie
denied their off-screen intimacy, suspicion is still accelerating.
Reports said that the movie topped the box office list by raking in
50.3 million dollars in its opening weekend since it was screened in the
United States on June 10.
Huaxia Film Company estimated that the film could earn at least 50
million yuan (6 million US dollars) in domestic market, entering into the
top three imported films so far this year.
However, no matter serious industry magazine and street tabloid seems concerned more on the
authenticity of their scandal than the movie itself.
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Updated: 2005-07-08 13:49
