Angelina Jolie is facing probably her toughest crowd to-date in the promotion of her movie ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey‘. The actress and director landed in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina this afternoon to attend a press conference and premiere for her new film. The movie focuses on the war that raged on there during from 1992-1995.
After the screening, the movie received a standing ovation and Angelina said “To share this with you means the world to me.”
I am satisfied with what we made, I feel very strongly about it and I believe that its core issue — which is the need for intervention and need for the world to care about atrocities when they are happening — is very, very timely and especially with things that are happening in Syria today,”
A distributor in the Serb part of Bosnia refuses to show it there because it portrays Serbs as villains. Vladimir Ljevar tells the AP:
“There is simply no interest for this movie here, so I can’t sell any tickets. The fact that the Serbs are the bad guys in it is the reason why there is no interest. The film is lousy. I watched it. It has had bad reviews. It is unprofitable.”
Angelina Jolie is facing probably her toughest crowd to-date in the promotion of her movie ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey‘. The actress and director landed in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina this afternoon to attend a press conference and premiere for her new film. The movie focuses on the war that raged on there during from 1992-1995.
After the screening, the movie received a standing ovation and Angelina said “To share this with you means the world to me.”
During the press conference she shared:
A distributor in the Serb part of Bosnia refuses to show it there because it portrays Serbs as villains. Vladimir Ljevar tells the AP:
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