They are spending Christmas in Costa Rica and want to hire a whole ranch to fit their enormous family. A source said: "Brad has found a sprawling farm that he reckons will be the perfect place for the family to get away from everything for a while. "He loves the country and is considering buying some Costa Rican property so they can spend some time there when life gets less hectic for them." Angelina plans to take time out from the industry once their kids become teens to keep an eye on them she went off the rails when she was younger. She said: "My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager, I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything. "So I'm sure I'll be working from home in some way. Maybe I'll get to write or something." In between driving them home from pals' houses, tidying their rooms ...

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has won praise for her directing debut - a powerful story of love amid the atrocities of the Bosnian war - from both film critics and victims' relatives. Jolie is used to being feted for her performances in films ranging from Girl Interrupted, which won her the best supporting actress Academy Award in 2000, to the Lara Croft movies. But she has also been an ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 2001, and drew on that experience while scripting and shooting In the Land Of Blood And Honey. The movie tells the story of a Serb soldier who re-meets a former lover, a Bosnian woman now held captive in the camp he oversees during the dark days of the 1992-95 Bosnian war. "It's very difficult to make me sit and see this for two hours, it's so hard to watch, so you can imagine living it for years, as many of our cast did," Jolie told reporters at a press screening in Hollywood. "We want people to feel what it is...

Warner Bros. A year ago, The Tourist was on its way to a Ricky Gervais skewering with an opening that was derided as " dismal ." Oh, for such lofty compliments today. At this weekend's box office, New Year's Eve and The Sitter openedand came nowhere near Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie 's " bomb ." RELATED: So, are there any good movies out right now? Overall business was lousy. Ticket sales were down about 6 percent from last weekend, which was no great shakes itself, and down nearly 20 percent from the same, much-maligned Tourist weekend from last year. The all-star ensemble comedy New Year's Eve led the way, as it were, with an estimated Friday-Sunday take of $13.7 million, a total that was a long, long, long way from the $56 million that director Garry Marshall 's like-themed Valentine's Day opened with last year. The Jonah Hill comedy The Sitter did even worse, albeit on a smaller budget than New Year's Eve 's, with a $1...

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has won praise for her directing debut -- a powerful story of love amid the atrocities of the Bosnian war -- from both film critics and victims' relatives. The Hollywood "A" lister is used to being feted for her performances in films ranging from "Girl, Interrupted" -- which won her the best supporting actress Academy Award in 2000 -- to the "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" movies. But she has also been an ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 2001, and has drawn on that experience in the making of "In the Land of Blood and Honey," due out in the United States later this month. The movie tells the story of a Serb soldier who re-meets a former lover, a Bosnian woman now held captive in the camp he oversees during the dark days of the 1992-95 Bosnian war . "It's very difficult to make me sit and see this for two hours, it's so hard to watch, so you can imagine living it for yea...

For Angelina Jolie, an intimate gathering would seem impossible given that she's one of the most famous women in the world. But somehow, on Thursday in Hollywood, she and partner Brad Pitt managed just that in support of her film "In The Land of Blood and Honey." On a promotional tour that has seen broadcast sit-downs and a New York opening, Jolie screened her Bosnian love-and-war epic for industry types and friends, and about 200 of her and Pitt's biggest fans (one had a '"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" poster waiting to be signed). Spending an unusual amount of time on the red carpet to hype the project, Jolie rolled with a team but was never far from Pitt, who held the excess fabric of her blue gown as she descended the stairs at the ArcLight Cinemas. Her father, Jon Voight, showed up to lend support, as did Jolie's girlfriend and fellow mom Gwen Stefani , but the evening's focus was the devastating ethnic cleansing depicted in "Blood and Honey,...

Angelina Jolie is not a woman's woman. The "In the Land of Blood and Honey" director admits in the upcoming issue of Marie Claire that she doesn't have tight circle of female friends. In fact, Jolie says that she doesn't have many friends at all and, instead, relies heavily on partner Brad Pitt. "It was nice for me to play with other girls; I don't really have girlfriends in movies, if you've noticed," Jolie told the magazine. "Well, I have a few girlfriends. I just... I stay at home a lot. I don't do a lot with them, and I'm very homebound ... I talk to Brad. But I don't know, I don't have a lot of friends I talk to. He really is the only person I talk to." Tina Kaawaloa/INFevents.com Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie One of the few famous females faces that Jolie is consistently social with is fellow mom Gwen Stefani. Jolie has been friends with the rocker since 1998. "Somehow Gwen and I keep ending up pregnant at th...

Marie Claire Brad Pitt is more than the love of Angelina Jolie 's life. "He has expanded my life in ways I never imagined," the actress and director of In the Land of Blood and Honey says in the January issue of Marie Claire . "We built a family. He is not just the love of my life, he is my family. I hold that very dear. I suppose what I've learned from Brad is to be able to have the kind of family whose happiness and well-being comes before your own. I'm very, very grateful to have such a loving family, and I wouldn't have that without him." With that in mind, does Jolie think that she and Pitt could end up having even more loving family together? MORE: Angelina answers big questions: Will she marry Brad? Does she home-school kids? What's off-limits? "Nothing planned at the moment, but we just don't know," she says. "I could end up pregnant." Oddly enough, it sounds as if the six kids they already have are all for givi...