Jolie wasn’t MIA at the New York Film Festival

When the news conference followed the debut of “Changeling” to journalists on Thursday at the New York Film Festival, there were lots of whispers of “Where’s Angelina Jolie?”

The belief that she’d be present had been fueled by comments from a spokesman for the Toronto International Film Festival, who suggested last month that TIFF passed on showcasing “Changeling” because Jolie couldn’t be present for the gala premiere.

Presumably, she was too busy with her and Brad Pitt’s new twins. So, therefore, the assumption was widely made that she’d attend the news conference at the New York Film Festival, of course. After all, Jolie is currently in New York getting ready to attend the fest premiere of “Changeling” this Saturday night.

Director Clint Eastwood was present at the news conference yesterday, but there was never a plan for Angelina Jolie to be part of the meet-the-press event, says a spokesman for Universal Pictures. Just the premiere. Nor was there ever a plan to take “Changeling” to Toronto, which suggests TIFF didn’t really pass on it.

“We never planned to go and never showed them the film for consideration, always aiming toward New York,” says Universal’s exec VP of publicity Michael Moses. “It wasn’t at all a matter of Angelina’s availability.”
Source: The LA Times