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Movie sensation Brad Pitt began his Hollywood career in 1987 with a few unaccredited parts in low budget movies. All that changed in 1991 with the release of the popular Thelma and Louise crime spree movie where Brad was revealed in a steamy scene with Geena Davis, and becomes a hot commodity in Hollywood.

Although early in his career, he occasionally starred in various TV episodes (including the hit TV soap opera Another World) and films on the big screen, Brad Pitt movies have become a somewhat semi-annual event. In the last several years Brad has starred in or produced at least 2 movies per year.

Those movies have all fared well in the last 6 years, aside from ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ (2007), (where Brad Pitt takes the lead role of Jesse James), Every Brad Pitt movie showed a worldwide gross of over 100 million dollars.

Beginning with the 2001 release of Oceans 11, Brad Pitt movies suffered a dry spell until the hit movie ‘Troy’ appeared in theaters. Even though the budget was nearly 200 million dollars, Troy was able to produce a worldwide gross of over 495 million dollars.

Being part of over 35 movies in the last twenty years has been a profitable venture for those involved in Brad Pitt movies, the total worldwide gross was well over 4.5 Billion dollars. That is an average of about 50 million dollars for each Brad Pitt movie. Of course, box office figures in that range are always a plus to any actor when seeking a role.

Steven Soderbergh has directed four Brad Pitt movies in the last decade, including the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy, and ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind’.

The latest Brad Pitt movie, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (released on Dec 25, 2008) has already grossed over 100 million dollars and received 13 Oscar nominations. Another recent Brad Pitt movie that has prospered was the September 2008 release of ‘Burn after Reading’.

The future of Brad Pitt movies is loaded with several new projects in the works including lead roles in two movies being released this year and 4 movies in which Brad is the producer. It is expected that over the next three years Brad will be involved in as many as 11 new movie projects.

From non-credited and cameo parts in low budget movies to blockbuster hits worldwide, Brad Pitt has shown his natural aptitude to star, produce and promote some of this century’s best works.