LOS ANGELES (AP) - The filmmakers behind the Daniel Pearl drama ''A Mighty Heart'' wanted to honor the slain journalist by doing what he did best - tell the straight story, unadorned by opinion, ideology or bias.

When you're an international superstar - when you're Julia Roberts or Tom Cruise, for example - it can be difficult for audiences to accept you in challenging roles, difficult for them to dissociate the persona from the performance. Lately this phenomenon also has been true of Angelina Jolie, with her well-documented adventures in adoption and globe-trotting with Brad Pitt.

Angelina Jolie and Daniel Futterman made a pact to fall in love on the set of new movie A Mighty Heart because they wanted to show a young boy just how much his mom and dad cared for each other.

CANNES, France (AP) - Angelina Jolie, who plays the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in ''A Mighty Heart,'' said she was overwhelmed by Mariane Pearl's inner strength and her ability to let go of hatred.

Capote screenwriter Dan Futterman has secretly been cast opposite Angelina Jolie in a film about slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Jolie made headlines last month when it was announced she was playing Pearl's widow Marianne in the film adaptation of her 2003 memoir "A Mighty Heart."

The writers of Capote and Syriana tied at the annual University Of Southern California Scripter Award, which honours the year's best film adaptation of a book, novella or short story. Capote, based on the biography of Truman Capote by Gerlad Clarke with a screenplay by Dan Futterman, and Syriana, adapted from journalist Robert Baer's book See No Evil