Angelina Jolie’s Bosnian Film Permit Reissued by Authorities

Sarajevo authorities have reinstated Angelina Jolie’s film permit after the minister of culture read the script. (He had incorrectly heard the actress’ directorial debut was about a rape victim who falls in love with her rapist, the Associated Press reports. The film is about a Bosnian woman who falls in love with a Serb man, but more details have not yet been released.) Jolie’s film permit was briefly withdrawn last week after women who had been raped during the Bosnian war protested.

In other morning news:

– Mark Twain’s final book, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, is already ranked No. 1 on Amazon’s sales chart, and it’s not even in stores until Nov. 15, Entertainment Weekly reports. The biography, the first of three volumes to be released 100 years after his death, received brisk pre-orders.

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