Angelina Jolie has checked into a hospital in the South of France in anticipation of giving birth to twins, the Associated Press reports.

“There’s no urgency,” hospital representative Nadine Bauer tells the AP. “%26#91;Jolie’s admittance has%26#93; been planned for a long time.”

Bauer added, “She’s very well. Everything is fine.”

In May, Jolie, 33, said on the Today show, “Unlike most women, I love being pregnant. %26#91;It makes%26#93; you feel more like a woman than you’ve ever felt. You just feel like everything about your body is there for your baby.”

As for the babies’ first home, Jolie and Pitt recently signed a three-year lease on an estate in the French Riviera.

American and Iraqi children suffering from the war will get

much-needed support, thanks to $1 million the

Jolie-Pitt Foundation is donating to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

“These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal,” Angelina Jolie said.

The EPCC, which Jolie co-founded in 2007, has earmarked $500,000 for the Armed Service YMCA Operation Hero Program, which helps educate and emotionally support children of military personnel serving in Iraq. The money will bring 2,500 new children into the program.

children struggling to learn - or simply survive. They include

Women for Women International; The International Rescue Committee; and NineMillion.org, part of the United National High Commissioner for Refugees. In all, 5,700 Iraqi children and 300 women will benefit.

“We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations,” said Brad Pitt.

Jolie, a United Nations goodwill ambassador, is noted for her humanitarian work. In February, she went on her second trip to Iraq, for a State Department mission to research the displacement crisis. In May, she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post calling for aid for Iraqi refugees.

Angelina Jolie couldn’t make it to the L.A. premiere of her new action flick Wanted Thursday night, as she remains in France, but her costars had plenty to say about the mother-to-be.

Joile’s latest leading man James McAvoy told PEOPLE he was most surprised to discover “her normality.”

“She’s just a very chilled-out person, and a good, fun person. And that shouldn’t be surprising, because movie stars are normal people, but even actors get taken in by the hype,” McAvoy said.

She is so “sharp,” added actor Thomas Kretschmann.

“She knows what she’s going for, and she’s also very instinctive - there are smart people and there are instinctive people, and it’s very rare that it meets in the middle, and she’s one of them,” the German actor said.

Kretschman was stumped as to how Jolie balances the demands of her large family, her film career and her humanitarian efforts. “She’s very busy, I guess!” he laughed. “She likes it - she’s a very passionate human being, and I think she just loves life.”

“She’s herself, all the time,” agreed Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov. “She never lies, and it’s her nature, and I love her because of that.”

Yet another reason to be jealous of Angelina Jolie: Even in the final stages of her pregnancy with twins, she can still turn the head of Brad Pitt.

“I’m very lucky,” she tells USA Today. “I’m with a man who makes me feel very sexy pregnant and loves children.”

But Pitt isn’t all talk. Jolie, 33, also tells the paper, “In the last few months it’s hard for me to pick up the other kids, so he’s there to help lift them up to me and things like that. He’s an extremely hands-on dad with all the kids and really, really supportive.”

And don’t worry about Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh feeling left out when the twins arrive. “At the same time we’re expecting two, we have four,” Jolie says, “so my focus now is on the four we have. So every day is just about making sure that their schooling is going right and their manners are intact and we’re disciplining properly and we’re spending enough time with them individually, so they seem special.”

She adds: “That’s a lot of balance when you have a lot of children.”

This time around will be double the pleasure for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who are expecting twins.

Jack Black let the news slip while doing a joint-interview with Jolie in Cannes to promote their movie, Kung Fu Panda. “You’re gonna have

as many as %26#91;the%26#93; Brady Bunch when you have these,” he said during the chat with Today show’s Natalie Morales.

Asked by Morales if she is indeed having twins, Jolie replied, “Yeah, yeah, we’ve confirmed that already. Well, Jack’s just confirmed it actually.”

The children will be the fifth and sixth for the Jolie and Pitt. The family currently consists of Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, who turns 2 this month.

Pitt and Jolie are “thrilled” about adding to their brood, a source close to the couple told PEOPLE after Jolie debuted her baby bump at the Independent Spirit Awards in February.

The Jolie-Pitt clan have been staying in France at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s historic Florentine-styled Villa Maryland. Jolie is currently at the Cannes Film Festival promoting Kung Fu Panda.

Excerpts of the interview will air Wednesday on Access Hollywood, and the full interview will air Thursday on the Today show.

Angelina Jolie has recorded a public service announcement for World Refugee Day on June 20, to help raise awareness about the plight of millions of people at risk.

As emotive scenes of refugees flash on the screen, Jolie - who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency - explains what life is like for millions around the world.

“They have survived war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease,” say the actress (who is expecting twins with Brad Pitt this summer). “For those who have survived and for those who did not, we are thinking of you on this day.”

The actress and human rights activist is also planning to write an article for a major U.S. newspaper to coincide with Friday’s day of action. (World Refugee Day will be marked by events worldwide: London’s Trafalgar Square is being converted into a replica Darfur village, Rome’s Colosseum will be lit with the refugee agency’s logo, and, in Washington, D.C., Chicago Bulls basketball player Luol Deng will receive the Humanitarian of the Year award.)

Jolie, 33, first became attached to the work of the UN’s refugee agency during a February 2001 visit to war-torn Sierra Leone in west Africa, prior to filming Beyond Borders with Clive Owen.

There’s no doubt that meeting Angelina Jolie can be nerve-wracking - but her Wanted costars say the superstar mom is incredibly down-to-earth.

“It’s a little intimidating, someone like her who is presented as a goddess. %26#91;But%26#93; it takes, like, 30 seconds and you figure out she’s just a cool woman,” Wanted actor Thomas Kretschmann said at the film’s press day Monday.

The German actor, who plays an assassin in the action flick out June 27, also described Jolie as “a cool mommy.”

But Jolie isn’t the only “cool” person in her household. Costar Common calls Brad Pitt “a good dude.”

“We hung out and he was a cool cat,” said the rapper-turned-actor.

And Jolie? “She’s an incredible mother, a beautiful mother,” Common said. “She has so much realness to her.”

Angelina Jolie has talked candidly about her desire to continue expanding her family with Brad Pitt. But when the actress found out she was pregnant with twins, well, even she was taken aback.

“We weren’t expecting twins,” Jolie, 33, tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “So it did shock us, and we jumped to six %26#91;children%26#93; quickly. But we like a challenge.”

With a house full of kids, Jolie says she needs help - so it’s a good thing there’s family around to pitch in. “%26#91;Brad’s%26#93; mom and dad are on standby to come out and help,” she says.

As for how she’s handling being pregnant with twins, the actress tells EW she’s taking it easy and letting Pitt handle all the heavy lifting - literally. “We’ve worked out a system where Brad just lifts %26#91;the kids%26#93; to me every time they want to come up,” she says. “I just don’t bend down. I’ll scream, ‘Honey!’ and he’ll come running and lift them up.”

And pregnancy has other benefits as well. “It’s great for the sex life,” she says. “It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you’re just so round and full.”

When it comes to parenting, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are nothing if not hands-on.

In terms of disciplining Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2, the pregnant (with twins) Jolie, who turns 33 on Wednesday, tells Vanity Fair for its July issue that she operates on a rewards system, though admits, “You end up hearing yourself saying all those clichéd parent things: ‘I don’t care who started it, but I’m here to finish it.’ ”

In terms of day-to-day child-rearing, she presents the children with sticker stars that are redeemable for treats - thereby keeping them in line while also teaching them the tenets of capitalism. Besides, that method “is how my mom %26#91;Marcheline Bertrand%26#93; raised me, which is to figure out who I was and try to enhance my individual personality and not get in the way of it. But I can really discipline the kids when I need to.”

Jolie also says that the decision to have children from three continents was “absolutely intentional. When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other.”

Wanted extended trailer

Angelina Jolie dodges a bullet - and fires off a round too - in the action-packed, extended trailer for Wanted, her sexy, new action thriller. Take a look at the movie - which costars James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman - and tells of a young man (McAvoy) who discovers that his father is an assassin. After his father’s death, the son is trained to follow in his father’s footsteps. Wanted explodes into theaters on June 27.