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U.S. studio Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have announced the writing team for Mission: Impossible IV. Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec were named to write the screenplay, joining the list of writers who moved from Abrams' television series to write features he directs and produces, Variety reported Friday. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-executive producers of Alias. Variety said the Mission: Impossible IV script is based on a story...
Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have signed on to co-produce Mission: Impossible IV for the American movie studio Paramount Pictures.The Hollywood Reporter said the latest installment in the action film series is targeted for a 2011 theatrical release.Cruise starred as hero Ethan Hunt in the first three big-screen blockbusters, the last of which was released in 2006.The entertainment industry trade newspaper said it was unclear whether Cruise will reprise his role or help Abrams rework the...
The husband of actress Katie Holmes' older sister has died of heart failure in Florida at the age of 48, officials said. Joseph Fretti was discovered dead Sunday in his mother's Sarasota home, where he had taken his two young children for a visit, RadarOnline.com reported. Fretti, the husband of Holmes' sister Tamera, owned a funeral home in the Holmes family's hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Sarasota Medical Examiner Russell Vega told the entertainment news Web site the cause of Fretti's death...
Men in Black screenwriter Ed Solomon has been hired to pen Hardy Men, a comedic adaptation of the classic Hardy Boys kids' novels. Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise are set to play grown-up versions of fraternal sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy, who have been estranged for years, but reunite to solve a new mystery, The Hollywood Reporter said. The film is to be helmed by Stiller's Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy Stiller and Cruise previously worked together on last year's big-screen comedy...
Hollywood film star and father of three Tom Cruise is calling the death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta horrific. Cruise, who is a longtime friend of Jett's parents John Travolta and Kelly Preston, appeared at a loss for words when asked on the TV talk show The View for his reaction to the boy's death reportedly of a seizure last week. It's just horrific, Usmagazine.com quoted Cruise as saying Thursday in an episode of the show set to air Friday. Here you have a man, both of them doting...
A U.S. collector who owns Adolf Hitler's globe says the makers of the World War II film Valkyrie used the copyrighted model's likeness without permission. San Francisco advertising executive Robert Pritikin owns a $40 million art collection and several Hitler artifacts, including the globe, a replica of which is prominently featured in Tom Cruise's latest movie. The film was made by Cruise's studio United Artists. The New York Post said Pritikin paid $100,000 for the real globe and had its...
U.S. director Bryan Singer says he decided not to have the international cast of Valkyrie speak with German accents because it would be distracting.The World War II-set movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler stars Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, Northern Irish star Kenneth Branagh and British thespians Eddie Izzard, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp and Tom Wilkinson. We didn't want that to be what the movie was about, Singer told reporters in New York recently when asked why the German characters in...
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise admits the eye patch he wore in his new movie Valkyrie caused him some unexpected balance problems on the film set. In the movie, Cruise plays a German military officer who takes part in an unsuccessful plot to kill dictator Adolf Hitler. Cruise's character loses his eye in World War II and wears an eye patch for much of the film. I was surprised, for a few hours and a few days, when we started working on it, yeah, it did (cause me some balance problems)....
Tom Cruise says his latest movie Valkyrie is a World War II thriller about an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, not a Holocaust drama as some may think.The picture follows the real-life German military officers who tried to assassinate the Fuhrer and reorganize the government in 1943 and 1944.Asked recently if he thinks Valkyrie is an important movie because it tells a true story of German heroism many people outside of Germany don't know, Cruise told reporters in New York: It's an important...
Katie Holmes got a birthday surprise when a five-tiered cake was wheeled on stage after her performance in the Broadway play All My Sons. Holmes turned 30 Thursday and to mark the occasion her husband, Tom Cruise, enlisted the cast and crew of the show to present her with the cake while he was in Los Angeles promoting his new film Valkyrie, People magazine said. Tom Cruise, our good friend, devoted fan to the show, doting husband of Katie, could not be here tonight. He's heartsick that he...
