By Simon Miraudo June 24, 2014 Edge of Tomorrow is an ingenious action-comedy about how frequently movie heroes would actually die if they attempted that much crazy s***, and no movie hero is more notorious for doing crazy s*** than Tom Cruise. Though Cruise long ago lost his reputation as a reliable truth teller – […]
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Jessica Chastain offered ‘Mission: Impossible 5’
May 14, 2014 
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Jessica Chastain has been offered a leading role in Mission: Impossible 5, Deadline reports. That’s pretty much the extent of Deadline’s scoop. It’s not even known if she’s likely to accept. Still, an exciting prospect. It was revealed earlier this week that director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise had tapped Will Staples, the writer […]
Continue reading‘Call of Duty’ screenwriter retooling ‘Mission: Impossible 5’
May 12, 2014 0 Comments
Mission: Impossible 5 is getting a rewrite courtesy of Will Staples, the screenwriter behind video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount, Skydance, director Christopher McQuarrie and star/producer Tom Cruise recruited Staples to retool a draft by Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3). Though much of Staples public work is in […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Edge of Tomorrow
December 12, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Cruise heads back to the future in Edge of Tomorrow, Doug Liman’s adaptation of the Manga All You Need is Kill. Cruise plays an officer who keeps getting killed in combat, only to be continually resurrected to relive the battle over and over again, Groundhog Day style. Emily Blunt plays a Special Forces fighter who trains […]
Continue reading‘Mission: Impossible 5’ set to open Christmas Day, 2015
November 15, 2013 0 Comments
Mission: Impossible 5 is now as official as it gets (well, shy of it actually existing). Paramount and Skydance Productions have announced its release date: December 25, 2015. That means the latest entry in Tom Cruise’s increasingly popular spy franchise will open one week after Star Wars Episode VII, the latest Dan Brown adaptation, Inferno, and Universal’s Warcraft. As if […]
Continue readingTom Cruise’s All You Need is Kill renamed Edge of Tomorrow
July 17, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Cruise’s upcoming sci-fi ‘man-in-a-robot-suit’ film All You Need Is Kill has been renamed, presumably to soften its impact. According to Cruise’s official website, this big action flick will now be called Edge Of Tomorrow, a much more tasteful (but also bland) title. Based on a graphic novel, it looks to be a futuristic play […]
Continue readingTom Cruise abandons The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
May 27, 2013 1 Comment
Seems like you could make a movie out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s troubled production history. Tom Cruise is the latest actor to abandon the project, Deadline reports. Guy Ritchie is set to helm the adaptation of the classic TV series for Warner Bros, which would have starred Cruise and Armie Hammer. Though Hammer is […]
Continue readingLonely planet – Oblivion review
April 10, 2013 1 Comment
By Simon Miraudo April 10, 2013 Oblivion lifts liberally from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Moon, Sunshine, WALL-E, and pretty much every other science fiction film worth a damn. By cribbing from such bona-fide greats, the final product can’t help but be at least half-decent, if missing an identity of its own. The irony? Hidden […]
Continue readingTom Cruise might be The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
March 21, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Cruise is in early talks for the lead in Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E, according to Deadline. The spy thriller has spent years in development hell, passing from Matthew Vaughn to David Dobkin and Steven Soderbergh before Ritchie signed on to direct in 2011. If Cruise signs on to the film, he’ll play […]
Continue readingInterview: Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher, The Usual Suspects)
January 8, 2013 0 Comments
Interview: Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher, The Usual Suspects). By Simon Miraudo. Christopher McQuarrie met director Bryan Singer in high school, and it would prove to be a fruitful friendship for the both of them. They collaborated on the sleeper hit The Usual Suspects, and McQuarrie won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his efforts. If […]
Continue readingCrime cop – Jack Reacher review
December 18, 2012 0 Comments
Jack Reacher – Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, and Werner Herzog. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Jack Reacher is trash, but since when is that a bad thing? Christopher McQuarrie‘s adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot follows in the footsteps of those convoluted John Grisham and Dan Brown books that are […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Oblivion
December 12, 2012 0 Comments
It’s a sci-fi film set on a post-apocalyptic Earth … again! The first trailer for director Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion has appeared online with star Tom Cruise cleaning up the mess from an alien attack 60 years ago. It’s unclear what the attack exactly involved, but after the humans won the war, Earth was all but […]
Continue readingR.I.P. Tony Scott
August 20, 2012 1 Comment
Tony Scott, director of Top Gun, True Romance, and most recently Unstoppable, has died after jumping from Los Angeles’ Vincent Thomas Bridge. He was 68 years old. According to the L.A. County Coroner‘s office, the death is being investigated as a suicide. Witnesses contacted 911 around 12:35pm on Sunday; it took four hours for his body to be […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper might star opposite Beyonce in A Star is Born
August 17, 2012 0 Comments
Bradley Cooper is the latest actor supposedly considering starring in Clint Eastwood‘s remake of A Star is Born. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cooper is mulling over the opportunity to appear opposite Beyoncé Knowles in the flick. Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Eminem, Russell Crowe and even Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z have all been rumoured at one time or another to be in consideration […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Jack Reacher
July 4, 2012 1 Comment
It’s been a big week for Tom Cruise. He turned 50 … some other stuff happened … and now the trailer for his new action flick Jack Reacher has debuted online. Originally titled One Shot, the picture is based on Lee Child’s crime series. Cruise stars as Jack Reacher, former military police and current vigilante. The trailer implies […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Master
June 20, 2012 0 Comments
A second teaser trailer for one of the year’s most exciting films, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master, has arrived. In the previous clip, we saw a mysterious character played by Joaquin Phoenix interrogated about a past he either didn’t remember or was lying about. Now, we get to see Philip Seymour Hoffman as the eponymous master; an […]
Continue readingCan’t fight this feeling – Rock of Ages review
June 13, 2012 0 Comments
Rock of Ages – Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, and Tom Cruise. Directed by Adam Shankman. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Doomed to be labelled ‘Glee with a Hollywood budget on crack’, Adam Shankman (Hairspray) ineptly directs this all-star adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages. Set in 1986 on Los Angeles’ rock […]
Continue readingThe top 10 celebrity comebacks
June 1, 2012 1 Comment
Top 10 celebrity comebacks. By Simon Miraudo. Third time’s the charm? Mel Gibson tries to resurrect his flailing career once more this week in Get the Gringo. His previous efforts – The Beaver and Edge of Darkness – were roundly rejected by audiences who were more entertained/horrified by his off-screen exploits (which, surely, you don’t […]
Continue readingTom Cruise attached to Magnificent Seven remake
May 24, 2012 0 Comments
Tom Cruise is reported to be attached to the MGM remake of the legendary Western The Magnificent Seven, according to Variety. Director John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven was a 1960 remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, transporting the story from Japan to America and establishing itself as a classic in its own right. MGM is […]
Continue readingTom Cruise “had issues” with The Master
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday we saw the first bit of footage from Paul Thomas Anderson‘s not-so-secret Scientology parable The Master, which concerns the rise of a cult-like religion in post-war America. According to The Wrap, Anderson showed the film to his Magnolia star – and famed Scientologist – Tom Cruise with the intention of preventing conflict with the controversial church. Two sources […]
Continue readingTom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. eyed for El Presidente
May 16, 2012 0 Comments
Jay Roach might direct El Presidente for Warner Bros, based on a script from Parks and Recreation‘s Dan Goor. According to Vulture, the project concerns a demoted Secret Service agent stuck defending America’s worst former president, described as “a bumbling sleaze.” Tom Cruise is being eyed for the part of the agent, while Robert Downey Jr. is wanted to […]
Continue readingTom Cruise takes on Van Helsing
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
Tom Cruise is attached to star in a new Van Helsing movie, scripted by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers). According to Variety, the project is part of a new two-year deal Kurtzman and Orci signed at Universal. They are now also involved in the studio’s remake of The Mummy. Cruise will produce […]
Continue readingEmily Blunt joins Tom Cruise for Kill
April 17, 2012 0 Comments
Emily Blunt will star opposite Tom Cruise in Doug Liman‘s anime adaptation All You Need Is Kill, Variety reports. The rights to Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s comic – about “a young Army recruit who, despite being killed in the first day of intergalactic alien invasion of Earth, is continually resurrected Groundhog Day–style” – were picked up for seven-figures in 2010. Blunt will likely play The […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Rock of Ages
April 4, 2012 1 Comment
The new trailer for Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages is bad; there’s no nice way of saying it. While Tom Cruise fans (there must be some of them out there) will be happy to get a glimpse of him as Stacee Jaxx rocking out a Bon Jovi tune on stage, the remainder of the trailer […]
Continue readingTom Cruise in talks for A Star is Born
March 12, 2012 0 Comments
Tom Cruise might play an ageing superstar opposite Beyoncé Knowles‘ up-and-comer in Clint Eastwood‘s remake (of a remake of a remake) of A Star is Born. According to Deadline, Cruise is in talks with Eastwood and Warner Bros about taking on the part. Will Smith, Christian Bale, Eminem, Russell Crowe, and even Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z have all been rumoured at one time […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Rock of Ages
December 14, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for Adam Shankman‘s adaptation of the Broadway jukebox musical Rock of Ages has arrived online. See: Tom Cruise as rocker Stacee Jaxx signing breasts; Malin Akerman as a buttoned-down music journalist turned sex-vixen; Catherine Zeta-Jones‘ screeching, right-wing, ‘think of the children’ mum decrying rock and roll. This thing could be kind of fun. […]
Continue readingInterview: Brad Bird (director of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol)
December 14, 2011 1 Comment
Interview: Brad Bird (director of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol). By Simon Miraudo. Though his name may not be as iconic as Steven Spielberg’s, or as ubiquitous as Mission: Impossible producer J.J. Abrams’, director Brad Bird has one of the best batting averages in the biz. Having spent a number of years writing and directing for […]
Continue readingChoose to accept – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol review
December 13, 2011 0 Comments
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg. Directed by Brad Bird. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The Mission: Impossible franchise is one of the most uneven in cinematic history, with the quality wildly fluctuating from one instalment to the next. The Brian De Palma-directed opener was promising, if deeply […]
Continue readingTom Cruise and Tony Scott are still working on Top Gun 2
December 9, 2011 1 Comment
It’s been a while since we’ve heard any news regarding the sequel to Top Gun, but Tom Cruise has revealed the wheels are still in motion while promoting Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. Speaking with MTV, Cruise said that he remains in talks with confirmed director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer about Top Gun 2. […]
Continue readingTom Cruise is eager to Kill
December 2, 2011 1 Comment
Tom Cruise looks set to take on the starring role in Warner Bros’ adaptation of the anime All You Need is Kill, Deadline reports. Brad Pitt was previously eyed for project, but it seems his busy schedule means the role is ripe for Cruise’s taking. Doug Liman will direct the project, first scripted by Dante […]
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