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  Tom Cruise / The Last Samurai Interview
Cruise is now on a mission to sell his latest film, The Last Samurai, set in 1876, in which he plays a tormented soldier, who had fought in both the American Civil War and Indian Wars, battles that have left him emotionally crippled.
Cruise is an actor with a reputation of taking his work seriously and that was especially true of The Last Samurai, which he worked on for close to three years.
Cruise admits to have had serious doubts as to whether he was able to take on one of the most physically and emotionally daunting films of his career.
www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/TCruiseSamurai/TCruiseSamurai.html   (1530 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | No more Mr Nice Guy
Cruise joined Scientology, the controversial church of religion and life philosophy started by L Ron Hubbard, after church courses helped him overcome his dyslexia in the Eighties; he was followed, one by one, by his three sisters.
Cruise is a dedicated student of the action hero disciplines: he wants to gain competence, he says, at rock-climbing and flying; he is loath to use a stunt double, preferring instead to spend months training in swordplay, Nascar racing and bike riding for films.
Cruise currently lives in Los Angeles with his sister Cass, her three children and, when they are with him, the two children he adopted with Nicole Kidman, Isabella, 12, and Connor, 9.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1302369,00.html   (3930 words)

  
 CNN.com - All smiles at Cruise film premiere - June 27, 2002
Cruise chatted with fans and posed for photographs during a walkabout outside the cinema in London's Leicester Square on Wednesday.
Cruise said his only problem was getting the people on the other end of the line to believe it was really him.
Cruise and his former wife, Nicola Kidman, previously spent months living in London when they filmed "Eyes Wide Shut," and the star said he was delighted to be back.
edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/27/cruise.london   (580 words)

  
 "Mission" Possible; Cruise Rolls - Jul 12, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Indeed, before Cruise took to his boat for the first-day shooting, he was spotted kissing his new fiancée, who stayed to watch the action from the banks of the Tiber River.
A prohibitively expensive budget kept the film on ice for a long stretch, but after Cruise agreed to cut back on the pricetag--which Paramount insiders said had ballooned to $185 million--the film ramped up preproduction in order to start shooting this month.
Cruise had hoped to roll cameras inside the famed dome, which draws thousand of tourists each year, but was denied his wish last year when the German Parliament nixed the idea.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,16926,00.html   (532 words)

  
 Cruise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cruise, a distinct stage of an aircraft's flight
Cruising, living on a ship or a boat and traveling for extended periods of time.
Tom Cruise, an American film actor and producer
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cruise   (104 words)

  
 Speed 2: Cruise Control
We are told that she has split up with the Keanu Reeves character from the earlier film and is now dating Alex (Jason Patric), who she thinks works as a beach patrol officer, but in reality is a member of the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team.
As the film opens, Annie and Alex meet in unlikely circumstances -- he is chasing computer thieves on his motorcycle during a SWAT team mission, while she is in her Jeep with her analyst (Tim Conway in a cameo), complaining about all of her problems as she drives around in an equally crazy manner.
Soon the pleasures of the cruise turn into a dire situation, as the engines are stopped, all navigation systems disabled, and the passengers are forced to evacuate the ship in life boats.
www.chucksconnection.com /speed2.html   (987 words)

  
 Disney Wonder Cruise Review by Scott Abrahams from Cruise Diva Linda Coffman's Cruise Planner
The films and film companions were great; the weather unfortunately was not so hot.
Disney Cruise Lines asked us to be at the terminal by 11 for a special lunch to follow on board just for our group, which numbered about 225.
The film is set in Chicago of 1976, and features an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family.
www.cruisediva.com /disney_wonder2.htm   (2511 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Cruise turns deadly in 'Collateral'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cruise readily drops the subject to resume discussing Hollywood matters, particularly his next project, a third "Mission: Impossible" movie.
Cruise also hopes to reteam with Mann for "The Few," a film biography of Billy Fiske, an American pilot who fought with the British before the United States' entry into World War II.
Cruise also is thinking ahead to his personal future after his three-year relationship with Penelope Cruz, his co-star in "Vanilla Sky," ended early this year.
www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/08/02/cruise_turns_deadly_in_collateral?pg=full   (1092 words)

  
 Million-dollar mediocrity - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Tom Cruise is on Oprah and he's so mad happy crazy in love with Katie Holmes he can't contain himself.
Cruise Control was the wordplay of choice for headline writers.
It will all be worth it if it results in a Tom Cruise film that reminds us of the great actor he once was and makes us forget about the celebrity pillock he has become.
www.theage.com.au /news/film/milliondollar-mediocrity/2006/05/03/1146335806855.html   (1673 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cruise film opens Urbanworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cruise plays a contract killer who hijacks Jamie Foxx's taxicab.
"Collateral is the perfect film to open this year's Urbanworld," festival founder Stacy Spikes said in a statement Monday.
6/23/2004 11:37 AM "Collateral is the perfect film to open this year's Urbanworld," festival founder Stacy Spikes.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-06-23-cruise-urbanworld_x.htm   (224 words)

  
 Transcript - Cruise control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The message struck a chord with the young Cruise at a time when he was struggling with dyslexia.
But this is something new — Tom Cruise's office has asked me to come to the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles to embark on a four-hour crash course in Scientology and what it's all about.
Cruise's wealth is estimated at $450 million and his 10 percent take from War of the Worlds could add another $100 million.
sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au /sixtyminutes/stories/2005_06_05/story_1403.asp   (1936 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Focus: What's eating Tom Cruise?
At the forefront of their worries were stories of the actor proselytising for the Florida-based Church of Scientology on the set of War of the Worlds, the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, adapted from HG Wells's story, which is due out in Britain on 1 July.
Cruise's behaviour is drawing attention precisely because control is the hallmark of his career.
During their divorce Cruise successfully sued a gay porn star who wrongly claimed to the French magazine Actustar to have had a gay fling with Cruise.
film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1499693,00.html   (1518 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Arts - Quiz - Maverick
Lately, though, it seems like Cruise the actor has taken a backseat to Cruise the man, holder of a zany personal life and lively promoter of the Church of Scientology.
Cruise’s promotional efforts for last summer’s War of the Worlds — highlighted by an infamous couch-hopping appearance on Oprah — might have dented his popularity, but he remains a boffo box office draw.
Tom Cruise is the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that topped $100 million US at the domestic box office.
www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?quiz=arts_cruise   (550 words)

  
 collateral
The last Tom Cruise film I reviewed was The Last Samurai, which, with the backdrop of 19th century Japan, and crafted by the grand master of epics (Edward Zwick), was definitely one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen.
The look of this film is a benchmark and quite possibly a turning point in film history, as more directors will begin to realise the value of new technology such as HD digital, especially for shooting at night.
You may all disagree with this, but recently I formed the opinion that Tom Cruise is the greatest actor of his generation, and one of the greatest the world has ever seen.
www.geocities.com /adamforfilm/collateral.html   (421 words)

  
 Deadly serious Cruise - Film - www.smh.com.au
Collateral is a reminder that Cruise has more depth and willingness to go to dark places than his heroic turns would imply.
But, as Cruise points out, it's not like everyone he's played before is a candidate for sainthood.
Cruise has not yet settled on a new director, and shooting, which was supposed to begin in early autumn, has been delayed for at least a few weeks.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/03/1091476485875.html   (1078 words)

  
 RTE.ie Entertainment - New Cruise film tops US box office
Tom Cruise's new film, the thriller 'Collateral', topped the US charts at the weekend, with a box office take of $24.4m.
The figure, while in line with Cruise's 'The Last Samurai' ($24.3m) and 'Vanilla Sky' ($25m), is the second smallest summer opening, behind 'Fahrenheit 9/11', which took $23.9m.
Directed by Michael Mann ('Ali', 'Heat'), 'Collateral' sees Cruise cast against type as a hitman who forces a taxi driver (Jamie Foxx) to ferry him around a series of contract killings over the course of one night.
www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0809/cruiset.html   (104 words)

  
 channel4.com/film - Tom Cruise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tom Cruise Mapother IV was born in 1962 in Syracuse, New York.
A troubled childhood led to a year in a Franciscan monastery at the age of 14, and he took up acting after an injury put paid to his high school wrestling ambitions.
By 1983 he was a lead actor and after famously saucing Rebecca de Mornay (on the train, on the stairs and on his dad's leather chair) in classic 80s hit Risky Business, he hit the superstar league as Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in Top Gun.
channel4.com /film/reviews/person.jsp?id=13185   (162 words)

  
 Disney Cruise Line - Cruisemates Reader's Cruise Reviews
In fact, our cruise began about 10 hours after a space shuttle launch was canceled because it was so cold early that morning - between 30 and 35 degrees.
In a nice touch, the 8 by 10 photos were delivered to our cabins on the last night of the cruise, complements of the film cruise.
To entice people to see the film, the only "Disney" film in the film cruise, Ebert and Roeper enticed the director, Pete Doctor, to give a talk afterward.
www.cruisemates.com /articles/memreviews/disney/wonder7.cfm   (2405 words)

  
 ABC News: After Scoffing at Rumors, Cruise Pops the Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cruise's happiness presumably soared to astronomical new heights today in Paris, when he made his big announcement.
The timing of the relationship, which dovetails perfectly with both of their summer movie premieres, has sparked more than a little suspicion that Hollywood's hottest couple is squeezing their relationship for all its promotional value.
On a press tour for "Minority Report," Cruise's publicist began interviews saying that Cruise would not take questions on Penelope Cruz, the woman he was dating at the time, or his divorce.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/story?id=858211&page=1   (437 words)

  
 Birthday boy Cruise - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Tom Cruise celebrated his 43rd birthday today atop the holiday box office in North America with War of the Worlds, the costly alien-invasion thriller directed by Steven Spielberg.
The film sold $US101.7 million ($A133.32 million) worth of tickets during its first five days of release, distributor Paramount Pictures said today, a solid number but far short of the record $US152 million ($A199.27 million) that Spider-Man 2 earned during the same time frame of last year's US Independence Day holiday weekend.
Cruise plays a blue-collar worker who flees with his two children from aliens who are destroying everything in their path.
www.theage.com.au /news/film/birthday-boy-cruise/2005/07/04/1120329358148.html   (441 words)

  
 Vanilla Sky Review Movie Review Film Vanilla Sky: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, Kurt Russell; ...
In the new Cameron Crowe film "Vanilla Sky" the issues of the mind, and its myriad of perceptions comes to the forefront of larger issues against a backdrop of a life gone out of control.
Cruise is unsympathetic in the role of David, as the audience never cares about his character, as despite everything, he remains the same self-centered individual throughout the film.
Cruise is getting too old to play the pretty boy roles and his range of expression in the film is limited to a frustrated scream and a pseudo calm delivery that sounds like he is trying to deliver his lines as fast as he can in some scenes.
www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/162.html   (1674 words)

  
 U-Daily Bulletin - GOSSIP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tom Cruise criticized NBC "Today" show host Matt Lauer on Friday when Lauer mentioned Cruise's earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants.
Cruise told Lauer he didn't know what he was talking about.
Cruise, 42, and Holmes, 26, went public with their romance in April, smooching and posing for photographers in Rome.
u.dailybulletin.com /Stories/0,1413,212~23477~2937526,00.html   (391 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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UK Catholics and members of Opus Dei have formed a group to respond to the negative impact the Da Vinci Code film is expected to bring.
Film Hollywood, indie, foreign films and more - MSN takes you to the movies.
www.technorati.com /tag/film   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Vanilla Sky: DVD: Tom Cruise,Penélope Cruz,Cameron Diaz,Kurt Russell,Jason Lee,Noah Taylor,Timothy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty.
Tom Cruise plays a magazine-empire heir who lives in the Dakota and works (apparently) in the Condé Nast building-he's a playboy publisher splitting his time between Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz (who re-creates her role from the original as a tempestuous free spirit).
The film is basically all a blur from start to finish, it's a dreadful mix of sci-fi nonsense and obvious fake romance.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JKMZ?v=glance   (2471 words)

  
 'Mission Impossible' cast reacts to Cruise baby news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
That was the case Wednesday as cast members of the new Tom Cruise film "Mission: Impossible III" did what they could to talk up their movie in the wake of the arrival of the baby girl delivered by actress Katie Holmes on Tuesday.
Cruise canceled interviews late Tuesday with the media because of the birth.
The film's co-stars said they were happy for the new parents.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/20/entertainment/e013203D14.DTL   (408 words)

  
 Mission: Impossible 2
The MPAA says the film has received a PG-13 rating for "intense sequences of violent action and some sensuality." It was supposedly the sequences of violent action, and not the sensuality, that slowed the process.
In the John Woo-directed film, Gleeson will play an upper-class British industrialist a la Rupert Murdoch who is charming on the surface but the opposite underneath.
The studio would not discuss the reasons for the delay, but insisted that the film was moving ahead as planned and is expected to begin production at the end of March or beginning of April.
www.movie-page.com /1999/MissionImpossible2.htm   (1029 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cruise starts shooting film in Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fans looked on from a bridge near Castel Sant'Angelo as the star sped under them to film the third installment in the action-adventure series, which is a remake of a popular 1960s TV show.
The boats that usually ship locals and tourists along the river, as well as all other traffic, were barred from the historic waterway for the day, said Battelli di Roma, a company running ferries on the Tiber.
After filming a motorboat chase on the Tiber, shooting will move near St. Peter's Square and in the area around the Trevi Fountain, La Repubblica daily said.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2005-07-12-cruise-mi3_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (359 words)

  
 Never the bride?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tom Cruise is considered to be the lucky charm at the Oscars by many in Hollywood, including producers, actors, photographers and screenplay writers.
A Tom Cruise film thus guarantees both a box-office success and a string of Oscar nominations.
I remember a TV interview of Spielberg and Cruise together in which the chemistry between the two was so palpable it was amazing.
www.chennaionline.com /specials/oscar/spotlight/tomcruise.asp   (735 words)

  
 Tom Cruise Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Costa Cruises has just released its programme to December 2006 featuring a new ship, new itineraries and child prices that have been almost halved.
The most exciting new feature is the introduction of the 112,000-ton Costa Concordia which, when launched in July, will rank as the biggest ship in Italian maritime history with total capacity for 3,800 passengers.
The Island Star joins Island Cruises for 2006 from her previous life as the Horizon, a much-loved ship in the Celebrity Cruises fleet.
tom-cruise-film.cruise-vacations.co.uk   (389 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Tom Cruise Considered by Blogcritics
Tom Cruise appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning because he was in the neighborhood and has a movie coming out and is in love and stuff.
Shrugging off concerns that Tom Cruise is a deranged Scientologist whose proclamations of cataclysmic love for young Katie Holmes on Oprah and elsewhere were either unhinged or improbable, new Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad Grey announced yesterday that Mission:...
The Last Samurai is a Tom Cruise film about a hero of the American west being hired by the Emperor of Japan to train his imperial military for the purpose of suppressing a Samurai rebellion, and bringing Japan into the...
blogcritics.org /archives/2005/06/20/110218.php   (4911 words)

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