Now Angelina Jolie Doesn’t Want To Make Edwin A. Salt?
Not too very long ago I told you how the once-set-to-star-Tom Cruise film Edwin A. Salt was going to get a complete makeover so that Angelina Jolie could play the title character. Well, now it seems that all the rewrite work may be for naught as Angelina may not be making the movie after all.
Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi Developing Sleeper
With Tom Cruise getting tremendous reviews for his short work in Tropic Thunder, he’s using the attention to announce several new projects. In fact, he’s announced three projects in just the last two weeks. The latest is an adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic, Sleeper, which Sam Raimi is producing with an eye on Cruise for the starring role.
Movie Review: Tropic Thunder (2008) by Jason
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Valkyrie Gets A New Release Date
The Bryan Singer film, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise has gotten another release date. If you’ll recall the film was originally supposed to come out in October. That release date was pushed back to 2009 which everyone took to mean the studio didn’t think the film had the chops to compete for an Oscar. Well, now it’s gotten another release date.
Angelina Jolie To Play Edwin A. Salt Instead of Cruise
I’ve been reporting the ups and downs of the film project known as Edwin A. Salt for a while now. However, I haven’t reported anything quite as strange as this news. Apparently, Tom Cruise has exited the project and Angelina Jolie has stepped in - to play Edwin A. Salt himself.
Philip Noyce Sets His Eye On Captain Blood Remake
First we hear that Philip Noyce wants to bring Jack Ryan back to the big screen. Then he’s in business with Tom Cruise prepping The 28th Amendment for the big screen. Next thing we know, he and Cruise are both off of that film and knee deep in Edwin A. Salt. Now we hear that Noyce may be dropping Salt for a Captain Blood remake. Sounds like this guy has a little bit of the Quentin Tarantino syndrome.
Maverick, say it aint so: A Top Gun sequel?
According to rumored reports, Tom Cruise is the only hold up for a sequel to the hit fighter-pilot film, Top Gun.
Sadly there are no additional rumors about this being a total joke. Because really, isn’t that what it is?
Now, don’t get me wrong, this would probably make a bunch of cash and possibly restore Cruise’s fractured public image. Maybe.
But is there no movie we hold sacred anymore that filmmakers wont screw up by adding a sequel?
Cruise and Noyce Exiting “28th Amendment” for “Edwin A. Salt”?
A while back I reported that Tom Cruise was getting set to play the President and co-star with Denzel Washington in a political thriller called The 28th Amendment that Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger) would be directing. Well, scratch that.
Cruise Lining Up To Play President In “28th Amendment”
Tom Cruise is in talks to join the new new Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector) action thriller, 28th Amendment.
Cruise In Talks For “Mission: Impossible 4″
The way things have been going for Tom Cruise over the last couple of years it’s really no surprise that someone would revive talk about another Mission: Impossible film. Many thought the fight between Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone over at Viacom created a gulf too large to bridge between the two and that Cruise may never make another M:I movie. Those people didn’t do the math.
Tom Cruise’s Son Set To Play Young Will Smith In “Seven Pounds”
You read that right. Tom Cruise’s son, his adopted son, Connor, will be playing a young Will Smith in the emotional drama, Seven Pounds, due this December. Connor Cruise is the 13-year-old adopted (and black) son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. They got him back when Nicole was too busy to have a baby and you could still get kids in America (I’m guessing).
BSG Boss To Write Sci-Fi Trilogy For Cruise’s United Artists
Tom Cruise and business partner Paula Wagner who now run the United Artists studio under MGM have enlisted the executive producer of “Battlestar Galactica,� Ronald D. Moore, to create and write an original sci-fi trilogy for the studio. Details of the project are being kept under wraps.
“Valkyrie” Delayed Again
Tom Cruise’s WWII Hitler assassination plot film, Valkyrie, has been delayed yet again. Once set to be released during the Independence Day weekend of this year (blockbuster territory), the film’s release date was pushed back to October 3 (Oscar season) when it became apparent that the movie wouldn’t be finished in time due to some [...]
“Tropic Thunder” Full Trailer with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr.
Tropic Thunder is about a group of spoiled actors who think they’re filming a movie about the Vietnam war must fight for actual survival when their fed-up director and writer decide to dump them in the middle of a real war.
“Tropic Thunder” Teaser Trailer with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr.
In Ben Stiller’s first directed film since Zoolander, Stiller stars alongside Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. as a group of spoiled actors in Tropic Thunder. Through a series of freak occurrences, this group of actors, while shooting a big-budget war movie, are forced to actually become the soldiers they are portraying.
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