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Post by roxthefox on Nov 3, 2012 14:42:57 GMT -5
Warner Bros. is Courting Tom Cruise to appear in Clint Eastwood's A STAR IS BORNTom Cruise ended 2011 on a high note with Brad Bird’s very successful Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. And he seems to be losing himself in his character in the movie adaptation of the hit musical Rock of Ages. Which is a good sign because the last time he lost himself in his character (Les Grossman), audiences were completely caught off guard. Now Tom Cruise being courted to appear in Clint Eastwood’s recently revived project A Star is Born. According to Deadline, Warner Bros wants Cruise to appear as the lead in Eastwood’s movie about “an over the hill musician who helps launch the star of an ingénue he falls in love with. Variety says that there are no formal negotiations, Just that the movie studio is talking to Cruise. There are two things to note. First, this is a movie that Eastwood has been working on for quite some time and was ready to shoot before its headline star, Beyonce, got pregnant. Nine months after, the film is a gone once more. The second thing to consider is that the schedule weighs heavily on Cruise decision to appear in the movie. For one thing, he has to work on Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion starts shooting next week, with All You Need is Kill to follow. Seeing that Kill is a WB film and Eastwood’s tendency to have fast production shoots, its likely that Star could be shot in between Oblivion and Kill. fusedfilm.com YES YES YES YES YES!! |
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Post by roxthefox on Nov 3, 2012 14:45:03 GMT -5
So I'm guessing this is not happening? Sad to see Tony Scott here  |
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Post by roxthefox on Nov 3, 2012 14:46:27 GMT -5
Paramount Closes Deal for ADAM Paramount Pictures has closed its deal to acquire Our Name Is Adam, the T.S. Nowlin script that will have Tom Cruise play an astronaut who travels back in time and works with his younger self. Paramount would step up and not waste the first crack it had on the material through its first look deal with Mary Parent’s Disruption. The studio stepped up after it secured Skydance Productions as its partner on the film. There was buzz on the project when it looked like other studios would get a shot at the material, but that pretty much ended when Paramount entered into an exclusive negotiation last Wednesday. SOURCE*Shakes head in dismay* |
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Post by architect on Nov 14, 2012 22:04:12 GMT -5
Hopefully ONE SHOT (it will always be called thus!) is successful enough that this doesn't come to pass but: Paramount Eyes Chris McQuarrie To Helm Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ After directing Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, Christopher McQuarrie is poised to take on the next installment of Cruise’s signature tentpole. I’m told that McQuarrie is the choice to helm the fifth Mission: Impossible film that is in the early stages of being put together by Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. They will hire writers before making it official, but he’s the guy that Cruise and JJ Abrams want.
The Mission: Impossible opportunity comes off the excitement that Paramount and Skydance are experiencing over Jack Reacher, which McQuarrie directed after adapting the script from the Lee Child novel One Shot. Cruise plays the title character, who in the books is a hulking former military cop who drifts around the country and always ends up unraveling conspiracies with his intellect and oversized fists. While Cruise doesn’t match Reacher’s size, the author was the one who felt most strongly that Cruise was the right guy for the job. After seeing Cruise’s work playing killers in Ghost Protocol and Michael Mann’s Collateral, I don’t doubt Child’s judgment. Paramount and Skydance are hoping it leads to another franchise. The film opens December 21. SOURCE |
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Post by serin on Nov 18, 2012 6:58:55 GMT -5
Christopher McQuarrie Top Choice to Direct MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5 by Adam Chitwood Posted: November 14th, 2012 at 9:48 am Fresh off the smashing success of last year’s Brad Bird-helmed Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, it appears that Paramount and Tom Cruise are eager to get things moving on the fifth entry in the franchise. The template of the series has always been that a new director steps in each time and puts a new spin on the espionage-centered conceit, and it looks as though the director of the next entry will indeed be someone new to the franchise: Christopher McQuarrie. Hit the jump for more. Per Deadline, Cruise and producer J.J. Abrams are keen on bringing in McQuarrie to helm the next installment of the franchise. McQuarrie and Cruise have been close collaborators for years, as he’s penned the screenplays for Valkyrie, the upcoming All You Need Is Kill, and the now-defunct Top Gun 2, and he recently directed Cruise in the book series adaptation Jack Reacher. That film doesn’t open until this December, but apparently Cruise and Abrams are very happy with the results as they’ve settled on McQuarrie as their guy for Mission: Impossible 5. Screenwriters will be brought on to the project before McQuarrie is officially set as the director, but M:I 5 is a top priority for Paramount after the nearly $700 million worldwide gross of Ghost Protocol. Bird delivered what is arguably the best entry in the franchise to date, so McQuarrie has some big shoes to fill. He did some uncredited screenplay work on Ghost Protocol and penned the upcoming actioner The Wolverine, so he’s not a stranger to crafting big budget material. It’s tough to judge whether McQuarrie is a good fit for the franchise given that his only other directorial work is the 2000 film The Way of the Gun, but we’ll have a better idea of what to expect once Jack Reacher hits theaters next month. McQuarrie is also developing an adaptation of the Jack Ryan spinoff Without Remorse for Paramount as well, but one assumes Mission: Impossible 5 takes precedence over that property. Collider  |
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Post by roxthefox on Nov 27, 2012 10:54:05 GMT -5
So I'm guessing that action films is all we'll see Tom in going forward, eh?
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Post by serin on Dec 3, 2012 4:29:28 GMT -5
Chris McQuarrie Talks M:I-5 & Beyond
Garth Franklin - Monday December 3rd 2012 I attended a small roundtable with writer/director and Hollywood's famous go-to scribe Christopher McQuarrie earlier this afternoon to talk about "Jack Reacher," an adaptation of Lee Child's "One Shot". During the conversation Graffiti with Punctuation asked about the status of "Mission: Impossible 5" and if he saw anything from "The Wolverine." I followed that up with a question listing a half dozen projects McQuarrie's name has been attached to over recent years and I asked what the status of each was. Here's his answers for all of them: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5With "Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol" director Brad Bird confirmed to not be returning, McQuarrie's name became attached as a possible director for a fifth "Mission: Impossible" a few weeks ago following word that Paramount was very pleased with the work he had done on 'Reacher'. McQuarrie happily confirmed the talk, albeit admitting it is extremely early days yet: "We’ve just started talking about it. He [Tom Cruise] is very busy with 'All You Need is Kill', JJ [Abrams] is very busy with 'Star Trek Into Darkness', I’m busy promoting this movie. Obviously, I love working with him [Cruise] and would love to do it, it’s daunting in that I would have to follow Brad Bird… you know, the biggest movie of the genre. At the same time that’s kinda what I like about it, I like to come from a place of lowered expectation and I have to imagine that when they find out a filmmaker like me who feels, as someone put it earlier today 'street level'… between 'Way of the Gun' and 'Reacher' and movies like that, I have to imagine that when it becomes real people’s expectations could not be any lower. You can read the rest ere : www.darkhorizons.com/news/25682/chris-mcquarrie-talks-m-i-5-beyond
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Post by architect on Mar 18, 2013 22:29:57 GMT -5
Grist for the mill: Tom Cruise Eyeing ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Warner Bros may have finally found its The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I’m hearing that Tom Cruise is in early talks to star in the film that will be directed by Sherlock Holmes helmer Guy Ritchie. The original TV series ran from 1964-68, with Robert Vaughan and David McCallum playing Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. With gadgets and their wits and charm, they fought the evil forces of Thrush. Warner Bros has long been high on the project, especially when the studio had Steven Soderbergh ready to direct George Clooney in the lead. The actor dropped out because he needed surgery on his neck and back, and he wasn’t up for a physical role. After Soderbergh departed, the studio turned the project over to Ritchie.
If this happens, it would give Cruise another shot at a franchise. He already has Mission: Impossible, which has another installment being developed by Christopher McQuarrie to direct, and I’m told that he will reprise the Jack Reacher role from Lee Child’s books, after the $60 million-budget Jack Reacher grossed more than $215 million worldwide for Paramount and Skydance. Warner Bros began quiet talks with Cruise after he completed All You Need Is Kill with director Doug Liman, which must have turned out pretty strong. SOURCE |
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Post by serin on Mar 20, 2013 12:48:35 GMT -5
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’
sounds interesting.. If Tom signs, he will have a side-kick..Pls let it not be the dull Jeremy Renner. ;D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the new banner..Appropriately Grey, gloomy .. 
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Post by roxthefox on Mar 29, 2013 17:27:03 GMT -5
Oh man, all of these sound terrible. Cruise was known to work with the best directors in Hollywood, but I guess those days are long gone? Nothing other than Oblivious has excited me in the past few years.
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Post by serin on Apr 9, 2013 10:29:03 GMT -5
Rox.. He chooses those films, he wants to make them.. He can hiire any director he wants for his films..Read this:
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Tom Cruise confirms Mission Impossible 5 is in the works
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has revealed that a fifth ‘Mission: Impossible’ film is in the works. Cruise confirmed the planned sequel during an appearance on The Graham Norton show, reported Digital Spy. He replied when asked about the series: “I am working on the story”, reports Hindustan Times.
However, he declined to give any more details. Cruise had said in October that he would be keen to make another ‘Mission: Impossible’ film. “I started Mission: Impossible hoping I could make many of them. It’s a character that I can grow with. At that time it was the most expensive film in the history of Paramount Pictures, and the first film I was producing.
“It’s been pretty exciting. Seeing an audience respond? to have that experience is really wonderful. I’ll make a bunch of those. I’ll make as many as people want to see... because they’re very challenging, and so much fun to make,” he had said. The actor also said that he “still felt good” about doing action roles, despite turning 50 last year. The last ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ released in 2011.
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Post by architect on Apr 15, 2013 20:38:13 GMT -5
Tom Cruise Stays In Sci-Fi With Warner Bros’ ‘Yukikaze’ With a $61 million opening weekend overseas on Universal Pictures’ Oblivion, who could blame Tom Cruise for wanting to stay in science fiction mode? He’s just made a deal to become attached to star in Yukikaze, a big-scale film based on a series of Japanese sci-fi novels by Chohel Kamayashi. Warner Bros acquired the novel series and will finance and distribute. The author has been called Japan’s answer to Isaac Asimov, and the film will be produced by 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff and Tom Lassally, who developed and produced the sci-fi film All You Need Is Kill that Cruise starred in for Warner Bros and director Doug Liman. Viz Media’s Jason Hoffs will also be producing.
Yukikaze unfolds in the early 21st Century, three decades after the alien force JAM invaded earth through a dimensional porthole that appeared over Antarctica. While humans beat back the attack, they form a special combat force to eradicate the alien threat on its home planet. SOURCE |
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Post by serin on May 5, 2013 4:22:08 GMT -5
‘Lone Ranger’ Armie Hammer To Star With Tom Cruise In ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’
 By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 24, 2013 EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer, who plays the title character opposite Johnny Depp in the Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger for Disney, is set to star with Tom Cruise in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros. The original TV series ran from 1964-68, with Robert Vaughan and David McCallum playing Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. With gadgets and their wits and charm, they fought the evil forces of Thrush. Warner Bros has long been high on the project, especially when the studio had Steven Soderbergh ready to direct George Clooney in the lead. The actor dropped out because he needed surgery on his neck and back, and he wasn’t up for a physical role. After Soderbergh departed, the studio turned the project over to Ritchie and his producing partner Lionel Wigram. John Davis is also producing. Hammer would play a version of the role originated by McCallum, an NCIS regular who strangely doesn’t seemed to have aged since the ’60s. Hammer, who’s repped by WME and attorney Harris Hartman, is making his bid to be one of those up-and-comer leading men and getting on the ground floor of a franchise with Cruise and Ritchie certainly seems like a smart move from here. Deadline
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Post by serin on May 5, 2013 4:25:44 GMT -5
Yukikaze  Another sci fi.. So be it.. That's what he wants.. But I dont receive good vibes from ALL YOU NEED IS KILL..  *
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Post by architect on May 6, 2013 21:16:29 GMT -5
Surprise! Tom Cruise Signs Deal To Star In ‘Mission: Impossible 5′ Ethan Hunt has accepted another mission. Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have set Tom Cruise in a deal to star in and produce a fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Both Paramount and Skydance have confirmed this, but they are not saying who’s writing and directing, or when they are targeting release. I’ve heard all along that the director will be Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise’s frequent collaborator who most recently wrote and directed Jack Reacher, the adaptation of the Lee Child novels that starred Cruise. The writer/director will be finalized shortly, and that person will develop the next installment with Cruise and JJ Abrams‘ Bad Robot. Abrams directed the third film in the series and he and Cruise reignited the franchise by hatching the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol, a film that added Jeremy Renner to the mix and saw Cruise sky-walking across the exterior glass 124 floors up on a skyscraper in Dubai. That film had a $145 million budget and a worldwide gross of nearly $700 million, the most a Cruise film has ever done.
Nobody works harder on the set or in promoting these films than Cruise. When I interviewed him for Playboy last year, Cruise confessed that early in his career, he begged studios to let him promote around the globe, and it was mainly because he wanted to travel and see all the places in the world he’d observed in movies. Back then, studios were mostly concerned with domestic ticket sales and it was always a discussion. He got his way and would take a couple of days in each country between interviews to see the sights. It had a profound impact on global ticket sales and became a template for how other globally successful stars like Will Smith conducted themselves and you could see the difference between the overseas grosses of the actors who took part, and others who had to be dragged out of the country kicking and screaming. Studios now beg actors like Cruise to stump in every major territory possible. So is Cruise still viable? Mark me down as a yes, absolutely SOURCE |
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