Hi everyone!

This is a post to explain what’s going on lately. I know I’ve been absent from the site. A lot of stuff going on in my personal life, my work and my health.

I have not lost interest in Tom’s career but I cant keep the site as update as it was at this moment. I have in the past put my own health aside to keep working, but it’s just something I cannot do right now.
In the past few months I have twisted my ankle twice (and earning a nice cast), and I’ve got a back problem right which I cannot be sitting down as much.
I’ve also had legal issues with the site, problems with pictures I had posted, I’ll not get into details about this.

I understand that Chantal is disappointed at me. I’m disappointed at myself, but I either get myself together or do a lousy job, and I never liked doing things halfway. She’s been the best co-web I’ve ever had and I’ probably scared her away with my own problems.

I am NOT closing the site. I am NOT giving it away. I’m trying to get new co-webs, Hayley will be joining us soon (if she still wants it). I’m just asking you guys to be a little more patient with me. I know I may not deserve it, but I hope you guys dont forget this has been the biggest site of Tom and it’s been open since 2001.

Today is Tom’s birthday and I’d like to wish him a very happy birthday and all the joys!

Hi everybody,

As you might know I’ve put a lot of energy in the site for years. For quite some time now I’ve been frustrated about not being able to give you as fans everything you deserve and expect from a Tom Cruise fan site. I had hoped we would have had a new moderator by now who could help us out, Mina and I have tried to get her on board for quite some time now. Unfortunately we haven’t succeeded (yet?) but this means another disappointment for you and for us and still no improvement.

To be honest I really don’t know how I can inspire you all to keep coming here. It seems almost impossible to be proud of this site anymore. We used to be the best and lately all I feel is frustration about the lack of updates and disappointing all of you. I’m the kind of girl who goes all the way for a cause, so seeing this site deteriorate after working on it for so many years is hard to watch. It hurts, but I can’t change it on my own. I need help. Since there still isn’t any, after so many months of frustration about it and trying to come up with stuff to make things better, I almost feel I can’t do anything else than to quit the site for now. I hope to be back with good news but there’s no use in updating once a week or once a month and missing out on stuff we could have informed you about. What’s the use when fans who are searching for daily updates and don’t find that here are long gone to look elsewhere?

So with a lot of pain in my heart I hereby let you know that I’m officially taking a break from updating, with hopes things will get better. I don’t want to leave, so if you feel there’s still a chance and it isn’t useless to keep uploading news because you still care, please let me know. You can leave a comment and/or contact me at Chantal.TomCruiseFan@gmail.com.

I am sorry about this but I feel you deserve to know what’s going on and I don’t want to keep disappointing you with the lack of updates. I stand for more. I hope we can revive this site more, so please don’t leave us entirely behind… if you considered leaving . I still have a little faith we will be back and will be the best Tom Cruise Fan site there is!

Love, Chantal

It wasn’t just any old ceremony when Cameron Diaz got her star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame, it was a star-studded event: Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and sister Charlie’s Angels star Lucy Liu gathered with the hundred of fans who witnessed Diaz’s honor in front of the Egyptian Theater on Monday.

Diaz, whose My Sister’s Keeper opens Friday, credited her success to her parents and said, “I dedicate this star to the eternal love that my mom and dad shared. It was what has given me the strength and courage to live this extraordinary life, and it was that powers the light that burns inside of me, bright enough for me to be honored today with this star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”

Diaz, 36, is the 2,386th star to be so honored on the famed sidewalk. Her beloved father, Emilio Diaz, died in April 2008, at age 58. The actress’s mother, Billie, as well as her older sister, Chimene, also attended the ceremony.

Source: People.com

About being asked how it feels that Tom and others showed up to support her, Cameron responded that “it’s wonderful” and called them “an extension to my family”. To watch this, click here:

The day before, Tom took his son Connor to watch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. Click here to view pics…

Hey everybody,

I don’t want you to be left hanging out to dry, and I can imagine some of you are feeling a bit frustrated about the lack of updates lately. A few words from me about that.

First of all, I can only speak for myself but I can assure you I care about the site. The ones who have come here for many years know that I’ve done a lot for this site through the years, so you know I care. But things change, and my life has changed as well. I’m not the teenager with tons of time on my hands any more. I have a family and kids to take care of, they’re my no. 1 priority and be honest - you’d make them your no. 1 priority as well, right?! ;-D So that’s my reason for not being able to update that much any more.

Second, it’s clear that we could use moderators. So if you know any one, let us know! We need serious people who are die hard fans and know a bit about websites, uploading stuff, etc.

Last but not least, Please know that I’ve talked to Annie about all of this and she’ll get back to you soon - today if possible - hopefully to tell you some good news about TCF. Please hang on a little longer, people!

Greetz, Chantal

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise are back in business, agreeing to co-produce a fourth “Mission: Impossible” movie with a potential 2011 release date.

Abrams directed Cruise in the third installment of Paramount’s TV-derived franchise, which grossed $395 million worldwide in summer 2006.

But the future of the franchise was thrown into doubt — at least in terms of Cruise’s participation — when Viacom chief Sumner Redstone discontinued his studio’s long relationship with the star three months after the movie opened.

Relatively speaking, “M:i:3″ was a box-office disappointment, compared with the second film’s worldwide gross of $545 million and the original film’s take of $452 million.

Abrams recently rebooted a moribund franchise by taking it back to its beginnings with a bunch of young, relatively unknown actors. His “Star Trek,” released six weeks ago, has grossed $335 million worldwide so far.

Abrams is not on board to direct the new “Impossible,” and no writers have been hired to work on the fourth iteration of the franchise.

Source: Reuters

Cruise, Abrams to co-produce Paramount sequel

“Mission: Impossible IV,” which once seemed truly impossible, is taking shape at Paramount.
Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce the sequel, which is aimed at a 2011 release.

The return of Cruise to Par itself is surprising in view of the circumstances surrounding his departure in August 2006. Apparently irked by the heft of Cruise’s deal, among other issues, Viacom chief Sumner Redstone abruptly terminated the 14-year relationship between the star and the studio. Cruise’s then-CAA agent, Rick Nicita, termed Redstone’s decision “shockingly offensive and graceless.”

The rift led to Cruise becoming the chief of United Artists and taking a more active role in production decisions. Redstone, meanwhile, has sought to heal the relationship. At a recent appearance, he described the star as “a great actor and a good friend.”

The “Mission” installment would augment Paramount’s formidable array of sequels, which will include “Star Trek 2″ and a third “Transformers.”

Work on “Mission: Impossible IV” would inevitably be delayed by the busy schedules of the participants.

Abrams will be responsible for guiding the “Star Trek” sequel, while Cruise recently committed to an untitled pic (formerly called “Wichita”) for 20th Century Fox that will be directed by James Mangold and co-star Cameron Diaz.

Cruise and Denzel Washington are also awaiting a rewrite on the David Cronenberg-directed “The Matarese Circle,” the MGM thriller based on the Robert Ludlum novel.

Source: Variety

Star Trek and Lost overlord J.J. Abrams has been asked by Tom Cruise to be a producer on Mission: Impossible 4 according to the new issue of TV Guide:

(Source: TV Guide)

Katie Holmes has lashed out at “spiteful” rumours claiming that her marriage to Tom Cruise is on the rocks, insisting that “enough is enough”.

The 30-year-old actress declared: “Some of the stuff people have said is absolutely horrible. It is so disgusting and uncalled for.”

Last week, Hollywood rumour mill went into overdrive after an American magazine and internet stories claimed that the two-and-a-half year marriage is in turmoil and the couple are heading for divorce, reports The Daily Express.

However, Katie – who has just finished a new film, a comedy called The Extra Man and her stint in New York – is now back home in the couple’s Beverly Hills mansion with Cruise, 46, and Suri.
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Cruise pairs with Diaz on Fox pic

Tom Cruise is zeroing in on the 20th Century Fox action comedy, formerly titled “Wichita,” as his next star vehicle.
He’ll pair with Cameron Diaz in the James Mangold-directed film. That ends a serious courtship that the star had since January with some of the highest-profile projects in Hollywood.

According to sources, Cruise and Diaz have approved the script, and their deals are in advanced negotiations. While Fox has not officially dated the picture, sources said the studio is eyeing a summer 2010 release.

The script has been through many machinations, but the most recent drafts were done by Scott Frank, with Mangold currently fine-tuning the script with Laeta Kalogridis (”Shutter Island”). Two-hander has several action scenes.

Cruise will play a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman.

Todd Garner, Kathy Conrad, Steve Pink and Joe Roth are producing the pic.

Since the opening of “Valkyrie,” Cruise has been courted for and has shown serious interest in the Len Wiseman-directed DreamWorks thriller “Motorcade”; the Bharat Nalluri-directed Spyglass remake “The Tourist”; the David Cronenberg-directed MGM drama “The Matarese Circle”; the Universal/Working Title romantic comedy “Lost for Words”; and “The 28th Amendment,” the Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck-directed Warner Bros. thriller.

(Source: Variety)

Note from Chantal: Thanks Michelle and Charley for your comments. You were right, the former post here didn’t get the facts right. I’ve deleted that post and replaced it with the Variety story, which should have been posted in the first place. Apologies for that.

TIME.com has a list on Top 10 movie cratchphrases and Jerry Maguire’s “You Complete Me” is one of them:

The film: Tom Cruise stars as the titular down-on-his-luck sports agent trying to salvage his career by capitalizing on the good hands of Rob Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals.

The line: “Show me the money.”

The set-up: Said by Tidwell to Maguire, as Maguire frantically tries to keep Tidwell from switching to another agent. Actually, said might not be the right word. More like screamed—back and forth over the telephone for nearly a minute.

Source: Time.com

Tom Cruise says he’d try directing if he weren’t so busy with a different kind of off-camera project: parenting.

“It’s really about my kids,” explains Cruise, the father of three children, who says directing a film would be even more time-consuming than producing or performing.

“One day I will do it, but right now, I’m having so much fun as an actor,” Cruise says on AMC’s “Storymakers,” which airs Friday (10 p.m. EDT). The special is co-hosted by show-biz veterans Peter Bart and Peter Guber.

Other guests include Judd Apatow, Nick Cassavetes and Cameron Diaz.

(source:Associated press)

The remarkable yet seldom told true story of the German Resistance’s attempted coup and assassination of Adolf Hitler reveals itself when Valkyrie is released on Blu-ray Disc and Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy on May 19th from MGM Home Entertainment. Set in Nazi Germany, Valkyrie chronicles the daring and ingenious “July 20 plot” to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Oscar nominee Tom Cruise* (Mission Impossible, Minority Report) stars as the loyal German nationalist Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the mastermind behind the plot to kill Hitler and overthrow his fascist regime.

Convinced the Nazi leader must die at all costs, Stauffenberg joins with a group of similarly disillusioned officers and civilians whose like minds come together for a common purpose in the face of incredible odds. Directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects), Valkyrie boasts “…a top-notch international cast…” (Entertainment Weekly) including Academy Award-nominees Kenneth Branagh** (Hamlet, Henry V), Tom Wilkinson*** (Michael Clayton, In The Bedroom) and Terence Stamp (Get Smart; The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert), as well as Bill Nighy (The Constant Gardener, Love Actually) and Eddie Izzard (Ocean’s Thirteen, “The Riches”).

For its theatrical debut, Valkyrie was one of the biggest grossing box office adult movies of the past holiday season.

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Tom Cruise was listed the 4th on total box office revenue list .
Total box office revenue of his films: $2.79 billion

Total number of films*: 29

Average per film box office revenue: $96.4 million

Biggest box office smash: War of the Worlds - $234.3 million

(source:examiner)

You can already see the trailer: From the author who brought you Jason Bourne! And the visionary director who blew your mind with “Scanners” and broke your heart with “A History of Violence”! Tom Cruise…and Denzel Washington in…“The Matarese Circle”!!

It pretty much screams Hollywood blockbuster, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. For all the ink spilled in the trades and on the Internet over the adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, MGM has not yet green-lit the ‘Matarese’ project. In an exclusive interview with the man pegged to both write and direct, David Cronenberg revealed to MTV News that the movie, while still on track, is not yet a done deal—because there are neither contracts with the stars nor a final script in place.

“Nobody has signed on,” Cronenberg said. “The Hollywood is term is ‘attached.’ Nobody actually knows what that means. It’s a very abstract, almost religious concept.”

The bottom line, and why he’s certain the film will move foward, Cronenberg explained, is that “Denzel is very interested in the idea of doing a movie with Tom Cruise and with me. It will depend on him loving the script and then signing on. At the moment we don’t have a script that we’re ready to show.”

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Well, we can take one film off of Tom Cruise’s very long What Movie I Might Do Next list. The actor has bowed out of the Warner Bros. drama The 28th Amendment, to be directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others). In fact, Cruise was never officially attached to the film from Star Trek screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Evidently, his “discussions” were literally just discussions.

So the actor, who surprised with last year’s successful Valkyrie, is still deciding on his next starring vehicle. Sources say the two most likely projects are the MGM-produced Matarese Circle with Denzel Washington and director David Cronenberg, or Spyglass’ remake of The Tourist, scripted by Valkyrie writer Christopher McQuarrie, in which Cruise would star opposite Charlize Theron. He is also attached to DreamWorks’ Motorcade, with Len Wiseman directing. Sources have said that Cruise bowed out of this project, too, but DreamWorks confirmed Tuesday that it’s still on and in early script stages with writer Billy Ray (State of Play). The two Fox projects Cruise has attached his name to are also still developing. Wichita, opposite Cameron Diaz, is being rewritten by Scott Frank (The Lookout), and the studio just hired Ed Solomon to rewrite Hardy Men, in which Cruise would possibly star opposite Ben Stiller.

Source: Hollywood Insider

Rumor has it, Tom Cruise has revealed that a fourth ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie is in early stages and that he’s currently working on the story.

Speculation of another “Mission: Impossible” movie being developed has been broken out by the film series’ star Tom Cruise. Ain’t It Cool News reported that the depicter of I.M.F. point man Ethan Hunt suggested that he has started working on “Mission: Impossible 4″ while appearing on a popular Japanese program, SMAP SMAP.

Asked about the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, the 46-year-old fessed up that “he’s working on the story right now”. Not only that, he allegedly commented that he has been thinking on “how to stage a big action sequence in downtown Tokyo” following his visit to Japan. Still, it should be noted that despite Cruise’s remark, official announcement is yet to be released.

The last “Mission: Impossible” movie seen in theaters was “Mission: Impossible 3″. Released on May 5, 2006, it opened with $47.7 million bow on its first weekend in the U.S. and then continued to rake in the worldwide total of $397.9 million. While it received mostly average to positive critics, the action movie couldn’t top the earning of either “Mission: Impossible” or its first sequel, “Mission: Impossible 2″.

Source: AceShowBiz

Los Angeles (PTI): Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are said to reunite in an untitled romantic comedy after ‘Vanilla Sky,’ their last film together.

The new 20th Century Fox film revolves around a woman who has bad luck with men but finds her path intertwined with a mysterious handsome man she meets on a blind date, the Variety reported.

The untitled comedy which was formerly named as ‘Wichita’ and ‘Trouble Man’, is set to be directed by ‘Walk the Line’ director James Mangold.

Scott Frank, of ‘Minority Report’ and ‘Marley & Me,’ fame is reportedly rewriting the script for the film.

(source:hindu)

Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.

Academy Award-nominee Tom Cruise stars in Bryan Singer’s suspenseful WWII thriller based on the true story!

“VALKYRIE is a taut suspense flick for grown-ups…”
—Kyle Smith, New York Post

“X-MEN director Bryan Singer and his USUAL SUSPECTS screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie will keep you in the game… It’s the palm-sweating suspense that counts.”
—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“VALKYRIE is a meticulous thriller… The two best supporting performances are by Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Wilkinson, as a general who artfully plays both sides of the fence.”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Los Angeles, CA — The remarkable yet seldom told true story of the German Resistance’s attempted coup and assassination of Adolf Hitler reveals itself when VALKYRIE is released on Blu-ray Disc and Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy on May 19th from MGM Home Entertainment. Set in Nazi Germany, VALKYRIE chronicles the daring and ingenious “July 20 plot” to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Oscar-nominee Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible, Minority Report) stars as the loyal German nationalist Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the mastermind behind the plot to kill Hitler and overthrow his fascist regime.

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Katie Holmes has got one up on best pal Victoria Beckham - her child wins in the style stakes.

Suri, the actress’s daughter with hubby Tom Cruise, was named the best dressed celebrity child in a recent poll. The two-year-old beat Victoria and David’s kids Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz, leaving the boys in second place in the poll by kids clothing company Chatterpants.

Also on the list were Myleene Klass’s daughter Ava and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s ever-expanding brood. Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne made it into fourth place despite the fact Knox was recently seen sporting a flat cap to match his megastar dad’s.

Next on the list were Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s children Kingston and baby Zuma, who are often seen sporting bright colours to match their mum’s outlandish style.

Madonna’s children - Lourdes, Rocco and adopted son David -have to make do with sixth place, despite Lourdes having a wardrobe that would be the envy of girls twice her age.

It seems that no celebrity kid can match up to the exacting standards of Tom and Katie’s little princess Suri.

(Source: The Press Association)

Von Donnersmarck eyeing presidential drama

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is in talks to direct Warner Bros. drama “The 28th Amendment,” which has emerged as a strong contender to be one of Tom Cruise’s next star vehicles.
The German helmer hasn’t directed a film since his 2006 pic “The Lives of Others” won the foreign-language film Oscar, and he recently signed with UTA to move into Hollywood films.

According to sources, the filmmaker is in talks with the studio to make the movie with Cruise. “Star Trek” scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the duo that originated the project as a spec in 1999, are rewriting the script.

The drama revolves around a U.S. president who discovers the existence of a secret cabal that runs the government and wants him dead.

Basil Iwanyk and Richard Donner are producers.

Cruise had been mentioned as being keen on the movie last year, possibly to pair with Denzel Washington, but chatter on the film died down.

Cruise came off “Valkyrie” with an aggressive mission to find new projects — he is currently considering five different pictures for two potential 2009 slots — but “28th Amendment” recently emerged as a strong candidate, its chances helped by the highly regarded von Donnersmarck.

Among the other projects Cruise is considering is MGM’s “The Matarese Circle”; Spyglass’ “The Tourist”; DreamWorks’ “Motorcade”; Fox’s “Wichita”; and Universal/Working Title’s “Lost for Words.”

(Source: Variety)

Reuters calls it “a long-gestating Warner Bros. project about conspiracy and intimidation at the White House” and adds that:

“Amendment” has been described as “The Firm” set in the White House. Its premise is that for a good part of the 20th century, the president has been the puppet of a small, lethal gang that kills anyone who defies its wishes (JFK did and paid the price, according to one iteration of the script).

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s film Eyes Wide Shut has topped a poll of the 20 most underrated movies.

The Stanley Kubrick film, in which Tom and Nicole starred while they were still a couple in 1999, was voted into first place by readers of totalfilm.com.

It was followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and Terry Gilliam’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, which starred Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp.

Also in the top 20 was the late Heath Ledger’s romcom 10 Things I Hate About You, and Tom Hanks’ widely panned Cast Away.

Ralph Fiennes’ Strange Days and Tom Cruise’s movie Vanilla Sky also made it into the list of underrated flicks.

(Source: Press Association)

Katie Holmes wants to address the hottest subject of tabloid speculation about her.
“Well, I’m not pregnant right now,” she says in the April issue of Glamour, out March 10.

In the interview, which was done in early February, she also talks about husband Tom Cruise’s concern over how gossip might be affecting her: “We were changing diapers. He said, ‘I don’t want you to get upset.’ And I said, ‘Well, I am upset.’ So we approached it together. But I definitely felt like — as a woman, as the mother of Suri — I want to handle this.”

The couple will celebrate their third wedding anniversary this year. And Holmes, 30, says she would like to celebrate in Rome, “one of the first places we went together” and where they wed.

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Back home with her family in Los Angeles during a break from filming, Katie Holmes enjoyed a romantic dinner date with hubby Tom Cruise on Saturday night (February 28).

The “Top Gun” stud took his “Mad Money” bride to Il Sole restaurant, as she and Tom exited the popular eatery following their meal.

(source:celebrity-gossip)

We’ve all seen behind-the-scenes videos for movies and television shows, but how about a 30 second promo?

Jimmy Kimmel escaped from a burning home with Tom Cruise for the spot, which debuted during Sunday night’s Oscars. He took the bit further by showing his Jimmy Kimmel Live audience a spoof video that features the stars talking about how the spot came to fruition.

The video features the actual promo at the 5:15 mark:

(Source: TVGuide)
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Best ABC promo that aired during Oscars night was Tom Cruise, in a spot for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” who sent the late-night host into a burning home to rescue a cat that wasn’t there.