Well it seems that Tom Cruise WILL be joining Penelope Cruz at the Cannes Film Festival next month in France. Many reliable sources say that they will attend next month’s occasion. Penelope will be joined by Tom to open the festival with her movie called “FANFAN”. Tom’s ex, Nicole Kidman is also attending.

Here are few links that confirm that Tom will be there:
Link One
Link two
Link Three

Also, this seems more of a rumour.
Tom and Nicole to star in FRIENDS?
Friends Reunited: Tom And Nicole
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise are getting back together again, but only in the hit TV show Friends.They are due to guest star in the series, according to reports.
But programme bosses are apparently keen defuse any tension between the former married couple after their acrimonius divorce two years ago.
The two will film their respective roles separately, according to the Daily Star.

And Here’s a nice little article about what it’s like on the set of THE LAST SAMURAI.

And last, Happy 29th birthday to Tom’s girlfriend Penelope Cruz!

Thanks Betty for the link!

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Fans got a chance to see Tom Cruise go through his paces with filming in New Plymouth’s Pukekura Park.

Cruise arrived at the park’s cricket ground by helicopter, with the film’s other big names.
When action was called, loud gunfire sounded around the park, with Cruise being heard saying, “go on, shoot me”.
Just then, as filming was in full-swing, the carillon on Marsland Hill chimed out its two o’clock tune, which promptly stopped the filming, but had Cruise and the rest of the cast and crew chuckling with amusement. The filming back at the park is believed to have been to re-shoot some scenes. As well as the film’s leading stars being on set, dozens of Japanese men in black uniforms and hats sat on the terraces waiting for their cue for action.
As word of the filming spread, dozens of people gathered at Pukekura Park’s main gate and at other vantage points, trying to get a glimpse of the action. Cruise was back at work after spending the weekend sightseeing in Queenstown, with partner Penelope Cruz.

And here is the picture:

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Also, look out for the Official Website comming soon.But for now you can go Here to view information and trailers.

Thanks Betty for the news!

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Fabi from TomCruiseNet, sent me some wonderful pictures from the Narc World Premiere: http://www.tomcruisefan.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=131. Go check!
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19 April 2003
By ROCHELLE WEST

Hollywood will be in Taranaki for a few more weeks yet.

Latest indications show filming of The Last Samurai is due to finish about May 7. Originally, filming in the region was to wind up about this weekend, but things are going so well here, the film-makers apparently want to stay a little longer to make the best film possible. Rumour has it that director Ed Zwick and lead actor and producer Tom Cruise think the natural lighting in Taranaki is so fantastic, they are putting in more scenes, so the film looks even better. The $US100 million movie is still on budget, however. The longer stay will no doubt keep the local hospitality industry and all the businesses who have been involved with the movie very happy.

* Cast and crew sat and watched several mock Japanese buildings – including the main meeting house – burn to the ground at the Uruti film set this week. The buildings were believed to be replicas of those in the main mock-Japanese village, but had been built further down the valley to be razed for the film. It apparently took about 20 minutes for the huts to burn to the ground, with the intense heat making it difficult at times for the principal actors to keep control of their horses as the fire crackled. And there was no room for extra takes or mistakes – with only one chance to get it right.

* A handful of The Last Samurai special effects crew were in Queenstown this week filming some scenic plate shots for the film. It is understood they flew by helicopter on a location hunt earlier this week in preparation for two days’ filming in the Mt Aspiring area. Queenstown director John Mahaffie is the director of photography for the shoot. Mahaffie, who directed the second unit of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, has been in Taranaki for more than a month filming battle scenes for The Last Samurai at Upper Pitone Rd.

* Tom Cruise seems to be getting in a bit of horse riding practice in his spare time while in Taranaki. Between filming takes, The Last Samurai star has headed to back-country adventure camp Gumboot Gully, which is near the Uruti Samurai set, for some riding action. It is understood Cruise’s son, Connor (8), has also been having some horse riding practice near his Oakura home base.

* It wasn’t just Taranaki farmers who suffered during the recent dry spell. Looking out on golden brown pastures day after day apparently forced The Last Samurai film crew to take urgent action. Green was what they wanted, not brown. It is understood the background hillsides were instantly transformed – sprayed with green paint, for the duration of the filming of battle scenes at Upper Pitone Rd.

From: Stuff.
Thanks to Bettyblue!

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Hi there!!! The New gallery is up: http://www.tomcruisefan.com/gallery/index.php
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If you see anything acting “funny”, in the wrong category or broken, e-mail me.
Also did a little update on the movies page.

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Tom Cruise wows fans

Auckland – From on-screen Samurai fighter to real-life good Samaritan, Hollywood star Tom Cruise has impressed locals in New Zealand’s remote North Island province of Taranaki where he has been filming since January.

While working on the big budget Warner Bros epic The Last Samurai, due to wrap up mid-April, Cruise has become celebrated for his down-to-earth habits, like eating fish and chips in newspaper from the local take-away and catching the surf at nearby beaches.

And all without a paparazzi lens or mob of breathless fans in sight.

Then there have been his good deeds.

Far from mainstream cinematic gossip of sex scandals, diet fads, drug abuse and more among the stars, Cruise has become famous in Taranaki for stopping to help a local family change a flat tyre on a country road.

He also helped a young girl catch her runaway horse and donated seven thousand New Zealand dollars to a tiny, rural school near his film set for a sun shelter under which pupils can play.

While he has rarely been seen in public – unlike his gregarious Scottish co-star Billy Connelly – Cruise has earned a reputation for being a genuinely nice

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thanks to Felicia!

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BOTH PARAMOUNT AND DI CAPRIO PLAN ON FILMING MURDEROUS CAPER AT 1893 WORLD’S FAIR. PARAMOUNT
WITH THE BOOK; DICAPRIO TO GO WITH PUBLIC RECORDS

WE MENTIONED a week or two ago ago that it is amazing that as soon as a production entity or a studio latches on to a major book or current headline story, that one or two other producers announce that they, too, are planning such a film. Such is the case this week as one major studio, and an independent production company headed by Leonardo Di Caprio, have announced a similar project. It is the story of The Devil In White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Paramount has acquired the film rights to the book of that title and have attached Katherine Bigelow to direct with no cast set to be produced by (Tom) Cruise/(Paula) Wagner Productions for the studio. Further west in Beverly Hills, Leonardo Di Caprio has also announced that he is setting up a film about the serial killer H.H. Holmes and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair wherein two men – an architect and a serial killer (Holmes) – made it their “playground” which is the subject of Erik Larson’s book acquired by Paramount for filming.. However, Di Caprio’s office said that it will proceed with a similar project based on public records instead of any book. However, the DiCaprio version will mainly deal with H.H. Holmes and the detective that tracked him down and arrested him. Di Caprio will produce and star in the film; and therein lies the tale.

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Taranaki farewell for Tom
The 1200-odd people gathered at New Plymouth’s TSB Bowl yesterday, assembled in formation to spell out the word TOMINAKI.
Organised by The Edge radio station, the mass gathering and subsequent photograph was an effort to give Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise a memorable farewell from Taranaki, where he has lived for nearly four months for the filming of The Last Samurai. Mt Taranaki would be digitally put into the photograph and it was hoped the picture would be presented to Cruise before he left Taranaki later this month.

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Minority Report got only one nomination for the 2003 MTV movie awards. It was nominated for “best action sequence” for the escape scene. So go and VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!

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