TLS’s opening weekend gross, accoring do boxofficemojo.com is $ 24.4 million. Also, Tom will be on the Ellen show this Wednesday

Remember a picture posted a few days ago with Tom holding a pop corn can/thing (what is it called?), remember that USA Today was evil to post one little picture only?
Remember how I posted 19 of those in much bigger versions? Of course not! I just posted those
View the gorgeous pictures here.

NEWS FLASH:The Last Samurai hits North American theaters today. Go check it out.

Box Office Preview
‘Last’ First
Tom Cruise’s ”Samurai” will reign at the box office. A surprise second-place finish from Jessica Alba would push ”The Cat” and the ”Elf” back in their hats

‘LAST’ CALL Will Tom’s new movie cruise to the number one spot this weekend?

With Thanksgiving now a memory, adults and teens will […]

Tom thinks life is good, he says here at news.yahoo.com. Also nice to read is the fact that earlier this week, the U.S. National Board of Review has picked TLS as one of 2003’s top movies and gave its best director honor to the film’s Ed Zwick. CNN also thinks Tom is brilliant in TLS, […]

Extra TV Video here. (Click on the Drop Down menu and choose, Tom Cruise!)

FHM has a video here. Or, you can download it (Just right click and choose “Save As…” or “Save Link As…”): here.
Now, say thank you, Annie!

Cinema Confidential interviewed Tom, read part 1 here; part 2 from CHUD you’ll find here. If you missed part 1 from CHUD, here it is!
Okay, we’ve read the reviews and interviews; it’s a bit the same, yes. But the most fantastic thing I’ve found today is an interview with Tom on video! Hollywood.com has it […]

More TLS reviews.
Screendaily

Zap2it

Movie Web 1. Movie Web two

The Z Review
And lastly, pictures from Tonight show with Jay Leno!

The Forum is Back! Check it here!

Total Request Live pictures

Tom will be on The View this friday. The channel is ABC. What time is the show?
Thanks Joyce, for the information!

Samurai premiere, It’s all Tom!
An army of Cruise-gawkers including Alyssa Milano, Anne Archer, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., JAG’s Catherine Bell, Evan Rachel Wood, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and, of course, David Hasselhoff, assembled for the Westwood screening
Heavy praise was lavished on Cruise, with no one cooing more than lady love Penelope Cruz. “I have […]

Schmooze Cruise
Tom misses his own premiere
03/12/2003

Ever since he saved a young fan from being crushed at the London premiere of Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise has carved out a niche for himself as the perfect premiere attendee. When he and current squeeze Penelope Cruz came over for the UK premiere of Vanilla Sky last year the […]

Teen Hollywood interviewed Tom and posted 9 pages about The Last Samurai, the prepairing for it (wearing a kimono!), his kids, Penelope, Christmas and his latest movie “Collateral”. Go read it here.

Los Angeles
New York
I’ll get TRL’s pics tomorrow!

Lots of reviews and covering of the LA premiere of The Last Samurai!
The Hollywood Reporter wrote a nice review. Quote: It’s “hugely satisfying entertainment that will attract a broad spectrum of audiences around the world“. Go read it, it’s a fair review!
I also found some reviews from AICN but I see Fanny already found and […]

More pictures will come soon. Tonight is the premiere for TLS, so expect huge updates in galleries tomorrow.
Coming soon interviews Tom

The film is definitely Oscar material, but Cruise just wants you to walk out of the theater with some kind of experience. He hopes that “each audience walks away with an experience from the […]

Don’t forget! Tom will be on Jay Leno tonight!!
And tomorrow, tuesday, on Total Request Live
Hm.., not a single comment on the pictures update I made??

Who can access the people.com site? I can’t because you have to live in the USA and/or have to have an AOL-account to read the articles. People.com has an item on “Tom’s greatest moments” and I’ve seen some other Tom-stuff on the site but as you know by now I can’t read it. So whoever […]

From Canoe:
Tom Cruise brings his razor-sharp focus to epic film role
By BRUCE KIRKLAND — Toronto Sun
HOLLYWOOD — Tom Cruise, arguably the world’s biggest movie star, defied conventional wisdom by doing most of his own stunts, as usual, on The Last Samurai.
“Obviously, you could have an accident,” Cruise says.
“But it’s fun, it’s fun. […]