Dakota Fanning, one of the busiest young actresses on this planet, will star with Tom Cruise in the Steven Spielberg-directed The War of the Worlds for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

Variety says that Fanning will portray the daughter of Cruise’s character in the film, which is being fast-tracked to start shooting in November.

In H.G. Well’s 1898 novel, martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until the very last.

David Koepp wrote the script for “Worlds,” which is on target for a summer 2005 release.
ComingSoon.net

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Hello everyone! I’m feeling better, thanks for all your messages! You all rock!
Tom attended to the Paris premiere Collateral this afternoon, here are pictures, and, other pictures aswell! I was going to add some more, but my mouse’s batteries died and using the tap mouse to edit pictures is impossible! Enjoy these ones!

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Tom is also on the current Entertaiment Weekly (Thanks Charlene for the scans!!):

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The UK’s premiere movie magazine, namely Empire features Tom on its October cover, plus inside exclusive interview with the star as well as his Collateral co-star Jamie Foxx and the director Michael Mann. The issue has hit UK newsstands on August 27th so be sure to pick up your copy.

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Also, the Rain Man special edition is released in the UK today.

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Paramount Pictures recently swapped two of their summer tentpole movies for 2005 and 2006, with Tom Cruise and director Steven Spielberg now first taking on the adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, The War of the Worlds, for release next summer. Then, Alias creator J.J. Abrams makes his feature directorial debut on the Cruise sequel, Mission: Impossible 3 (“M:I-3″), which is targeting a summer 2006 release.

Entertainment Weekly caught up with Cruise while he was piloting his private jet to Mexico to talk about the two projects. Abrams is the third director to take on “M:I-3″, as David Fincher and Joe Carnahan were each attached at one point. “It’s deceiving, these kinds of movies,” Cruise says about the challenge. “They’re very complex. It’s not just action, it’s not just suspense, it’s not just the spy genre – it’s all of that.” So why Abrams? “He’s the first guy I went through the movie with who absolutely clicked in terms of being able to discuss the intricacies of character and story and tone.” He added that while he doesn’t watch much TV, Cruise checked out the Alias DVDs, liked what Abrams did with the story and character, and called him up.

The magazine asked whether or not the second sequel would be completely reworked now. “We don’t know yet,” said Cruise. “We’re just now talking about story. But it’s J.J. Abrams’ ‘Mission: Impossible’ that I’m interested in. The conceit for [the movies] was always that each one is different; it’s the director’s ‘Mission: Impossible’. You want the director to come in and own it.”

Which brings us to casting. Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh, and Scarlett Johansson were all announced to star in “M:I-3″, but Tom says that now depends on what Abrams wants. He mentions that at this point it’s “just me. I want to work with Carrie and Scarlett, and Kenneth is someone I’ve been wanting to work with for years, but you have to start with the director and see where he’s going to take us.”

Cruise also talked about how The War of the Worlds came about. “We were just releasing ‘Minority Report’ and Steven and I were looking for films to make together. I visited him on ‘Catch Me If You Can’ and we were talking about a couple of things and he says, ‘You know what? I think we should do ‘War of the Worlds’ together.’ I just looked at him and said, ‘Oh my God’. I was so excited. I’ve never made a sci-fi movie like this before.”

He adds that we have much to look forward to! “It’s going to be exciting, it’s going to be really scary, and it’s going to maintain the tone of H.G. Wells’ book. These guys are coming to dominate Earth. But I can’t get too much into it because David Koepp has already done a rewrite and Steven has been working on it and things are going to change. We’re just in the dream stage. We haven’t even cast it yet.”

Cruise says “Worlds” will be set in the U.S. but they have not decided on exact locations yet. Filming is expected to start in November.

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Way to Blue has one pair of ticket to one lucky fan for the Collateral Premiere that will be held on Empire Leicester Square on September 2nd. Check this site for info on how to participate

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According to Monkey Peaches, the man with the perfect teeth, perfect smile, perfect bone structure and perfect stubble Tom Cruise, along with his producing partner Paula Wagner, have jumped on the Asian remake train and snatched up the rights to remake the Hong Kong thriller COLOR OF THE TRUTH. In it, a cop finds himself wrongly implicated in the murder of his partner. As a result, the son of the murdered cop decides to take revenge on said partner. He-with-the-chiseled-features also has the rights to remake the Asian horror hit THE EYE. The last big Hollywood player to grab an Asian film remake rights is Scorsese, who’s looking to remake another Hong Kong thriller INFERNAL AFFAIRS (renamed THE DEPARTED) with Leonardo DiCaprio already signed on to star and Matt Damon in talks. The Poised One was most recently seen in this year’s COLLATERAL and has WAR OF THE WORLDS with Steven Spielberg and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 with J.J. Abrams coming up.
Source: JoBlo.com

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Hello everyone! I’ve added pictures of:

Good Morning America

Late Show with David Letterman

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

I will see if I can find some time during the week to add the rest of the photos I have here.

On a sidenote, we’re gonna start a articles/interviews database, however, we’re gonna need your help. If you can type/scan in ocr mode any interview, from any magazine and send to us, it’d help us. A LOT. I dont have that many magazines with Tom (imported stuff is rarely released here, or, when they are, it’s way too expensive), so, if anyone can send any interview, would be deeply appreciated. Plus I will give you full credit and plug your site if you have one! Got any? Use the contact form to make sure no one else has sent the same interview!

Another thing, I’m gonna be removing two of my wisdom teeth this tuesday (I’ve removed the other two 2 weeks ago) and, the medication I have to take makes me really sleep, so, I might not be updating as much, but I promise I’m gonna try.

Have a great week everyone!

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Pili has scanned the Sunday Times Magazine that went out on Sunday, and, see it for yourself, cause I’m speechless:

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