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Press Release Source: Inecom Entertainment Company

Rumors of New Paramount Tom Cruise Movie Keeps Interest High in World’s Fair Documentary
Tuesday December 20, 6:04 pm ET

PITTSBURGH, PA–(MARKET WIRE)–Dec 20, 2005 — “Rumors of a new Paramount Tom Cruise movie is keeping consumer interest high in Inecom Entertainment Company’s ‘EXPO – Magic of the White City’ about the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair,” says Michael Bussler, Inecom CEO. Cruise-Wagner Productions, Tom Cruise’s film production company, is said to be developing a screenplay based on Erik Larson’s New York Times bestseller, “The Devil in the White City” about a serial killer at the Chicago World’s Fair. Due to the popularity of Larson’s narrative and the proposed film, Inecom’s documentary continues to benefit as a popular gift item this holiday season. The feature documentary explores the exciting and innovative world of 1893 through a trip to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. Three months since its September release, “EXPO – Magic of the White City” is already Inecom’s bestselling title for 2005 and is a top seller on Amazon.com and at Borders stores nationwide. (…)

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People reports:
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes greeted the season in style Thursday in New York, as they celebrated her birthday with dinner, a private trip to the FAO Schwarz toy store – where Tom entertained with handstands – and a late-night ice-skating adventure in the rain, PEOPLE reports exclusively.
While Holmes spent the day shopping at such Madison Avenue boutiques as Barneys, Donna Karen, Ralph Lauren, Miu Miu and Chloe, her husband-to-be didn’t come out of the hotel until dinner time, whereupon he scored high marks with the bartender at the Post House steakhouse – despite the fact that, as a Scientologist, Tom doesn’t imbibe.
“He seems like a regular guy,” the bartender tells PEOPLE. “He was very nice.”
After the midtown feast with a group of about a dozen people, Holmes’s pre-birthday celebration (she turns 27 on Sunday) continued at Fifth Avenue institution FAO Schwarz, which was closed to the public by the time the Cruise contingent arrived around 9:30 p.m. The toy store was ready for them, too: festooned with balloons tied to small white tiger dolls and 7′-tall stuffed giraffes.

But the real show was put on by Tom and his pregnant fiancée, with both of them performing on top of the store’s giant piano – jumping, bouncing, trying to tickle out a tune on the ivories. At one point, Tom did a handstand. Katie must have approved: She clapped and laughed before the couple embraced and shared a long, 30-second kiss.
The emporium also had a surprise in store of the birthday girl: cupcakes with candles, which she blew out with Tom’s help. The party then moved downstairs, near the videogame area, and by 11:30 p.m., the pair were ready to move on, thanks to a caravan of four SUVs.
But the night wasn’t over. Despite some nasty rain with some sleet thrown in, Tom and Katie took to Central Park’s Wollman Rink (the same one that King Kong and Naomi Watts use onscreen in the new movie epic) and skated, in between hugging and kissing.

They remained on the ice for about half an hour, after which Katie took refuge inside while Tom continued to skate a little longer. Around 12:30 a.m., the group left the park and returned to the hotel – hopefully to get the mom-to-be into some dry clothes.

When you check out the site at People you can watch some video’s of Tom & Katie celebrating and skating, and watch some pictures at People’s gallery.
People even has made a little Special about Tom & Katie and how it all started, click here to watch it all. Enjoy!

After the party on thursday in New York, Tom & Katie travelled to Miami on Friday to spent the weekend there, reports (again) People:

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes took their traveling party to Miami, Fla., this weekend.
The engaged pair, who spent Thursday dining, shopping and ice-skating in New York City to celebrate Holmes turning 27 on Dec. 18, arrived in Miami on Friday afternoon. Also in town: Will Smith (in the city to perform at the Y-100 Jingle Ball on Saturday) and wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Cruise’s costar in the 2004 movie Collateral.
Early Friday evening, sources say, Cruise watched Will Smith rehearse at The BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fl.; later, Cruise, Holmes and the Smiths dined at Miami Beach eatery Barton G. The Restaurant.
At about 1:20 a.m., the two couples hit the South Beach rock club Snatch, where they chilled for nearly an hour in a roped-off area on the second floor. Holmes, who is expecting her first child with Cruise, kept her arms around her fiancé, even hugging him from behind as they all left through a back door. (The next night, says a source, when a well-wisher asked why Holmes hadn’t ridden the club’s mechanical bull, Cruise joked, “If she wasn’t pregnant, she would have been on the bull.”)
On Saturday, the four friends spent the afternoon on a private yacht touring the bay off the Florida coast, and stopped for lunch on the exclusive Fisher Island. Later, Cruise and Holmes headed to the BankAtlantic Center for the Jingle Ball. As they hung out backstage waiting for Will Smith’s performance, they took photos with all who asked.
Finally, Smith took the stage, arriving via a sleigh that “flew” over the audience on wires. After two songs, he brought out his wife and their daughter Willow, 5, as well as Cheryl Romero, whom he described as a woman “who had a tough time this year.” He handed her several gifts, then said, “I have another Christmas present for you and the audience. I want to bring out someone who has never been to Miami before: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.” As the crowd exploded in applause, the couple walked out hand in hand. “How’s it going?” Cruise asked the audience. “This is my first time in Miami and I love it. Is it always like this?” Smith replied, “It is every time I come here.” “Then I can see why you keep coming back,” Cruise said. Before he and Holmes left the stage, he added, “I’d like to wish you all a happy holiday and Merry Christmas and just a great year.”

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Hey guys, I posted this on monday right after it went online, but my host was changing servers and the e-mail got lost. Anyway, here it goes again:

The Mission: Impossible 3 Teaser Trailer is online. Check out the Official Website, which also has a new look! I will post more things later!

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I’m just reporting ’cause I think some of you would like to know the following:

Tom and Katie were rumoured to wed on October 21st, 2006 because they registered at Neiman Marcus’ department store. But now there’s made a change; They are planning an Independence Day weekend wedding if changes to their marriage registry list are to be believed. Now they are listed as Katherine Holmes and Thomas Mapother – Tom’s birth name as we all know, and the date is set for 7 July – four days after Tom’s 44th birthday.
Tom’s publicist, Paul Bloch, is refusing to confirm or deny the latest development, giving a firm “no comment” to all inquiries.

“Proof” of it all are the registery lists; watch them here (6 scanned pages) and here.

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Tom & Katie have been spotted at the Ivy for a late dinner.

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Yahoo:
Actor Tom Cruise got a taste of Asian cellphone etiquette in Shanghai when a local reporter took a call in the middle of his press event on the city’s historic Bund on Wednesday. Such chatter is common in much of Asia, where people routinely talk on their phones in the middle of news briefings and many other public gatherings. But the American superstar, in town to shoot scenes for his latest “Mission: Impossible” movie, took it all in his stride, borrowing the phone from the surprised reporter to talk to the woman caller. “Hello. Xie xie. Ni hao. How are you?” said an amused Cruise, dressed in black, exhausting his limited Chinese vocabulary before going on to ask if the woman — the reporter’s wife — was at work and about her marital status.

(yahoo also has details:
It was “Mission: Unpredictable” for Tom Cruise when a reporter pulled out a cell phone and the actor insisted on talking to the person on the other end of the line. “Put her on the phone. I want to talk to her,” Cruise told the journalist, who sheepishly called someone Cruise assumed to be the man’s girlfriend. “Hello. Xiexie. Ni hao. Are you good?” said Cruise, handling the Chinese words for “thank you” and “hello” with ease. “Are you good? Are you working?” he asked. “Are you going to get engaged? Soon? Maybe?” Cruise was speaking to journalists atop the historic Bund 18 building as bells tolled and horns blared from ships passing on the nearby Huangpu River on Wednesday after wrapping up scenes for the new “Mission: Impossible” film, due in theaters next year. “Oh, you’re married?” asked the translator, who stepped in to help the conversation along. “Tell her I wish her happiness,” Cruise said. “Xiexie, bye-bye,” said the 43-year-old actor before handing the phone back to the reporter. Asked about his own plans to wed pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, Cruise replied, “You want to know where we’re gonna get married? The exact date? The exact place? The color dress, designer?” He added: “You know, we haven’t set a date. … It will happen next year.”)

Cruise and his crew were meeting the media after wrapping up two weeks of shooting for “Mission: Impossible III.” The film was being shot in Shanghai and nearby Xitang, a town criss-crossed by canals, with other scenes in Italy, Germany and the United States. The visit to China by one of the world’s biggest stars, who is traveling with pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, has created a massive buzz in the local media, where the actor is known affectionately as “Tang Ge,” or “Big Brother Tom.”
Cruise, whose credits include last year’s “War of the Worlds” and two previous “Mission: Impossible” movies, said during the briefing that he and Holmes, who plan to get married, have yet to set a date but that the wedding will happen next year.

During his brief China trip, Cruise has been spotted at a number of trendy Shanghai hang-outs, including a swanky restaurant on the Bund, and a Sichuan eaterie where he reportedly paid more than 5,000 yuan for a meal — an astronomical sum by Chinese standards.
The producers of “M:I3″ reportedly payed 100 million yuan for the use of Xitang, which was sealed off to the public during filming. Total production costs for the film are expected to exceed $150 million.

SPECTACULAR
Shanghai’s Gotham-esque Jinmao tower, the country’s tallest building and home to the Grand Hyatt hotel, and the city’s futuristic Pearl TV tower, will both feature in the movie. So will the Huangpu River, which snakes through the city before feeding into the Yangtze.
Cruise gushed about the city’s spectacular vistas and the general thrill of his brief trip, saying he planned to come back in the future to see more of the country. “It’s spectacular. It’s unbelievable,” he said. “It’s going to look extraordinary on film.”

The first two “Mission: Impossible” movies made a combined $396 million at the North American box office. The new film is directed by J.J. Abrams, the creator of hit TV series Lost. It is scheduled for release next summer, a year later than originally planned due to production difficulties. The movie’s makers are negotiating to simultaneously release “M:I3″ in the United States and China, in part due to the high rate of piracy in a market where films often show up on pirated discs just days after their worldwide premieres.

TheAge adds: Speaking to journalists atop the historic Bund 18 building as bells tolled and horns blared from ships passing on the nearby Huangpu River, Cruise said he finished shooting the China sequences for Mission Impossible 3 a couple days early. Both said they were warned that filming in China would be difficult due to language barriers, but found that working with the local crew went smoother than expected. “They enabled us to work at a terrific speed,” Cruise said. “I’m going to tell our friends how terrific and skilled the workers are.”

Entertainment Online has 2 video’s of Tom in Shanghai, go here to watch them!

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