Pics of Tom & Katie at the Beckham party are online, watch them here. I don’t have time to upload them into our Gallery, but my guess is they will be up at TomCruiseFan asap, since we have the fabulous Des as co-webmaster!
Also, Yahoo news has an intro video of the party for the Beckhams, thrown by the Cruises and Smiths, although you don’t actually get to see anyone arriving or partying. If you still want to watch it, click here.

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Source: Variety July 22, 2007

Columbia Pictures is in talks with Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, upcoming Reservation Road) to direct Edwin A. Salt, a Kurt Wimmer-scripted drama that is being developed as a star vehicle for Tom Cruise, reports Variety. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash are producing.

The studio’s hope is for Cruise to play the title character, a CIA officer who is fingered by a defector as a Russian sleeper spy. Salt must elude capture by his superiors and sets out to reunite with his family and prove his innocence.

Cruise has been busy this year making the Robert Redford-directed Lions for Lambs and the Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie for United Artists.

He has been eyeing several other projects for his next film. Another possibility is a remake of the Doris Dorrie-directed German comedy Men, which has director Todd Phillips attached at Warner Bros. (ComingSoon.net)

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German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has criticised Scientology, but said that would not stop him enjoying Valkyrie, the movie in the making about a true 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.US actor Tom Cruise, who is playing Count Claus von Stauffenberg in the movie, has been ostracized by many Germans because of his advocacy of the Scientology creed.

In remarks released Saturday and to appear Sunday in the newspaper BZ am Sonntag, Schaueble said the federal anti-subversion unit BfV which he oversees would continue to monitor the Scientology organization.

“This sect has the purpose of annulling basic and human rights and thus abolishing constitutional liberty,” and thus had “anti-constitutional objectives,” he said.

Although some German courts had ruled that the Scientology organization was a religious group, this did not mean it did not have to obey the German constitution.

“The cover of a religious community is no use if one wants to get rid of the free, democratic constitution. We do debate this with our American friends,” he said, referring to US criticism of Berlin’s surveillance.

Schaeuble said that all the same he could contemplate going to see Valkyrie when it was ready.

“I’m interested in the subject, it’s a historically important story, and Hollywood can do good movies,” he said. (Jurnalo.com, Saturday 21 July 2007 20:35)

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Clearly Tom & Katie are very happy with eachother and with their beautiful little girl Suri. Katie is a great woman, something People knows as well: They now have a story on Katie. Click here to read their article Katie Holmes: Happier than ever, here to read their article Mommy & Me about her and Suri, and here to watch some pics from the People site.

Want to see and read more on Katie? Go visit http://www.katie-holmes.org/, your source for all your Katie needs.

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Berlin, June 20, 2007- Visiting Valkyrie Set

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By Leon Mangasarian

July 20 (Bloomberg) — The grandson of a German anti-Nazi hero, who’s played by Tom Cruise in a film being shot near Berlin, has been given a cameo role in the movie.

Cruise, 45, is playing Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg, who was executed in 1944 after a failed bid to kill Adolf Hitler. Philipp von Schulthess, 34, a son of Stauffenberg’s youngest daughter Konstanze, will play a military officer in the film “Valkyrie,” according to Petra Schwuchow from the LimeLight PR agency, which is representing the film in Berlin.

“The grandson has been given a small role as an adjutant,” Schwuchow said in a telephone interview today. (Source: Bloomberg)

Plotter’s grandson cast in Hitler movie with Tom Cruise

Potsdam, Germany – Germany’s Stauffenberg family has broken ranks over a controversial true-life movie in which Tom Cruise is to depict their ancestor who tried to kill Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, with a family member playing a role in the film. The production company said Friday that Philipp von Schulthess, who is a grandson of Count Claus von Stauffenberg, would play the role of a 1944 German Army adjutant in the film Valkyrie, which began shooting this week.

It was not known Friday how Schulthess came to be in the cast, but it appeared he had attended an audition.

Studio Babelsberg also disclosed that Hitler would be played by British actor David Bamber, who played a Bob Geldof look-alike in the movie I Am Bob earlier this year.

The production company said Cruise was present during the second day of filming. (Source: Earth Times)

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Tom’s on the move in Germany and ET Online has the footage!:

We have new footage of Hollywood’s top gun TOM CRUISE at an airport in Berlin, Germany, where he was catching a flight to Brandenburg to continue filming his WWII thriller, ‘Valkyrie.’

But before hopping on that helicopter, Tom graciously took a moment to allow fans to take his picture.

Meanwhile, Tom is reportedly heading back to Los Angeles this weekend where he and wife KATIE HOLMES will reportedly co-host a “Welcome to America” party for pals and new neighbors VICTORIA and DAVID BECKHAM. Tom and Katie’s friends, WILL SMITH and JADA PINKETT-SMITH, are reportedly co-hosting the event.

Click here to watch the video clip. (Source: ET Online)

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Tom is reportedly planning to visit the studios originally made famous by The Beatles, Abbey Road, according to showbizspy.com.

Tom is said-to-be a massive fan of the legendary foursome, and will take time off from shooting his latest film ‘Valkyrie’ in Germany to visit the north London studios, in which the band recorded many of their most famous hits. He is said to be particularly keen to visit the pedestrian crossing where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr posed for their iconic ‘Abbey Road’ album cover. A source said: “Tom’s a massive Beatles fan. They remind him of his teenage years so he was keen to organize a sightseeing trip. He’s known to play guitar and drums at his Beverly Hills home. He really likes 60s music.”

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According to Celebrity Babylon Tom and Katie have purchased a 3-acre property for $3.5 million dollars in Montecito, California. The couple bought the property, with existing building plans for a lavish home, from actor Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl.

The property isn’t much to look at now, but thanks to Rob Lowe who pushed and shoved his building plans through the local planning commission, Tom will be able to build his dream vacation home in no time at all. Celebrity Babylon has photos of what exists on the land now, and ground has been broken. A Montecito local tells Celebrity Babylon, “Tom could use the plans for a house that Rob did, or he could have his own custom design.”

Montecito is considered the ritzy seaside enclave just 90 miles north of Los Angeles, where stars like Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres, Portia DeRossi, Dennis Miller, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Carol Burnett, Kirk Douglas and others have homes. Rob Lowe and his wife have a number of homes in Montecito, and seem to have developed deft skills at high-end house “flipping.” They live at a mansion nearby, and have a beach house near Carpenteria, Ca., as well.

Click here and check out the property that will soon house Tom, Katie, and little Suri!

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By WENN | Thursday, July 19, 2007

HOLLYWOOD – Tom Cruise and Will Smith are hosting a private celebrity-packed party to welcome soccer superstar David Beckham and his Spice Girl wife Victoria to Los Angeles on Sunday.

The Beckhams and their three sons arrived in California on July 12, ahead of David’s upcoming debut for local soccer team L.A. Galaxy, set to take place on Saturday–if he recovers from an ankle injury in time.

Family friends Cruise and Smith will host Sunday’s invite-only bash for 600 guests at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles.

Among those expected to attend are George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Steven Spielberg, Anjelica Huston, David Geffen and Jerry Bruckheimer. (Source: Hollywood)

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