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Authorities believe that David Hans Schmidt, a broker in celebrity photos and other items who was known as ‘The Sultan of Sleaze,’ committed suicide. Schmidt, who agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort money from Tom Cruise, was found dead in his home.
By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
3:09 PM PDT, September 29, 2007
A celebrity photo broker facing federal prison for trying to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes has been found dead, an apparent suicide.
Schmidt had long denied claims that he came by his merchandise through unscrupulous means. But earlier this year he agreed to plead guilty to attempted extortion after federal authorities said he contacted Cruise’s representatives and threatened to release photos of Cruise and Holmes’ wedding in Italy last year unless he was paid $1.2 million to $1.3 million.
At the time of his death, Schmidt was wearing a monitoring device while under house arrest in Arizona pending sentencing. He was found dead in his townhouse about 3 p.m. Friday after police noticed that the device indicated he not moved and he had not checked in, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press.
His attorney, Nancy Kardon, told AP that she had spoken to Schmidt earlier this week and was preparing for an Oct. 11 hearing in federal court where he would formally enter his plea. She said she had planned to ask for probation.
“I was greatly saddened by his loss and I found him to be a very kind man,” Kardon said.
A second man still faces charges in connection with the Tom Cruise extortion plot. Computer expert Marc Lewis Gittleman, 33, of Los Angeles allegedly took the pictures when he worked on a computer belonging to the wedding’s authorized photographer. Gittleman reportedly made a copy of the hard drive and later brought them to Schmidt.
The Associated Press was used in compiling this report. (Source: LA Times)
Britisch Telegraph:
A star-studded world première and a treasure from the archives are among the highlights of this year’s London Film Festival, writes Sheila Johnston
More voluminous than ever, the London Film Festival catalogue and website represent an intimidating read for anyone trying to plan a viewing strategy. The artistic director, Sandra Hebron, has mopped up most of the big films from Cannes and Venice: recommended among these are Eastern Promises (which opens proceedings on Oct 17), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and I’m Not There. That just leaves dozens of relatively unknown quantities. Here are 10 to watch out for.
Lions for Lambs
Because of its place in the festival calendar, London attracts few major world premières, but this is a 24-carat one: Robert Redford’s contribution to the current wave of films exploring the human consequences of America’s war on terror. Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Redford himself play some of the politicians, journalists and intellectuals whose lives are transformed by hostilities in Afghanistan.
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If you want to read on about the other 9 movies, click here.
Many world famous film stars including Sophia Loren, Sharon Stone and Tom Cruise will light up this year’s second edition of the Rome Cinema Festival, organizers said Thursday.
Among the starts are also Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Halle Berry, Monica Bellucci, Robert Redford and Sean Penn.
Blanchett will be the first to hit the red carpet on Oct. 19 in a reprise of her acclaimed 1998 Elizabeth I portrayal in visionary Indian director Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Loren will bring the curtain down on Oct. 27 as she receives a career achievement award, Italian News Agency ANSA said on Thursday.
In between, an array of would-be blockbusters and more arty fare from 40 countries will bid to draw at least as many viewers as the half million spectators the inaugural edition attracted.
Rome’s film-buff mayor Walter Veltroni, who achieved his dream of bringing a major movie event to the Italian capital despite sneers from the cinema establishment and controversy over a clash with the Venice festival, said Thursday, “This year is going to be even better”.
There will be 14 films competing for the top Marcus Aurelius prize, including two Italian films – Carlo Mazzacurati’s “la Giusta Distanza” and Emidio Greco’s “L’Uomo Privato”.
Also in contention are two Spanish films – “Barcelona” and “Una Mapa and Caotica Ana”; “Fugitive Pieces from Canada”; China’s “Li Chun”; and an Iranian-Japanese production, “Hafez”.
Among the festival’s special events are a focus on India with new films such as Anurag Kashyap’s “No Smoking” and a look at new socially and environmentally conscious movies from Hollywood such as Penn’s “Into The Wild”.
I’ve uploaded a lot of pics. A lot of them I scanned personally. A lot of them are only magazine covers, when I have the time I’ll upload the scans that come in the magazines. I’ll have to scan, resize and upload them, which will take some time. I’ve also uploaded my artworks. Enjoy!
For all the Dutch speaking fans among us – Dutch tv show RTL Boulevard aired a small interview with Dutch actress Halina Reijn who was offered a small part in Tom’s movie Rubicon (formerly known as Valkyrie). She played in Zwartboek (Black book) with Carice van Houten; after seeing this movie Tom invited both women to star in his next blockbuster.
Translation of the video clip
Female presenter Daphne Bunskoek: “Between filming in Berlin for her role in a real Tom Cruise-movie, we talked to Halina Reijn. Tom and she are ‘best buddies’ and fortunately she also takes some time to appear at the Dutch Film Festival.”
(video clip of Halina starts.) Voice over: “After years of playing the second violin Halina comes to the Dutch Film Festival with three films ‘in her bag’. But hey, with so much shooting hours she must fight for having a bit of a private life.” Halina: “I have – for example – just purchased a house of my own for the first time, which I consider a big investment.” (we see Halina being interviewed) “So it’s getting more and more a thing of trying to have a life in reality and not just fleeing into fiction.”
(video clip of Halina in a red dress.) Halina: “Hi Linda – excuse me, but – I just hear that Eline prefers not to see mee any more so I’m leaving, but I noticed that your Porsche is parked right in front of my car, so would you please be so kind to remove it?”
Voice over: “In the royal tv-drama ‘The prince and the girl’ she playes Princess Mabel. Her ex-boyfriend Fedjah plays [Dutch prince] Friso. Because of the busy work scedual Halina almost sees more of her ex-boyfriend than she does of her current Belgian boyfriend, Roy.”
Halina: “The fun part of my boyfriend is that he’s absolutely not jealous. And that has indeed been difficult in the past, because Fedjah is so near by, so me being with a new man proved to be difficult, but with Roy, my current boyfriend, he understands that very well. He just enjoys the fact that I get along so well with Fedjah.”
Voice over (while showing a clip of BFFs Halina and Carice): “So best friend Carice van Houten can ‘tung wrestle’ with Tom Cruise in the war epic ‘Rubicon’,” (we see clip of Tom in Amsterdam, with clumbs in his hands, wearing sun glasses) “at the last minute Halina was also flown in for a tete-a-Tom.” (clip of Halina and Carice signing autographs on the red carpet) Halina: “The fun about this is that I can experience all of this with Carice,” (Halina in the picture) “that we’re in this together (laughs), and that we can laugh about it together, every now and then. And that puts things in the right perspective. And I really like that. Because of that I’m not lonely there, or afraid. Everybody is really nice there. They’ve all seen ‘Black book’,” (clip of Paul Verhoeven and the cast of ‘Black book’ on the red carpet)“and that’s why we ended up in this movie. So it’s different from when you have to audition for the role, together with a thousand girls, you know? You feel really welcome, and they are huge fans of ‘Black book’, so yes, that was an incredibly huge moment to get there for the first time, and meet ‘him’ [meaning Tom]for the first time.”
Voice over (while seeing a clip of Halina getting out of a black car): “Halina finds the quickest way to Hollywood through her Tom-Tom.” (clip of Tom during his visit to Amsterdam is shown).
Halina: “He’s super professional and INCREDIBLY nice and likeable/kind. And, well, just an incredible sweet and fun human being. And inspiring to work with.”
Voice over (clip of Halina walking): “Despite a firm contract with a strict non-disclosure agreement included Halina talks candidly.”
Halina: “Of course, the first second you lay eyes on him, you think ‘wow!’, right? But after that, that feeling is gone. Because he’s just so.. ehmm.. down to earth, that – and yes, you can’t keep going on feeling like that. You don’t go around all these hours, thinking ‘Ohhhh!’ right, it just doesn’t work that way. As a human being, nobody is like that. Only when someone would behave like a star. If someone would want that to be validated all the time, that ‘he’s such a great star’ but he doesn’t have that AT ALL!” (end of interview with Halina)
Co-host Albert Verlinde: “That’s just a girls dream come true, right! There you are, two girls in Berlin, making a movie with Tom Cruise! By the way that movie gets a new title: Rubicon, that’s what we’ve also heard. And Halina says “yes,” – she has three movies on that Film Festival in Utrecht to be shown there, and she says “I just have well known movies from now on, and that’s why I get all this publicity”, and of course she enjoys all of this fully, and [other co-host] Peter was right when he said – because in the video clip we saw Tom Cruise walking – that wasn’t Tom Cruise, that was Frits Lambrechts, we all could see that of course” [silly joke, didn't understand it either] (all of them laughing, Peter stating that this is mean and that he didn’t mean that).
BERLIN (AFP) – Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise at the weekend observed a minute of silence for the slain German resistance hero he portrays in a new World War II film, the German press reported on Sunday.
Cruise made the respectful gesture before shooting a scene of “Valkyrie” at the historic Bendlerblock building in Berlin, where authorities originally refused to allow the crew to film, before reversing their ban 10 days ago.
“Scriptwriter Christopher McQuarie, director Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise each made a short speech and asked for a moment of silence” before filming began there on Saturday night, German actor Christian Berkel told Bild newspaper.
Cruise declared that he was “touched” to be at the site, which today is used by the defence ministry and is a national shrine, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.
It added that nobody was allowed to eat or drink on the set.
Cruise portrays Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, an aristocratic officer who mounted a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 as Germany was losing the war, and was executed at the Bendlerblock along with his fellow conspirators.
The defence ministry said it gave the go-ahead for filming at the Bendlerblock after the filmmakers agreed to incorporate a scene showing that Germany had emerged from the evil of the Nazi regime to become a fully democratic country.
“Valkyrie” has been filming at locations in Berlin since July. It is due for release in 2008. (Source: Yahoo! News)
BERLIN, Germany (September 14, 2007) — The German government will allow the makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise as the country’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed.
Shooting of “Valkyrie,” which has attracted controversy because Cruise is a prominent Scientologist, began in July. At the time, the government didn’t give permission to shoot at the so-called Bendlerblock — part of the Defense Ministry and now a memorial to the anti-Nazi resistance — citing concerns over “the dignity of the place.”
Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said Friday that filmmakers had satisfied officials in recent talks that they were “aware of the particular significance” of the former military headquarters.
United Artists Entertainment LLC said in a statement that it was “extremely grateful to the German government for allowing us to film at the Bendlerblock.” It pledged to “take special care to respect its dignity and keep our activities there within the guidelines laid down by the government.”
“Filming at the Bendlerblock has always been important to us symbolically, creatively and for the sake of historical authenticity,” the statement added. “As a result, we have been in constant communication with the government in an effort to dispel any concerns or misperceptions about the nature of `Valkyrie.“’
The movie, directed by Bryan Singer and scheduled for release next year, stars Cruise as Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg — the aristocratic army officer who was executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Raabe said it appeared the movie would underline the fact that “barbarism did not win, but rather a democratic Germany finally arose.”
Stauffenberg and the other plotters of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt were caught and executed after Hitler survived the explosion at his headquarters in what was then East Prussia.
The government’s initial refusal to permit filming at the place where Stauffenberg worked and died led to speculation over whether Cruise’s religious beliefs had triggered the decision. Officials denied that.
But Raabe said experience with previous filming at the site in 2003 had been a factor in officials’ initial reluctance to grant permission. He didn’t elaborate.
Officials have noted that filming permission was granted at all other sites — among them, the area around the Finance Ministry, which was once the Nazis’ aviation ministry. (Source: Access Hollywood)
HOLLYWOOD – Extras hurt on Tom Cruise’s new movie Valkyrie have been told the production company was not responsible for the accident.
Eleven extras were injured when they fell off a driving truck last month.
Authorities for occupational health and safety insist no major safety defects were found on the vehicle–contrary to the claims of some extras. An inspection had shown the truck was safe.
It is claimed the extras failed to close the truck’s side covering properly, causing it to open in transit–absolving the production company of any blame.
Filming will now have to be controlled by a safety manager at all times. (Source: Hollywood)
LONDON (AFP) – Hollywood stars including Tom Cruise, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are expected to attend the 51st London Film Festival next month, organisers said Thursday.
The trio are due at the world premiere of “Lions For Lambs”, a political thriller directed by Redford and also starring Cruise and Streep which explores the impact of war through entwined plots in Afghanistan and the United States.
The festival — which runs from October 17 to November 1 — will include 184 features and 133 short films from 43 countries around the world. It will also include special strands on new Romanian and French films.
Announcing the line-up, artistic director Sandra Hebron said: “In a very strong year for world cinema, we are delighted to be able to present such a wide-ranging and high quality programme of films and special events”. (Source: Yahoo! News)
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They just stare at the camera and try to ignore that jester who’s waving a furry parakeet doll and trying desperately to get them to crack up. Kidding. I know Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie is a serious movie. A very serious movie in which Tom Cruise plays noble Count Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a man who tries to assassinate Adolph Hitler.
And just look at the very serious supporting cast of anti-Hitler compadres gathered for this odd, buzz-building sneak-peek pic. I’ll help you spot the other familiar faces:
- Kenneth Branagh would be the guy on the far right, the one with his arms tucked behind his back.
- Terence Stamp would be the suit leaning forward with his hands on the table, as if he is about to eat the photographer.
- Bill Nighy would be third from left, the upright fellow with his glasses on and his right arm perched just so on the round table. (E! Online)
Lions For Lambs, the first Tom Cruise vehicle to be released under the actor’s new United Artists banner, has been confirmed as the opening night movie at this year’s Los Angeles international film festival. The film, which premieres on November 1, looks set to spark controversy with its tale of military heroism in Afghanistan and political cowardice in Washington. Lions For Lambs stars Cruise alongside Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Inevitably a great deal is riding on the project. It is the actor’s first picture since being abruptly dropped by Paramount last year, reportedly over his Scientologist beliefs. (Guardian)
The set of her dad’s war movie could have proved a mite intimidating for Tom Cruise’s 15-month-old daughter Suri, but the youngster got plenty of reassurance in the form of a hug and kiss from the actor when she and mum Katie Holmes dropped by the location in Berlin’s trendy Mitte district.
The Mission: Impossible star gathered up the toddler in his arms, before turning his attention to his other best girl, Katie, who also received a smacker on the lips. The trio then strolled around the set, which was complete with fake snow and extras dressed in uniform as soldiers.
Tom seemed particularly keen to point out interesting features to the little one, who will, no doubt, get used to accompanying her famous parents on location.
In his latest flick, Rubicon - until now known by its working title of Valkyrie - the Hollywood powerhouse stars as Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, an aristocratic Nazi officer who mounted a failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the closing days of WWII. (HelloMagazine.com)
Click here to view more pics of Tom, Suri and Katie.
“The Tom Cruise-starrer is not scheduled for any other fall festival.
The American Film Institute announced today that the highly anticipated Tom Cruise drama “Lions for Lambs” will be the opening-night film for AFI Fest 2007.
Directed by Robert Redford, “Lambs” is the first release under the Paula Wagner / Tom Cruise regime at United Artists.
The picture stars Redford, Cruise and Meryl Streep, and is described as a politically charged drama centered around two American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions (Cruise) who may have a hand in their fates. Streep plays a TV journalist poised to land a major story with the help of the senator. Redford appears as an idealistic college professor who is torn by the choices of two of his former students.
“We think it’s an exciting film and an important film,” Wagner, UA’s chief executive, said in a statement released today by AFI. “And this is the perfect way to introduce it to the public.”
So far, it’s the only festival selection for “Lambs.” The picture is not scheduled to screen at any of the other upcoming fall film festivals, including Venice and Toronto.
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and fortunately she also takes some time to appear at the Dutch Film Festival.”
