Thu Dec 27, 10:52 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Peter Berg, the director of “The Kingdom,” is in talks to shoot “Edwin A. Salt,” a spy thriller starring Tom Cruise. The story centers on a CIA officer who is fingered as a Russian sleeper spy.

He eludes capture by superiors who are convinced that he is out to assassinate the president and struggles to find the true traitor while attempting to reunite with his family.

The Columbia Pictures project has seen several directors come and go, including Terry George (“Hotel Rwanda”) and Michael Mann (“Miami Vice”).

Berg met with Cruise twice in the past couple of weeks to discuss the script and is intent on making “Salt” his next project. He had wanted to go with “Lone Survivor,” but the script for the Universal project needs additional work.

Columbia hopes to make “Salt” in the summer, though the Hollywood writers strike and upcoming directors and actors contract talks could factor into shooting dates.

Berg is in postproduction on “Hancock,” starring Will Smith as a tortured superhero, which Columbia is releasing July 2.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter (Source: Yahoo! News)

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (December 21, 2007) — Kathy Hilton thinks you might want to own a pair of Mel Gibson’s jeans, Dean Martin’s golf club or Tom Cruise’s autographed Ray-Ban shades.

That’s why she collected these and two dozen other items from her famous friends and put them up for sale on eBay. Money raised from the online auction will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“Christmas is my favorite time of year,” said Hilton, mom to famous daughters Paris and Nicky. “I worked with Make-A-Wish before, and I wanted to do something really special for Christmas.”

Hilton said she turned her bedroom into an office and worked the phones for a week straight, calling “different celebrities and sports figures and just seeing what I could get.”

Even she was impressed with the take, which includes a pair of Johnny Carson’s cuff links, Lucille Ball’s teacup and saucer, and an “Ocean’s Thirteen” script signed by the film’s cast.

“I love the Tom Cruise sunglasses,” Hilton said. “I would love to have any one of these things.”

The online auction ends Wednesday.

“Hopefully this goes well and I’ll make it an annual thing,” Hilton said. But she won’t be able to check out the items online: “I don’t know how to work the computer.” (Source: Access Hollywood)

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Here are some Katie Holmes’ articles talking about Tom, marriage and Suri.

Friday December 21, 10:47 AM
Katie Holmes’ marriage ‘full of thrills’

Katie Holmes says marriage to Tom Cruise has not changed her.

“With everything that’s happened, I still feel the same,” she tells Parade magazine in its December 23 issue. “I’m really happy being a mom, being a wife.”

The 29-year-old “Dawson’s Creek” alum has seen her profile rise since Cruise publicly declared his love for her on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in May 2005.

Holmes says she understands the curiosity about her life with Cruise, 45, an Oscar nominee for his roles in “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Magnolia.”

“I appreciate the man that I’m with and my family and my work. I feel very lucky to be able to say that. I mean, what we do in a week is extraordinary,” she says.

“I have done things I never thought I would do, like climbing mountains and flying in the P-51 (a World War II fighter),” says Holmes. “That’s what is so inspiring about being with him – constant thrills and joy.”

Holmes and Cruise were married in November 2006, seven months after the birth of their daughter, Suri, who tags along on their travels.

“We don’t like to be away from her,” Holmes says. “She’s very aware. We take her to the park in each city and walk around. This summer, when Tom was working in Germany, she’d wake up and say, ‘Hello, Berlin.”‘

Holmes, who co-stars with Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah in the upcoming comedy “Mad Money,” says she’s looking forward to spending the holidays in Telluride, Colorado, with Cruise and their relatives.

“We always make a lot of sugar cookies with decorating and sprinkles,” she says. “Suri will be in the dough everywhere.” (Source: Yahoo! News)

Katie: Tom’s Kids ‘Call Me Mom’
Posted by ExtraTV Staff on December 20, 2007 2:24 PM

Katie Holmes is opening up about her marriage to Tom Cruise, revealing that his kids with ex-wife Nicole Kidman call her “mom.”

Katie tells Parade magazine that she’s close with Isabella, 15, and Connor, 12, and that Tom is a “great father and husband.”

Earlier this week, “Extra” spotted the two celebrating Katie’s 29th birthday at Beverly Hills’ swanky Raffles l’Hermitage, where they risked running into Britney Spears! Brit has been a staple at the hotel lately, and a swarm of paparazzi have camped out to catch a glimpse of her. She was even seen exiting the hotel later that night. (Source: Extra tv)

Katie Holmes On Marriage To Tom: ‘We Have So Much Fun’
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (December 20, 2007) – Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have created a happy blended family.

Katie Holmes sat down with Parade Magazine and opened up about their family life and her marriage to Tom Cruise.

It appears Tom’s children with Nicole Kidman, Isabella and Connor, are taking quite well to their stepmother.

“They call me ‘Mom’,” Katie tells Parade. The admiration appears to be mutual, with Katie saying of Isabella and Connor, “[they’re] incredible, really smart, and kind.”

Katie and Tom and all the kids are busy prepping for the holidays. She’s looking forward to Suri’s second Christmas.

“Last year was Suri’s first Christmas. It was so spectacular to share the holidays with her,” Katie told the magazine. “It really meant the world to me. To be able to create a tradition for your children is one of the best gifts you can have.”

The best gift for Katie might be her one-year marriage to Tom.

“Oh, we have so much fun,” she told Parade. “Tom has introduced me to so many new experiences. I have done things I never thought I would do, like climbing mountains and flying in the P-51. That’s what is so inspiring about being with him – constant thrills and joy.”

One recent thrill for Katie was returning to the big screen, after taking two years off. She will star next in “Mad Money” alongside Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, which opens on January 18, 2008.

She loved the girl-time with her co-stars, saying, “We got our morning female talk in the trailer every day.” (Source: Access Hollywood)

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Click here to watch Tom & Katie leave the l’Hermitage hotel where they spend the night, celebrating Katie’s 29th birthday.

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People.com voters named Suri best dressed celebrity kid, and she deserves it! Katie has excellent taste, but we already knew that!
People has a Suri gallery, go see it here. Tom & Katie are also one of People’s “cutest couples of 2007″.

Katie also won; People.com readers thought she was the one who looked best every day.

Check out our gallery or pictures at Katie-Holmes.org to see how great (and happy) the Cruise family looks.

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Happy 29th Birthday Katie! Hope you have a wonderful time with your friends & family!

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Josh Grossberg Tue Dec 18, 9:03 AM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Thanks to yet another production hangup, Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie won’t be taking flight as planned.

United Artists and MGM have postponed the WWII thriller from Jun 27 to Oct. 3, 2008 to give director Bryan Singer extra time to film a key battle sequence.

For Valkyrie, Cruise wields an eye patch and a German accent to play Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi colonel who plotted the only known assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler.

The studios, which are cofinancing and codistributing the film, pushed back the premiere because Singer has struggled to find a suitable location to shoot the pivotal scene in which Cruise’s character is severely wounded in Africa and ends up losing his eye and a hand.

Following that incident, von Stauffenberg returned to Germany and hatched a conspiracy, dubbed Operation Valkyrie, to blow up Hitler with a bomb in his bunker to bring a swift end to the war.

Producers initially planned to film the battle somewhere outside the U.S., but that plan was scrapped for unspecified reasons.Instead United Artists—which is run by Cruise and partner Paula Wagner—is searching for a new locale within the States.

“We wrapped our production in Germany in October, but there was a desert sequence that needed to be prepped and the location finalized,” explains UA spokesman Dennis Rice. “But with all the schedules and logistics we won’t be able to shoot that until the end of February. We wanted to do what’s right [in terms of marketing] and not put Bryan in a jam, so we said let’s postpone it.”

With the company’s first Cruise-led flick, Lions for Lambs, failing to generate commerical or critical success, UA has a lot riding on Valkyrie, which is easily the most ambitious project on the company’s slate.

Had Valkyrie remained on schedule, its chief competition would have been Disney-Pixar’s animated robot farce, Wall-E, which was due to open the same day. Universal has since slotted the comic book movie, Wanted, into the vacated date.

The October calendar is more crowded, but there are fewer films featuring actors of Cruise’s star power.Valkyrie will now go up against The Express, Universal’s football biopic starring Dennis Quaid; RocknRolla, Warner Bros.’ Guy Ritchie-helmed crime saga with Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven and Thandie Newton; and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Sony’s punk romance starring Michael Cera.

The fall slot would also provide prime positioning for Valkyrie’s presumed awards-season run. The film features an Oscar-worthy cast that, aside from Cruise, includes Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Fry and Terence Stamp. The script is by Christopher McQuarrie, the Academy Award-winning scribe behind Singer’s 1995 breakthrough, The Usual Suspects.

The delay is the lates bit of Sturm und Drang to beset Valkyrie since shooting began over the summer.

First, members of von Stauffenberg’s family, most notably the count’s son, suggested Cruise didn’t possess the gravitas to do justice to his father’s legacy.

Then, German officials initially refused to grant the filmmakers permission to shoot in the Bendlerblock memorial site, where von Stauffenberg and his coconspirators were executed in 1944 for the failed coup and filming is typically verboten. But after intense negotiations and lobbying by the German film industry, the decision was reversed.

In June, a conservative member of parliament posted a statement on her blog from Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung, claiming Valkyrie would not be received well in Germany due to Cruise’s close ties to Scientology.

Two months later, 11 extras were injured on the set when they fell off the back of a truck while filming a scene. All were treated at a hospital for minor cuts and bruises and released.

Finally, nighttime footage Singer and crew filmed in late September at the Defense Ministry ended up being irreversibly damaged after being given the wrong chemical during development, necessitating reshoots.
(Source: Yahoo! News)

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