Isn’t this awesome?

Following in his parents’ footsteps, Connor Cruise will make his film debut in the upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds, PEOPLE has learned.

Connor, 13 – who has grown up around movie sets with mom Nicole Kidman and dad Tom Cruise – will play a young version of Smith in a very minor role. Even with such famous acting mentors in his corner, Connor had to audition for the part.

“Tom is so proud of Connor,” says a source. “He’s proud of him for really doing this on his own.”

The Columbia Pictures film, which is still in production, also costars Woody Harrelson and Rosario Dawson.

Source: People.com

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Mon Apr 14, 4:38 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Documentary Channel has signed a deal with Imax Corp. for the exclusive U.S. rights to 21 library titles, including the Tom Cruise-narrated “Space Station.”

The films, which represent some of Imax’s most successful with a combined gross box office of more than $600 million, will be televised for the first time in the U.S. as a result of the deal. Other titles include the Tom Hanks-narrated “Magnificent Desolation” as well as “T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous.”

The 2-year-old Nashville-based network plans to air them throughout the year. Imax has made the movies available in specially remastered high-definition and traditional broadcast formats.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

(Source: Yahoo! News)

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Commenting that in Hollywood, “doing business with your enemies is inevitable,” the Wall Street Journal reported today (Friday) that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone and Tom Cruise got together Thursday for a friendly luncheon at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, one of LA’s most public places for a rapprochement. Redstone, who booted Cruise off the Paramount lot two years ago and criticized Cruise’s behavior during his interviews to promote Mission: Impossible III, told the Journal following the meeting that the two had “agreed the past is the past and we wo uld put it behind us and renew our relationship.” A spokesman for Cruise declined to comment.
(ContactMusic)

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OK! Magazine has a nice article about Shiloh and Suri in this week’s issue. I can’t resist posting this picture of the frontpage of OK! Magazine…

SHILOH & SURI: They’re Big Girls Now!
Two years ago, the world awaited as the two most famous couples on the planet, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, prepared to each celebrate the births of their little girls. And now, as Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Suri Cruise begin their second years, OK! takes a look at the luxe lives being led by two of Hollywood’s most adorable tots — and just how their parents are planning on expanding their families.

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We got a nice little interview with Tom this weekend at the NASCAR event:

MEDIA BLITZ: TALKING NASCAR WITH TOM CRUISE. TOM CRUISE!
by Sam Alipour
You had me at … “Gentleman, start your engines.”

(Ed.’s note: The Mag sent contributor Sam Alipour to the Auto Club Speedway to write a story on Ryan Newman’s pit crew, and NOT to interview Tom Cruise. Let’s just say things worked out differently.)

Sam Alipour (like a cheerleader at a homecoming rally): Tom, Sam Alipour, ESPN The Magazine.

Tom Cruise: (Big smile) What’s up, man?

Alipour: Huge fan.

Cruise: (Bigger smile) Thanks man

Alipour: It’s funny, some of the guys on Ryan Newman’s team randomly told me this morning that they love Days of Thunder.

Cruise: (Average smile) That’s great. That’s great. (Signs an autograph for a young fan.)

Alipour: Do you get that a lot?

Cruise: (No smile) What do you mean, do I? I mean, I’m glad people like it. It was a very special film for me.

Alipour: Did it make you a NASCAR fan?

Cruise: You kidding? Absolutely. No, that’s how I came up with that idea. I was racing—I love racing. I was racing with (Paul) Newman. I wanted to make a movie about NASCAR because I grew up watching it.

Alipour: Any plans to do another sports movie?

Cruise: Yeah, if I can find something. I’d like to. That’s cool that they said that about Days of Thunder because I love that special, special film.

Alipour: Yeah, the Alltell guys are looking for you.

Cruise: (Laughs) That’s great.

Alipour: They’re tough guys, you know?

Cruise: (Laughs) I know man, I know. I worked with them (Big smile.)

Alipour: I bet they’d love to meet you.

Cruise: I wish I could, but I’m here with my son. (Smile)

Alipour: I hear ya. Just playing matchmaker. (I laugh.)

Cruise: (He laughs) I know. I know the drill man. (Big smile)

Alipour: You’re hanging out with Jimmie Johnson’s team—how do you know Jimmie?

Cruise: Yeah, I met Jimmie, but I’ve known Rick Hendrick forever. I met Jeff Gordon before. And I had a chance to meet Dale Earnhardt when we were doing Days of Thunder. I spent an afternoon with him. Real nice.

Alipour: Good dude?

Cruise: Yeah, great dude. Rick Hendrick I’ve known forever. He was very helpful during Days of Thunder. It’s amazing where NASCAR has gone since that film.

Alipour: You were on NASCAR before it was mainstream. Do you think that you helped contribute to its growth?

Cruise: There’s things that they did in the film visually, when you look at the cars, to make it cinematic. NASCAR was on a lot of that stuff already, but all of the technology we developed for the race scenes … (Shakes head.) I’m really glad that it’s getting as big as it is, because I love the sport. (Big smile. Extends hand.) Real pleasure.

Alipour: The pleasure was all mine. I will go to my grave saying this: You were robbed three times of the Oscar.

Cruise: (The biggest smile of all. Shakes my hand with more vigor.) Thanks, man. That really means a lot. What was your name again?

Alipour: Sam Alipour. ESPN The Magazine.

Cruise: Thanks man. A pleasure.

(He lets go of my hand, then turns away to sign more autographs, still smiling. I stand there for several minutes, like a creep, watching him.) (Source: ESPN Magazine)

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Katie Holmes has claimed that “time stopped” when she was first introduced to husband Tom Cruise.

The actress, who became engaged to Cruise after a whirlwind romance in 2005, said they had felt an immediate connection.

She told InStyle: “It happened in an instant. When you fall in love, it’s like time stops.”

She added that the relationship was still going strong, saying: “I try every day to make Tom know how much I love him. It gets better and better.

“[He] and I stay in really good communication with each other. I talk to him about anything, at any time. He works 48 hours straight, comes home, and if I ask, ‘Would you help me with this?’ he’ll do it.”

Holmes, 29, also praised her husband for his help during the birth of their daughter Suri in 2006.

She said: “I couldn’t have asked for a more supportive human being. He had the room ready, candles everywhere. It was very homey and beautiful.”
(Digital Spy, Wednesday, March 5 2008)

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are set to host a £100,000 party to celebrate the birth of Jennifer Lopez’s twins.

The ‘Top Gun’ star and the former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress are good friends with J.Lo and her husband Marc Anthony and have arranged a ‘Welcome to the World’ bash for the couple’s newborn boy and girl.

A source said: “Tom and Katie are thrilled for Jennifer and Marc and have offered to throw a party for the twins next month.”

The party at Tom and Katie’s Los Angeles home will have a pink and blue theme and guests expected to attend include John Travolta, Eva Longoria Parker and David and Victoria Beckham.

The soccer ace and his Spice Girl wife have offered to help Tom and Katie with the baby bash.

Meanwhile, David and Victoria have been getting advice from Tom on adoption.

The couple – who already have three sons, Brooklyn, eight, Romeo, five, and three-year-old Cruz – are keen to have a daughter and are reportedly considering adoption.

Tom has two adopted children, a daughter Isabella, 15, and 13-year-old son Connor, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.

A source said: “Victoria definitely wants a girl but she’s not sure she wants to go through a fourth pregnancy.” (Source: nz.city, 28 February 2008)

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Friday February 8, 09:28 AM
By Splash
Cher has confirmed for the first time she used to date Tom Cruise.

The veteran singer admits she and ‘adorable’ Cruise enjoyed a romance in the 1980s.

“He was just the most adorable man you can possibly imagine. I don’t understand the Scientology thing because I don’t understand it,” she told the Good Morning America TV show.

“Sonny was a Scientologist, I did not understand that either.”

Cher, 61, has announced she is coming out of retirement after three years, for a reported $60m residency at Caesars Palace Casino in Las Vegas.

The singer admitted that she suffers from depression, but that working helps her fight it off.

“When you have depression sometimes you feel like you are completely alone. But Work helps me a lot, I enjoy working, it keeps me moving and keeps me around people.

“You don’t get the chance to go ‘Oh what is life about?’ it keeps you productive.” (Source: Yahoo! xtra Entertainment)

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By Alexis Chiu

Originally posted Saturday February 02, 2008 06:40 PM EST

Friends Mourn Heath Ledger in Second L.A. Service | Heath Ledger
Friends and celebrity colleagues – including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller, Ellen DeGeneres and director Todd Haynes – gathered on the Sony lot in Los Angeles to remember Heath Ledger on Saturday, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The gathering included industry luminaries and those connected to CAA (the agency that represented Ledger), including Cruise and Holmes, who costarred with Michelle Williams on Dawson’s Creek. It comes a week after relatives and close friends – including ex-girlfriend Naomi Watts – paid tribute to the 28-year-old actor at a smaller service at an L.A. cemetery.

Saturday’s service began around noon on the lot, which is closed to the public. Attendees included Miller, Ledger’s Casanova costar, and Shannyn Sossamon, who starred with Ledger in A Knight’s Tale. Speakers included Haynes, who directed him in last year’s Bob Dylan film I’m Not There.

With reporting by JENNIFER GARCIA, ELIZABETH LEONARD and CYNTHIA WANG (Source: People)

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MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Lions For Lambs on 8th April 2008 priced at $29.98 SRP. Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep star in this thriller that explores the consequences of taking a stand. An idealistic professor (Redford) in California attempts to inspire a student to do more with his life, while a charismatic Senator (Cruise) in Washington D.C. pitches a new Middle East war strategy to a probing TV journalist (Streep). And halfway across the world, two of the professor’s former students are trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, fighting for freedom—and their very lives. As the tension mounts and the bullets fly, these Americans will change each other’s lives and the world in ways they never could have imagined.

Available in separate widescreen and full screen editions with English DD5.1 Surround audio, extras include commentary by director Robert Redford, “The Making of Lions For Lambs,” “Script To Screen” and “United Artists Legacy” featurettes and the theatrical teaser and trailer.

(DVDTimes)

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