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Tom has been nominated Best Actor, Collateral has been nominated Best Action/Adventure/Thriller and Michael Mann Best Director in the 31st Annual Saturn Awards. A full list of nominees can be found here. This year’s 31st Annual Saturn Awards will take place on Tuesday, May 3, at the Universal City Hilton Hotel
TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION, PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT, 2005
‘City Of Night - The Making Of Collateral’
Deleted scene with Michael Mann commentary
‘Shooting On Location In Annie’s Office’ featurette
‘Special Delivery’ featurette
‘MTA Train’ - visual effects featurette
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx rehearsal featurette
Easter eggs
Director Michael Mann takes the opportunity on this two disc Special Edition to discuss the interface between story and style in his slick LA noir.
One deleted scene (a chase sequence outside LAX) and the featurette ‘Shooting On Location In Annie’s Office’ focus on the film’s design and Mann’s use of digital video technology. Likewise a featurette explaining the use of green screen effects during Vincent’s MTA train scene. Short but worth a look is the ‘Special Delivery’ featurette in which an incognito Tom Cruise poses as a real-life Fed-Ex delivery man, and there’s an interesting comparison between rehearsals and the finished product in the ‘Tom Cruise And Jamie Foxx Rehearsal’ featurette.
Most of the meat is reserved for the 40-minute making of feature ‘City Of Night’. Mann, Cruise and Foxx are among those discussing what attracted them to the project (”all you have been and who you think you might be collapsed into the events of one night” says Mann). All the cast refer to the thoroughness of Mann’s characterisation and his rigorous attention to detail: Cruise learned to shoot with real ammo, Foxx took advanced driving lessons and Jada Pinkett Smith shadowed an attorney. The feature’s generously interspersed with rehearsal and behind the scenes footage, and the result is a decent window onto the director’s working methods.
Finally we have five easter eggs given over to behind-the-scenes footage, the value of which may depend on how long it takes you to find them.
Collateral was completely shut out at the Golden Globe nominees this morning. The film’s only nomination went to Jamie Foxx for Best Supporting Actor. Congrats to him! Access Hollywood ran a piece on this:
Back on the big screen, Jamie Foxx took home a nod for best actor in a supporting role for “Collateral,” however director Michael Mann, the film itself and co-star Tom Cruise received nothing.
“Tom Cruise — probably the biggest star who was thought to have a good chance at a nomination — walked away with nothing,” Karger noted.
Maybe in 2018, the hope will be revived :-). On a bright side, don’t forget to buy both Collateral and Top Gun S.E DVD’s tomorrow!
Collateral won several prizes from the NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW (NBR). It was placed number 9 on their top 10 list and Micheal Mann won Best Director for Collateral. If you are interested in a complete list, click here.
Updated the galleries with a whole bunch of Collateral FYC’s (For your consideration) Oscar ads. Check ‘em out here!
Don’t forget to vote for COLLATERAL, which is nominated at the People’s Choice Awards for best film. CLICK TO VOTE!
Some new pictures of Tom leaving a restaurant with his kids. Pictures can be viewed here.
Variety has some FYC (for your consideration) ads for Collateral. Here is some info on a new ad, featuring Tom Cruise on it:
“This is a UNIQUE Oscar Ad that was issued For The Film “COLLATERAL” Starring TOM CRUISE and JAMIE FOXX! The Ad is Featured On The FRONT COVER of The Nov 17, 2004 Edition of DAILY VARIETY! The Ad is a DOUBLE SIDED AD Made of Heavy Card Stock that Features Tom Cruise On The Front Of The Ad and Jamie Foxx on The Back! What makes This Ad Unique is that Inside The Ad is a BONUS DVD that Features Scenes From The Film! If you take a look at the Front of The Ad, you can see part of the DVD at the top of Tom Cruise’s Head! There is a flap on Tom’s Face that you would open in order to take out the DVD! The DVD is Still Unopened and Sealed inside the Ad so I wasnt able to view The DVD but I am Assuming that the DVD would Contain a Couple Minutes of Scenes From The Film and Maybe Some Interviews! I want to stress that this DVD is NOT of The Entire Film! I also Want to Stress that this Auction is ONLY For The Front Cover Featuring The Ad and DVD and is Not For The Entire Magazine! The Ad is an EXTRA LARGE AD Measuring Approx 11 x 14 inches! Ad is in Excellent Mint Condition and will be shipped Flat in an Envelope between two pieces of Sturdy cardboard! Winning Bid Pays $3.99 S/H Within the United States! International S/H is $8.99 with the Exception Of Canada which is $6.99! Check Out My Other Oscar Ad Auctions and Save on The S/H because I can ship as Many Ads as you Buy Together for the Same Price! “
All FYC ads will be up in the galleries tomorrow!
Spielbergfilms has a really great detailed report on WoTW locations, characters and visuals. Click here to read it!
Tom will be on GQ magazine cover, as their LEADING MAN OF THE YEAR. Three different covers include Tom Cruise, Jude Law and James Gandolfini and hits newsstands November 23.
Here’s an interesting article:
What if it were another Tom who “completed” Renee Zellweger’s character? Say, Tom Hanks, perhaps? Well, believe it or not, it almost happened.
As history would have it, writer/director Cameron Crowe had originally written the role of “Jerry Maguire” for Hanks. Considering the film’s overwhelming success, is Hanks disappointed he passed on the film?
“I think you look at it now and it couldn’t have been anybody other than Tom Cruise,” Hanks admitted to Access Hollywood. “That’s the way movies operate. I don’t think anybody would look at that now and say that movie was not perfect with Cuba and Renee and Tom. Those are the people who needed to be in that movie.”
“[Crowe] said he had this idea about a guy and his agent and that he worked on it for a really long time. But by the time he was ready to do it, I had written and was about to direct ‘That Thing You Do,’” Hanks continued. “So, Tom Cruise owes me a buck.”
Well, Mr. Hanks, allow Access Hollywood to go collect on that bet for you as our Billy Bush asked Cruise to make good on the buck.
“You owe him a dollar. Do you have a dollar? Because I’m going to see him in a few days so I could give it to him,” Billy told Cruise, as he scuffled through his pockets only to come away with nothing but lint. Just then, a passer-by handed the movie star a buck.
“Am I going to have to pay you back?” Cruise joked. “Here, give him a dollar.”
And how did Hanks respond to his newfound fortune when we met back up with him? “Debt paid! This is going to buy me a set of white wall tires,” he laughed.
So now we know that Tom replaced Tom. But would you believe this story gets even stranger. It appears to be a case of six degrees of separation from Renee Zellweger, as the “Jerry Maguire” script also landed in the lap of Renee’s “Bridget Jones” co-star Hugh Grant.
“I do remember them sending me the script for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ and I rang up my agent and I said ‘There must be some mistake because you sent me a good script,’ and they said ‘Sorry, yes, there is a mistake. That was actually meant for Tom Cruise,’” Grant revealed.
Conversely, the role of Dorothy Boyd was almost filled by someone other than Renee. A certain Latin diva who has made her mark in the worlds of movies and music — the now-Mrs. Marc Anthony — Jennifer Lopez.
Cinematorio has some great set pictures of War of The Worlds. Check it out here! and here
Tom Cruise in an adrenaline blast movie ‘Collateral’
A lot of directors could learn from this one and we’re not just talking Bollywood and Kollywood but ol’ Hollywood as well. Here you have a story about a contract killer on a tight schedule - five people, one night. You’d think something like this would mean large amounts of bloodsplattering, paragraphs of bad language, and some show of skin. Nope, none of the above.
Mann just gives you this edgy, fast-paced thriller that zips you from frame to frame without a moment’s pause. With as much action in the talk as in the action itself.
You have just two people to watch - Tom Cruise as Vincent with his silver hair and eerie monotone and Jamie Foxx as Max with his taxi cab and dreams. Vincent hires Max for the night, tells him he’s in the real estate business and has to make five stops in the one night. Max is fine with that, the man’s a good tipper, and the money’s going to get him closer to the limo he’s always wanted to own. But that’s only until the first body drops from the sky onto his windshield, shattering everything - the car, the night, his dreams. And Vincent, well, it’s just one down, four to go. And that’s your movie for the night.
A total adrenaline blast without the blood and gore.
Director: Michael Mann; Cast: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx
Some info from an Academy screening of Collateral:
‘COLLATERAL’
A crowd of 800 showed up at one screening, despite competition from the Olympics on television. That’s good for the film and for its director, Michael Mann, but could be complicated for Jamie Foxx. Unless he is up for supporting actor for “Collateral,” he faces competing with his lead role in “Ray,” considered a strong contender for best actor
Updated Collateral’s poster/DVD covers/Adverts section, with Region 1 and 2 DVD covers, DVD menus and random adverts. Check it out here!
Don’t forget to VOTE for Tom at the People’s Choice Awards. Remember, you have to delete your cookies in order to vote again.
After Tom Cruise mentioned on a TV talk show that he was a fan, he and Stone became friends. “I went over to his house for lunch,” she says. “He has this trampoline in the back garden, and of course he does all the flips, because he’s Superman; he can do anything. He’s so nice, just a normal guy. And I love it because he has no agenda. What does he need from me? He’s Tom Cruise.”
More box office:
“Collateral grabbed six No. 1 debuts over the weekend, including terrific debuts in South Korea, Italy, Australia and Spain. The biggest start came in Italy where the Michael Mann thriller grossed $2,710,036 from just 260 screens. That easily unseated Hero ($1.1 million second weekend, $4 million total) and topped such other Tom Cruise movies as Eyes Wide Shut ($2.5 million from 300) and Vanilla Sky ($2.2 million from 287) openings.
La Mala educación remained in third place in Italy with a second weekend haul of $995,300 (€809,800) from 231 screens, falling just 20% for a $2.9 million (€2.4 million) total. Director Pedro Almodovar’s latest openes Stateside on Nov. 19. In Spain, Collateral recorded a $2,183,384 debut from 337 screens, besting The Bourne Supremacy by 16% and Enemy of the State by 9%. South Korea was most surprising, however, with a massive $1,664,988 start from just 141 screens. That was better than Minority Report’s $1.2 million and one of the biggest openings for a U.S. movie this year.
In Australia, Collateral was able to keep fellow openers The Notebook and Open Water at bay with a $1,726,542 launch from 233 screens. It has a strong $7,410 per screen average, but wasn’t released widely enough to top most Tom Cruise pictures.
Collateral also had two strong No. 1 debuts in Finland and Turkey. Finland registered $128,802 from 30 screens narrowly unseating Home on the Range while Turkey had a $470,854 debut from 150 screens.
Collateral continued to do well in holdovers as well, lead by France’s third weekend gross of $1,211,259 from 470 screens for a 19-day total of $7,928,831. It was off 39% from last weekend.
Collateral ended up with a $12,305,376 weekend overall from 2,618 screens in 19 countries, shooting its total to $59,485,867. Still to go for the Tom Cruise-Jamie Foxx vehicle are Scandinavia and Japan, where Cruise has extreme star power.”
Wanna see Cruise around the world promoting Collateral? Click here.
So much news, you guys will go insane! Lets all take a deep breath and go through this.
Remember when the Cruiser called “The Edge” radio station (twice) back when he was filming The Last Samurai in New Zealand? (What? You don’t remember?! Check back in the news archieves and listen to the interview to refresh your memory!), well the Cruiser called the radio station again and the interview will be up on thursday on their official site. He told the dj’s that he would call back when WoTW is ready and get Steven Spielberg to call aswell. In the mean time, Cruise sent them some goodies, that you could win by checking their website:
Cruise, Oprah Tapped For Nobel Peace Prize Concert
Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will host December’s traditional Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, organizers told the AP Wednesday.
“They really wanted to do it, right from the start,” concert organizer Odd Arvid Stroemstad said by telephone Wednesday. “They clearly know what the Nobel concert is, and what the Nobel Peace Prize is about.”
As masters of ceremony for the Dec. 11 concert in the capital, Oslo, Winfrey and Cruise will share the stage with plenty of high-profile entertainment.
Entertainers booked to play the show include British teen soul singer Joss Stone, opera vocalist Andrea Bocelli, jazz singer Diana Krall, pop singer Cyndi Lauper and Patti Labelle, along with several Norwegian artists.
The Nobel concert will be carried live in more than 100 countries, and traditionally draws some of the biggest names in show business. Last year, the event was hosted by Hollywood husband-and-wife Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
When DreamWorks’ double-disc “Collateral” DVD hits stores Dec. 14, film buffs will get an unprecedented look into director Michael Mann’s style of filmmaking and a view into how stars Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx trained for their roles. The DVD’s bonus materials capture Mann’s private exchanges with the cast and crew and include a wealth of footage that unveils the creative and technical process that brought the actioner to life.
“City of Night: The Making of Collateral” highlights footage specifically shot for the DVD, with segments on Cruise as he goes through weapons training, Foxx’s preparation with cab drivers and his stunt driving practice and Mann’s use of state-of-the-art equipment that enabled him to capture a gritty view of nighttime Los Angeles.
Another DVD bonus feature, “Special Delivery,” shows Cruise donning a Federal Express uniform and striding through a busy marketplace in Los Angeles to hand-deliver a package, all captured on hidden camera.”
From Q Magazine.
…..“This is a movie that had legs, a concept that has all but vanished from the movie lexicon,” said Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co. “It didn’t open with this huge bang but slowly and successfully built this audience. It hung in there and was always in the mix.” …..
…..Collateral” is Cruise’s fifth consecutive film to gross at least $100 million domestically and 12th overall. Dergarabedian said it has been “the Cruise factor” that has enabled the actor’s last five movies, all vastly different from each other, to be commercial hits. They include “The Last Samurai,” “Minority Report,” “Vanilla Sky,” and “Mission Impossible II.” “The Cruise factor to me is that he does something like ’Samurai,’ ’Collateral,” or ’Vanilla Sky’ — which are not ’Mission: Impossible’ — and the audience will follow him wherever he goes,” he said. “Tom Cruise appears on the screen and $100 million is almost guaranteed, even if it takes awhile.”
Don’t forget, tomorrow Born on the Fourth of July Special Edition DVD hits stores. Click here for more details.
Cruise was in Japan this morning, more on that with pictures tomorrow. Also coming tomorrow, video of the week– David Letterman part the second!
Collateral hit the $100 million dollar mark today at domestic box office. Yay! It’s the 5th movie in a row for Cruise to top $100 million, tying with his previous record (Though, Hanks’ holds the record for 7) And it is still topping int’l box offiice:
Ending “The Village’s” five-week reign, “Collateral” was the weekend champ overseas, nailing $8.9 million from more than 1,800 screens, propelling its cume to $38.5 million in 24 territories. But, typifying the general malaise, it was the first time since the dog days of early March that the weekend’s top title earned less than $10 million. Tom Cruise (news) starrer ruled in France, Belgium, Holland and Poland and held reasonably well in its second assignation in Germany. Gallic crix raved about the hit-man saga, one hailing it as a “triumph of the American system when it’s put together by artists: entertainment in its highest form,” and another saluting director Michael Mann’s “new form of melancholic lyricism.”
“Collateral” knocked “Look At Me” off its perch in France but exhibs were satisfied with the perf of the dark comedy from helmer/thesp/co-writer Agnes Jaoui
The DVD cover for Collateral has been revised. Click here to view the new cover.
Some new information on the Collateral DVD. It’s set to release on Dec. 14. View the DVD cover art here. The 2-disc feature will include Deleted Scenes , Cruise and Foxx Rehersal Footage , Cast and Crew Interviews , City of Night: The Making of COLLATERAL , Visual FX: MTA Train , Trailers, TV Spots, Posters, Key Art.. In other Collateral news, it’s made a total of # 98.4 million at the US box office.
Here’s a cool Collateral picture from The New Yorker. Click on the picture below to view it:
Tons of new pictures. Cruise was at the US premiere of Sharktale last monday. Click on the images below to view all the pictures:
Tom is on the cover of Cinemania. Click here to view pictures.
And lastly, a few recent misc. public appearances. Pictures of Tom with his kids and his sister and pictures of Tom with Frank Darabont and Morgan Freeman for the DVD release of The Shawshank Redemption. Click on the pictures below to view the pictures:
Collateral is being released on dvd and vhs on December 14th, the same date as the Top Gun: Special Edition and The Return of the King Extended Edition dvd, so this will be a date that will make me broke. Sooooo much to buy!!! *lol*
Collateral had another nice weekend. It came in number 6, with $6,470,109 and a -36.3% drop, pushing it’s total to $80,758,614 and its WW total to $4,857,811 ($85,616,425 ).
A couple of videos from the Paris premiere. Click here and here to see it.
Wanna read the War of the Worlds online? Click here
Way to Blue has one pair of ticket to one lucky fan for the Collateral Premiere that will be held on Empire Leicester Square on September 2nd. Check this site for info on how to participate
Extra has a great video of the Collateral premiere in Mexico. Click here to see the video.
Collateral is doing some CRAZY numbers. It made $10 million this weekend, coming in at number 5. It’s turning out to be the most leggy film of the summer with a 35% drop (!). Its total in 17 days is $70,065,000 with $2,679,105 from overseas markets. It has already made it’s $65 million budget back. Lets keep supporting this movie!
More pictures from the Rolling Stone photoshoot have been added in the galleries. Click here to view them. (big thanks to Architect)
Collateral had an excellent second weekend making over $16 million, 34% drop from last weekend. It’s domestic total as of Aug 15 is $52,560,520 with an additional $1,252,300 from foreign markets, bringing it’s worldwide total (thus far) to $53,812,820
Good guy or bad guy, Tom Cruise is still No. 1. Cruise’s “Collateral,” in which he plays a psychotic hit man who hijacks a taxi for a one-night killing spree, debuted as the top weekend movie with $24.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
While the R-rated “Collateral” did only about half the opening-weekend business of Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” movies, its debut was in line with his last two R-rated films, 2003’s “The Last Samurai” ($24.3 million) and 2001’s “Vanilla Sky” ($25 million).
With good reviews and an older target audience, “Collateral” has potential to hold well at the box office in the coming weeks. Sixty percent of the audience was older than 25, according to distributor DreamWorks, and upcoming releases such as “Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” and “Alien vs. Predator” appeal to younger crowds.
“This one has the opportunity to continue to play,” said Jim Tharp, DreamWorks head of distribution. “I don’t think there’s direct competition especially for the older audience until late September.”
This marks as Cruise’s 12th film in a row to open at number one at the box office.
Here is the international report for Collateral box office.
Collateral opened day-and-date with the U.S. last weekend in four Asian markets and has very strong results. The Tom Cruise thriller was most potent in Taiwan with a $329,834 debut from 51 screens. With previews Collateral grabbed $432,686 there. In Thailand the film grossed $203,292 on 52 while Hong Kong was better with $280,858 on 28. In the Philippines the Michael Mann helmed production produced $168,983 on 71. The film totaled $982,967 for the weekend off 202 screens.
Cruise was on Leno last night. Pics will be in gallery tonight.
Cruise/Foxx Unscripted: video from the AOL Chat. That one is the edited version, in better quality. Or, you can view the Full Lenght Video, so you won’t miss anything!
This is perhaps the greatest interview Tom Cruise has given. Cruise telling how he almost killed a guy on Dave Letterman. Click here to watch the video.
Collateral opened on Friday with $ 8.2 million, making it the number one film for Friday. Fairly impressive. Lets hope it gets a nice increase over the weekend.
Universal has announced a special edition of the Oliver Stone directed Born on the Fourth of July which stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick and Willem Dafoe. The disc will be available to own from the 19th October this year, and should set you back around $19.98 in total. I’m afraid we have no details on the extra material at the moment, but we can tell you that the film will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, English DTS 5.1 Surround and French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo tracks.
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