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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) — Tom Cruise offered his most extensive public personal interview to date Monday night (Oct. 25) at UCLA discussing his career, family, Scientology and a few secrets he’s never before divulged.
“I’ve never done anything like this before, with showing clips,” says Cruise, laughing as he watched many of his movies shown on a big screen at a capacity crowd of 1,800 in Royce Hall. His family and friends, as well as longtime collaborator Paula Wagner was in the audience watching.

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According to Coming Soon the release date of War of the Worlds has been moved two days earlier, to June 29, 2005.

I will be changing the video of the week tonight

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The War of the Worlds to Get a New Title?

Dutch distributor UIP is reporting that the anticipated Paramount adaptation of H.G. Well’s 1989 novel, The War of the Worlds, is now going by a new title – “Out of the Night”. The Steven Spielberg-directed film, starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, is slated for a Summer 2005 release date.

Besides the studio actually renaming the film (which would probably lead to a negative fan reaction), several other things can be happening instead.

The movie starts shooting in November and “Out of the Night” could be its title during production, to keep unwanted guests away from set locations, among other things. Also, movies are often named differently overseas, which could be another possibility.

The studio had no comment on the “Out of the Night” title.

Source: Coming Soon

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TOM Cruise has become the highest-earning actor in Hollywood history after signing a deal that could earn him a staggering $520 million for his role in War of the Worlds.

Rather than agree to a set fee for his part in the Steven Spielberg-directed epic, Cruise will earn 10 per cent of the film’s box office takings plus a share of profits from DVDs, video games and toys.

And here’s how much this amount would be in UK pounds.

Cruise strikes War of Worlds deal
Tom Cruise is hardly short of cash, but he could make another £200 million by starring in Steven Spielberg’s planned version of The War of the Worlds.

Cruise isn’t getting a fee for the job, but will earn 10% of the film’s gross takings as well as a share of the merchandising.

By getting a cut of the gross rather than the net profits, Cruise is virtually guaranteed a big payday.

During the making of Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks struck a similar deal and took home something like £30 million, while author Winston Groom had a net deal and made about £200,000.

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Dakota Fanning, one of the busiest young actresses on this planet, will star with Tom Cruise in the Steven Spielberg-directed The War of the Worlds for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

Variety says that Fanning will portray the daughter of Cruise’s character in the film, which is being fast-tracked to start shooting in November.

In H.G. Well’s 1898 novel, martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until the very last.

David Koepp wrote the script for “Worlds,” which is on target for a summer 2005 release.
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Paramount Pictures recently swapped two of their summer tentpole movies for 2005 and 2006, with Tom Cruise and director Steven Spielberg now first taking on the adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, The War of the Worlds, for release next summer. Then, Alias creator J.J. Abrams makes his feature directorial debut on the Cruise sequel, Mission: Impossible 3 (“M:I-3″), which is targeting a summer 2006 release.

Entertainment Weekly caught up with Cruise while he was piloting his private jet to Mexico to talk about the two projects. Abrams is the third director to take on “M:I-3″, as David Fincher and Joe Carnahan were each attached at one point. “It’s deceiving, these kinds of movies,” Cruise says about the challenge. “They’re very complex. It’s not just action, it’s not just suspense, it’s not just the spy genre – it’s all of that.” So why Abrams? “He’s the first guy I went through the movie with who absolutely clicked in terms of being able to discuss the intricacies of character and story and tone.” He added that while he doesn’t watch much TV, Cruise checked out the Alias DVDs, liked what Abrams did with the story and character, and called him up.

The magazine asked whether or not the second sequel would be completely reworked now. “We don’t know yet,” said Cruise. “We’re just now talking about story. But it’s J.J. Abrams’ ‘Mission: Impossible’ that I’m interested in. The conceit for [the movies] was always that each one is different; it’s the director’s ‘Mission: Impossible’. You want the director to come in and own it.”

Which brings us to casting. Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh, and Scarlett Johansson were all announced to star in “M:I-3″, but Tom says that now depends on what Abrams wants. He mentions that at this point it’s “just me. I want to work with Carrie and Scarlett, and Kenneth is someone I’ve been wanting to work with for years, but you have to start with the director and see where he’s going to take us.”

Cruise also talked about how The War of the Worlds came about. “We were just releasing ‘Minority Report’ and Steven and I were looking for films to make together. I visited him on ‘Catch Me If You Can’ and we were talking about a couple of things and he says, ‘You know what? I think we should do ‘War of the Worlds’ together.’ I just looked at him and said, ‘Oh my God’. I was so excited. I’ve never made a sci-fi movie like this before.”

He adds that we have much to look forward to! “It’s going to be exciting, it’s going to be really scary, and it’s going to maintain the tone of H.G. Wells’ book. These guys are coming to dominate Earth. But I can’t get too much into it because David Koepp has already done a rewrite and Steven has been working on it and things are going to change. We’re just in the dream stage. We haven’t even cast it yet.”

Cruise says “Worlds” will be set in the U.S. but they have not decided on exact locations yet. Filming is expected to start in November.

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