Hey guys! I’m back! And guess what happened? I was amongst the audience to watch Jamie Foxx on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno having no idea that Tom Cruise would make a surprise appearance. I MET TOM CRUISE! Well technically! You can hear me having a heart attack when you watch the show, of course, you can visit the forums with my detailed encounter!
On to the news.
Collateral Cast will be on Good Morning America all this week. All the Entertainment shows are having a Collateral week, don’t forget to check that out.
Jeff Wells RAVES about Collateral. Calls it Cruise’s best performance to date and predicts he will be nominated. Read the review here
Collateral Rave number 2. Read here!
Now comes Collateral, a 21st Century crime noir thriller in which Tom Cruise plays a hitman who’s really good at killing people. It seems somehow appropriate that Cruise and co-star Jamie Foxx are both at the top of their game, since director Mann returns to the stylish suspense drama that made him a top filmmaker to begin with. Despite being contrived and predictable at times, Collateral ultimately succeeds as a beautifully shot, well-acted and thoroughly engrossing psychological drama that closes the noteworthy part of the summer movie season with a veritable bang.”
Oh look! Another positive review!
“The main selling point of this movie isn’t Michael Mann’s name, but rather getting to see Tom Cruise play a bad guy. Is he good when he’s bad? You better believe it. One thing I’ve always said about Cruise is that he gives 110% in all of his performances, regardless of how strong or weak the script may be. This film holds true to that theory. Cruise maintains his attractive leading man qualities, but takes us down a different road entirely. Watching him work is fascinating, particularly through the eyes of Michael Mann.”
Variety likes the film, loves the performances!
Collateral will play at the Venice Film Festival in September
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Lots of Collateral News. First, some new pictures. View them here.
Collateral at the LA Film Festival:
Cruise, Foxx, Mann are presenting selected new scenes from Collateral and sitting for a discusson on their collaboration on Friday, 6/18 at 7:30 PM at the Pacific Theatre in LA. This is all in conjunction with the LA Film Festival which kicks off today.
here is an absolute new and gorgeous picture of Tom, taken on June 3rd, in Santa Monica. Thanks Pili.
Michael Mann’s COLLATERAL Named Opening Night Film of the 8th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival
The highly-anticipated thriller COLLATERAL, starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo under the direction of Michael Mann, has been selected as the opening night screening of The Eighth Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by MTV 2. The star-studded event will be held on Wednesday, August 4 at the Magic Johnson Theaters in the heart of uptown Manhattan with principal cast and filmmakers in attendance.
COLLATERAL is the perfect film to open this year’s Urbanworld. Not only because of the explosion of talent both in front of and behind the camera. But, because this picture illustrates what the term ‘urban’ truly represents in 2004,” explained festival founder Stacy Spikes. “‘Urban’ is about sensibility, not just ethnicity. Michael Mann captures the essence of this ideal through his breathtaking images of Los Angeles and the diverse populations that make our cities thrive.”
Here is the full article.
Lastly, two new photos of Tom:
Picture 1
Picture 2
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EW’s summer pick:
Michael Mann thinks Tom Cruise is at his best when he’s playing bad. So while some may prefer the winking charmer from ”Top Gun,” the ”Ali” director prefers Cruise served up slick and angry, like the seething motivational speaker he played in ”Magnolia.” In Mann’s new movie, the actor, his pretty head of hair shorn and dyed a gunmetal gray, plays Vincent, an assassin with a fast mouth and a cold heart. ”He does baaaaad things,” fizzes Mann, ”and you can’t take your eyes off him.” Costar Jamie Foxx seconds the casting choice. ”Michael Mann is a genius,” he says. ”Because we know that Tom Cruise is a good-lookin’ dude. But the thing about good looks — when you make ‘em evil, man, it’s an interesting thing.”
Foxx plays Max, a mild-mannered, classical-music-loving L.A. cabbie, and the story kicks into high gear when Vincent, a killer on the hunt, slips into his backseat. ”It’s going to be a real ride,” promises Cruise. ”The structure of the screenplay, you could tune your piano to it.” ”The whole movie traverses Los Angeles in one night,” says Mann. ”From a high-end norteño disco with 3,000 people in it or a club in Koreatown or Leimert Park in South Central, we’re taken there by Max and Vincent.”
The chemistry between Cruise and Foxx flowed even when the cameras weren’t rolling. Foxx, who unironically refers to himself as the Inspiration, went so far as to nickname his costar the Intangible: ”I said, ‘Because you’re good-lookin’ and you’re still honest and courteous and kind.”’ With two such heady forces playing his leads, no wonder the director was able to relax and enjoy himself. ”Michael Mann definitely has a reputation,” says Foxx, who worked with him on ”Ali.” ”His shoots can be grueling. But he smiled on this movie! We all became friends. They even ended up at my birthday party. My homies were like, ‘Yo, what the hell is Michael Mann and ‘Last Samurai’ doing up in here?!”
Also, PLEASE keep voting for Tom for the MTV movie awards. You can vote as many times as you like. Heck, I gave him 300 votes in 20 minutes.
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Entertainment Weekly’s 2004 preview:
Collateral
Tom Cruise is a baaaad man. At least he plays one in Michael Mann’s new movie. Grizzled and scarred, Cruise is a contract killer on the hunt in L.A. Mann, who has a history of challenging actors with unexpected roles — Russell Crowe in ”The Insider,” Will Smith in ”Ali” — loved the idea of Cruise indulging his blacker side. ”He brings so much aggression and charged energy to this character and a kind of dark, wonderful humor to it,” says the director.
To get into the head of a hired gun, Cruise became close friends with a firearm, trained in hand-to-hand combat, and dabbled in undercover surveillance. His foil in the movie is Jamie Foxx, who plays a cabbie forced to chauffeur the killer to his crimes. (Rounding out the cast, Mark Ruffalo and Peter Berg are cops, and Jada Pinkett Smith plays a marked woman.)
The story kicks off at dusk and climaxes by dawn. ”The structure of the screenplay, you could tune your piano to it,” promises Cruise. ”It’s that tight and that sharp.” Meanwhile, Mann has turned his cast and crew into a gang of night crawlers. ”The night in L.A. is alive,” he says. ”The whole evocation of life cruising through the night is to me a really interesting odyssey to try to base a film on.” Sounds like we should catch the midnight show.
And of course, a new picture! (click to enlarge)
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Interview with the screenwriter of Collateral
A case in point is DreamWorks and Paramount’s thriller “Collateral,” directed by Michael Mann and starring Tom Cruise which goes into production in early October after many years of twists and turns. Produced by Julie Richardson, its screenplay is by Stuart Beattie and Frank Darabont.
‘Collateral’ was actually the first idea I ever had for a film,” Beattie explained. “I was riding in the back of a cab from the airport in Sydney. I must have been 17 or 18. And I just started chatting with this cabbie. And by the time he dropped me home, we were just talking like best mates. I had one of those weird sicko thoughts like, ‘I could be some homicidal maniac and you don’t know. You’ve got your back to me. You’re talking to me like we’re friends (but) I could be anyone.’ It just occurred to me that cabs are a very unique place in our world where two total strangers get into very close confines with each other and trust each other implicitly. And the driver’s got his back to you. It just seemed ripe for tension and (felt like there was) a great movie in there. That’s really where it came from.”
Even when what evolved into “Collateral” found a home at DreamWorks, there still wasn’t what you could call clear sailing.
“I ended up doing six or seven months of work on it for them,” Beattie noted. “Then, basically that’s it. It’s around on a shelf. Frank did a draft. He did a polish on it that he always wanted to do. I came back on and did another polish, you know, of his polish. It just kind of sat there. It basically became a great writing sample for me. It went all around town and people really responded to it. So I started getting a lot of work off that script. For those three years it was just basically getting me work everywhere. It was one of those scripts where people would just pass it on to each other and say, ‘Hey, you should read this.’ It wasn’t just my agent saying, ‘Read this’ for a job or something.’ It really took on a life of its own.”
Russell Crowe also gave the project a boost when he attached himself to it for about six months, briefly attracting Mann in the process.
“And then Russell bowed out, I think, because it just was taking too long. Michael came back on again. It was pretty much after Russell bowed out that Tom (came aboard). I think it was probably a call from Michael to Tom saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got this thing. Look, we’ve always wanted to work together’ and all that kind of stuff. It’s really when you get such a classy director on like that that things really start to move.”
Cruise has expressed interested at times in playing a villain and he clearly got his wish granted with “Collateral.”
“Yeah, he’s certainly a villain,” Beattie said. “You know, he’s the kind of guy you’d like to have around for dinner if it wasn’t for the fact that he killed people for a living. He’s a nice guy in (that) he’s outgoing and personable. He’s humorous and everything, but unfortunately he kills you. That’s the problem. If you meet him, you’re probably dead. But he’s got a very businesslike approach to life — (with) six billion people on the planet, what’s the difference if you lose one or two people?”
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Jada Pinkette Smith to join Collateral?
“Jada Pinkett Smith is in talks to star in director Michael Mann’s Collateral, the DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures co-production. Dates are still being worked out for the actress to join the Tom Cruise starrer, which is scheduled to begin filming next month.
The Stuart Beattie-penned project stars Cruise as a contract killer who forces a taxicab driver (Jamie Foxx) to chauffeur him around on a series of hits. Pinkett Smith will star as the love interest of Foxx’s character (Annie) .
Val Kilmer also recently signed onto the project, playing a detective on Cruise’s heels. Irma Hall rounds out the cast as the mother of Foxx’s character.”
Fliming begins next month.
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LOL!
June 19th, 2004 at 4:14 am
What are stalking tom cruise? both photos seem to be taken hidden in a tree. where is he in these photos anyway?
June 19th, 2004 at 4:15 am
It looks like a book store or sumthing…
June 21st, 2004 at 12:08 pm
w0w!I say hes a hunk a hottie?
June 22nd, 2004 at 8:16 pm
what is ths???? what’s wrong with you? who took this pictures ??when is this event of “feel free to take Toms tail-gate party pictures ” event happened?? lol
June 22nd, 2004 at 8:23 pm
oh….okey….mmmmm…looks like Tom is about to open the door for some ladies as gentleman…. oh!God! snap!! what a nice guy!! he is the man dude!!!
October 14th, 2005 at 9:47 pm
Tom Cruise rocks! I like your blog a lot. I will have to bookmark it.