Oct
21

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More from Joss Stone:

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.

Collateral $100 million dollar ad

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October 21, 2004   //   Collateral, General and War of the Worlds   //   7 Comments   //  

7 Comments to “Random news”

• October 21, 2004 at 6:35 pm
  Anonymous says:

  when’s the 2nd part of the letterman interview coming out?
• October 21, 2004 at 8:33 pm
  Luh says:

  Good question!!
• October 22, 2004 at 10:53 am
  JamesBeckerson says:

  I clicked “comments” just to type this question
• October 22, 2004 at 4:52 pm
  Luh says:

  I am confused!
  What i have to do to leave a coment(participate) in the forum? I am brazilian, i’d like to talk in portuguese, cause i dont understand inglish very well…
  I have to register and leave my message, that´s all?
  Please, somebody help me!!
  Thanks!
• October 23, 2004 at 5:37 am
  JamesBeckerson says:

  There’s a link to forum at the top of tomcruisefan.com. Yes, You have to register, choose Your nickname, password and such things, and there is special section on the forum where You can talk in Portugese.
• October 24, 2004 at 3:08 pm
  Luh says:

  OMG!!
  Thanks!!
  You saved my life!
• May 08, 2006 at 4:58 am
  Mark says:

  Hello. Liked your site very much. Great design and content!

Feb
14

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Don’t forget to keep VOTING for Tom at the AOL moviegoer awards.

A few release dates for Collateral

USA -6 August 2004

Belgium 29 September 2004

France 29 September 2004

Germany 30 September 2004

Netherlands 30 September 2004

Brazil 31 December 2004

Argentina 13 January 2005

TLS nominated at the 30th annual Saturn awards. The film was nominated for:

Best Action Adventure Film

Best Actor- Tom Cruise

Best supporting Actor- Ken Watanabe

Sosuke Ikematsu- Best a performance by a younger actor

Edward Zwick- Best Director

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February 14, 2004   //   Movie News   //   1 Comment   //  

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• February 15, 2004 at 8:47 am
  esmeralda says:

  I haven’t seen the last samurai yet but is all around my country cinema circle that his (Tom’s)performance is unique…
  “it is a film about war but keeps you on the chair and never tires you”
  I will try to skip from my musical rehearsal and go see it this week.
  As for the DVD is being said that it loses from its magig, so prefer the big screen!

Nov
2

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Warner Brother created a FYC website for the Last Samurai.

Also, here’s more for ya on Mission Impossible 3 release date

And, a phone chat with Ngilia Dickonson, the costume designer for TLS. View it here. Also, an interesting article on Ken Watanabe from NY times, you can check that out over here. And last but not least, a huge thanks to Kendra, for scanning the Marie Claire articles. You can look at them here. Larger scans will be coming soon.

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November 2, 2003   //   General   //   3 Comments   //  

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• November 02, 2003 at 6:36 pm
  Judith says:

  love the article but the last page was missing! Tom looks toooooo sexy in black and white!
• November 03, 2003 at 11:27 am
  marta silva says:

  I love the article but was missing one page from the article.
  As for FYC of TLS was great to see and to visit it.
• November 03, 2003 at 3:32 pm
  Chantal says:

  GREAT GREAT GREAT!!! THANKS for all the hard work!!