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| Posted: 01 Jul 2007 06:48 AM CDT Hélène send me a link to a YouTube video of Tom in Amsterdam! Click here to watch it. Thanks Hélène! |
| Tom Cruise ‘Happy’ About Beckhams’ Move to L.A. Posted: 30 Jun 2007 09:47 PM CDT FRIDAY JUNE 29, 2007 09:00 AM EDT By Maaike Ruepert Tom Cruise with fans in Amsterdam on June 28 Photo by: ROBERT VOS / AFP / Getty How does Tom Cruise feel about David and Victoria Beckham’s upcoming move to Los Angeles? “I’m very happy about that,” he told PEOPLE Thursday in Amsterdam. Asked if he thinks the soccer player and his wife will become big Hollywood stars, Cruise, 44, replied: “They already are.” The Cruises and the Beckhams are longtime pals, and Cruise and wife Katie Holmes recently helped their friends celebrate their final night in Spain before their move. Cruise, who spent last week in the French Riviera with Holmes and daughter Suri, 1, was in the Dutch capital promoting his drama Lions for Lambs on the final day of Europe’s Cinema Expo movie-distributors’ convention. Accompanied by his producing partner Paula Wagner, Cruise showed a five-minute clip of the movie, in which he plays a congressman opposite Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The actor, wearing a black suit and sunglasses, spent only a few hours in Amsterdam, spending almost an hour signing autographs, taking pictures and joking with fans – even signing one admirer’s forehead. He laughed when local reporters gave him three pairs of traditional Dutch wooden clogs – two adult-size pairs and one tiny set. “Are the others for Katie and Suri? Thank you!” he said. Cruise said he couldn’t figure out why he hadn’t been to Amsterdam before, adding: “It’s beautiful.” (Source: People) |
| Plot Thickens in a Tom Cruise Film, Long Before the Cameras Begin to Roll Posted: 30 Jun 2007 09:30 AM CDT
LOS ANGELES, June 29 — When the director Bryan Singer decided to cast Tom Cruise as Col. Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the German Army officer who tried to blow up Hitler toward the end of World War II, he thought he had dealt with all the possible pitfalls. There was the knotty matter of accents, but the director figured that Mr. Cruise and everybody else in the movie, "Valkyrie," would do fine if they spoke unaffected English. The cost of affording the high-wattage Mr. Cruise could also be problematic, but the star took the job for a nominal salary, agreeing to get his cut after the tickets were sold — a deal helped by his part ownership of United Artists, the studio behind the picture. What Mr. Singer did not reckon with is Germany's open hostility toward Mr. Cruise's religion. "Frankly, I was not aware of the issue of Scientology here in Germany," Mr. Singer said in a telephone interview from Berlin this week, shortly after news reports that military officials would ban "Valkyrie" from filming at the Bendler Block, where Colonel Stauffenberg was executed in July 1944 for his leading role in the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Mr. Cruise's affiliation with Scientology was cited as a reason for the supposed ban. As "Valkyrie" prepares to begin shooting on July 19 — a day before the 63rd anniversary of the coup attempt — Mr. Singer and his colleagues are still puzzling their way through Germany's bureaucracy, and wondering how an attempt to lionize one of the country's anti-Nazi heroes could so quickly have gone wrong. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2007 09:17 AM CDT Cruise’s 45th birthday bash will be a family affair Washington, June 30: Tom Cruise is reportedly passing up with the opportunity to celebrate his 45th birthday in true Hollywood style for some quality time with wife Katie Holmes and his kids. The actor, who famously jumped on Oprah Winfrey’s couch announcing his love for Katie Holmes, and proposed to her on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, will reportedly be celebrating his big day in Germany. And, according to In Touch Weekly, Holmes is the one who has taken over the reigns of planning the celebration, reports the National Ledger. The mag also reveals that it won’t be a grand affair, but a low key celebration with his family. Apart from Katie and their daughter Suri, also celebrating will be Cruise’s older kids Isabel and Connor. A pal of the couple also reveals to the mag that Holmes is extremely happy with her hubby and the life they share. “Katie is happier than ever and she couldn’t be more in love with Tom,” the pal says. (DailyIndia.com) |
| Can or can’t Tom film at German military HQ? Posted: 30 Jun 2007 08:59 AM CDT Different stories on this! It seems Tom got all the permission to shoot since the Finance Ministry is the one who decides, and apparently they have given permission to shoot. Cruise film to work around German military site ban Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:23 AM IST Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung has made it clear the filmmakers could not shoot at any military sites if Cruise plays hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, because of his link to Scientology. Berlin regards it as a cult masquerading as a religion to make money, a view Scientology leaders reject. But the head of the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin, which will handle filming in Germany, said he had all necessary location permits, including for the so-called “Bendlerblock” where Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were shot after the attempt to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944, failed. The Bendlerblock is located in what is now the Defence Ministry complex in Berlin. However, part of it is run by the German Resistance Memorial Centre and not the ministry, and Babelsberg Studios says it intends to shoot the film there. “They have given us permission like they have done for other Stauffenberg films before,” Carl Woebken, head of Babelsberg studios, told Reuters. The buildings’ official owner, the Finance Ministry, had also given permission, he said. “From our point of view, everything is ready to go.” A German government official said on condition of anonymity the filmmakers did not have a green light to begin filming at the Bendlerblock. This lack of a green light could complicate the shooting, scheduled to begin next month, he said. The film, slated for a 2008 release, will be directed by Bryan Singer and Kenneth Branagh will co-star. It is called “Valkyrie” after Operation Valkyrie, the plot’s codename. Sabine Weber, a Scientology spokeswoman in Germany, said German politicians were attacking top Scientologists like Cruise, one of the producers of the film, to get their names in the press. On the other hand, I’ve found this story, dated today, saying: Tom Cruise can’t film at German military HQ, authorities confirm Saturday 30 June 2007 13:49 Cruise, 44, is playing Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, the military officer who led the plot and was executed in a courtyard, close to his own office at the army and navy HQ known as the Bendlerblock. “This place of remembrance and mourning would lose its dignity if it were to be used as the backdrop to a film,” said Torsten Albig, a spokesman for the finance ministry, which is responsible for the administration of the building. Germany’s defence ministry had earlier spoken out against the building being used as a location for the film, shooting for which is expected to begin on July 19. (Jurnalo) It seems the second story isn’t accurate, and it’s logical to believe a more trustworthy news source like Reuters. So I think we can conclude everything will be okay regarding the shoot. If there’s more insight to the story, we will let you know! And if indeed the Jurnalo story is inaccurate, I will delete it from our site. For now I did want to report it, since we’re not out of the woods with all the reports. |
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