Remember that scene in the movie Legend, where Tom Cruise uses mirrors to blast sunlight at Tim Curry? Yeah, well, there’s a town in Norway doing something similar to escape the five months of darkness enveloping the town every year. As reported by Popular Mechanics, the village of Rjukan has installed giant mirrors on a mountain which can illuminate one portion of the town square.
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Warner Bros. presented attendees at today’s San Diego Comic-Con with their first look at Edge of Tomorrow, the upcoming science fiction action film originally titled and adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need is Kill. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in the Doug Liman-directed movie, which opens domestically in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX on June 6, 2014.
And, yes, Tom Cruise was onstage to show off the film! Joining him up there were Emily Blunt, director Doug Liman, writer Chris McQuarrie, producer Erwin Stoft, and later Bill Paxton.
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Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow have renamed their Tom Cruise sci-fi action pic All You Need Is Kill, and just in time for the film’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con this week.
According to Deadline, the project is now called Edge of Tomorrow. The story, however, remains the same: When a military officer (Cruise) is killed in action, he gets stuck in a time loop and is forced to relive fatal combat over and over again.
Doug Liman directed the upcoming tentpole, which is scheduled to hit theaters on June 6, 2014.
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Universal’s sci-fi film Oblivion debuted atop the domestic weekend box office, scoring star Tom Cruise his biggest non-sequel opening since 2005’s War of the Worlds. It made a very respectable, but not stellar $38.2 million.
Here are the weekend box office estimates via Rentrak:
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/21/oblivion-opens-in-first-place-at-domestic-box-office
LOS ANGELES, April 21 (UPI) — “Oblivion,” starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $38.152 million in gross receipts.
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By Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Tom Cruise became a movie star during an era when a film’s success was less predicated on opening weekend. Like Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise made his name as Hollywood’s biggest and most consistent star when a $15 million opening weekend was very good, a $25 million weekend was fantastic, and a $100 million total was an unqualified smash hit. Before today, Cruise had six opening weekends above $25 million. They are Minority Report ($35 million), Interview with the Vampire ($36 million), Mission: Impossible ($45 million), Mission: Impossible III ($47 million), Mission: Impossible II ($57 million), and War of the Worlds ($64 million). The next highest are four films (The Last Samurai, Collateral, The Firm, and Vanilla Sky) that have opened around $24-25 million. Of the six biggest opening weekends, two of them were Steven Spielberg sci-fi action pictures, three of them were Mission: Impossible films, and one of them was a controversial adaptation of a beloved novel. So Cruise‘s biggest original-material openings are Minority Report and Collateral, which opened about $10 million apart from each other. Oh, and two of those openings (War of the Worlds and Mission: Impossible III) occurred in the heat of Cruise’s couch-jumping public-relations meltdown. Aside from the $64 million Fri-Sun and $112 million Wed-Sun debut of Steven Spielberg‘s War of the Worlds in 2005 and three of the four Mission: Impossible films, not a single Tom Cruise film had opened above $36 million. As such, the estimated $38.1 million for Oblivion (review) is actually Tom Cruise‘s biggest opening weekend outside of War of the Worlds for a non-Mission: Impossible entry and his biggest debut for a film that arguably was purely about Tom Cruise‘s star power.
By Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Tom Cruise may be among the biggest movie stars of the last thirty years, but his peak stardom occurred from the mid-80’s to mid-2000’s (Top Gun to War of the Worlds). That’s an incredibly long run, but it was also mostly during an age where opening weekend wasn’t quite as much of a dominating force in a film’s overall box office performance. Tom Cruise came of age during a time when a $15 million opening weekend was a big deal and $100 million domestic was an unqualified smash hit. I bring this up to explain that while Tom Cruise was and is among the biggest movie stars of the last few decades, his opening weekends as a whole don’t tend to measure up to what we would consider a massive debut. Aside from the $64 million Fri-Sun and $112 million Wed-Sun debut of Steven Spielberg‘s War of the Worlds in 2005 and three of the four Mission: Impossible films, not a single Tom Cruise film has opened above $36 million. As such, the $13 million (as reported by Exhibitor Relations) opening day of Oblivion may be somewhat run of the mill in today’s blockbuster context, but it’s actually somewhat of a milestone for Cruise. Aside from the $21 million Wednesday debut of War of the Worlds, the $13 million opening Friday for Oblivion possibly marks Tom Cruise‘s largest single day for a non-Mission: Impossible entry.
Ever since exploding onto the scene in the 1980s, Tom Cruise has remained one of the most popular actors in Hollywood. His personal life might be constant tabloid fodder, but in theaters Cruise still manages to keep us entertained. Whether he’s shooting down Russian MIGs, running from or toward danger, or just being handsome and charming, Cruise rarely disappoints. And we’re hoping that trend will continue this Friday when Oblivion hits theaters.
We figured the time had come to take a look at Cruise’s prolific career and pick out his best films. From early efforts like Risky Business and Top Gun to ’90s classics like A Few Good Men to recent favorites such as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, these are the movies any self-respecting Tom Cruise lover needs to see.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/16/top-10-tom-cruise-movies
Following on from the international success of Oblivion, Tom Cruise has plans to stay in sci-fi mode by starring in Yukikaze, an ambitious film based on the series of novels by Chohei Kambayashi.
Deadline reports that Warner Bros. will finance and distribute the project, while Erwin Stoff and Tom Lassally will produce having previously worked with both Warner Bros. and Cruise on All You Need Is Kill. Also joining them as a producer is Viz Media’s Jason Hoffs.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/16/tom-cruise-cast-in-sci-fi-movie-yukikaze
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Joseph Kosinski doesn’t want you to know anything about “Oblivion.” Nothing. Sure, you probably know that it starts with Tom Cruise and that he’s on a wasteland of Earth sometime in the future. But, if the director of “Oblivion” (who also directed 2010’s “Tron: Legacy”) gets his way, that’s all you will know before you see it.
He knows that revealing too much could ruin viewers’ experience, but also knows the risks of not revealing some of the twists and turns that might whet a movie-going appetite.
Here’s what you can find out from the trailers: Tom Cruise stars at Jack Harper, and 60 years after mankind’s war with an alien race, Earth is uninhabitable. Harper, who is basically part of an Earth cleanup crew, spends his days repairing unmanned drones that have been damaged by the remaining aliens, while the rest of human society has migrated to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Harper lives on in this gritty world, but (without giving too much away) not everything may be what it seems.
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/joseph-kosinski-oblivion_n_3084679.html
What does Barrack Obama have in common with England’s Sebastian Coe and Canada’s former premier Jean Charest, and for that matter New York’s former police commissioner Ray Kelly and Tom Cruise? Answer: they’re now certified and suitable-for-framing Irish — and so can you be for forty euros and almost no evidence to support a pefect plaque for the den.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
There were a lot of confessions this week in Hollywood as the stars revealed some major news.
First off, Tom Cruise admitted that his divorce from Katie Holmes was a shock, telling a German TV network ProSieven that he “did not expect” the split. The 50-year-old actor also said that he’s had “an incredible amount of time to reflect” on Holmes’ decision and that he’s ready to move forward.
Someone else who told the truth this week was Lindsay Lohan, who revealed that she thinks rehab is “a blessing” in an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” April 9.
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/13/celebrity-week-in-review-tom-lilo_n_3056003.html
To celebrate the release of Oblivion in Australia, we’ve joined forces with Universal Pictures to give you the opportunity to win a double-pass to Tom Cruise‘s original sci-fi spectacle.
To go in the draw to win a double-pass, simply send your answers to the question below to outreach@ign.com under the subject line ‘Oblivion Competition‘ with your full name, postal address, and phone number included:
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By Chris Tilly
Oblivion may have one of the most exposition-heavy prologues ever committed to film. In solemn voiceover, Tom Cruise spends a full five minutes explaining that aliens have destroyed our moon, triggering earthquakes and tsunamis, followed by full-scale invasion. We in turn launch nukes and win the war, but in the process lose the planet, meaning that man must scarper to a faraway lunar colony, tail-between-legs.
Cut to 2077 and the film starts proper, with Cruise introduced as Jack Harper, a repairman working as part of a massive operation to extract vital resources from the Earth before the big move. More specifically, Harper fixes the drones that protect our machinery that is regularly being attacked by scavenger aliens.
BERLIN, April 9 (UPI) — Hollywood actor Tom Cruise admits his divorce last summer from actress Katie Holmes took him by surprise.
(AP)—Tom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte. …read more
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Move over, Ethan Hunt. Here comes Napoleon Solo.
Deadline reports that Tom Cruise, already the star of the Mission: Impossible franchise, is in “early talks” to star in another big movie based on a classic 1960s espionage TV series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The 1964-68 TV series followed Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin, operatives for the United Network Command for Law & Enforcement.
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By Evann Gastaldo 
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By Chris Neiger, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
The future is anything but certain, but that doesn’t stop Google from predicting what technologies consumers will want over next few years. The company’s current innovations are already influencing industries — and probably your future.
Through the looking glass
You may have heard about a little thing called Google Glass: a hands-free, voice-activated pair of computerized glasses. The glasses are the latest form of wearable computing, set for a consumer release at the end of this year. They transform everyday experiences and interactions into something that can be shared, recorded, and documented without missing a beat.
Source: Google.
Google Glass enables users to take photos and videos at the moment of experience, get directions overlaid on top of the real world, stream live moments, and send calls and texts with minimal device interaction. Google Glass is more than a gimmick or a science-fiction trinket — it’s a technological contrivance that blurs the lines between technology and life.
That may seem slightly dramatic, but almost every technological device that is truly revolutionary seems overhyped and oversold at its beginning. Take a step back 20 years ago and imagine asking your phone to remind you about your latest appointments, or reaching for a device in your backpack that holds thousands of books inside it, or another device in your pocket that can tell you where you are anywhere in the world and connect you to any person. All of these are now ho-hum technologies that we now take for granted, but they were, and still are, amazing innovations.
Apple‘s Siri lets us talk to computers and have them (admittedly, not always perfectly) answer us back and help us find information. Microsft‘s Kinect gives us control of computerized devices without even touching a screen, like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. But a virtual personal assistant, gesture controls, and Kindle books don’t paint the whole picture. For technology to truly improve our lives, it needs to get out of our way and simply work for us. With Google Glass, the company is attempting to do just that, by taking the technology out of our hands and allowing us to experience things as they used to be, before we had to grab our phone to remember the memory.
But Google’s tech ambitions go much further than wearable computers. The company wants its technology to save lives, and it’s set its sights on driverless cars to make help make that happen.
Where would you like to go today?
Google’s widely publicized self-driving car has driven more than 300,000 miles since 2010, without a single computer-related accident (although a few minor incidents have occurred at the hands of human drivers). Cars that park themselves have been available for years, and a growing number of vehicles can already detect pedestrians and other vehicles, automatically speed up or slow down vehicles on the highway, and stop a vehicle when a driver isn’t paying attention. The next step …read more
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By Evann Gastaldo 
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