LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UPI) — Actor Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are reuniting to make “Inferno,” their third movie based on a Dan Brown mystery novel, The Hollywood Reporter said. …read more
Sony Pictures has officially set December 18, 2015 as the release date for director Ron Howard’s Inferno, the third feature film about Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, based on the books by Dan Brown.
THR reports that Tom Hanks, who starred as Langdon in the previous two films The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, will reprise his role for Inferno. Imagine will produce the film from a script by David Koepp.
Howard and Hanks were previously attached to a different Dan Brown adaptation, The Lost Symbol, which appears to have fizzled out.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
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.
NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) — Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks has extended his run in the Broadway play “Lucky Guy” through July 3, producers announced.
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Earlier this week a friend showed me some photos of a guy in New York passed out with Tom Hanks at a local restaurant. I’m not sure how old these photos are, but at first glance we thought it was the real deal, we’d heard that Tom noticed the kid face down in his food, grabbed the kids cell phone, and started taking pictures. That wasn’t the case; the kid saw Hanks and asked if they could fake a few photos. Apparently Tom Hanks is a genuinely nice guy and went along with the gag. …read more
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NEW YORK, April 3 (UPI) — Actor Tom Hanks said he missed his close friend Nora Ephron at the opening of “Lucky Guy,” the play the late scribe wrote and which marks Hanks’ Broadway debut.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Justin Timberlake joined the most exclusive club in New York when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” this week, the Five-Timers Club.
Entering the ranks of Paul Simon, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks and many more, Timberlake was welcomed into the lounge where some of the most beloved hosts of the show seem to just hang out and make current cast members fight for their amusement.
The monologue turned into a who’s-who of SNLs past, featuring Simon, Martin, Dan Aykroyd (who was relegated to tending bar since he’s only hosted the show once), Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Alec Baldwin, Hanks, and Candice Bergen.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Joe Wright is being attached to direct, and his Shoebox Films partner Paul Webster is coming aboard to produce with Hanks and Goetzman. The film will be a co-production between Playtone and Shoebox.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Rehearsals for the late Nora Ephron’s new play “Lucky Guy,” starring Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut, began in New York Monday, producers said.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at UPI Entertainment
Happy Murray Christmas, everyone! We've told you why we're thankful for Mr. Tom Hanks, now we're here to show everyone how Bill Murray, actor and prankster extraordinaire, brings hope and cheer to all the orphans this holiday season. (NOTE: Orphans here mean not orphans).
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