Monthly Archives: October 2010

Minority Report Technology Made Real With Google Robot Cars!

The Tom Cruise movie Minority Report predicted a ton of new technology, but one of the most useful had to be the self-driving cars that whirled around director Steven Spielberg’s vision of the future. Well, the future is now! Technology giant Google unveiled findings from tests using self-driving robot cars and have gone pretty far with little to no driver …


Knight and Day DVD & Blu Ray Release Date and Pre-Order from Amazon!

Knight and Day is set for release in the United States on Blu Ray and DVD starting November 30! You can pre-order now on Amazon here! Now fans of the action comedy can experience racing around the world with Tom and Cameron Diaz with the kind of realism that may put bullet holes into your living room ceiling. For every …


Knight and Day Box Office Report: Tom Cruise Movie Opens at No. 1 in Japan!

おかげでので、すべてのトムクルーズのファンに日本でも – あなたはナイトアンドデイヒットした!Thanks so much to all the Tom Cruise fans in Japan – you made the Knight and Day box office the top in the nation! According to a story today in The Hollywood Reporter, Knight and Day opened as the number one movie throughout the Land of the Rising Sun, with a box office of nearly $6 million. The …


Aspiring Visual Effects Artists Guide: Training for a Dream Job in Post Production!

READ OUR LEGAL DISCLAIMER As a part of our ongoing series of guides inspired by the Twitter list #aspiring2actwritedirect, the team at TomCruise.com compiled a list of resources to get visual effects artists and special effects artists careers off the ground! As we did in the posts for emerging actors, directors and screenwriters, the team mined the best information online …


VIDEO: J.J. Abrams New Spy Show Undercovers Airs Tonight!

J. J. Abrams – co-producer with Tom Cruise on the upcoming Mission Impossible 4 movie – launched his new television series, Undercovers, on Wednesday, Sept. 22. This NBC spy show – which airs every Wednesday at 8 p.m., 7 central – revolves around the espionage exploits of a pair of former CIA agents played by Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbataha-Raw. …


TRAILER: Knight and Day Co-Star Jordi Molla Starring in New Movie, There Be Dragons

The Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day featured shifting alliances revolving around a memorable villain in Jordi Molla. The Spanish actor fit into the star-studded cast of this year’s action-comedy romp, offering the perfect foil for Tom and Cameron Diaz racing through the streets of Seville. Sometimes referred to as the “Tom Cruise of Spain,” Jordi will be finding his …


Minority Report: Science Fiction Movie Technology Used in Real Life Advertising!

The technological world depicted in the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report keeps getting closer to becoming a reality everyday. As we’ve noted in previous blog posts, the movie correctly predicted the use of technology in crime prevention and user interface nearly a decade in advance. Now, some of the ideas regarding technology in advertising are beginning to come to fruition in …


Tom Cruise to Narrate Documentary on Industrial Light & Magic!

UPDATED INFO BELOW The evolution of visual effects over the last 35 years is largely due to the influence of a single production company nestled in Northern California: the legendary Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). In an upcoming documentary set to air in November on the Encore cable channel, Tom Cruise narrates a retrospective of the company founded by iconic …