Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Kicks Off Dubai Film Festival

Paramount Pictures and the festival organization announced the fourth installment of the ‘Mission: Impossible’ film franchise would kick off this year’s Dubai International Film Festival, which runs December 7 to 14, 2011. Tom Cruise, director Brad Bird and several other members of the film’s cast are scheduled to walk the red carpet at the festival. ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ …


From An Alien Invasion to Cold-Blooded Killer: New Tom Cruise Blu-ray Collection Features Five Film Favorites

‘Top Gun,’ ‘Days of Thunder,’ ‘Minority Report,’ ‘Collateral’ and ‘War of the Worlds’ Featured in new Blu-ray Collection Set. The Blu-ray collection set will keep you on edge of your seat with all of the special features, interviews, deleted scenes and video featurettes for these action packed films and is a must-have for any Tom Cruise fan. Even if you …


Minority Report Technology: Facial Recognition Used to Target Billboard Ads

‘Chief John Anderton’ (Tom Cruise) runs through a mall, his path punctuated by ads of his favorite products calling out to him as he tries to escape. Now, imagine yourself standing at a crosswalk, waiting for the light to change, when you notice a nearby billboard displays an ad for a running shoe, followed by a beer promo and then …


Minority Report Listed In Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time

Complex magazine has released their list of Top 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies, and among them is Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, which stars movie icon Tom Cruise.  The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who is regarded as one of the most influential sci-fi writers of all time. In addition to the captivating story line, Minority …


TRAILER: Tom Cruise Collaborators Gang Up in Cowboys and Aliens preview!

Tom Cruise worked with several awesome and prolific actors on Knight and Day, including the busy Paul Dano who appears in the upcoming genre mash-up, Cowboys and Aliens! Dano, who collaborated with Tom as the kind and eccentric scientist Simon Feck in Knight and Day, joins an impressive ensemble cast in the upcoming Western-meets-Sci-Fi flick from director Jon Faverau. Cowboys …


Minority Report Technology: Biometric Scanning the Future?

Out of all the Minority Report technology that has hit the market in the last few years, none is more exotic – or creepier – than the use of biometric scanning. But some publications, like Discover Magazine, have poked a few holes in the use of biometrics in quite the same way that the Tom Cruise-Steven Spielberg science fiction movie …


EXCLUSIVE: Awesome Tom Cruise Wallpapers From War Of The Worlds!

It almost makes us shudder just to think about the deep wail of the tripod vessels from the Tom Cruise movie War of the Worlds; you can tell Tom feels the same in this wallpaper photo taken from the Steven Spielberg science fiction epic! Taken from one of the more harrowing moments of the space invader classic inspired by the Jules …


More Minority Report Technology Comes To Transparent Displays!!

The technology portrayed in the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report continues to come to fruition in real life, this time with advances in the transparent displays Tom’s character used throughout the science fiction film! Those incredible clear-as-glass screens were one of the stylish visual elements director Steven Spielberg used to demonstrate writer Philip K. Dick’s vision of the future. Less …


Halloween Movies: War of the Worlds On Jack FM Top 25 Scariest Movies List!

The Tom Cruise movie War of the Worlds is based on one of the scariest and most successful Halloween pranks ever: the Mercury Radio performance of the H. G. Wells classic story that nearly sparked a panic upon its broadcast in 1938. With roots so firmly planted in scaring the wits out of people – and the Halloween holiday nearly …


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 …