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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 …

Tom Cruise Movie War of the Worlds Available on Blu-ray DVD

Sci-fi thriller War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise is now available on Blu-ray DVD! The War of the Worlds Blu-ray DVD offers high-quality 1080p resolution with tons of bonus features, including director Steven Spielberg’s fascination with alien invasion films in “Revisiting the Invasion,” a close-up on the author of the story in “The H.G. Wells Legacy,” a look at …

Tom Cruise Movie Directors Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams Together at Last!

From the Official www.TomCruise.com Blog: Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, both movie directors for Tom Cruise films, have teamed up together for a new movie! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Abrams and Spielberg (who directed Mission: Impossible III, Minority Report and War of the Worlds, respectively) began working on a secret project a year ago known as Super 8. Although the …

Anti-Defamation League to Honor ‘Minority Report’ Director Steven Spielberg

From the Official www.TomCruise.com: Steven Spielberg, who’s directed Tom Cruise in two movies, has sent aliens to New Jersey in ‘War of the Worlds‘ and had a man run for his life when he was accused of a crime he had yet to commit in ‘Minority Report.’ He’s also had aliens show up twice more (in ‘Close Encounters of the …

J.J. Abrams from Tom Cruise Movie ‘Mission: Impossible III’ Discusses Writers and Spielberg

From the Official www.TomCruise.com: If you’re a fan of J.J. Abrams, the director of ‘Mission: Impossible III‘ with Tom Cruise, you know that intricate storytelling and mysterious circumstances are all hallmarks of his work. But perhaps you didn’t realize that the notion of “six degrees of separation” really seems to apply to his life as a filmmaker. In a recent …

Minority Report Touch Screens No Longer in Sci-Fi Future

Remember the scene in ‘Minority Report,’ the Steven Spielberg-directed science fiction thriller, when Tom Cruise uses his hands and fingers to search for date on a huge virtual screen? Even though the movie came out in 2002, and is set in 2054, it seems as though the present is catching up to the future. Windows 7, the follow-up to Windows …

Tom Cruise Photos: Steven Spielberg

Tomcruise.com recently added new, exclusive black-and-white photos of Tom Cruise with various filmmakers he’s worked with throughout his career. So today, we take a look at one of the 20th century’s most prolific film directors and producer, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is perhaps one of cinema’s best known and influential modern directors, touching on a multitude of genres, including science fiction …