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Given how famous Tom Cruise has become for performing his stunts in a never-ending series of action films, one could be forgiven if they forget that before he became an action hero, he was better known as a romantic leading man. Indeed, Cruise was the heartthrob of all heartthrobs in the eighties and nineties, known for headlining some of the best dramas of the era, including Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, The Firm, and Jerry Maguire. While yes, he’d had two massive action-driven hits with Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, Cruise didn’t really engage in classic action movie heroics in them. The hand-to-hand action was limited, gunplay was non-existent, and the stunts were modest considering what would come.

That all changed in the wake of Mission: Impossible 2. Once Cruise teamed up with legendary action director John Woo, he seemed to...

Tom Cruise made a surprise early appearance at Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday at a TikTok creator workshop, where he previewed some of the “never been done” stunts in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

Cruise participated in a fireside chat with TikTok creator Reece Feldman, also known as @guywithamoviecamera, shocking around 25 creators attending the festival. Feldman is premiering his first narrative short, “Wait, Your Car?,” at a special TikTok event during the fest and Cruise’s “The Final Reckoning” debuts out of competition on Wednesday. Cruise began the conversation by telling Feldman that he got into Cannes at 3:30 a.m. that morning after receiving the BFI Fellowship in London on Monday night, adding that the team had “just finished” “The Final Reckoning.”

When Feldman asked Cruise about the death-defying aerial sequence in the film, Cruise said he applied his “decades of knowledge” flying planes.

“I’m an aerobatic...

Tom Cruise is addressing the kinds of movies he still wants to make.

The 62-year-old Mission: Impossible actor got candid about his career in conversation with television presenter Edith Bowman on Sunday (May 11) in London, England.

The appearance comes ahead of him receiving an honorary BFI Fellowship on Monday night (May 12), following by an appearance at 2025 Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

During their chat, Tom revealed he has a dream of taking on…musicals!

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“Definitely a musical. Absolutely, musicals,” he said, via People.

“You know, dramas, action adventures. It’s endless. My goals are endless,” he added of his top choices.

Tom previously starred in 2012′s musical comedy Rock of Ages, playing rock musician Stacee Jaxx and performing rock ballads such as Def Leppard‘s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and Bon Jovi‘s “Wanted Dead or Alive.

Tom Cruise has revealed the unusual way he landed his role in the classic movie Rain Man. The 1988 comedy-drama starred Cruise alongside Dustin Hoffman, and helped further cement Cruise in the public eye.

Cruise looked back on the film during an interview with Sight & Sound Magazine, in which he revealed that his sister Cass was instrumental in him eventually playing Charlie. The wheels for Rain Man were set in motion when Cass spotted Dustin Hoffman while she and Cruise were out for dinner in New York. "I met Hoffman when he was doing Death of a Salesman [on Broadway]. My sister was like, 'There’s Dustin Hoffman, go up and say hello to him,'" he remembered. "I’m like, 'I am not gonna go up to Dustin Hoffman.' And my sister says, 'If you don’t go up and say hello to him, I’m going to say hello to him,...

Tom Cruise might never have landed his role in Rain Man, but his sister ended up helping boost his career. Cruise was still a rising star by the time he started working on Rain Man, and the Best Picture winner cemented his credentials as an actor worth paying close attention to. Dustin Hoffman stars as an autistic savant with exceptional memory and intellectual skills, but trouble with social situations. Cruise plays his career-driven brother, who conspires to use his familial connection to get access to his father's inheritance. The comedy-drama was met with positive reviews, and it scored four Oscars from eight nominations.

In a long-ranging talk about his career at London's BFI, Cruise detailed the strange circumstances that led to him playing Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man. (via Variety) Cruise was in a New York City restaurant with his sister in 1984 when they spotted Dustin Hoffman from across the room.

Before he was offered the choice of joining the Imf as agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise spent years trying to prove he was more than just an action star. He worked with celebrated directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and eventually, he was able to show his acting chops in the comedy-drama Rain Man. Directed by Barry Levinson, Rain Man was groundbreaking for Cruise, but getting the role in it wasn’t exactly in his plans, and he has now revealed what he had to do in order to get the part.

Per Variety's report, the Jerry Maguire and Eyes Wide Shut actor was in London at the British Film Institute this past weekend to receive the BFI Fellowship, the organization's most important recognition. Currently promoting the latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, The Final Reckoning, Cruise also spoke about his past roles,...

Prior to the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise was not known as an action hero, even with Top Gun under his belt. In the 80s and 90s, Cruise had worked with directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Ron Howard and Barry Levinson. Eventually, he would collaborate with Steven Spielberg at the start of the millennium and, of course, Brian De Palma, whose first Mission: Impossible was more of a spy mystery/thriller than the action spectacles that they’ve become today. 1989’s Rain Man was an awards darling, having won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Screenplay.

Today, Cruise receives a Fellowship from the British Film Institute and last night featured an in-depth conversation with the star. Variety reports that he revealed in this conversation that he got to work with Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man after his sister urged...

Playing a rock star in Rock of Ages apparently didn’t satisfy Tom Cruise’s instinct to sing onscreen. Reflecting on his career at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London last night, the actor admitted that he hopes to do a musical—or several.

“Definitely musicals,” Cruise said when asked what is still on his bucket list as a performer. “Drama, action, adventures. It’s endless. My goals are endless.”

The event, “Tom Cruise in Conversation,” was held ahead of the actor receiving the BFI Fellowship, the organization’s highest honor,...

Tom Cruise's sister helped him land a role in 'Rain Man' because she forced him to introduce himself to Dustin Hoffman.The actor has revealed he was having dinner with his younger sister Cass at a restaurant in New York City when they spotted 'The Graduate' star ordering takeout - and Cass made her brother go over and speak to him.During an interview at the BFI in London on Sunday (11.05.25), Tom explained: "[Cass] goes: ‘There’s Dustin Hoffman.’ I looked up and there he was, in a hat - he was doing ‘Death of a Salesman’ - and he was ordering takeout."She goes: ‘You go over there and say hello to him.’ I was like: ‘I’m not going to say hello.’ She goes: ‘You know him, you know his movies.’ And she doesn’t do stuff like that. And I don’t walk up to people,...

Tom Cruise discusses filming A Few Good Men’s famous courtroom scene with Jack Nicholson. Going toe-to-toe with an Oscar-winner may not have been as dangerous as jumping out of an airplane, but future-daredevil Cruise nevertheless faced a major challenge as the star of Rob Reiner’s Aaron Sorkin-penned 1992 military courtroom drama, acting opposite one of film history’s most revered figures. The tension in Cruise and Nicholson’s big A Few Good Men showdown moment was as palpable as anything in the Mission: Impossible movies, the scene going down in history as an acting masterclass.

Cruise recently recalled shooting that 1992 hit film alongside Nicholson, discussing the veteran actor’s process, and praising the Oscar-winner’s thorough understanding of how to use his voice and body (via Deadline):

“He was finding his character. And you could see every movement slowed. He became more and more centered as we were going through it.

Tom Cruise is explaining one of his famous roles!

The 62-year-old actor got candid in a conversation at the BFI on Sunday (May 11) in London, England.

During the chat, he spoke out about landing his role in Rain Man, and how it all has to do with his sister Cass.

Tom said it all happened because of a chance meeting with Dustin Hoffman at a New York City restaurant. After filming Legend, he was back in the States visiting his sister Cass, who spotted the actor from across the restaurant.

“She goes, ‘There’s Dustin Hoffman.’ I looked up and there he was, in a hat, and he was ordering takeout,” he recalled, via Variety.

“She goes, ‘You go over there and say hello to him.’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to say hello.’ She goes, ‘You know him, you know his movies.’ And she doesn’t do stuff like that.

Tom Cruise may have never starred in “Rain Man” if not for his little sister.

During a wide-ranging conversation at the BFI in London on Sunday, Cruise reflected on the films that made his career and told the story of his chance meeting with Dustin Hoffman at a New York City restaurant. It was 1984 and Cruise had just shot Ridley Scott’s “Legend.” He was back in the States visiting his sister Cass, who spotted Hoffman from across the restaurant.

“She goes, ‘There’s Dustin Hoffman.’ I looked up and there he was, in a hat — he was doing ‘Death of a Salesman’ — and he was ordering takeout,” Cruise said. “She goes, ‘You go over there and say hello to him.’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to say hello.’ She goes, ‘You know him, you know his movies.’ And she doesn’t do stuff like that. And I...

Exclusive: The Revisionist, the drama starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man), Alison Brie (Glow), André Holland (Moonlight), and Tom Sturridge (The Sandman), is heading to the Cannes market with Palisades Park Pictures handling international sales.

We first told you about writer-director Alex Vlack’s feature film debut late last year and the movie is now in post. WME Independent will handle North America rights.

In The Revisionist, “Elise, a successful novelist, does what so many writers do: she manipulates and transforms the people in her life into the characters she needs for her story. As she blurs the line between fiction and reality, her world descends into secrets, lies, and outright betrayal. The project is an exploration of the psychological lengths to which a writer will go to achieve their art.”

Pic is produced by Arielle Elwes, Veronica Radaelli, Fiona Robert, Sophia Robert, Zachary Spicer and Alex Vlack. Executive producers are Cassian Elwes,...

Picture Tom Cruise and chances are he’s hanging from a plane or a skyscraper, maybe jumping out of a helicopter or speeding down narrow roadways on a motorcycle. And while there’s nothing wrong with that, we might at the same time be neglecting just how incredible of an actor Tom Cruise is.

Kenneth Branagh – who worked alongside Tom Cruise in 2008’s Valkyrie – isn’t about the star going down as only an action movie hero, which, while that’s a reputation a lot of guys would dream of, is so far from what Cruise is. “If he ever tires of wowing the world with action, he’s going to surprise those who view him as only a movie star. What he’s done with Mission and Top Gun is unique — cinematic entertainment with a serious intent to give you a wonderful time at the movies. But he’s...

When you think of Hollywood legends, Steven Spielberg isn’t just on the list—he Is the list. The three-time Oscar winner has been running the show for six decades, crafting stories that range from the deep end of sci-fi to gut-punch historical dramas (Schindler’s List still hits like a freight train). From the moment he unleashed the original summer blockbuster with Jaws to the heart-racing dino chaos of Jurassic Park, Spielberg practically wrote the rulebook on what makes a movie iconic.

With 23 Academy Award nominations, 3 wins, and a box office haul north of $10.7 billion, the guy’s not just a director—he’s a one-man cinematic universe. Whether it’s small, soul-stirring tales like The Color Purple or personal passion projects like The Fabelmans, Spielberg has proven time and again that there’s no genre he can’t conquer.

Or… is there?

Believe it or not, the king...

It may have taken nine years for it to happen, but Ben Affleck has finally reunited with director Gavin O'Connor for "The Accountant 2." The first movie was rather successful, becoming a massive hit on VOD and streaming, in addition to a box office success. It only makes sense that a sequel happened, but "The Accountant 2" is, by and large, considered to be a major improvement over its predecessor.

Without getting into spoilers, there's more effective action. The characters are more fleshed out. The central mystery is very compelling. It's a very fun movie. I gave "The Accountant 2" a very favorable review following its premiere at SXSW, but part of the reason the movie resonated with me so much goes far beyond any of the actors involved or the puzzle Affleck's Christian Wolff is tasked with solving this time around. More than anything else, O'Connor's sequel offers up...

Ben Affleck‘s The Accountant 2 is out now in theaters and is expected to do great numbers at the box office, which could lead to a potential third movie.

Director Gavin O’Connor has been saying for years that he envisions the franchise as a trilogy and he’s already revealed plans for the third film.

“So, I’ve always wanted to do three because what, the second one’s going to be more with — we’re going to integrate his brother into the story. So there’ll be more screen time for Bernthal in the second one,” Gavin told Cinema Blend back in 2021. “And then the third movie’s going to be, I call it, ‘Rain Man on steroids.’ The third movie is going to be the two brothers, this odd couple. The third one is going be a buddy picture.”

There’s the potential of an exciting return for the third movie.

Ben Affleck‘s Christian Wolff from The Accountant is one of the most unusual action heroes to emerge over the last decade or so. Now, let’s face it – when people think of accountants, they don’t think of action heroes. Indeed, that’s one of the trademarks of the series, with Affleck’s unassuming-looking Wolff deliberately made up to look non-threatening or nerdy, only for him to possess skills that make him an unstoppable badass when push comes to shove. But, not only is he “nerdy”, but he’s also autistic. Unlike most films that would be about this condition, it’s not presented as a handicap, but rather an essential part of who he is, both good and bad, making the film a refreshing change of pace from other movies about the condition. With The Accountant 2 now in theatres, we thought now would be the perfect time to examine why,...

Everyone has a favorite movie star. Whether you grew up cheering on Harrison Ford as he kicked the crap out of legions of Stormtroopers or laughed when Tom Hanks danced on a massive piano, at some point or another, an actor from Tinseltown captured your attention and forced you into a theater to witness their latest big-screen escapade. Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all took the world by storm in their heyday and used their incredible good looks and rock star charisma to entertain the masses, often pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars simply by having their name at the top of a poster.

Still, being a Hollywood icon occasionally has its drawbacks. Often, an actor will leap into the spotlight by playing a specific character and then get stuck playing that character for the rest of their career. Here are 15 examples of such an occurrence -- and no,...

Steven Spielberg is a man who needs no introduction. With his career spanning six decades, his films' impact on the industry and in modern popular culture cannot be overstated. From the biggest blockbusters such as "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park" to the smaller character-driven films such as "The Color Purple" and most recently, "The Fabelmans," fewer filmmakers have accomplished his level of influence in so many genres of cinema. With 23 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, and a filmography that has grossed $10.7 billion at the global box office making him the highest-grossing film director of all-time, there is almost nothing he cannot accomplish.

In his decorated career, Steven Spielberg has also had his share of unrealized projects. One of those projects includes an adaptation of the sci-fi novel "Robopocalypse," which was to be written by "Cabin in the Woods" co-writer/director Drew Goddard and had Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway attached to star.

Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 film The Accountant is by and large memorable for the pairing of Ben Affleck’s autistic accountant-slash-assassin Christian Wolff and Anna Kendrick’s exuberant number cruncher Dana. Their rapport is charming, with Christian’s innate bluntness amusingly clashing with Dana’s anxious people-pleasing instincts. Their bonding over mathematics initiates enough of a spark to set Dana up as a potential love interest for Christian, which makes it a pity that the character is eventually sidelined, unable to compete with two wildly convoluted storylines focusing on Christian’s derring-do.

One gets the sense that in the intervening years, O’Connor and writer Bill Dubuque noticed a potential missed opportunity, and so The Accountant 2 leans into mining humor from its central pairing, and to the point that it ends up being as much a buddy comedy as an action film. Here, Christian teams up with his brother, Braxton...

Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith blockbuster race(Photo Credit –Instagram/Facebook)

There was a time when three of Hollywood’s biggest titans were locked in a quiet, high-stakes race – not for awards, not for roles, but for pure box office bragging rights. Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith once battled it out for a record that said one thing loud and clear: unstoppable hitmaker.

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, all three stars were at the top of their game. Tom Hanks had gone from Splash to Big to back-to-back Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Cruise was riding high with Top Gun, Rain Man, and the launch of Mission: Impossible. Meanwhile, Smith jumped from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to alien-punching box office gold in Independence Day and Men in Black. Each of them was printing hits like clockwork.

That’s when the box...

As Hollywood hurtled toward the 1970s, the American film industry was in the midst of a revolution. The old studio moguls, who'd been flailing throughout the '60s to slake Baby Boomer audiences' thirst for movies that spoke to their generation, were being replaced by younger executives who understood the future of their business hinged on being able to palpably connect with this massive cohort.

As envelope-shredding movies like "Easy Rider," "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Graduate" became runaway blockbusters, the era's biggest directors and stars spied an opportunity to obtain greater creative and financial control of their movies. Since even the young execs were scrambling to figure out why Boomers flocked to an adaptation of a publishing sensation like "Love Story," but avoided, say, the film of John Updike's bestseller "Rabbit, Run," striking deals with artists who seemed to have their finger on the pulse of this generation, or...

If you’re one of those people who prefer a good book to the boob tube, AMC is about to make you feel conflicted.

On Monday, AMC Networks announced it is developing a new TV franchise produced by AMC Studios and “built on iconic American stories.” Up first: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

“Each season of the anthology series will be devoted to a different celebrated work, historical moment, or individual narrative celebrating and highlighting the American spirit,” the company said. The Great American Stories anthology will air on the AMC cable channel and stream on AMC’s primary streaming service (out of a bunch), AMC+.

If you want to Anne Rice-ify classic American literature, who better to adapt the novel than Rolin Jones, who did the same thing with Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (and Friday Night Lights, and Boardwalk Empire)? Jones will take...

Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson has enjoyed success on the big and small screens throughout his five decades. Take a tour of our photo gallery ranking his 12 greatest feature films from worst to best.

Levinson began his career as a comedy writer on various variety shows in the 1970s ultimately landing a steady job writing for 72 episodes of “The Carol Burnett Show,” for which he won Emmys in 1974 and 1975, competing again in 1976. When that show ended he began writing screenplays and had a remarkably successful run co-writing two Mel Brooks movies -- “Silent Movie” and “High Anxiety” -- as well as two acclaimed dramas “Inside Moves” and “and Justice for All.” He would receive his first Oscar nomination for the screenplay of “And Justice for All.”

That success led Levinson to a feature film directing career. His semi-autobiographical film “Diner,” about a group of young men hanging out in his native Baltimore,...

“The Alto Knights,” a crime thriller starring dueling Robert De Niros, made moviegoers an offer they easily refused.

The Warner Bros. film was D.O.A. over the weekend with $3.2 million at the domestic box office, one of the worst-ever starts for a major studio release. “The Alto Knights” also cratered overseas, earning $1.8 million for a bleak worldwide tally of $5.1 million. With a price tag above $45 million before marketing is taken into account, “The Alto Knights” is already one of the year’s biggest misfires.

Box office watchers, however, aren’t exactly scratching their heads to figure out what went wrong. They believe “The Alto Knights” hails from a genre — mobster movies — that’s been sleeping with the fishes for decades. Then critics rebuked the film, which landed a poor 37% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences, at least the few people who checked the film out, were kinder, giving it a “B” grade on CinemaScore exit polls.

Actor and producer Tom Cruise is to receive the British Film Institute’s highest honour, the BFI Fellowship.

The Fellowship will be presented to Cruise at the BFI Chair’s Dinner in London on May 12, hosted by BFI Chair Jay Hunt.

The actor will also participate in an in-conversation at the BFI Southbank on May 11 while a month-long programme of his repertoire will play at both the Southbank and BFI Imax.

“I am truly honoured by this acknowledgement,” Cruise said.

“I’ve been making films in the UK for over 40 years and have no plans to stop. The UK is...

If the digital de-ageing of the holy trinity of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman was a bit distracting at times, get a load of double De Niro in Barry Levinson’s long-gestating The Alto Knights. Demonstrating that when it comes to the greats you can never have too much of a good thing, De Niro plays both leading roles: that of don Frank Costello on the verge of a quiet retirement, and his hot-headed childhood friend and drug baron Vito Genovese, with whom he’s forced to go toe-to-toe.

Based on a true story of mob warfare and penned by GoodFellas screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, the film has been in the works since the 1970s and was finally greenlit in 2022. Watching the early sequences certainly gives one a sense of déjà vu: the film opens in media res in 1957 with an act of violence,...

The problem with calling a movie “bad” is that some people, myself included, will only want to see it more. It’s fun to hear about a good movie. It’s boring to hear about a mediocre one. But a film that’s so punishing you can physically feel it? Now that’s fascinating. Truly terrible movies are like the puzzle box from “Hellraiser,” offering pain and pleasure, indivisibly. Only by experiencing both extremes can some lifelong moviegoers truly feel alive.

So let me be absolutely, 100% clear: “The Alto Knights” is indeed a bad movie, but not the good kind. It doesn’t make you feel alive, it makes you feel dead. It’s a tedious, directionless, bumbling chore of a gangster picture, incoherently written and edited, featuring two of the limpest performances of Robert De Niro’s career.

Oh yes, you read that right. De Niro plays two different...

Will “Snow White” be the fairest of them all at the box office?

Disney’s live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic is targeting $45 million to $55 million from 4,200 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Internationally, the film is estimated to collect $50 million for a global start above $100 million. Those ticket sales will easily be enough to lead the domestic box office, which is coming off the worst weekend of 2025 as Paramount’s action comedy “Novocaine” topped charts with just $8.7 million.

Based on projections, “Snow White” won’t reach the initial box office heights of prior Disney live-action remakes, including 2023’s “The Little Mermaid” ($95 million opening weekend), 2016’s “Jungle Book” ($103 million) and a trio of billion-dollar smashes, 2019’s “The Lion King” ($191 million) and “Aladdin” ($91 million), 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” ($174 million). Instead, “Snow White” is tracking a similar start to 2019’s “Dumbo,” which took off with $45 million, only to stall out at $353 million,...

Ever since he directed Robert Redford to one of his richest, most compelling performances in “The Natural,” Barry Levinson has had a knack for bringing out the best in iconic movie stars. Warren Beatty (“Bugsy”), Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Michael Douglas and Demi Moore (“Disclosure”), among many others, have done some of their finest work for Levinson in movies that capitalize on their strengths but provide opportunities to deepen and broaden their personas.

Even in this company, the relationship between Levinson and Robert De Niro is special. Since they first worked together on “Sleepers” in 1996, Levinson and De Niro have created a series of indelible characters, from the spin doctor of “Wag the Dog” and the beleaguered producer of “What Just Happened?” to real-life fraudster Bernie Madoff in “The Wizard of Lies.” These were all just a warm-up, however, for Levinson and De Niro’s latest collaboration “The Alto Knights...

Tom Cruise is out here playing checkers while everyone else is playing – well, whatever Hollywood’s version of 4D chess is. The Mission: Impossible star was spotted hanging out with Ana de Armas again, but insiders say his real focus is on a different A-lister: Demi Moore.

Tom Cruise as in Mission Impossible – Fallout | Credits: Cruise/Wagner Productions

While fans wonder if Cruise and de Armas are cooking up a project, reports suggest he’s more interested in winning over Moore.

Tom Cruise’s power play: Spotted with Ana de Armas, but his real move is on Demi Moore Ana de Armas in a still from No Time to Die | Credits: MGM and Universal Pictures

Tom Cruise was spotted with Ana de Armas for the second time in London, but insiders say his real focus is on Demi Moore. Reports claim Cruise sees Moore as the key to reclaiming his Hollywood status,...

It’s difficult to pigeonhole Barry Levinson – something the Oscar-winning director is acutely aware of and is quick to point out. Though, it is true. Take, for instance, his new film, The Alto Knights, a mob movie starring Robert De Niroas both real-life mobsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. This is Levinson’s second mob movie – his other being the 1991 Best Picture nominee Bugsy – but no one in their right mind would think of Levinson as “a director who makes mob movies.” It’s actually remarkable that person who made Rain Man is the same director who, six years later, made Disclosure.

Tom Cruise reached a milestone early in his career with 1992's A Few Good Men. The acclaimed legal drama added another genre to his impressive range of films.

Tubi is streaming 1992's A Few Good Men for free this April. This legal drama had a stacked ensemble led by Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, J.T. Walsh, and Kevin Bacon. The film was a box office hit, grossing $243 million against a $40 million budget. It also set a benchmark for the genre with its tense narrative and pacing, and the entire cast's performance was gripping. Released after Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, and Far and Away, A Few Good Men also showcased Cruise's serious acting. It's also a breakout film for Demi Moore, who up to that point was known for romantic dramas and rom-coms.

Moore played Jag attorney Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway, superior...

Except for John Williams, it's hard for a film composer to reach household name status, but it's safe to proclaim that Hans Zimmerhas successfully done so. After being a steady film composer in the 1980s and 1990s, working on films from a variety of genres, including Rain Man, True Romance, The Lion King, The Thin Red Line, and Gladiator, Zimmer ostensibly became the soundtrack for the archetypal modern blockbusters thanks to his work on most of Christopher Nolan's films, notably The Dark Knight trilogy, and revolutionizing the art of film scores for Denis Villeneuve's Duneseries. Someone of his caliber could have elevated the longest-running franchise of the last 20 years — the Marvel Cinematic Universe — into something more epic, but he has his eyes set elsewhere. To be completely honest, I don't blame him, as even he has outshined the scope of the MCU.

European film studio Hope Studios, led by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, the veteran producer behind Sony’s hit Tom Hanks movie “A Man Called Otto,” is setting up a feature adaptation of Robin Sharma’s “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,” the bestselling book about a life-changing journey.

Based on Sharma’s own search for life’s true purpose, “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” tells the story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the personal crisis of his out-of-balance life after a tragedy – and his transformational journey through India. Translated into 70 languages, the book has sold over 10 million copies since being first published in 1999.

The project is the latest high profile IP tackled by Hope Studios, the banner launched in November 2023 by Wikström Nicastro who spent 18 years at the Nordic powerhouse Sf Studios and became one of its pillars, producing more than 20 movies. During his tenure at the banner,...

Here’s How Tom Cruise Contributed To The Idea Of International Movie Premieres (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Tom Cruise changed Hollywood marketing forever. The actor was the first to promote international red carpet premieres, turning movie promotion into a global spectacle. Cruise told Jimmy Kimmel (as reported by ABC News) that before Top Gun, Cruise, and other A-listers traveled for movie promotions.

Instead of big red carpets, they did long global tours. Tom Cruise visited Italy, Paris, and Japan, sometimes staying for weeks and even months. He loved it since he always wanted to travel. But Cruise said he saw a faster way. While promoting Top Gun in Paris in 1986, the Hollywood star realized the process was too slow.

Martin Scorsese was back in the U.S. editing The Color of Money. Rain Man was still in its early drafts. And Tom Cruise? He was just waiting. That’s when he has his lightbulb moment.

War movies concerning the Vietnam War encompass the specific traits that make them easily distinguishable from other films within the war genre. The majority of Golden Era war movies, which heavily depicted World War II, feature propagandistic angles and hero-worshipping sentiments that reflected the nation's attitudes at the time. While World War II movies may dominate the genre, there are plenty of stunning films about the Vietnam War, from the unconventional Good Morning, Vietnam to the landmark Apocalypse Now.

Vietnam War movies are more reflective of the counter-culture era, containing anti-establishment views, addressing the psychological effects war has on soldiers, and preaching anti-war themes. Internationally, countries such as Hong Kong have produced important works about the Vietnam War that provide an added perspective toward fully understanding the implications of the conflict worldwide. Some of the best movies about the Vietnam War rank among cinema's greatest war films, and many publications...

With a career in film composing that has lasted more than 40 years, Hans Zimmer has run the gamut. Despite having a distinct sound that often makes you recognize it as a Zimmer, the man’s work has range: Rain Man, The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Dune…But there are two franchises that Zimmer will absolutely never work within: the MCU and Star Wars.

Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hans Zimmer said that while he has been approached by Marvel, he had a couple of conflicts. “They have, and it was always…timing wasn’t great. And really, quite honestly, I’m looking for other things right now. Look, I’ve done the trifecta — I’ve done Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman! I mean, what do you want me to do, some of the minor characters?” He added, “That was very arrogant of me to say that,...

German composer Hans Zimmer began his career playing keyboards for various New Wave bands around Europe. He played with Krakatoa in his native Germany, with The Buggles (of "Video Killed the Radio Star" fame) in England, with Krisma in Italy, and with Mecano in Spain. In the early '80s, he started to produce pop singles as well, overseeing "History of the World, Part 1" for the punk band The Damned. About the same time, he started to write commercial jingles and TV theme tunes, effectively giving him an "in" into film-scoring work. His first film as a composer was 1982's "Moonlighting," one of Jerzy Skolimowski's movies. 

For there, Zimmer's output increased exponentially, and he brought his unique, sweeping sensibilities (but with a pinch of New Wave) to over 20 features. He scored Stephen Frears' "My Beautiful Laundrette," (soon to be remade) and Bernard Rose's underrated "Paperhouse." In 1988, he...

It’s said that all of the greatest movie stars can make the camera fall in love with them. But something else that the camera is undoubtedly besotted by is the casino. There’s something about these places that make them a natural for filmmakers, in fact there are plenty of things.

Firstly, they’re uniquely glamorous locations that are also full of action. From spinning roulette wheels to slots games flashing enticingly, they make for a great background to the action. Then there’s the drama of the games themselves. We see characters winning and losing fortunes on the turn of a card thus reversing their role in the movie.

The fact that conflict lies at the heart of all drama also makes them a great place for adversaries to face off against each other. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the first of out audacious moves.

Casino Royale...

Earning his second Best Actor Oscar 22 years after his first, Adrien Brody entered the history books as the first leading actor to win two statuettes on his first two attempts on Sunday.

He won for his role as an ingenious, haunted architect in Brady Corbet’s epic, following his win in 2003 for Roman Polanski’s biographical World War II drama “The Pianist.”

And by wining Best Actor on Sunday, Brody not only made history but also preserved his place among Oscar milestones. Had 29-year-old Timothée Chalamet won in the category for “A Complete Unknown,” he would have become the youngest Best Actor victor ever, beating Brody’s own record from 2003.

Brody is the 11th leading actor to win twice in the top category.

“Acting is a very fragile profession,” Brody opened his acceptance speech. “It looks very glamorous, and certain moments it is, but the one thing that I’ve...

Conan O'Brien has been tapped as the host of the 97th Academy Awards, and while O'Brien is a consummate performer and comedian and he's hosted other awards shows like the Emmys, this will be his first go-round at the Oscars. Naturally, with almost 100 past ceremonies, many of them being broadcast on network television and seen by millions across the world, there are plenty of preferences audiences may have about what he should do while on stage. Should he do a riff a la Billy Crystal and insert himself into the scenes of some of this year's big contenders? Should he playfully mock the people in the audience in the hopes of roasting them just spicily enough? Or perhaps he'll do a musical number? 

O'Brien may not be seen as a singer first, but he has performed songs live, such as when he showed up in a live performance celebrating "The Simpsons" at the Hollywood Bowl,...

When you're one of the greatest directors in film history, letting go of a project becomes a common occurrence. This was one of the challenges that Steven Spielberg faced when, after much deliberation, he had to set aside "Rain Man" in favor of another major project in the works. The 1988 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise is regarded as one of the finest films in both of their careers — one to which Spielberg dedicated a considerable amount of time before passing it on to another filmmaker. While Barry Levinson was telling the story of Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) reuniting with his estranged and autistic brother, Raymond (Hoffman), Steven Spielberg was off on another whirlwind adventure with one of cinema's most beloved heroes, who this time was bringing his dad.

Chronicled in Brent Notbohm and Lester D. Friedman's "Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated," the Oscar-winning director explained why he had...

Lynne Marie Stewart, the actress known for roles in Pee-wee’s Playhouse and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, has died. She was 78.

Elvira star Cassandra Peterson was one of several to pay tribute to the actress Friday on Instagram after coming up together at The Groundlings in Los Angeles and appearing in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) and The Elvira Show (1993) together.

“My heart is breaking upon hearing the news of my dear friend @lynnestewart78 Lynne Stewart’s passing,” wrote Peterson on Instagram. “One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived. The iconic Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll always be ‘the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.'”

Born Dec. 14, 1946 in L.A., Stewart was a member of The Groundlings in the ’70s, where she met Peterson, Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman.

Stewart was most known and beloved for playing Miss Yvonne and other roles in Reubens’ Pee-wee franchise,...

Lynne Marie Stewart, best known for her role as Miss Yvonne in Pee-wee's Playhouse and other projects featuring Paul Reubens' Pee-wee Herman, has passed away. She was 78 years old.

The news of Stewart's passing was announced by Cassandra Peterson, better known by her Elvira persona, in a post on Instagram. Peterson, who was friends with Stewart, shared an image with the caption noting, "My heart is breaking upon hearing the news of my dear friend Lynne Stewart’s passing. One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived. The iconic Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll always be 'the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.'”

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Stewart appeared in Peterson's 1988 film, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and she'd later reunite with Peterson for The Elvira Show in 1993. In the image posted, Peterson and...

Hans Zimmer’s 2016 Live In Prague show is now getting a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray physical media release. More here.

The week we learn that the work of Hans Zimmer is getting a cinema outing to itself, one of his sold out concerts is confirmed for the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray format.

Hans Zimmer: Live In Prague is already available on Blu-ray, but Eagle Rock has now put a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray physical media release up for pre-order.

It’s set to land on 21st March 2025, and you can find more information, and order yourself a copy, right here.

Update: This has now been delayed to 18th July 2025.

This is a concert that was shot in 2016, and as such you’re not going to be getting anything from, say, Dune or Tenet in there. What you will get are pieces of music from the likes of The Dark Knight trilogy,...

Tom Cruise is returning to the theaters with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in just a couple of months. One of the most successful franchises in Hollywood, the story of Cruise’s movie has spanned almost 30 years now.

Tom Cruise in Rain Man | Credits: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The first movie came out in 1996 to grand commercial success, and as such fans have been elated at the franchise’s continuation so far. For that matter, many have predicted that Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt’s story will go on till his ripe old age.

Interestingly, though, that might not be the case after all. In a recent interview, Tom Cruise as well as the movie’s director Christopher McQuarrie talked about their plans for the future of the franchise. From the sounds of it, this might truly be The Final Reckoning for it at last.

Tom Cruise seemingly hinted at Mission: Impossible – The...

Robert De Niro is heading back to Netflix. The Oscar-winning actor is set to star in a new crime thriller for the streaming service.

According to Deadline, De Niro will headline Netflix and Agbo's upcoming adaptation of Alex North's 2019 New York Times bestselling novel, The Whisper Man, which revolves around "a widow crime writer who, after his 8-year-old son is abducted, looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as 'The Whisper Man.'" James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark) has been tapped to direct the movie while Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (It) have been tasked with adapting the novel for the big screen.

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Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the acting champ when it comes to Academy Awards.

His performance for the Martin Scorsese film from 1980 has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actor winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 male leading actors.

Anthony Hopkins finished second for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Marlon Brando following in third for The Godfather (1972). Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actor winners is Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona (1928). George Arliss in Disraeli (1929), Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul (1930), Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine (1942), and Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur...