Cruise, Sanada and Zwick were on hand for the German premiere of TLS:

All pictures will be in the gallery tonight!

AWARDS NEWS!!

THE LAST SAMURAI RECIEVES A PGA NOM (Producer’s Guild of America). The Last Samurai (Warner Bros.) Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz Paula Wagner & Tom Cruise

Ngila Dickonson nominated for best costume design from Costumes Guild of America

Best picture runner ups: The Last Samurai- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association winners

According to Variety, Collateral is set for an August 6, 2004 release (thanks Lili)

Box office total as of Jan. 4, 2004: $90,017,337
+ Overseas Grpss: $61,138,000 / Japan

From Bravo TV
Premieres Sunday, January 11 at 8/7 PM

Also in January, Tom Cruise, one of America’s most well loved actors, joins James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio. Cruise, who began his teenage years studying to be a priest, soon found another calling – acting. From his film debut with a small part in Endless Love, it took him only two short years to land the starring role in Risky Business, a role for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. Cruise’s subsequent films include Top Gun, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, and Mission Impossible. His performances have earned him three Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe wins. Cruise can be seen most recently in the film The Last Samurai.

Note to chantal. I don’t think it’s very accurate, however, this might be

Movie superstar Tom Cruise, who has been living with his sister and her three children for much of this year, is hoping to show off his culinary skills this Christmas by treating his sister and her family to a terrific turkey dinner.
Tom famously cooked up spaghetti Carbonara on his first date with Penelope Cruz.

Tom says, “I can cook. I’ve cooked turkeys in my day. I hope to this year, unless my mom’s around. My mother is a great cook and when she’s around I like her stuffing best with her turkey.”

Tom says, “One of the best Christmases I had as a kid was when we didn’t buy each other stuff. My mother came up with this idea to pick names out of a hat and for a month you had to do something special for that person and then on Christmas day you had to write a poem or a story for that person.

And you couldn’t reveal who it was, so all five of us were running around doing things.

“I had my sister so I had to go and make her bed when she was in the shower because you can’t get caught. It was fantastic.”

HOLA! magazine also reported that Penelope’s parents would be joining her and Tom on christmas!

And a merry christmas to all of the Cruisers out there 🙂

Nothing to find on Tom these days. Only this: Tom apparently has to work during the holidays, according to Newsweek: “Tom will be shooting a movie in Los Angeles over the holidays – he won’t be able to be with his children or Nicole.” says his rep. So I guess he won’t be staying on Wakaya Island after all.

Tom’s interview with ET moments after his GG nod:

After six Golden Globe nominations and 3 wins, Tom Cruise sure knows how to make an entrance. Tom choppered in just after sunrise, but on his way over with his little chat with Jann, he discovered, he was locked in.

Tom: I’ll just climb over

No problem for Tom Terrific, he perceeded to do what any true-blue action star would do — he scaled a six-foot spiked fence.

Jann– Now first of all, that entrance. Does it get more Hollywood than that? The samurai workin’ out? It obviously paid off climbing the fence

Tom: I can climb the fence. Not very graceful, but I got over it.

Jann: One moment, was there ‘god I hope I get over this fence?’

Tom: Most definetely. That moment I was thinking you know, my right foot is slipping through those bars. I was just happy I made it over.

Jann: We all were

Tom: I rather be lying on the pavement there than on top of that.

Jann: Yeah..that would be a terrible shot in the front page of the paper.

Tom: That would just wouldn’t be good. You know what, I wouldn’t be as concerned about the shot, I’d be more concerned about other things at that particular moment.

Tom celebrated his best actor nomination with a call from his Last Samurai co-star and best supporting actor nominee- Ken Watanabe. He dialed long distance from Osaka, Japan.

Tom(talking to Ken on the phone): You know, I have a few cameras around here

Laughter from the press

Tom: I’m gonna call you- can I call you back in about 10 minutes?

Jann: This is your 6th nomination. That’s pretty-

Tom: That’s not bad. 6 isn’t bad. That’s good.

Jann: You know, it’s just the begining.

Tom: We’re just gettin’ rollin’ here.

Jann: We’re just gettin’ warmed up. The kids have got to be, when the wake up and hear this- so proud. Mom and Dad nominated! I mean, you know, that’s pretty cool.

Tom: I don’t, you know, as I said, in our house it’s a nice thing. It’s a great thing when it happens. They are a little more casual you know. “Oh good” you know “Let’s go play. Let’s hang out”

View pictures from the interview and Tom’s fence climbing here

More on Golden Globes and Tom’s reaction here and watch a video here.

“After his nod for “The Last Samurai,” three-time winner Tom Cruise landed in a helicopter at the Santa Monica Airport, and jumped the fence to share his excitement with us.

Cruise said, “It’s wonderful, it’s wonderful. I don’t make films to get these kinds of awards, but every time it’s like icing on the cake.”

And Cruise told us that he couldn’t be happier about his ex-wife Nicole Kidman’s nomination for “Cold Mountain,” a movie that received eight nominations without being released yet. Cruise said, “I’m very proud of her, she is a great actress”

Screen caps from his GG reaction tonight.