Tom vs DiCaprio?

April 16th, 2003
Annie

BOTH PARAMOUNT AND DI CAPRIO PLAN ON FILMING MURDEROUS CAPER AT 1893 WORLD’S FAIR. PARAMOUNT
WITH THE BOOK; DICAPRIO TO GO WITH PUBLIC RECORDS

WE MENTIONED a week or two ago ago that it is amazing that as soon as a production entity or a studio latches on to a major book or current headline story, that one or two other producers announce that they, too, are planning such a film. Such is the case this week as one major studio, and an independent production company headed by Leonardo Di Caprio, have announced a similar project. It is the story of The Devil In White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Paramount has acquired the film rights to the book of that title and have attached Katherine Bigelow to direct with no cast set to be produced by (Tom) Cruise/(Paula) Wagner Productions for the studio. Further west in Beverly Hills, Leonardo Di Caprio has also announced that he is setting up a film about the serial killer H.H. Holmes and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair wherein two men – an architect and a serial killer (Holmes) – made it their “playground” which is the subject of Erik Larson’s book acquired by Paramount for filming.. However, Di Caprio’s office said that it will proceed with a similar project based on public records instead of any book. However, the DiCaprio version will mainly deal with H.H. Holmes and the detective that tracked him down and arrested him. Di Caprio will produce and star in the film; and therein lies the tale.

Thanks Chantal


Movie News

April 14th, 2003
Annie

Taranaki farewell for Tom
The 1200-odd people gathered at New Plymouth’s TSB Bowl yesterday, assembled in formation to spell out the word TOMINAKI.
Organised by The Edge radio station, the mass gathering and subsequent photograph was an effort to give Hollywood movie star Tom Cruise a memorable farewell from Taranaki, where he has lived for nearly four months for the filming of The Last Samurai. Mt Taranaki would be digitally put into the photograph and it was hoped the picture would be presented to Cruise before he left Taranaki later this month.
TOMINAKI
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MTV movie awards

April 14th, 2003
Annie

Minority Report got only one nomination for the 2003 MTV movie awards. It was nominated for “best action sequence” for the escape scene. So go and VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!


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Contact me?

April 14th, 2003
Annie

If anyone is trying to e-mail me, my e-mail is not working, so e-mail me at annie@bluestrawberry.net


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The gallery….

April 13th, 2003
Annie

The galleries will be down until tomorrow or monday…, I’m moving everything to a new script!


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A few news…

April 12th, 2003
Annie

Chantal has sent me some news:

DeVito, Cruise in secret project
From correspondents in New Plymouth, New Zealand
April 10, 2003

HOLLYWOOD star Danny DeVito has confirmed he is working on a secret project with colleague Tom Cruise.

Cruise is in New Zealand’s Taranaki province filming the $US100 million ($165.54 million) Last Samurai, but DeVito declined to reveal details of their joint project.

“I’m working on a project with Tom, but I can’t say what it is yet,” he said.

Rumours have been rife that another Hollywood movie is just around the corner for Taranaki.

There has been talk about Cruise planning to film an adaptation of H G Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds, but DeVito would not confirm if that was the project he and Cruise were working on.

From:
http://entertainment.news.com.au/

A few more about Tom and DiCaprio going for the same part…

From: Teen Hollywood
Cruise And DiCaprio Play Same Part
April 10, 2003

Film idols Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio are to make films about the same serial killer.

Cruise’s production company C/W Productions have acquired the film rights to New York Times bestseller, TThe Devil in White City, a book by Eril Larson that details the actions of H.H. Holmes, a murderer who preyed on visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

Kathryn Bigelow will co-produce and direct the Cruise film, and the book will be adapted for the screen by Chris Kyle (K-19).

Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way is also working on a Holmes movie.

Holmes was a doctor who lured young women away from the fair, took them to a nearby hotel and murdered them. In 1896 he was sentenced to death after admitting to 27 murders.

And this one from Canoe

Cruise, DiCaprio vie for The Devil
Two of Hollywood’s shiniest stars, Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio, are racing to tell the big-screen story of one of 19th-century Chicago’s most notorious serial killers.

Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner have optioned author Erik Larson’s bestseller, The Devil In The White City, according to Variety.

The book tells the tale of H.H. Holmes, a devilishly debonair doctor who achieved infamy by luring young women away from the 1893 World’s Fair and murdering them in a hotel he owned near the fairgrounds.

Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) is slated to direct. Holmes is also the subject of a competing film being developed by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company for the Gangs Of New York actor to produce and star in.

In November, Appian hired a team to write a screenplay about the same killer via research available in the public domain.

This version will play more like DiCaprio’s blockbuster cat-and-mouse hunt Catch Me If You Can, by also following the viewpoint of the Pinkerton detective hired to hunt down Holmes.

Both films will have the same ending: Holmes was eventually captured, tried and hanged in 1896 after claiming to have murdered 27 people.

— Toronto Sun

From E! Online
Cruise, DiCaprio Go for the Kill

by Josh Grossberg
Apr 9, 2003, 2:15 PM PT

They say everything in Hollywood comes in twos, be it disaster films about volcanoes or asteroids, sci-fi flicks about Mars or even biopics on Howard Hughes.

So, it should come as no surprise that two of Tinseltown’s shiniest stars, Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio, are racing to tell the big-screen the story of one of 19th-century Chicago’s most notorious serial killers. (And no, this Chi-town slayer doesn’t sing and dance.)

Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner have optioned author Erik Larso

n’s bestseller, The Devil in the White City, according to Daily Variety. The book tells the tale of H.H. Holmes, a devilishly debonair doctor who achieved infamy by luring young women away from the 1893 World’s Fair and murdering them in a hotel he owned near the fairgrounds.

Director Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) is slated to helm the project, while K19 scribe Christopher Kyle has been tapped to write the script. Cruise and Wagner will produce under their Cruise/Wagner production shingle.

Holmes is also the subject of a competing film being developed by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company for the Gangs of New York actor to produce and star in.

In November, Appian hired the writing team of Aaron and Matthew Benay to pen a screenplay about the same dastardly killer via research available in the public domain. Unlike the Cruise project, this version will play more like DiCaprio’s blockbuster cat-and-mouse hunt Catch Me If You Can by also following the viewpoint of the Pinkerton detective hired to hunt down Holmes.

Either way, both films will have the same ending: Holmes was eventually captured, tried and hanged in 1896 after claiming to have murdered 27 people. The Ted Bundy of his time, he was so infamous that William Randolph Heart’s newspaper syndicate paid the doctor $10,000 to publish his prison confession.

The million-dollar question is which project will make it to theaters first. No word whether Cruise will star in his version, but with DiCaprio committed to headline his own take on Holmes, it’s likely he could be the winner.

That is, if he doesn’t fall behind in a couple of other high-profile Hollywood races.

DiCaprio is next scheduled to reunite with his Gangs pal Martin Scorsese to play Howard Hughes in The Aviator–that’s if Memento director Christopher Nolan and Jim Carrey don’t beat him to it with their own biopic on the bizzaro billionaire.

DiCaprio’s also looking to be king of the ancient world as he’s set to star in Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming epic Alexander the Great. That project has a rival in filmmaker Oliver Stone, who’s busy plotting his own epic on the legendary Macedonian king with red-hot Irish actor Colin Farrell in the lead.

DiCaprio’s calendar also includes a project with Robert De Niro called The Good Shepherd, which charts the history of the CIA as seen through the eyes of James Wilson, an idealistic young man recruited out of Yale to become one of the agency’s founding officers. Then there’s Bombshell, Lasse Halström’s movie in which DiCaprio would play the nuclear scientist who dished U.S. Secrets to the Soviets during the 1940s.

Cruise, meanwhile, is finishing up shooting on The Last Samurai, a 19th-century epic set in Imperialist Japan. He has also reenlisted with his Minority Report director Steven Spielberg for Ghost Soldiers, a World War II drama about the survivors of Asia’s Bataan Death March that Cruise will produce and headline.

And Cruise is looking to team up with director David Fincher to reprise his role as superspy Ethan Hunt for one last go-round in Paramount’s hugely successful Mission: Impossible franchise.

Thanks to the amazing Chantal for all those news!


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April 12th, 2003
Annie

I’m looking for someone who can collect articles from the web and, if possible, from magazines, so I can create a section with those articles on the site. I need the articles to be like:

Article Title
Source

The Article itself.

It doenst need to be formated as html or anything like that, just a plain .txt for each will do…

Anyone who helps will be fully credited. Just e-mail me at annie@tomcruisefan.com for more info.


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Little changes…

April 11th, 2003
Annie

I changed the layout a little…, okay, a lot! Now it can be perfectly viewed at 800×600 😀


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Cruise Vs. Leo

April 9th, 2003
Annie

Cruise Vs. Leo
This time, the two at loggerheads are Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio who are both planning features on one H.H Holmes – a serial killer who stalked his victims at the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Cruise’s production company have just optioned the film rights to The Devil In The White City – a bestselling novel on the story. Meanwhile, Leonardo’s production house is also working on a story on the same subject – the difference being that DiCaprio is attached as the star of his project, while no casting has been annouced for Cruise’s movie.

Also Tom Cruise has donated $1500 to a youth drug programme.

Mr Cruise, sent the cheque and a letter after hearing about the work of the Drug-Free Ambassadors group, which encourages young people to adopt a drug-free lifestyle. Mo McLeary, manager for the group, said he was thrilled with the donation.

Cruise, who is working in Taranaki on the film The Last Samurai, said in his letter that it was inspiring to read about the group’s dedication to educating young people about drugs.
He said there was a lot of false information around, and providing children with the truth empowered them to make “pro-survival” decisions.

Also, Premiere Magazine announced that Tom Cruise was the highest paid actor of 2003, earning more then $ 71.4 million!


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Powerlist

April 8th, 2003
Annie

Premire Magazine released their Annual 100 power list- 100 most powerful people in the world. Tom Cruise snagged the 14th spot as the most powerful person. The second highest actor on the list following Tom hanks at number 13th.

Look for the issue when it stands next week!


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