Tom Cruise courtesy Paramount Pictures
Despite cutting ties with Tom Cruise in 2006 Viacom Inc and CBS Corp chairman Sumner Redstone said he has no problem with the actor continuing to star in Paramounts Mission Impossible franchise Viacom is Paramounts parent companyCiting recent conduct Redstone severed a 14-year relationship with Cruise after his couch-jumping appearance on Oprah and verbal slugfest with Todays Matt Lauer kicking Cruise and his producing partner off the Paramount Pictures lot But according to the AP Redstone told a reporter at a conference in South Korea that he will not keep Cruise who is already in talks to star in the fourth Impossible film from returning to the franchiseI consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend Redstone said And if Paramount decides and they will make the decision to move ahead with him I will not objectDo you think Redstone made a mistake by cutting Tom loose to begin with Are you psyched for a Mission Impossible 4 Ada
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Now that the relationship between Paramount and Tom Cruise has soured, might the Mission: Impossible franchise be turned over to another of Hollywood's biggest stars? A rep for Brad Pitt tells the New York Daily News that rumblings of the fair-haired hunk heading up the next Mission are "totally made up".... Justin Long and Maggie Q are joining Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard, playing a sidekick for McClane and a world-class hacker, respectively.... Charlize Theron and Tommy Lee Jones are in talks to play a police detective and a father searching for his supposedly AWOL (but perhaps murdered) Iraq War-vet son in Crash director Paul Haggis' next project.
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Ving Rhames
Mission: Impossible heavyweight Ving Rhames has joined the cast of the Smallville spin-off pilot starring newcomer Will Toale as Aquaman née A.C. Curry. Rhames, whose last TV venture was USA Network's Kojak revival, will play McCaffrey, a lighthouse keeper (not to be confused with a light housekeeper) who serves as a mentor to A.C. His first bit of advice: "Steer clear of tartar sauce."
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Survivor: Panama — Exile Island
In a first for network television, episodes of Survivor: Panama - Exile Island, debuting this Thursday at 8 pm/ET, will be made available for download directly from the CBS Corp. website, CBS.com, effectively cutting out the middle-man distributor. The episodes will be ready for purchase shortly after midnight each Thursday and will be viewable for 24 hours afterward — at which point they'll start hissing and smoking like in Mission: Impossible, which, you have to admit, is wicked cool.
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Screen Actors Guild Awards The night actors pat each other on the back. Much like the Golden Globes, there wasn't a host. There were plenty of awkward moments of presenter chatter, and TelePrompTer problems out the Ziyi Zhang. Everyone was having issues reading the thing, except for the wonder known as Dakota Fanning. I mean, the 11-year-old was unflappable as she introduced Shirley Temple Black's life achievement portion of the evening. I seriously think she's genetically enhanced, like one of those Dark Angel characters. Some other highlights:
- I much appreciated the Peter Graves-Barbara Bain Mission: Impossible reunion, PrompTer issues and all.- I admit it: While I thought the beginning "I'm an actor" monologues were supremely cheesy, I fell for them. - Apparently, if your name's S. Epatha Merkers
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Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Match Point
Jonathan Rhys Meyers had no idea what he was getting into — literally — when Woody Allen cast him in the romantic thriller Match Point, now in select theaters. "I had never read the script when Woody offered the role to me," the actor tells TVGuide.com. "And I just accepted. For any young actor to be in a Woody Allen film, you're just going to do it regardless of what it is."
Once Rhys Meyers did peruse the script, he was hit with another surprise. "I was like, 'If I get four or five good scenes, I'll be gold.' And then it dawned on me how much work I had to do in this!"
And how. Match Point features Rhys Meyers as Chris, a former tennis champ who latches on to new Brit bud Tom (Matthew Goode
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