Tom Cruise makes hair rock debut in Rock of Ages trailer

Tom Cruise as you never wanted to see him, in a wig, in a musical, playing eighties rock anthems. That’s right, it’s the first trailer for 

You’ve seen him warble The Righteous Brothers in a bar in Top Gun, you’ve seen him crump his way through the end credits of Tropic Thunder, and now’s your chance to see Tom Cruise tease up his hair and belt
out some eighties rock.

Rock of Ages, based on “the hit Broadway musical” according to the trailer (though you can’t say the same for its one-star review magnet UK transfer) comes from the director of 2007’s Hairspray, Adam Shankman. Featuring the music of Journey, Starship, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Foreigner, Poison, Europe, Mr Big, and Whitesnake, Rock of Ages is essentially the film version of those driving CD compilations we’re all supposed to buy our dads on Father’s Day.

Paul Giamatti, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Mary J Blige star alongside Cruise in a love story between a plucky newcomer to LA and the barman of a dingy music club which is threatened with demolition. Sound familiar? Perhaps that’s because it’s the exact plot of last year’s Burlesque (which was basically The Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie but with kinkier outfits).

Rock of Ages comes to the UK next June, but before all that, you can see Cruise scaling skyscrapers instead of speaker stacks in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, out on Monday 26^th December.

Screenwriters hired for Top Gun sequel

Breath-taking news: Top Gun director Tony Scott will be turning and returning to some secret place inside for Top Gun 2 now a script has been commissioned

Top Gun director Tony Scott has been chatting about returning to his 1986 film for a while now, and it seems he wasn’t just shooting the breeze. Two script-writers, Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, both of whom contributed to the Thor and X-Men: First Class screenplays, have been signed
up to pen a Top Gun sequel.
It’s very early days yet, and there’s no word yet as to whether Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer will be taking their tops off to play some homoerotic volleyball anytime soon (for the purposes of the film anyhow), but if it goes into production, we’d be surprised if Maverick and Iceman at least didn’t pop up for a Wolverine-style cameo.
Scott has told reporters he’s interested in how airborne technology has developed, so it’s likely the new story will be picking up on drone warfare and its likes. We'll bring you more as we have it.

Tom Cruise joins All You Need is Kill

After what seems like a long process, Tom Cruise has officially been confirmed for to star in All You Need is Kill...

For a while, it looked like Brad Pitt would be starring in All You Need is Kill (formerly We Mortals Are), but now the other guy in the hat, Tom Cruise, has reportedly signed on to the project.
The film is an adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's expensive novel (Warner Bros. bought it for $3 million last year), and everyone from Ryan Gosling to Joseph Gordon Levitt has been slated to star at some point. The script has been penned by Dante Harper and Joby Harold, and may
have been revised to suit an older star like Pitt or Cruise.
The story is a high concept one, where a soldier fighting in an alien war finds himself reliving the same day over and over again. By revisiting his last day in battle, he becomes a better soldier, and learns things about himself along the way. Cruise seems like a good choice, assuming that this winter's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol lifts him back to former glory.