LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Given his age and the tough year he's had in the tabloids, is Tom Cruise still a go-to guy when Hollywood is looking for an action hero ? The answer is yes, based on the performance of his current movie, Paramount 's " Jack Reacher ." It's taken in $45 million in the 10 days since opening with $15.6 million in a very crowded and competitive holiday market. Its second week was a solid $14 million, and it's added $22 million from overseas. Holiday movies tend to have legs and "Reacher" has yet to roll out in the majority of major foreign territories, so both of those numbers, particularly the international, will be growing. All signs point to it surpassing $200 million at the worldwide box office . That's not a blockbuster figure, and Paramount is staying mum on a sequel, but with a $60 million budget, " Jack Reacher " will make money for Paramount . There were questions coming in. With his divorce from Kati...

Picture: Tom Cruise 'The Late Show with David Letterman' at the... With Tom Cruise on the bill, a film is almost guaranteed to do well, but Jack Reacher had already hit problems when fans were disappointed by the 5ft 7 actor playing a man meant to be at least 6ft as well as being pushed back a week out of respect after the tragic shooting in Newtown. It opened its first week at number two in the box office, but dropped to fifth place this week beaten by The Hobbit, Les Miserables, Django Unchained and Parental Guidance . With those initial setbacks and some seriously stiff competition at the cinema, the mixed reviews certainly wont be helping it out either. The Radio Times describes it as "underwhelming" adding that "Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie... piles on the shoot-'em-up clichs and corny dialogue." The Financial Times gives it a mere two stars saying that it's "It's high-gloss tripe with noir pretensions." And no one seems...

Tom Cruise was very happy being offered the role of Jack Reacher in his newest action flick by the same name. It took a lot of skill, but I had an absolute blast doing it. It was really fun. That car is a tricky car. The surfaces on the road were not always ideal, but I always wanted to do a car chase like that. So, I was very excited to have the opportunity to do it, the 50-year-old actor explained, according to Contact Music . Gossip.net reported, Cruise raved about his character with Entertainment Tonight , calling Jack a unique character. The film has thus far received rave reviews and continues to hold its own at the box office. The action film received 86 fresh ratings on the tomatometer with 75% of audience members enjoying the action packed film. Jack Reacher is currently in second at the box office, having grossed $15.6 million, beating out This is 40 and Rise of the Guardians . Follow us on Twitter ! Follow us on Facebook !

LOS ANGELES - Just turned 50, Tom Cruise is eligible for membership in AARP. Just split from third wife Katie Holmes , Tom Cruise is the object of told-you-so cynics who simply knew that romance wouldn't last. Just finished with his stab at something really different as a heavy-metal rock god in "Rock of Ages," Tom Cruise is coming off one of the lowest-grossing movies in his career. Yet just out with his latest action flick, " Jack Reacher ," Tom Cruise remains one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He's weathered ridicule, intense speculation about his family life, bumpy stretches at the box office brought on by audience disdain over his personal antics and some ill-considered movie projects. And Cruise is right where he was when 1986's "Top Gun" vaulted him to superstardom: On top. Maybe not the same level of on top as the 15-year stretch that began in the early 1990s, when practically every Cruise film was bound to be a $100 million hit. B...

New York , Dec 30 ( ANI ): Tom Cruise 's new date Cynthia Jorge got so worried by the attention her date with the actor got, that she has gone into hiding at her mother's house in Fresh Meadows. The 26-year-old Beauty and Essex manager, who landed on the cover of In Touch magazine for her December 18 date with Cruise, is said to be swearing to friends that she did not leak the news of their partying at Le Baron , the New York Daily News reported. A friend of Jorge's told Confidenti@l's that she is freaked out, as she didn't invite this attention and is very upset. The friend said that Jorge had a doubt that maybe Beauty and Essex leaked it, as Cruise called there three times for her and stated his name. The friend added that she was also thinking that maybe one of her two friends that went with her to Le Baron could have leaked the news. The friend said that Jorge is now concerned of Cruise thinking that she sold him out. (ANI)

Picture: Tom Cruise 'The Late Show with David Letterman' at the... Tom Cruise has been enjoying his stint as Jack Reacher, and its paid off, as the movie is still in the top earners of the holiday season. At the recent London premiere for the film, Cruise gushed about what a good time hed had, doing the stunts. "It took a lot of skill, but I had an absolute blast doing it. It was really fun. That car is a tricky car. The surfaces on the road were not always ideal, but I always wanted to do a car chase like that. So, I was very excited to have the opportunity to do it." Cruise, who it has recently come up wasnt author Lee Childs first choice for the role, also explained that he had enjoyed the challenge of portraying a character as unique as rogue officer Jack Reacher: "He's just a very unique character. He's got dignity, he's got his own moral code. He's not dealing with the constraints of normal society, yet he is very moral and he is flawed and ...

BY Justine Ashley | December 28 2012 4:36 PM Tom Cruise hasn't had the best year. The now-thrice divorced actor ended his five-year marriage to Katie Holmes, was branded a "

(Reuters) From the silver screen to the dating scene, it looks like Tom Cruise may be back in action. Just six months after his divorce from Katie Holmes, the "Jack Reacher" star has reportedly been on the lookout for ladies. Among them is 26-year-old restaurant manager Cynthia Jorge. ALSO READ: Katie Holmes Never Mentioned Tom Cruise in Interview Day Before Divorce Filing According to the New York Post , Jorge, a Queens, N.Y., native, was seen dirty dancing with Cruise at a night club, after reportedly slipping him her business card earlier this week. "Tom Cruise is somebody who has been obviously in the past very open about his relationships," said People magazine staff writer Kristen Mas! cia. "He loves being in love. He's declared that in the past and when the time comes, maybe he'll tell that to us, but for now he's just getting used to single life." But Jorge isn't the only rumored love interest in Cruise's life. The 50-year-...

Tom Cruise is being sued by a man who claims that the actor hired an investigator who had his phones tapped in an effort to get the upper hand in a lawsuit, according to the NY Post. ctor Denzel Washington (Flight) is 58. Singer John Legend is 34. TV show host Gayle King is 58. Dame Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey) is 78. Actress Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek) is 80. Comic book legend Stan Lee is 90. Comedian Seth Meyers (SNL) is 39. Musician Edgar Winter is 66. Actor Joe Manganiello (True Blood) is 36. TV host Don Francisco (Sbado Gigante) is 72. Cruise had originally sued magazine publisher Michael Davis Sapir for offering a half a million bucks to anyone who could offer proof that Cruise was gay. They settled, but now Cruise is in the hot seat and was forced to give a deposition about the phone-tapping accusations. Heres the kicker: he demanded total secrecy. Only one copy of the tape could be made. He also outlined when and where the tape can be played during the trial. Good luck avoidi...

Tom Cruise is enjoying being single and has no plans to make anyone his girlfriend yet following his divorce from Katie Holmes earlier this year, despite being spotted out with a number of women recently. The 'Jack Reacher' star - who split from Katie Holmes, 33, in June after six years of marriage with whom he shares a daughter Suri, six, - has been spotted chatting up multiple women in recent weeks but sources close to the actor insist he is still single and has no plans to make any of them his girlfriend anytime soon. A source close to the 50-year-old actor told People.com: 'He's single and will be talking to women - all of whom he won't be instantly dating.' The insider also played down reports last week that he was romancing Cynthia Jorge, a 26-year-old manager of the Lower East Side restaurant Beauty Essex, after they were spotted dancing together at New York nightclub Le Baron. A source said: 'Cynthia told me they went out for drinks and it was nothin...

Tom Cruise loves filming in London. The 50-year-old actor has had a blast over the past five months shooting his new action flick 'All You Need Is Kill' in the UK capital and other parts of the country and thinks British crews and set designers are among the best in the world. Speaking in the new issue of Britain's OK! magazine, he said: 'I've been here for almost five months. I love it here. I've made so any films here and the time I've spent, it's wonderful, you've got so many great crews here, great craftsmen. Of course, I've worked with so many of the actors here and it's a wonderful place to live.' The Hollywood icon - whose divorce from 'Dawson's Creek' star Katie Holmes was finalised in July - admits one of his motivations for getting into acting was to experience a jet-set lifestyle, because he loves to travel. Even though Tom misses his six-year-old daughter Suri - who lives in New York City with her mother Katie - wh...

December 27, 2012 06:25:34 GMT The former husband of Katie Holmes is allegedly smitten by 26-year-old Cynthia Jorge who works in a lower East Side restaurant in New York. Photo credit: HRC/WENN reportedly has moved on from with a 26-year-old restaurant manager named Cynthia Jorge. They were reportedly grinding on the dance floor of swanky Mulberry St. club, Le Baron, two days after she slipped her card to him after he dined in the eatery where she works. Contrary to the story run by In Touch about Tom's alleged date, a source told Gossip Cop that the "Mission Impossible" actor danced with several women that night. The insider insisted the divorced father of three was not exclusively at the club with Cynthia or any other females. A relative of hers also wasn't aware that she's linked to Tom. Her cousin Pietro Jorge said, "I don't know what to say. What would you say if your cousin was dating Tom Cruise?" He quickly added that the actor would be the ...

Is Cynthia Jorge, a 26-year-old Queens native and New York City restaurant manager, Tom Cruise's new girlfriend? Thats what the cover of In Touch magazine says. However, friends of Toms say after this cover, anything she might have had with Tom, is off. The pair were spotted dancing at NYCs Le Baron nightclub on Dec. 18, just two days after Tom met Cynthia after dining at Beauty & Essex, where she works. Cynthia used to work at Benjamin Steakhouse in Midtown before she got her job on the Lower East Side. And before that, she was a party promoter, a friend of Cynthias tells The Huffington Post. She has always liked press attention and wanted to be famous. In an interview from when she was working at the steakhouse, Cynthia said her favorite part of her job was "meeting new people, from CEOs to celebrities to just really interesting people in the industry. That and the food...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Robert Duvall has revealed that the offer of a large salary by Tom Cruise tempted him into taking a part in new movie Jack Reacher. The film follows ex-military policeman Jack Reacher as he investigates a sniper shooting and is based on the bestselling series of books by author Lee Child. The actor was speaking to Newsbeat's entertainment reporter Natalie Jamieson. Jack Reacher is released in the UK on 26 December. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter See also US premiere of Jack Reacher off Cruise on 'Sherlock Homeless' role (01.55) minutes long Tom Cruise supported by Paramount Bookmark with Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon What are these?

LOS ANGELES (AP) Just turned 50, Tom Cruise is eligible for membership in the American Association of Retired Persons . Just split from third wife Katie Holmes , Tom Cruise is the object of told-you-so cynics who simply knew that romance wouldn't last. Just finished with his stab at something really different as a heavy-metal rock god in "Rock of Ages," Tom Cruise is coming off one of the lowest-grossing movies in his career. Yet just out with his latest action flick, " Jack Reacher ," Tom Cruise remains one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He's weathered ridicule, intense speculation about his family life, bumpy stretches at the box office brought on by audience disdain over his personal antics and some ill-considered movie projects. And Cruise is right where he was when 1986's "Top Gun" vaulted him to superstardom: On top. Maybe not the same level of on top as the 15-year stretch that began in the early 1990s, when practically every Cruis...

Tom Cruise has wanted to be a movie star since he was four years old. The 50-year-old actor always relishes the challenge of taking on a new character with every film he makes and feels very 'privileged' to enjoy his work so much. He said: 'It's always exciting to create new characters and I get to live the dream by travelling the world and meeting new people and new cultures. 'I feel very privileged to be able to do something that I love. I remember being four years old and dreaming about making movies. It's a great life.' Tom can next be seen in 'Jack Reacher' portraying the titular retired military policeman and enjoyed working on the action flick - which is based on Lee Child's best-selling novels - because his character was so 'extraordinary'. He added: 'Jack's a great character. I loved the books, I've read them all and Lee wrote such an extraordinary character. That made it so much fun to play.'

Apparently everyone can get Andrew McCutchen of the Pittsburgh Pirates to do impersonations except for me. When I asked McCutchen in his Answer Man Q&A to expound on his Youtube riff of Cleveland Brown from "Family Guy," he politely pointed me to my web browser. He's not a trained seal, you know! But, apparently MLB Fan Cave has more pull, because they filmed McCutchen doing, like, a half-dozen impersonations of Tom Cruise in some of his famous film roles.Here's a review of the revue, published to publicize the new Cruise vehicle "Jack Reacher" (in which Cruise dons a Bucs cap as a disguise): The Bob Seger underpants dancing scene from " Risky Business ." What we learn: Cutch don't do tightie whities. Cruise is actually a better dancer (Cutch is all upper body), though the Bucco appears to know the words to "Old-Time Rock 'n' Roll." Unless there were karaoke teleprompters on the set. "Show me the money!" f...

Enlarge Photo Tom Cruise plays a former military cop investigating a sniper case in ... more> Story Topics Entertainment_Culture Tom Cruise Jack Reacher Dave Karger Fandango Follow Us On Facebook Question of the Day Will Congress find a compromise to avert the "fiscal cliff?" LOS ANGELES Just turned 50, Tom Cruise is eligible for membership in AARP. Just split from third wife Katie Holmes , Tom Cruise is the object of told-you-so cynics who simply knew that romance wouldnt last. Just finished with his stab at something really different as a heavy-metal rock god in Rock of Ages, Tom Cruise is coming off one of the lowest-grossing movies in his career. Yet just out with his latest action flick, Jack Reacher , Mr. Cruise remains one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He has weathered ridicule, intense speculation about his family life, bumpy stretches at the box office brought on by audience disdain for his personal antics and some ill-cons! idered mo! vie projects. ...

Posted: December 23, 2012 This hobbit isnt giving in. The Hobbit is a box-office success that Tom Cruises Jack Reacher is having trouble competing with. Tom Cruise and a popular action novel series combined cant topple the success of J. R. R. Tolkiens epic, which the fans have been waiting for since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King . That is one powerful ring indeed. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey took the top spot with earnings of $37.6 million according to Hollywood.com . The Hobbit has brought in $148.9 million in ten days and proves to be a top performer for Warner Bros.. This isnt saying that Jack Reacher was a flop. Quite the opposite, as it has raked in $15.6 million and placed second at the box office, an impressive feat that no doubt Tom Cruise had a lot to do with. Face it; audiences love Tom Cruise . The premier for Jack Reacher had been postponed due to the Connecticut shooting, but! the film is doing well in spite of a possible backlash against vi...

Theres much talk of honor in A Few Good Men what it is, who has it, who doesnt,how to get it, where it might land on a list of personal assets, and perhaps the debatable manner in which it can be defined vis--vis the United States Armed Forces. But at its core, the picture is the light-fare courtroom drama that follows the suspicious death of an unpopular Marine at Guantanamo Bay . Its best remembered, of course, for a scene where Jack Nicholson s multiplex-approved version of Walter Kurtz tells a pushy young lawyer played by Tom Cruise that hes ill-equipped to accept the realities of the moral and ethical dilemmas facing military personnel in the fog of not-exactly-war. The picture, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its American release this month, is worth looking back on not just because of a jaunty screenplay by a young playwright named Aaron Sorkin , or for the aforementioned scene which isnt even Nicholsons best performance in the film, mind you. No, the staying-power of A ...

London, Dec 22 (IANS) Actor Tom Cruise, who will next be seen in the action-packed film "Jack Reacher", based on the bestselling novel by Lee Child, says he sought the writer's blessing before taking on the project. For Cruise, Child's stamp of approval was important. "Firstly, I'm very sensitive to it. This is Lee's book and Lee's character. His blessing was crucial to me. If he hadn't, I wouldn't have done it," the 50-year-old said in a statement. Written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Mcquarrie, "Jack Reacher" also features Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins And Werner Herzog. The movie is co-produced by Tom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner and Gary Levinsohn. The actor also says he was thrilled to play the character of Reacher. "Reacher is such a great character. He doesn't have a cell phone, he doesn't have email. He's an analog guy in a digital age. He's off th...

It's taken seven years for Lee Child 's bestselling series of novels about military policeman turned existential loner Jack Reacher to be adapted for the big screen. There's been an unusual amount of controversy surrounding its release this weekend, from the dissimilarity of Tom Cruise 's physical appearance as the title character compared to Reacher's description in the novels to the fact that the movie begins with a mass shooting . Jack Reacher is a flinty, back to basics actioner about a guy using his wits to solve a terrible crime. Quite a different approach from the techno-forensics of many recent procedural thrillers. The fact that it's deliberately unshowy makes all the scrutiny it's attracted all the more remarkable. Hollywood.com spoke to Child and director Christopher McQuarrie (writer of The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie ) about the film, whether or not Cruise succeeded in playing Reacher, and just how the hell they landed Werner Herzog to play t...

London, Dec 22 (IANS) Actor Tom Cruise, who will next be seen in the action-packed film "Jack Reacher", based on the bestselling novel by Lee Child, says he sought the writer's blessing before taking on the project. For Cruise, Child's stamp of approval was important. "Firstly, I'm very sensitive to it. This is Lee's book and Lee's character. His blessing was crucial to me. If he hadn't, I wouldn't have done it," the 50-year-old said in a statement. Written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Mcquarrie, "Jack Reacher" also features Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins And Werner Herzog. The movie is co-produced by Tom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner and Gary Levinsohn. The actor also says he was thrilled to play the character of Reacher. "Reacher is such a great character. He doesn't have a cell phone, he doesn't have email. He's an analog guy in a digital age. He's off th...

Theres much talk of honor in A Few Good Men what it is, who has it, who doesnt,how to get it, where it might land on a list of personal assets, and perhaps the debatable manner in which it can be defined vis--vis the United States Armed Forces. But at its core, the picture is the light-fare courtroom drama that follows the suspicious death of an unpopular Marine at Guantanamo Bay . Its best remembered, of course, for a scene where Jack Nicholson s multiplex-approved version of Walter Kurtz tells a pushy young lawyer played by Tom Cruise that hes ill-equipped to accept the realities of the moral and ethical dilemmas facing military personnel in the fog of not-exactly-war. The picture, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its American release this month, is worth looking back on not just because of a jaunty screenplay by a young playwright named Aaron Sorkin , or for the aforementioned scene which isnt even Nicholsons best performance in the film, mind you. No, the staying-power of A ...