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Tom Cruise buys her a new pair of shoes every year for her birthday.The actor starred alongside Cruise in the 2005 Steven Spielberg film War of the Worlds, when she was just 11 years old.Fanning played Rachel, the daughter of Cruise’s Ray Ferrier, a dock worker who must protect his family and reunite them when extraterrestrials invade Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.Nearly 20 years may have passed since the film was made, but it seems that the two have remained in contact, with the Top Gun star going out of his way to treat her every February 23.Fanning appeared on Kelly Clarkson’s talk show this week, where she discussed the tradition.“He always sends me the same thing every year,” Fanning said. “I loved shoes when I was little, and I started to be able to fit into really small adult shoes when I was on the War of the Worlds press tour, so I was really excited about them.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Stewart will make her TV series-starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space. She did this as part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class of 1978 that was the first to be diversified and not comprised of all white men.  

Kristen Stewart has lined up what will be one of her first big television roles.

As we near the 40th anniversary of the original Gremlins film on June 8, Max has revealed a new title for Season 2 of the animated prequel series. It will be called Gremlins: The Wild Batch and is set for premiere this fall. Max also released a teaser, which you can watch above.

A new season of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is lurking.

President Joe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day in a speech with a warning of current perils to democracy, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the risks of a fracturing of the NATO alliance.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Dakota Fanning went viral in April for revealing that not only did Tom Cruise gift her a cell phone when she celebrated her 11th birthday on the set of their 2005 movie “War of the Worlds” but that he’s also proceeded to send her a birthday gift every year since. That’s nearly two decades worth of birthday presents, all of which have apparently been shoes. Fanning revealed the specifics of Cruise’s gifting habits during a new interview on Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show (via Entertainment Weekly).

The June skies are clear as the Tribeca Festival gathers indie filmmakers from around the globe with a large slate of features and shorts, music, games, TV, audio storytelling and a major addition this year in De Niro Con, a tribute to the prolific actor and Tribeca co-founder.

EXCLUSIVE: Abbi Jacobson, co-creator and star of Broad City and A League of Their Own, has found her next project.

Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie.The announcement (via Deadline) marks the continuation of Hemsworth’s collaboration with Paramount Pictures, with the Australian actor already starring in the upcoming animated movie Transformers One – scheduled for theatrical release on September 20, 2024.A crossover movie between Hasbro’s two major toy lines was teased in the final scene of Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, where the Autobots were introduced to the special-forces organisation G.I.

Chris Hemsworth is reportedly in talks for an exciting role.

Jon Burlingame Historical dramas often demand a specific musical approach: Music that suggests the time and place, along with reflecting the (often real-life) characters and the unique circumstances of their lives. Five of the past season’s miniseries featured outstanding scores along these lines. For producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, “Masters of the Air” marked the completion of a World War II trilogy (after “Band of Brothers,” about American soldiers in Europe, and “The Pacific,” about Marines in the Pacific theater), and composer Blake Neely worked on all three.

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in Paramount Pictures’ untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover movie, Deadline has learned, based on the line of Hasbro toys.

Mahershala Ali is in talks to join the newest installment in the Jurassic World franchise from Universal Pictures, Deadline can confirm.

EXCLUSIVE: Global TV and film studio Sister is gearing up for a string of projects to hit the small and big screens and today might well see the launch of its most daring.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given the green light to what it calls the “next iteration” of its Emmy-contending documentary series Life on Our Planet, with Morgan Freeman set to return as narrator and Steven Spielberg as executive producer.

Katcy Stephan Diablo Cody and Mason Novick are teaming with Wattpad Webtoon Studios to produce an adaptation of the popular Webtoon webcomic “Death of a Pop Star” as a film. The script will be written by rising screenwriter and producer Isa Mazzei (“Cam,” “Faces of Death,” “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”).

Richard Dreyfuss allegedly made comments many patrons considered to be sexist and homophobic.The Cabot Theater hosted “An Evening With Richard Dreyfuss + Jaws Screening,” where attendees were likely fans of the Steven Spielberg classic, hoping for anecdotes about the film.However, Dreyfuss, 76, reportedly went on a rogue rant that ranged from talking about Barbra Streisand to his opinions on transgender youth and gender affirmation, as well as the Academy Awards’ inclusivity rules.Attendees took to social media to express their disappointment.“We walked out of his interview tonight along with hundreds of others because of his racist homophobic misogynistic rant,” one person commented on the Cabot’s recent Facebook post.“Richard Dreyfuss is an embarrassment to society. I walked out tonight because of his small minded bigoted view of women and choice,” another wrote.One commenter shared that the audience thought the event would be “a light, fun evening listening to stories and anecdotes about RD’s time on the Vineyard making Jaws.”They wrote, “This was disgusting.

If an animated film turns up in the Competition at Cannes, chances are it’s not going to be another Bambi — although, if it were made today, the traumatic shooting of Bambi’s mother would certainly tickle the selection committee. No, Cannes prefers its animation to be skewed towards adults, like René Lalou’s surreal sci-fi Fantastic Planet (1973), Robert Taylor’s raunchy sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) or Ari Folman’s wartime docudrama Waltz with Bashir (2008). And with The Most Precious of Cargoes, actor turned director and now graphic artist Michel Hazanavicius has turned to the most controversial topic it is possible to approach with pen and ink: the Holocaust.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The producer of Destry Allyn Spielberg‘s feature film debut said Thursday that the production has paid its debts to its vendors in New Mexico. The film, “Please Don’t Feed the Children,” wrapped production last fall, but still owed about $200,000 to various rental houses. The vendors were told several times over the last five months that they would be paid shortly, but those promises went unfulfilled.

Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey have their first “Jurassic World” co-star. THR reports that Rupert Friend is the latest actor cast to star in Gareth Edward‘s upcoming installment.  Friend also joins Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the only other name on the call sheet, as the film inches closer to its mid-June production start.