Tom Cruise

'Safe Haven' and 'Jack Reacher' top DVD/Blu-ray charts

2013-05-20 13:50:00

A trio of new titles arrived to knock Oscar winners “Django Unchained” and “Silver Linings Playbook” from their reign atop the sales and rentals charts -- among them Tom Cruise’s box-office disappointment “Jack Reacher....

New ad platform targets mobile users by scouring social media

2013-05-22 05:00:00

Mobile advertising is about to become a lot more personal. Pasadena technology company UberMedia has launched a mobile advertising platform that tracks publicly available information provided by smartphone users on their social media channels and then...

J.J. Abrams on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: ‘Spectacle is irrelevant’

2013-05-17 08:02:16

Cannes: With 'The Congress,' Ari Folman votes for new audacity

2013-05-19 03:00:00

CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world’s attention with his combat piece “Waltz...

Sprinkled with smarts

2013-05-04 00:00:00

The gig: Sprinkles Cupcakes, the Beverly Hills chain beloved by bold-faced Hollywood names such as Tom Cruise and Ryan Seacrest, launched in 2005 with six workers, including founders Candace and Charles Nelson. The company has since expanded to 400...

Giorgio Armani's niece Roberta has star power of her own

2013-05-12 00:00:00

There are few designers working today who have had as big an influence on fashion as Giorgio Armani. Founding his company in Milan in 1975, he modernized the suit, giving it a relaxed, soft silhouette, and created a daytime uniform of power and...

Moviegoing at the midnight hour

2013-05-04 09:00:00

El Monte high school teacher Trevor Schoenfeld is an omnivorous moviegoer, the kind who wants to see films he's interested in at their first possible screening. For years, he's been willing to line up at the multiplex for the first midnight showings of...

New releases: 'Upstream Color' is a complicated, lost-souls tale

2013-05-04 14:00:00

Upstream Color ERBP, $24.95; Blu-ray, $29.95 Available on VOD beginning May 7 Since opening at Sundance this year, this sci-fi-inflected indie drama has been described as "baffling," but even though it's a complicated film, its basics aren't that...

Tom Cruise to star in 'Mission: Impossible 5'

2013-05-07 10:13:00

The last time audiences saw super spy Ethan Hunt on screen in 2011, Lalo Schifrin’s iconic “Mission: Impossible” score seemed to be playing him toward the exit. Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt character had breathed new life into...

‘Oblivion’: Tom Cruise talks return to big-screen spectacle sci-fi

2013-04-16 10:22:17

Sheriff to release 'swatting' information on case-by-case basis

2013-04-15 13:01:00

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will continue to respond to inquiries about incidents about false reports of emergencies but would not publicize them as so-called "swatting incidents," a department spokesman said Monday. The statement by...

‘Oblivion’ and Tom Cruise: A closer look at the Bubble Ship design

2013-04-10 08:22:59

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 23: Actor Tom Cruise poses for a picture with Los Angeles Kings mascot in Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Staples Center on May 23, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 168889001

2013-05-23 00:00:00

Tom Cruise, "Oblivion" Robert Downey, Jr., "Iron Man 3" James Franco, "Oz the Great and Powerful" Taylor Lautner, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn � Part 2" Robert Pattinson, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn � Part 2" (pictured)

2013-05-22 19:00:00

Or it's harder than it looks to maintain the physicality and also to be playing a character so historically associated with economy of movement, with stillness. To have to accelerate and to engage in that level of exertion was probably the most challenging aspect of the physical training.

2013-05-13 09:26:00