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	The decision by MGM and United Artists to delay the release of the Tom Cruise (more)
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	A spokesperson for United Artists said Monday that the company does not suspect sabotage in (more)
	GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DOES ABOUT-FACE OVER CRUISE Sep 18 2007
	The German government has done an apparent about-face and will allow Tom Cruise to film (more)

GERMAN EXTRAS SUE UA
Tuesday, August 26 2008

Eleven German extras who were injured during the filming of United Artists' Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, have sued the studio for $11 million, claiming that production personnel were aware that the World War II-era trucks that they were riding in were unsafe. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Ariane Bluttner, the extras' lawyer, said, "The studio knew the trucks were rickety. ... There had even been an internal memo about the railings." The magazine observed that although the extras had signed waivers before agreeing to participate in the scene, their lawyers could still make a case of malice that would override the waivers.

WAGNER'S EXIT ROCKS UA
Thursday, August 14 2008

In an announcement that stunned Hollywood, Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise's business partner, said Wednesday that she is stepping down as CEO of United Artists in order "to return to my true love, which is making movies." Wagner and Cruise had been recruited by MGM chief Harry Sloan in 2006 to revive UA and given a 30-percent ownership of the studio, but the studio's projects have been minimal. It has released only one movie, Lions for (more)

CRUISE FILM TO COMPETE WITH GERMAN ORIGINAL
Wednesday, May 28 2008
It now turns out that the Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie, about the World War II "general's plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler, may have competition from an award-winning German movie based on the same subject. Rights to the German film, Operation Valkyrie, directed by Jo Baier, have been acquired by The Weinstein Co., it was announced Tuesday. The film, originally titled Stauffenberg, the name of the Nazi colonel who led the assassination plot (played by Cruise (more)

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