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Phillip Noyce in talks to helm ‘Salt’ for Tom Cruise
Published 7/1/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
Phillip Noyce is in final negotiations to direct Tom Cruise in Columbia Pictures’ “Edwin A. Salt,” according to Variety. ...

Philip Noyce Will Wrangle Tom Cruise In CIA Thriller
Published 7/1/2008 at Cinema Blend News
... some life goal to be either running away from something or chasing something or just plain wrongly accused in every movie he does for the rest of his life. Because his upcoming project, Edwin A. Salt , sounds like such a typical Cruise role-- a CIA agent eludes capture after being accused of spying for the Russians-- that no one else seems capable of playing it. That Tom Cruise! He eludes capture better than all the rest! Now Edwin A. Salt is one step closer to getting made, with Variety reporting that Philip Noyce has signed on to direct the thriller. Noyce knows a thing ...

SAG and Sleepers. Trade Roughage 07/01/08
Published 7/1/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
The Screen Actors Guild are currently without a contract. The AMPTP offered a “final offer” late yesterday in hopes of nailing the union down before their previous contract expired at midnight, but SAG insisted on giving the “deeply flawed” proposal the once-over before meeting with the studios on Wednesday. They’re probably just stalling until AFTRA votes on their tentative deal with the AMPTP next week. Variety takes note of the summer’s box office sleepers thus far, including The Strangers, which has quietly crossed $50 million, and What Happens in Vegas, an ...

Jim Caviezel: ‘I’m Not a Number, I’m a Free Man!’ Ian McKellen: ‘You’re a Number’
Published 7/1/2008 at Vulture
... Noyce Passes the Salt: Phillip Noyce is in talks to direct Columbia's Edwin A. Salt, a spy drama for Tom Cruise to headline. Story pits Cruise as a CIA agent accused of being a Russian sleeper spy who must elude capture so he can prove his innocence. Cruise can next be seen in Tropic Thunder, and then presumably about twenty more movies before Valkyrie gets released. [Variety] ...

Hollywood 4% Filthy Richer [Trade Roundup]
Published 7/1/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... "a trailblazing female war correspondent who covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam." [Variety] · Tom Cruise CareerCoolingWatch: Clear and Present Danger director Phillip Noyce is "negotiating" to join Edwin A. Salt, which Cruise has been attached to for several drafts now—one of which will surely join the rest of his leatherbound keepsakes in the Tom Cruise Produced-Screenplay Library and Museum at Telluride. [Variety] · The Incredible Hulk's shirtless psycho (where you been hiding ...