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Wagner Bolting UA; Valkyrie Will Open in December
Thompson On Hollywood — ... The idea of UA being an indie was impossible with the players involved. Now Valkyrie, which several people I know have seen and liked, has bad buzz and will be judged as a costly star vehicle, which is quite different from a $25 million movie with no marquee star. Finally, MGM has decided to give the pic a shot in late December, after it screened well. It had been pushed back to February. This makes sense; if the movie is a smart arty picture with great performances, year-end award season support is probably just what it needs. ...

With Paula Wagner's Departure, UA Now Consists Of Tom Cruise And The After-Hours Cleaning Woman [Departures]
Gawker: Defamer — ... , and, with a $500 million credit line for fuel, instructed the giddy superstar to take his longtime producing sweetheart Paula Wagner on the ride of a lifetime. Two years later, the duo managed to journey to one place only—Turkeyvania—with a release slate consisting of Lions For Lambs, and the soon-to-bomb Valkyrie. (Even sooner than expected! It's just been announced that its release date has been moved back two months to December 26th, either shortening its suffering, or lengthening ours, depending on how you look at it.) Yesterday came news of ...

Cruise's 'Valkyrie' to open in December
USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live — Cruise's 'Valkyrie' to open in December Like this story? Share it with Yahoo! Buzz Tom Cruise's Valkyrie will open in theaters on Dec. 26 instead of the previously announced Feb. 13 date, reports Variety . The MGM film is directed by Bryan Singer. Posted at 08:04 PM/ET, August 13, 2008 in Box office buzz | Permalink

Cruise News! Valkyrie, Tourist, and UA
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — Is that Tom Cruise in the elusive Valkyrie, or is he just getting ready to star in a touring company of The Producers?  Well, it seems like Tom Cruise can’t stay out of the news these days; however, much to his relief, I’m sure, the news is career-related, not personal. Actually, I think many others are relieved, too. I’m bored with the whole Scientology/TomKat thing. We get it, Scientology is weird, Katie is a Stepford wife. I’m up for a new freaky celebrity couple. Anyway, to the business types, the big news is that Paula Wagner, Cruise’s longtime producing partner, is leaving her role as ...

"Valkyrie" Returns to 2008
From the Front Row — [image] Bryan Singer's much discussed Tom Cruise WWII vehicle Valkyrie , which caused a minor stir when it was pushed from a 2008 release date to Valentine's Day 2009, has now been moved back to December 26, 2008. The news comes as United Artists CEO Paula Wagner announced that she will be leaving UA. Valkyrie was one of the major UA projects after Wagner took over UA with Tom Cruise in a partnership with MGM. This should dispel rumors of troubles with the film prompted by the nearly two month delay from a prime release date to a mid-winter one, but this is an interesting new development in the 2008 Oscar race, which now has a new ...

While You Were Hearing The Name “Michael Phelps” Seven Times Per Second
Best Week Ever — ... Tom Cruise's Nazi movie has been moved yet again, this time up to December 26, 2008, so I now gots some plans for midnight on Christmas. ...

Paula Wagner & Six (Shooter) Degrees. Trade Roughage 08/14/08
SpoutBlog — Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise’s long-time producing partner, is leaving her post at the top of United Artists. Though Wagner will hold on to a share of UA––which has barely made use of their $500 million credit line, due to some friction with parent studio MGM over which movies to greenlight––apparently “it’s possible that the studio will once again go into hibernation and that the UA coin will go to MGM.” Totally coincidentally, the release date on UA’s next big production, the bad buzz-plagued Tom Cruise-in-an-eye patch vehicle Valkyrie, has been moved to Dec. 26 from Feb. 13, ...

‘Valkyrie’ Officially Back in the Oscar Race!
Vulture — ... release date for Tom Cruise's upcoming blockbuster Valkyrie — in which he stars as an eye-patched member of the Third Reich who tries to kill Hitler (but not too hard) — has been changed again. But this time it's being moved ahead from its planned opening on February 13, 2009, to December 26, 2008, ruining our Valentine's Day plans but putting the film squarely back into contention for next year's Oscars! Studio sources tell Variety the change was made for "purely commercial reasons" (movies about Nazi in-fighting always perform well ...

Valkyrie Officially On the Oscar Watch
Awards Daily — Something told me way back when that Valkyrie would be a 2008 release but that saying it was being pushed to 2009 threw the vultures off the scent for a while. Now comes the news that Valkyrie is going to be in the race after all. I know everyone hates Tom Cruise now but you won’t get any hating from me.   I’m ...

Goodbye Paula Wagner, Hello “Valkyrie” in 2008
Fataculture — [image] United Artists has been in the mud for a while now, as has their major project “Valkyrie.” Ever since Wagner and Tom Cruise took over UA in partnership with MGM, nothing much has happened except for the fact that developments continued to stall and their prize vehicle changed release dates so many times it was tough to keep track of them all. Last we checked, “Valkyrie” was set to be DOA – opening on the 13th of February ’09. Now, Wagner has stepped down as CEO , and “Valkyrie” is back in the 2008 Oscar race , perhaps, with a brand spanking new release date of December 26. Clearly, the world – or MGM – has not had ...

Paula Wagner Leaves Tom Cruise To Deal With That Nazi Movie All By Himself
RadarOnline.com — ... to produce projects independently certainly doesn't help matters. Cruise and Wagner teamed up at UA in 2006 with a $500 million credit line from Merrill Lynch and the auspices of parent company MGM to greenlight any movie with a budget of up to $60 million, no questions asked. The end result? Lions For Lambs , which cost $35 million and grossed $15 million, and Valkyrie , the odd-sounding Nazi war movie which no one can decide when to release . The news caps an embarrassing week for the actor, who ...

“Christian Bale is off the hook” links
Cele|bitchy — - All the charges were dropped against Christian Bale [PopEater] - Is Tori Spelling knocked up again? [Dlisted] - On August 24th, during the closing ceremony of the Olympics, Beijing will hand off to London, host city of the 2012 games. London will be represented by a select group of individuals…one of them being David Beckham. Yums [Lainey Gossip] - Crazo Naomi Campbell was vacationing in Ibiza this week with ‘friends’. We use that term loosely, as this broad has probably cussed out every last person on that boat at least twice ...

You fickle bastards abondoned Tom Cruise and now his career is ending. Are you happy now?! (lol)
Oh No They Didn't! — Paula Wagner Leaves Tom Cruise To Deal With That Nazi Movie All By Himself It's a good thing Tom Cruise is getting rave reviews for his portrayal of a greedy Jewish studio boss in Tropic Thunder, because every other aspect of his life is slowly going to hell. The recent news that Paula Wagner, his producing partner at United Artists and the wife of Cruise's recently departed agent Rick Nicita, is leaving her post as chief executive to produce projects independently certainly doesn't help matters. Cruise and Wagner teamed ...