Dakota Fanning Reveals the Birthday Gift Tom Cruise Gives Her Every Year Since 2005’s ‘War of the Worlds’: ‘He Sends Me Shoes’

Scarlett Johansson opened up about her involvement in the Jurassic World universe in a new film directed by Gareth Edwards and penned by David Koepp.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson confirmed to ComicBook.com that she is, in fact, headlining the next “Jurassic World” movie, which is being directed by “Rogue One” and “Godzilla” filmmaker Gareth Edwards from a script penned by David Koepp. The screenwriter is returning to the dinosaur franchise after having penned Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997). “I am an enormous ‘Jurassic Park’ fan,” Johansson said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “X-Men” screenwriter David Hayter recently told TMZ that he is thrilled by Alan Cumming‘s recent revelation that the 2003 sequel “X2: X-Men United” is the “gayest film” the actor has ever worked on in his career. Cumming starred as the mutant Nightcrawler in the comic book movie. Hayter, who had sole screenwriting credit on the original “X-Men” movie, co-wrote the “X2” script with Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris.

Singer James Arthur can transcend listeners to a happy place with his vocals. But ‘happy’ isn’t a word that James has always been familiar with. Not many can say they shared the stage with a Pussycat Doll aged 24, with 8 million people watching.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matthew McConaughey recently told Glen Powell as part of an Interview magazine discussion that “it was scary” quitting Hollywood for two years when all that was being offered to him early in his career was romantic-comedy films. McConaughey was a king of the genre thanks to films like “The Wedding Planner,” “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,” “Failure To Launch,” “Fool’s Gold,” and “Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past,” nearly all of which grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office. But the more rom-coms McConaughey made the less Hollywood wanted him starring in anything else.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director A new Batman is here to save Gotham City. Amazon Prime Video has released a cast announcement teaser for its upcoming animated series “Batman: Caped Crusader,” and with it comes confirmation that Hamish Linklater will be voicing the Dark Knight. The teaser also includes a first listen at the actor’s Batman voice.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Originally “Blade” star Wesley Snipes is saying “lordy lordy lordy” to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which continues to hit speed bumps during the development of a new “Blade” movie that is set to star Oscar winner Mahershala Ali as the eponymous vampire hunter. The most recent hiccup for the MCU’s “Blade” arrived June 12, when it was announced that director Yann Damage was exiting the movie and that a new screenwriter, Eric Pearson (“The Fantastic Four,” “Black Widow,” “Thor: Ragnarok”), was coming on board . “Blade, lordylordylordy,” Snipes reacted on Twitter alongside the side eye emoji.

Ariana DeBose, remembering the late West Side Story star, presented a Chita Rivera tribute at the Tony Awards. At the end of the homage, the awards show host would take the stage and recreate the iconic “America” musical number.

EXCLUSIVE: After earning an Oscar nomination for her work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt might have found her next job, with a director who inspired not only Nolan but a generation of filmmakers. While a deal has not closed, sources tell Deadline that Blunt is in early talks to star in Steven Spielberg‘s next film at Universal and Amblin, marking the first time the A-lister has worked with the iconic director.

Hunter Ingram “Masters of the Air” doesn’t fly as high as it does without Anthony Boyle and Nate Mann. No military unit rests on the shoulders of two people, and the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group was no different in World War II. Historically known as the Bloody 100th for the tremendous losses it endured, the fearless flyers saw some of the worst action of the war and it did so thousands of feet above the front lines.

Katherine Ryan has opened up about female representation in television, critcising the lack of female hosts of late-night chat shows in the UK.The standup comic appeared on Grace Dent’s Comfort Eating podcast recently, where she claimed that men are more commonly given late-night hosting gigs, whereas women are featured more on daytime TV.She spoke about being raised in Canada before moving to the UK in 2008 when she was 25, saying that she “grew up” with the idea of men more frequently hosting late-night shows compared to women.“I thought that either myself or any of my female peers could have a late-night chat show in this country. I think Sarah Millican had one for a little while, not any more,” she answered when asked about being prevented from certain jobs.“And I think for whatever reason, women are sometimes relegated to daytime and then the boys do all the late-night chat shows,” she continued.The format has been historically dominated by men, with The Graham Norton Show and The Jonathan Ross Show currently being the UK’s biggest chat shows.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Johnny Depp reveals in Tara Wood’s still-untitled documentary on Tim Burton (via People) that Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Michael Jackson were all in contention for the iconic role of Edward Scissorhands in Burton’s 1990 movie of the same name. Cruise “was not far away from actually playing Edward Scissorhands — true story,” Depp says.

Composer Blake Neely called his score for Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air a tribute to his mentor, the late Michael Kamen. Kamen gave Neely his first job as an orchestrator on Band of Brothers, the first in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ World War II series trilogy.

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.

Dakota Fanning has an incredible shoe collection thanks to Tom Cruise. The actors worked together on “War of the Worlds” (2005) with Tom playing her father. Since then, Cruise has sent her a birthday present every year.

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 Nicole Kidman and her “Big Little Lies” co-star Reese Witherspoon reunited for a recent Vanity Fair video interview and briefly touched upon a potential third season of their Emmy-winning HBO series. Kidman has spoken publicly on numerous occasions about “Big Little Lies” Season 3 moving forward, to which Witherspoon now said: “This one has already said too much.” “I got excited,” Kidman admitted about letting some “Big Little Lies” Season 3 news slip out prematurely.

Adam Levine is returning to The Voice.