Tom Cruise‘s love for cinema has been well-documented — from his high-stakes stunts promoting the “Mission: Impossible” movies to his trips to the theater to support the latest blockbusters like Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and the popular culture phenomenon often called “Barbenheimer.”
However there’s no larger proof of Cruise’s love of the artwork type than the numerous roles he’s performed over time.
On Tuesday, the film star posted a retrospective clip spotlighting a few of his best roles, from action-packed blockbusters like “Top Gun” and “Edge of Tomorrow,” to his dramatic turns in “Rain Man” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” and crowd-pleasing classics like “Risky Business” and “Jerry Maguire.”
“For the last 46 years, it has been my privilege to work alongside countless talented artists and crews to create these characters, stories, and films for you all,” Cruise wrote within the caption of his submit. “I’m looking forward to seeing you at the movies!”
The clip ends with a sneak peek at Cruise’s newest movie, “Digger,” from filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, which options one in every of his best transformations but — to develop into Digger Rockwell.
Cruise sports activities a thick Southern accent, a beer stomach and thinning white hair (long-established in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron whose firm might have set off an ecological catastrophe that might additionally spark a nuclear warfare. John Goodman portrays an ailing U.S. president who implores Cruise’s character to repair the mess he’s unleashed. Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons additionally star within the Warner Bros. movie, described as a “comedy of catastrophic proportions.”
The trailer for “Digger” will likely be launched on July 13, with the movie debuting in theaters on October 2.
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Reboot Studios Publicizes Filmmaking Growth Aimed to Uplift Jewish Storytelling
Reboot Studios, the manufacturing arm of the nonprofit Reboot co-founded by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, has introduced an growth into characteristic filmmaking with its 2026 Creator Fund slate, which spans narrative and documentary movie, theater, audio, and interactive media.
Reboot Studios’ first unique characteristic, “Juice Cleanse,” a horror-comedy a couple of Mizrahi Jewish woman recovering from an consuming dysfunction, from director Shoshana Ehrenkranz and author/producer Jonathan Mizrahi, will anchor the slate. The lineup additionally consists of “Keeping Up with the Siegfrieds,” which explores the buried legacy of America’s largest Nazi motion.
Additional additions to the lineup embrace brief movie “Saba,” a couple of boy and his grandfather residing in a surreal world the place gravity is reversed; “Father Figures,” a private documentary a couple of daughter reconnecting along with her emotionally distant father; and “Triple Mitvah,” set throughout Rosh Hashanah, when a married lesbian couple invitations an escort to spend the weekend with them.
Different titles embrace “Deadclass, Ohio,” which explores intergenerational reminiscence and inherited trauma in a Jewish graveyard in suburban Ohio; “The Goldsmith,” a couple of first technology American by means of the tales of the golden jewellery handed down by means of her household, from Iraq to Israel to America; “Alef Bet,” a podcast that explores the evolving practices of Jewish life by means of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet; and “Normandie,” a documentary online game that follows a salvage crew diving the wrecks of transatlantic liners after World Conflict II.
Reboot Studios’ 2026 slate goals to reply to each creator demand and to a shifting media panorama by which it may well assist form a brand new technology of Jewish storytelling.
