Tom was on at  ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ yesterday. Emily Blunt, his co-star in ‘All You Need Is Kill’ was there too.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno- April 24th 2013

Armie Hammer, who plays the title character opposite Johnny Depp in the Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger for Disney, is set to star with Tom Cruise in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie will direct for Warner Bros. The original TV series ran from 1964-68, with Robert Vaughan and David McCallum playing Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. With gadgets and their wits and charm, they fought the evil forces of Thrush.

Warner Bros has long been high on the project, especially when the studio had Steven Soderbergh ready to direct George Clooney in the lead. The actor dropped out because he needed surgery on his neck and back, and he wasn’t up for a physical role. After Soderbergh departed, the studio turned the project over to Ritchie and his producing partner Lionel Wigram. John David is also producing. Hammer would play a version of the role originated by McCallum, an NCIS regular who strangely doesn’t seemed to have aged since the ’60s. Hammer, who’s repped by WME and attorney Harris Hartman, is making his bid to be one of those up-and-comer leading men and getting on the ground floor of a franchise with Cruise and Ritchie certainly seems like a smart move from here.

Source: Deadline

We’ve added pics of Tom having lunch with Peter Chernin, Oblivion’s producer, at Toscana restaurant in Brentwood yesterday.

Having Lunch at Toscana in Brentwood- April 23rd 2013

Source: etonline

CraveOnline’s own Athen Stamos was invited to the aramount Studios  lot for a behind-the-scenes demonstration of the fights — and, of course, the cars — featured in ‘Jack Reacher’. She talked with the guys behind the movie’s two-fisted action about all the hair-raising stunts that Cruise performed himself, including ALL the driving and crashing done by Reacher’s signature 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS.

But driving’s only part of the full-on Reacher experience.  The film’s fight choreographers also ran Athena through some Keysi fighting style moves so she could take down a group of thugs.  The ass-kicking was very, very real…movie-real, but real nonetheless…

Jack Reacher comes out on Blu-Ray and DVD May 7 and is available for digital download April 22nd.

Available for digital download beginning April 22nd, as well as Blu-ray and DVD May 7th is the hit action film Jack Reacher, which stars Tom and is based on the popular series of novels by author Lee Child. The film was written and directed by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and in addition to Tom features an excellent cast that includes Rosamund Pike (An Education), David Oyeleowo (Middle of Nowhere), Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard), Academy Award-nominee Richard Jenkins (The Company You Keep), Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now), and acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans).

IAR’s Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to travel to Paramount Pictures’ backlot in Los Angeles, California to talk with Fight Coordinator Robert Alonzo about Jack Reacher and even learn a fight sequence from the film. The accomplished Fight Coordinator discussed the movie, working with director Christopher McQuarrie, choosing the Keysi Fight Method, rehearsing with Tom Cruise, and choreographing the film’s bar fight scene, as well as teaching Philbrick a fight sequence and if IAR’s Managing Editor now has the skills to actually handle himself in a real life fight situation.

‘Jack Reacher’ was avalaible to buy on UK on Blu-ray and DVD yesterday.

“Oblivion” bowed Stateside Friday to $$13.3 million, dialing up predictions that had it in the low- or -mid-$30 million range to a weekend haul closer to $38 million.

Universal’s sci-fi actioner opened abroad last week to nearly twice that, $60.4 million, which means “Oblivion” will pass the $100 million marker worldwide before Monday, a strong start for a film that cost a reported $120 million to make.

Source: Variety