A pair of twins who only just turned twenty are leading Germany’s latest musical blitzkrieg. Bill and Tom Kaulitz are half of the emo-pop foursome Tokio Hotel, and with the release of their second U.S. album Humanoid this October, the European superstars seem poised to finally break into America’s mainstream. Why is this group of Hot Topic Deutschlanders leagues ahead of the competition? Maybe it’s lead singer Bill Kaulitz’s thick Robert Smith makeup and Mad Max punk fashion aesthetic.
If you’re looking for a used car, a famous one just came on the market: The 2002 Nissan 350Z used in 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is available to buy in the U.K. Cheshire Classic Cars says the vehicle is the actual car that Takashi (a.k.a. “DK,” or “Drift King”) owned and drifted in the film, including the parking garage drift scene. It also comes with “full documentation” proving its authenticity, the company says.
Hey come, derry dol! Can you hear him singing? Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy is widely celebrated as an extremely faithful adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel. There's just one particularly offbeat character who Jackson never even tried to adapt for the screen, not even in his trilogy's many deleted scenes. But in the upcoming season 2 of Amazon Prime Video's TV series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Tom Bombadil finally takes the spotlight.
LEGAL BRIEFS Another month, another $100 million lawsuit filed by Tom Cruise to squelch assertions that he’s gay. He’s suing Michael Davis, who allegedly sent emails to more than a dozen news organizations offering to sell videotapes that he claimed showed Cruise having sex with another man. Last month, Cruise filed a similar suit against Kyle Bradford, a star of gay porn films, for allegedly claiming in the French magazine Actustar that he had had an affair with Cruise whose discovery by Nicole Kidman led to the breakup of their marriage.
REEL DEALS Brace yourself: Tom Cruise thinks his grin needs improvement. So he’s bracing himself, with a new orthodontic apparatus on his upper teeth. Publicist Pat Kingsley says the 39-year-old actor had the braces put on a week ago after taking one of his kids to the orthodontist and discovering that his own choppers were out of alignment. She says the braces are all but invisible, except for a wire across the teeth, and that he would be wearing them for about a year.
Celebrating today's release of Top Gun: Maverick, our writers return to their favorite Tom Cruise movies, in appreciation of an on-screen persona that's evolved over decades. Recently, a 1990 Playboy interview with Tom Cruise was resurfaced via Gizmodo, in which he called the possibility of making a sequel to Top Gun "irresponsible." He doesn't mince words: "I want the kids to know that that's not the way war is — that Top Gun was just an amusement-park ride, a fun film with a PG-13 rating that was not supposed to be reality.
Tom DeLonge was about to hang up his guitar for good but when Mark Hoppus was diagnosed with cancer — retirement was the last thing on his mind. In a new trailer for the band's forthcoming album One More Time, DeLonge revealed his uncertainty about his musical future. "I remember telling my wife now, like, 'I don't think I'm ever gonna play music again, I don't think I'm ever gonna tour again,'"
What if Tom Hardy went from DC villain to Marvel hero? It’s something Hugh Jackman said he wouldn’t mind seeing when asked about who might be the next actor to unleash Wolverine’s adamantium claws. Speaking with MTV, Jackman discussed who would make a worthy successor to his over 15 years of performances as Wolverine. Jackman is no stranger to the question — though he’d like you not to forget he still has his third standalone Wolverine film to complete — and while he doesn’t have an ongoing list, he did mention Hardy by name as an interesting option.
Tom Hardy is getting back into the thick of those gangster movies. After dealing with shady characters in Lawless and Legend, the actor plays one of the shadiest of them all, Al Capone, as shown in a new photo from Josh Trank’s Fonzo. Trank shared the new image over social media on Thursday. Hardy is seen puffing on a cigar while he takes the spotlight as the Prohibition-era Chicago crime boss nicknamed “Scarface.
This is not some True Detective-level casting rumor – Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie are actually coming together on television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hiddleston and Laurie are set to star in a limited-series adaptation of John le Carre’s 1993 espionage thriller, The Night Manager. BBC will air the series in the U.K. while Ink Factory will produce. While there is no U.S. network attached to the series yet, THR reports that networks are eyeing a straight-to-series pick-up.