Tom Cruise tabloid lawsuit: abandonment claims "substantially true" - publisher

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The publisher of "Life & Style" and "In Touch," which is being sued by Tom Cruise for printing that the "Jack Reacher" star had abandoned his daughter Suri following his divorce from Katie Holmes, has fired back at the actor's suit.In an answer to Cruise's defamation lawsuit, filed in October, Bauer Publishing Co. says that its reporting is "substantially true."Bauer's...

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Paramount alters marketing campaign for "Jack Reacher" after Newtown shooting

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Paramount has altered the marketing for its upcoming Tom Cruise film "Jack Reacher" to minimize the gunfire and violence, an individual with knowledge of the studio's plans told TheWrap.While the studio declines to give specifics, its move was made because of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Paramount postponed last week's Pittsburgh premiere of the film, which...

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"Amour" review: A wrenching but essential look at a disintegrating life

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Movies love to speed up the dying process, whether it's the rosy-cheeked young girl who succumbs to a mysterious fatal illness in the final reel or the hero cop suddenly felled by one random bullet after committing an act of extraordinary heroism.But the actual mechanics of death and dying - the slow degeneration of mind and body, the subtle shadings in which people gradually...

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"The Guilt Trip" review: Not like buttah, but better than margarine

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The trailer, the casting, even the title of "The Guilt Trip" sets us up for a specific kind of movie: Nice neurotic boy henpecked by his nagging, smothering Yiddishe mama. It's a dynamic we've seen everywhere from the novels of Philip Roth to Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" and countless other movies and sitcoms over the last half-century or so.But "The Guilt Trip," starring...

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Kevin Nealon, Tig Notaro fill out "Walk of Shame" cast

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Kevin Nealon, Tig Notaro and Liz Carey are among the 11 actors who have joined the cast of "Walk of Shame," a comedy starring Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden and Gillian Jacobs.Written by Steven Brill, who will direct, the film stars Banks as an uptight anchor who gets locked out of her apartment after a late night out. Stranded without her wallet, phone, ID or car, she embarks...

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