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The Elton John-produced cartoon "Gnomeo & Juliet" and three other completed pictures are included in Disney's sale of Miramax Films, and actor Rob Lowe is part of the buying group.

Those were among the details emerging in the wake of the agreement late Thursday to sell the Miramax name and film library for $660 million to a group led by construction executive Ronald Tutor and investment firm Colony Capital.

The buyers also include Jerome Swartz, an engineer who invented the laser scanner that allows for bar coding for products. Swartz founded, ran and sold Symbol Technologies and now is a college professor and philanthropist. Sources say he is putting in $50 million, while Tutor and Colony Capital's Tom Barrack each will invest $100 million in equity.

That will leave about $300 million that must be raised as debt. There is also cash held by Miramax and receivables due over the next five years that helps reduce the effective acquisition cost to about $600 million.

Lowe is involved through a media investment fund he recently created with Barrack. The actor, newly confirmed as a regular on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," said Friday that this is the first investment by the fund.

"The acquisition of a classic brand like Miramax is an exciting first step in my partnership with Tom Barrack and Colony Capital," he said. "This represents an exciting new chapter for me. And Tom and I could not have a better partner on our first deal together than Ron Tutor."

The investors do not include Hollywood producer James Robinson of Morgan Creek, apparently because of a last-minute dispute over how large his role would be in the new company. He could return later.

The movies in the deal will be distributed by Disney under an agreement to handle distribution in all media for the new company for at least a year. That is intended to give Miramax time to hire an executive team, staff up and create an infrastructure to handle its own distribution and production.

The first pictures from the new Miramax will be:

-- "Gnomeo & Juliet," set for a wide release February 11: There was a question about whether this family film about warring indoor and outdoor gnomes would be included because Disney was so high on it. Now in postproduction, it was produced by Elton John's Rocket Pictures. It was financed by Miramax and made under contract at the Starz Animation studio in Toronto. The voice cast includes James McAvoy (as Gnomeo), Emily Blunt (as Juliet), Michael Caine, Maggie Smith and Patrick Stewart.

-- "The Switch" (wide release August 20): Known during production as "The Turkey Baster," this comedy stars Jennifer Aniston as an unmarried 40-year-old woman who uses a turkey baster to be artificially inseminated and becomes pregnant. Seven years later, she discovers that her best friend replaced the sperm she had specially chosen with his own. It also stars Jason Bateman, Juliette Lewis and Jeff Goldblum.

-- "The Debt" (opens December 29 on more than 1,000 screens before expanding): Helen Mirren stars in this drama directed by John Madden about an Israeli agent who is killed on a secret mission to find a doctor who is a Nazi war criminal. The doctor resurfaces 30 years later. The cast includes Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Chastain.

-- "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (wide release January 21): The subject of a panel discussion at Comic-Con, the horror film is produced by Guillermo del Toro and stars Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce.

"The Tempest," directed by Julie Taymor and originally made for Miramax, is being kept by Disney. It will screen at the Venice and New York film festivals before getting a December 10 platform release.

A Cruise and Holmes Reality Show, to show a normal couple?  The fabulous Katie Holmes and husband Tom Cruise were rumored to be underway filming a reality TV show.  The goal of the supposed project was to show that Tom and Katie and daughter Suri were all just normal folks, going about their lives.

Don't worry about setting your DVR.  Tom and Katie will not be getting a reality show that documents their marriage.

It has been rumored that Katie would be filming her everyday life with Tom, 48. It was even speculated that the 31-year-old and Cruise had already been filming for the last month.
But GossipCop.com have reported that the Dawson's Creek star and her husband won't be getting a reality program.
A spokesperson for Tom has said the speculations were a joke and were made up.
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Bring on the cameras. A report claims Tom Cruise and the fabulous Katie Holmes are filming a new reality show. An insider claims the couple is determined to prove they lead a "normal life," so they have begun filming their day-to-day routine.

Should we expect denials or at least some laughter from the Holmes and Cruise camps, soon?
Meanwhile...Katie Holmes has revealed that she is "having a ball" playing the role of Jackie-O. Holmes stars as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for new History Channel mini-series The Kennedys.  

She told US entertainment show Extra: "I'm having a ball. "It's a great group of people and I feel really lucky to be part of it and have this role." The 31-year-old actress recently flew by helicopter from the Toronto set of The Kennedys to New York City to promote her new film, The Extra Man.  
And the actress admits her husband, Tom Cruise, 48, organised the trip for her. The Dawson's Creek star added: "My husband set it up for me, which is really nice."
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"You can perfectly watch the evolution of celebrity for an actress in relation to her handbag." So says Aussie style maven and media personality Kathryn Eisman, who claims she has put two years of dedicated study into her unique psychological profiling approach.

For instance: "Katie Holmes is a perfect example. She started off looking, well, quite homely on the red carpet -- the one-strap shoulder bag girl next door, the bag probably nobody styled. Along comes Tom Cruise, and we saw her transformed with an Hermes bag that captured the imagination, the ultimate power player French luxury bag."
Make that a $40,000 French luxury bag, according to Eisman. She adds, "Now she's more the Armani Prive, a little softer, maybe much more in keeping with who she is.
     
"Jennifer Lopez is another fantastic example," says Eisman -- who's heading to the States over the weekend for New York and L.A. promotional chores on behalf of her new "How to Tell a Woman by Her Handbag" book next week. She goes on, "When she was in her Jenny From the Block period, she carried the almost ghetto chic bling bag. She grew up and went into the streamlined, structured, ladylike, elegant bag. Re-entering the spotlight after the birth of her twins, she went back to a little younger and funkier handbag."
    
Rihanna's choice of purse changed from "sweet, girly, sexy bags to hard, even spiky bags after the Chris Brown incident," Eisman found.
    
The pop culture maven does handbag analyses of everyday women in her latest tome, not just those who can afford Hermes. She'll be seen on the "Today" show Tuesday (7/6).
     
THE INDUSTRY EYE: While Robert Pattinson is busy celebrating the box-office bonanza of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," there's also work to be done. He's in the midst of shooting "Water for Elephants" with Reese Witherspoon, which has been located in downtown L.A. the last couple of days with at least some cast members who apparently share Edward Cullen's pasty pallor.
Forces on the film have been seeking proficient Foxtrot dancers who are not only Caucasian, but "very, very pale -- not a suntan at all," who are thin, with no implants and no piercings, according to casting notices. There was also the need for a very pale cigarette girl, and a very pale man with a 32-inch waist.
The pallid faces and thinness have nothing to do with vampires on this movie, of course. Based on Sara Gruen's acclaimed novel, it is set in the 1930s Great Depression and, as notices remind, "nobody's doing well."
     
MORE THAN A PARTY: Happy Independence Day to one and all, and a thoughtful note from Jimmy Smits, who is hosting the 30th Annual "A Capitol Fourth" event being carried on PBS from the nation's Capitol. After performances from the likes of David Archuleta, Reba McEntire and Gladys Knight, the show ends with a phantasmagoria of fireworks.
"To have this fireworks display in Washington, D.C., is so moving because of the backdrops of the national monuments," notes Smits.
"Being that we're in a time of conflict and having young people serving and protecting us, to me, it kind of focuses what it is that the fireworks represent for the country."

Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Knudsen have joined the cast of "Scream 4," which began shooting this week in Michigan.

The film reunites director Wes Craven with Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a horror movie revival with his "Scream" script in 1996.

Original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox are also returning, though the plan is to pass the baton to a new generation of slasher victims, namely Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin and Nico Tortorella.

Brody will play a cop recently graduated from college who was raised on the "CSI" TV series.

Shelton will play a deputy who knew Campbell's character in high school. Lake Bell had been in negotiations for the role.

Knudsen will have a role similar to the one played by Jamie Kennedy in the first two installments, a character who is familiar with horror movie conventions and a provider of comic relief.

To preserve the identity of the killer, Craven and Williamson are operating under several layers of secrecy, including not sending the script to agencies. At a table read last week, the actors were told to stop reading at page 75 to prevent even those already cast in the film from knowing the climax.

Brody recently wrapped ensemble indie drama "The Oranges," which also stars Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester. He stars with Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Elijah Wood in "The Romantics," a romantic comedy slated to open this fall.

Shelton was most recently seen in director Sebastian Gutierrez's ensemble comedy "Women in Trouble." Other credits include "Planet Terror" and "Sin City."

Toronto-born Knudsen appears in the August release "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," Edgar Wright's adaptation of the Bryan Lee O'Malley graphic novel series, as well as "Beastly," a CBS Films fantasy romance.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise love “showing each other their dance moves” wherever possible.  The couple stunned the audience when they performed a raunchy routine at a charity benefit in America in May.

Then earlier this month, Tom took to the stage alongside Jennifer Lopez at the MTV Movie Awards. He was dressed as his character Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder, and his performance drew rapturous applause from Katie.
She has now revealed both she and Tom pride themselves on their rhythm, and can often be found throwing some shapes at home. “Oh, all the time,” she said. “We’re constantly showing each other our moves, and we break out into a dance occasionally if a good song comes on.”
Katie’s love of dance inspired her work with her foundation Dizzy Feet. The organisation aims to inspire young people to dance, something she says was of pivotal importance when she was growing up.
“We’ve provided scholarships to a lot of kids, and we want to keep doing that,” she explained. “Dance made a huge difference to me when I was growing up – it’s inspiring! – and I want that for everyone.”
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Katie Holmes created a clothing line so women can wear the same things over and over without anyone noticing. The Hollywood star has created a fashion line, called Holmes & Yang, with stylist Jeanne Yang, and has been seen in a number of her own creations at showbiz parties.

Katie has revealed the pair came up with the idea for the range after sorting through her wardrobe several years ago. They realized all women need to have certain pieces at their disposal, such as smart trousers and jackets.
“We want to create pieces a woman can wear over and over, and people won’t necessarily say, ‘Oh, you wore that last week,’” she explained.
Jeanne added certain pieces in Katie’s wardrobe inspired them, such as a flimsy pair of white trousers. “She said, ‘Why didn’t they put a nude lining in?’” said Jeanne. “I thought, ‘That’s crazy that she would notice that.’ This wasn’t just an appreciation of pretty clothes.”
The collection includes shirts, trousers, skirts and cocktail dresses. The pieces, described as “classic with a twist”, are at the higher end of the price scale, with a cocktail dress costing $2,375 and a blouse $945.
The upcoming Fall collection will be in stores soon, and was made with Katie and Jeanne’s love of dance in mind. Pieces come in black, cream and ballet pink, and include a striped maxi dress and leg warmers.
“Ballet is super-classic, and there are so many rules,” Jeanne told elle.com. “But you’ve got to have a little rebellion…you can always tell a dancer by the way she puts her clothes together.”
Holmes & Yang is also creating pieces for kids, which Katie is very excited about. “They love matching Mom,” she laughed. “And it’s a limited time during which they really want to.”
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Tom Cruise has no ego.

The 47-year-old actor - who is married to actress Katie Holmes - insists he doesn't regard himself as special and always feels lucky to have had fame and success.

He said: "I have been a lucky man. I have a privileged life.

"I have never let my ego grow - I'm aware that I'm just an actor. I have a ball with people and I feel thankful when they scream my name at a movie premiere."

While Tom is grateful for fame, he admits one of the downsides of his life is seeing how "distorted" it can get.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise has revealed that he fell in love with wife Katie Holmes the first time he met her. The 47-year-old actor, who recently reprized his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman to perform a duet with Jennifer Lopez at the recent MTV Movie Awards, admitted that when he met his wife Holmes, 31, he immediately knew she was the one.
He told UK magazine, OK!: "Yes. I knew that I wanted to marry her after the first day I met her. "What's even more interesting is that Katie confessed that when she was a teenager she dreamed of marrying me. Doesn't it seem incredible?"

The Top Gun actor also spoke about his friendship with British footballer David Beckham and his wife Victoria. He said: "I began hanging out with David and Victoria in England while I was shooting Eyes Wide Shut. David and I became friends from the very start.”
He added: "I really admire him as a person, father, husband, and athlete. He's absolutely fantastic. He's got a great competitive spirit and he's a tireless worker with a clear mind and a solid body."
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Katie Holmes and Daniel Radcliffe are to present a Tony Award together.

The 31-year-old actress - who made her theatre debut on New York's Broadway in 'All My Sons' in 2008 - and the 'Harry Potter' star will reportedly be at the ceremony on Sunday (13.06.10) to hand out the best featured actress honour.

A source said: "Katie has proven herself a welcome addition to the Broadway community with her phenomenal debut last year in 'All My Sons' and her continued support of theatre.

"She and Daniel will bring a really great energy to the show this year, and everyone is really looking forward to working with her."

Among the nominees for best featured actress is Scarlett Johansson.