Tom Cruise (File Photo)

    BEIJING, July 13 -- Tom Cruise is set to be honored at New York City's Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) in November.

    The Minority Report star, 45, follows in the footsteps of former honorees Sidney Lumet, Robert De Niro, Richard Gere, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Julia Roberts and James Stewart.

    MOMI director Rochelle Slovin said they chose Cruise for his outstanding 27-year film career, which started with Endless Love in 1981.

    Slovin says, "Tom Cruise is one of the premier American actors of his generation. Working with the great directors of our time-including Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and now Robert Redford--Cruise has given us indelible characters and performances."

    (Source: China Daily/Agencies)

Germany backs Cruise's anti-Hitler film

Von Stauffenberg (R) was killed for attempting to assassinate Hitler in 1944.(File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) said Thursday it endorsed a subsidy worth 6.5 million dollars to subsidize a controversial new film in which Tom Cruise plays a German hero -- Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg -- executed for trying to kill Hitler, according to media reports.

    "Yes, it's been approved," said Christine Berg, DFFF project head at the Federal Film Board (FFA). "The application was submitted, the criteria for the grant were fulfilled and the project was approved." Full story

German military sites ban Tom Cruise filming

    BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhuanet) -- One Tome Cruise's movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler has been banned from filming at German military sites, media reported Tuesday.

    Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin said it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject. Full story