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What’s your dad’s hurry, Suri…?

Tom Cruise, apparently fearing that his constant top-billing in every gossip and news magazine from here to Timbuktu isn’t going to be enough hype for his new movie, skipped out on his wife and new baby in order to attend the Italian premiere of Mission: Impossible 3.

“I didn’t want to come,” said Cruise. “My daughter was just born and I didn’t want to leave her and her mother; I thought about not coming to Rome, but Kate said go and have fun.”

No word on whether or not Kate – Katie Holmes – is allowed to leave Suri and her mother as well…

Box Office Roundup: Everybody loves…Rhada

Based on Sunday’s estimates:

1) Silent Hill: $20.2 million (first week)
There was a screening of this – at 9:00 on a Thursday – but curiously, internet press was not invited. Geez, you guys didn’t have something to HIDE, did you?
2) Scary Movie 4: $17 million ($67.6 million, second week)
You may not remember this, but the Zucker brothers used to be really, really funny.
3) The Sentinel: $14.6 million (first week)
We’ll wait until the official “24” movie comes out, thank you.
4) Ice Age: The Meltdown: $12.8 million ($167.8 million, fourth week)
In fairness to Denis Leary, the next installment should be “Ice Age: Diego Gets Peckish.”
5) The Wild: $8 million ($21.9 million, second week)
In fairness to its fifth place finish, it held surprisingly well.

The most maddening line has to be the dismal eighth place finish of the flat-out funny “American Dreamz,” which took in a paltry $3.6 million. Granted, it was in half as many theaters as everything else, but even if we doubled its gross, it would still place no higher than sixth place, and that’s just wrong, people.

“Commander Abrams, would you take the helm, please…?”

In what one can only presume is J.J. Abrams’ desire to fulfill a personal dream, the creator of “Alias” and “Lost” (and let’s not forget “Felicity” and “What About Brian?”) has signed on produce and co-write the new “Star Trek” flick…

…and all I can say is, it’s about freakin’ time someone at Paramount got their head out of their arse and assigned someone to a “Trek” project who might actually successfully revive the franchise.

I mean, I’m a “Trek” fan from way back…ever since I saw “Who Mourns For Adonais?” (the episode where the crew of the Enterprise meet the god Apollo) at my cousin’s house in Roanoke, VA, when my age was still in single digits…but the last feature film, “Nemesis,” was crap. And it didn’t have to be, man. They had John Logan, the guy who wrote “The Aviator” and “Gladiator,” do the screenplay…but, then, director Stuart Baird decided to make it into an utterly lame action flick. Dude, it’s only a little about the action, and a lot about the characters.

Fortunately, Abrams and his “M:I 3” co-writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, are teaming up again to do the “Trek” script…but no-one seems sure what it’ll be about. Initial reports said the script “will center on the early days of seminal Trek characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission,” but that claim seems to have fallen by the wayside. (At the very least, it’s not mentioned on the official Star Trek website.) But lord knows Abrams has a universe of material to work with; in addition to the original series, he’s got “The Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine,” “Voyager,” and “Enterprise” at his disposal…and with someone of his reputation at the helm of the film, it’s very reasonable to suspect that he could get just about any member of the “Trek” illuminati to return if the script utilized them well.

Whatever J.J. and his compatriots come up with, I’m already laying odds it’ll be right up there with “Khan.” And that’s a hell of a limb for me to crawl out on, since “Khan” is my favorite movie of all time…

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