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Tom Cruise’s Adolf Hitler film pushed back — again

Other News Materials 12 May 2008 02:34 (UTC +04:00)

Tom Cruise's Adolf Hitler film, Valkyrie, has been pushed back yet again - and has this time been postponed until 2009.

The film, which tells the story of the 1944 assassination plot against Hitler, was initially postponed from summer 2008 to this fall; and is now not expected to appear until next year.

"We were originally expecting the film to be released in June," said a senior executive at one of Britain's leading cinema chains.

"I know there have been all sorts of problems with this production and we will not be screening it at all this year."

In the film, Cruise stars as Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, the leader of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase.

Cruise's studio, United Artists, made the film, which has already been declared "dead" by one critic. Another critic also argued that the film's problems could also wreck the revival of UA, of which Tom, 45, has a minority stake with his business partner Paula Wagner.

The film, directed by Bryan Singer, cost $90m; and has so far left test audiences unimpressed.

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