Like any other busy working parents, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes enjoy getting out of the house and going to the movies on date night. And on Aug. 11, when the two arrived at the LA premiere of Tropic Thunder — the new hit comedy that features a much-talked-about cameo by Tom — it was clear they intended for the evening to be a special one.

Katie, 29, who had spent the past two weeks in NYC rehearsing her Broadway play, All My Sons, flew in specially for the event. At the afterparty, an energetic Tom worked the room. But while her husband schmoozed, Katie struggled just to stay awake. “She managed to smile, but she seemed really out of it,” a guest notes. “It just looked like she hadn’t slept in a while.”

The very next morning, however, she was back at rehearsal, having flown 3,000 miles overnight to NYC. After putting in a seven-hour workday, Katie changed and headed out yet again, this time joining her 2-year-old daughter, Suri, for an evening at NYC’s Chelsea Piers gym complex. While Suri happily bounced on a trampoline, Katie had less energy. Says an onlooker, “She looked pretty groggy.”

But starring in a Broadway show is Katie’s dream come true — and she’s determined to make it work. But while Katie may get a career boost, her marriage could suffer. “Right now their lives are divided,” notes an insider. “Their relationship isn’t on shaky ground, but things definitely aren’t perfect.”

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Is Tom Cruise crossing over into the comic book realm? The Hollywood Reporter says he’s teamed up with ‘Spider-Man’ trilogy director Sam Raimi to develop a film based on DC Comics’ Sleeper.

Tom is “loosely attached” to star as a superhero operative who merges with an alien artifact and becomes invulnerable to pain — and can transfer his power to others through touch.

In the comic book, Sleeper’s hero infiltrates a villain’s den and falls in love with Miss Misery, one of the rogues he’s supposed to take down, says the Reporter.

Back in the real world of film biz, Tom remains a full parter at MGM’s United Artists, despite the fact that his producing partner Paula Wagner stepped down as CEO.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes out and about with their daughter Suri after Katie leaves rehearsals for the day for her Broadway debut in ‘All My Sons’ in New York City.

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Tom Cruise’s longtime producing partner Paula Wagner is stepping down from her post as CEO of United Artists.

According to a joint statement from UA and MGM, Wagner “has decided to leave her day-to-day responsibilities and return to her first love, which is producing films.” She will continue to work on film projects with Cruise, whose role with UA will not change.

Wagner will produce films under her own independent production company and will “be attached to UA’s most exciting film properties,” and will also continue to be part owner of UA, which she helped revive in 2006 under joint partnership with Tom Cruise and MGM. Her most recent production, ‘Death Race,’ will be released by Universal on Aug. 22.

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Tom Cruise’s role in forthcoming film Edwin A. Salt has reportedly been recast for Angelina Jolie because studio bosses fear he has grown too old to play a movie hero.

It was announced earlier this week that the script would be rewritten to cater for Jolie - well known for appearing in action films such as the Tomb Raider franchise and Wanted.

According to the New York Post, the Top Gun star, 46, is no longer as marketable to youth audiences and has become too expensive to cast.

A source tells the newspaper, “Cruise is begging for MI:4 (Mission Impossible: 4)’ but Paramount wants a younger, cheaper guy. He had a tantrum and ran out of the meeting.”

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With buzz surrounding his comedic turn in “Tropic Thunder,” Tom Cruise is eyeing an even bigger humorous role.

The A-lister is loosely attached to “Food Fight,” a warmhearted comedy about a snooty New York chef who is forced to cook meals at a school cafeteria, with Cruise playing the role of the chef. The project is set up at Universal-based Working Title.

Veteran scribe Adam Brooks, who most recently wrote and directed the divorce dramedy “Definitely, Maybe,” is attached to write the screenplay. “Drillbit Taylor” helmer Steven Brill had been in talks to direct “Food Fight,” but they came to naught; a search for a new director is under way.

“Food Fight” would mark a departure for Cruise, who has made few comedies since his breakout role in 1983’s “Risky business“: His last such lead role was in 1996’s dramedy “Jerry Maguire.”

In “Tropic Thunder,” Cruise plays an overweight, over-the-top studio exec in what advance word has billed as a movie-stealing performance. Cruise has had other bit comedy parts over the years in films like “Austin Powers: Goldmember.”

The “Food Fight” attachment apparently is still loose for the star, who has several projects in development as an actor and producer.

Cruise next stars in United Artists’ historical action film “Valkyrie,” in which he plays a very noncomedic role: Klaus von Stauffenberg, the Nazi commander who plotted to kill Hitler.

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