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Was Forrest Gump's cross country run possible?

Lauren Hansen of The Week investigated just that, and asked a panel of experts to see if Forrest Gump could actually achieve his epic cross country (multiple times, mind you) run from Forrest Gump. Turns out he did a lot right, but also did some wrong. Find out more here!

P.S. Tom Hanks is amazing, so I'm fully convinced he actually did that run. Can't argue that.

If all of Tom Hanks' roles were one movie

Tom Hanks AMA

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Tom Hanks is NOT an angry juror

More proof that Tom Hanks is a great person:



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Tom Hanks to star in "A Hologram for the King"

From Vulture:

Tom Hanks is reuniting with his Cloud Atlas co-director Tom Tykwer for a big screen version of Dave Eggers's National Book Award finalist, A Hologram for the King. Tykwer, who also helmed Run Lola Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, adapted the novel and will direct. The story details "a struggling businessman who, after failing in America, heads to a rising Saudi Arabian city for a last ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and do something memorable," Deadline writes. Yup, Tom Hanks can do his Tom Hanks thing with that. Definitely.

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The "best" of Tom Hanks, illustrated

I put "best" in quotes because I can't exactly call Turner and Hooch and The Da Vinci Code some of Tom Hanks best films, even though he himself was great as always. Would have liked to see A League of Their Own represented, at least. From Buzzfeed

Tom Hanks drops by The Colbert Report

He swears he's NOT promoting Cloud Atlas, but see for yourself. Tom Hanks made a surprise appearance on last night's The Colbert Report to talk about Halloween, but I think he had alterior motives. It was classic Hanks; this man should appear randomly on every show. Click the tag below for more on Tom, and stayed tuned for an updated version of the Tom Hanks Career Timeline!

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The Tom Hanks Matrix

Well it seems like this is Tom Hanks week at the blog, but I'm ok with that. I think I've said before he's the next Bill Murray, and there could probably be a blog devoting to just Hanks. This post is pretty awesome: it's a "matrix" of all of Tom Hank's movie roles. Each spot is determined by whether the character was goofy or serious, and whether the movie was good or bad (as determined by Vulture). Be sure to click to enlarge!

Tom Hanks performs beat poetry

about Full House on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? Sure, why not. Just as awesome as Nick Offerman perfroming beat poetry about bacon last month.

Behind the scenes of Cloud Atlas

I thought I had posted about Cloud Atlas before, but apparently not! The film comes out October 26th, and looks pretty amazing. It stars Tom Hanks, so how could it not be? From ComingSoon:

Side note: When the hell did one of the Wachowski's get a sex change?

Tom Hanks Career Timeline

For my 500th post (yes, 500!) I didn't want to make just some random post of something funny I found online, and instead decided to provide another installment in my longest original series.  I've given you the career timelines of Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, and Jim Carrey and now I give you one for a legend: Tom Hanks.

Like all my other graphs, there were data points for all of Hanks' films from IMDB, but I was surprised to see a large data set missing from Metacritic.  I can understand some of his earlier, lesser known films, but the omission of Splash, A League of Their Own, and even Turner & Hooch were shocking to say the least.  In fact, Metacritic only had one Hanks film pre-1993 (Big). Rotten Tomatoes didn't have reviews on a few earlier films for Hanks, but that's been the norm with these so far.  With these missing data points in mind, comparisons can really be seen starting with Sleepless in Seattle.  From that point on, there are 3 datum (finally able to use that Biology education for something!) for every film.

As I was collecting all the scores from newest movie to oldest, it took me until Tom's first starring gig, Mazes and Monsters, to find a score under 5 on IMDB.  In fact, only 3 of his films from 1990-present failed to score above a 6:  Joe Versus the Volcano, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Larry Crowne (5.9).  His 90's films have an astonishing track record, as even his "worst" film averaged a 6.73 (You've Got Mail).  With the exception of some earlier films (excluding Splash, Big, etc) and the Da Vinci Code movies, Tom Hanks has achieved a steadily stellar film career.  Films like Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and Cast Away speak for themselves. The Toy Story films didn't hurt either.

This was my largest film set so far, so click to see in all its glory

Tom Hanks to star with Catherine Keener in Captain Phillips

From ComingSoon:

Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) has been cast as the wife of Captain Phillips, starring opposite Tom Hanks in the true tale of the man taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Captain Richard Phillips captained the MV Maersk Alabama which, in April of 2009, was hijacked by Somali pirates. Phillips bravely offered himself as a hostage to protect his crew and spent three days a prisoner before being rescued by a team of U.S. Navy SEALS.

The project will be based off Phillip's memoir, "A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea," and is expected to enter production shortly.

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Players

From Vulture:

Actor turned producer Tom Hanks is now at work on his second HBO project, a half-hour comedy about college athletes to be titled Players, reports the Hollywood Reporter. This comes mere months after Hanks and his partner Gary Goetzman came onboard to produce HBO's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel American Gods. Now that's a partnership we can sign off on. [THR]

Tom Hanks on Univision

Apparently Larry Crowne wasn't appealing to the Spanish-speaking demographic, so star Tom Hanks went on Univision's "Despierta America" and, well, just watch...

Not sure if that's going to get them to go see Larry Crowne, opening next Friday, July 1.

What's next for Tom Hanks?

With Tom Hanks' latest film, Larry Crowne, premiering July 1st of this  year, what's next for the superstar?  Hanks and his Playtone production company are working on an HBO series based on the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods and even a movie version of the Broadway version of Green Day's American Idiot.  They're also in talks with past collaborator Robert Zemeckis to direct Major Matt Mason, a live action 3D film based on the Mattel action figure, which will be the next project for Playtone and Hanks.