Yeah I know, this data usually goes up on a Monday, but thanks to a delay yesterday, it only arrived late. But enough banter! There were new arrivals on the American horizon last week, so once more, here’s who made what this past weekend and Monday. Last Updated: July 24, 2012

Tom Cruise is a busy man. He’s just done working fans of the source material into a raging frenzy with Jack Reacher, wrapped up filming on Joseph Kosinski’s new sci-fi epic, Oblivion, and is currently learning the very expensive lesson that trying to get your wife to join a kooky cult based on some science fiction of their own, is a …

I’m not quite sure what kind of Australian brand of voodoo Sam Worthington uses (Chickens. It always involves chickens) but the man just keeps landing major roles. He’s been a cyborg who thinks he’s a man, a crippled soldier/giant warrior Smurf, a man on a ledge (literally) and a demigod with some Uncle and Grandfather issues. And in that first …

Oh look, it’s JJ Abrams, clutching numerous secrets, as per bloody usual. While the man is always busy scripting or directing some sort of film that is cloaked in secrecy, one of his other projects, Collider has finally found a director, in the form of Edgar Wright, who knows how to make such enigma-hoarding fun at least. Last Updated: July …

I enjoyed Despicable Me. It wasn’t the greatest CGI film ever made, but overall, it was pretty decent, and genuinely entertaining, thanks primarily due to the comic relief of the Gru’s minions. They’re practically the mascots of the film, which will soon be expanding into sequel territory, and much like other, similar characters with merchandising potential, they’re going to be …

Back in March, I featured an animated short film from Student Academy Award winning director Wes Ball, titled Ruin. Set in a gorgeously rendered post-apocalyptic future, and filled with crazy action, the short film went viral in a matter of hours. It seemed like only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling, and now that call has arrived in …

So last week we brought you news that celebrated thespian (no, that doesn’t mean he only likes girls) Sir Kenneth Branagh would not only be behind the camera for Jack Ryan, but also be engaging in some Russian moustache-twirling as the film’s primary villain as well. Now the recently knighted British filmmaker spoke up about why he chose to pull …

Even though they’re teaming up for the first time, properly, this year in The Watch, it looks like another film starring Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill may be on the horizon. Producer of said neighbourhood watch film, Shawn Levy, is itching to get back behind a camera to call some directing shots, and he may have just the top secret script for a comedy …