The actor's 10-year-old was spotted filming ... in which a 17-year-old Bale sings and dances as lead paperboy Jack Kelly. Based on the real-life New York newsboys' strike of 1899, Disney’s ...

Yes, instead of studying horror characters of times gone-by or even some of Stanley Kubrick’s most intimidating characters, Christian Bale actually found inspiration in fellow movie star Tom Cruise.

Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union ...