TOM CRUISE - CRUISE AND DICAPRIO GO HEAD TO HEAD

Film idols TOM CRUISE and LEONARDO DiCAPRIO are to make films about the same serial killer.

Cruise's production company C/W PRODUCTIONS have acquired the film rights to New York Times bestseller, THE DEVIL IN WHITE CITY, a book by ERIK LARSON that details the actions of HH HOLMES, a murderer who preyed on visitors to Chicago, America's World's Fair in 1893.

KATHRYN BIGELOW will co-produce and direct the Cruise film, and the book will be adapted for the screen by CHRIS KYLE (K-19).

Leonardo DiCaprio's production company APPIAN WAY is also working on a Holmes movie.

Holmes was a doctor who lured young women away from the fair, took them to a nearby hotel and murdered them. In 1896 he was sentenced to death after admitting to 27 murders.