Tom Cruise Back To Work After Divorce Settlement

Cruise returns to 'Oblivion' set in California; Katie Holmes remains in New York with pair's 6-year-old daughter, Suri.

By Kara Warner

Tom Cruise

Photo: James Devaney/ Wire Image

Despite the media frenzy generated by the announcement of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce, the two parties seem to have parted very amicably. Their joint statement released early Monday (July 9) indicates a desire for privacy while they focus on their daughter's wellbeing, which was followed a few hours later with the news that Cruise and Holmes had already reached a settlement.

And now, according to E! Online, Cruise is already getting back to work on the set of his sci-fi thriller "Oblivion." A rep for the production told the website Cruise flew into Mammoth, Calif., on Monday afternoon, where he is expected to join the cast and crew for a few days of filming in the mountain resort town. Holmes remains in New York with the pair's 6-year-old daughter, Suri.

"Oblivion" has also filmed in Louisiana and Iceland, and is set in the future after radiation has destroyed the Earth and most of the population lives in the clouds to escape the radiation and a dangerous Scavenger alien race. Not everyone lives in the clouds, however: Cruise's character, Jak, works on the surface as a drone repairman. Jak's life is turned upside down when he finds a mysterious woman (Andrea Riseborough) in a crash-landed pod who tells him she's working on a science experiment that was started 60 years earlier, setting off "an unstoppable chain of events that will force him to question everything he knows."

"Oblivion" is due in theaters April 26, 2013.