Actors Tom Cruise and Will Smith were spotted at a popular West Hollywood restaurant Monday, with a gaggle of other stars, including Anna Kendrick, Milo Ventimiglia, Chad Michael Murray, Eric Dane, and Johnny Galecki of "The Big Bang Theory." Why the clandestine gathering?

Cruise, Smith, and the other stars were at the Saddle Ranch, a restaurant with a mechanical bull in the middle, for a table read of a movie called "Paper Wings," which is being developed by Smith's production company, Overbrook Entertainment.

Our source, who is familiar with the project, explained that they "chose the Saddle Ranch for the table read because the story of the film involves a bull rider and a country singer." No word yet on who is signed on for the project.