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Tonya
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Post Number: 408
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 07:05 pm: | 
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Tom Cruise, Paramount break ties
Last Updated Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:48:31 EDT
CBC Arts
Hollywood's latest break-up involves movie star Tom Cruise and his studio, Paramount Pictures.
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Tom Cruise's erratic behaviour while he was courting Katie Holmes last year was partly to blame for his contract not being renewed, said Viacom chair Sumner Redstone. However, the Mission Impossible star's business partner Paula Wagner said the decision to leave Paramount was made by her and Cruise. (Associated Press)
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Though he's largely been out of the spotlight for a few months since the birth of his daughter, Cruise has not escaped fallout from his bizarre behaviour over the past year.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, the head of Paramount's parent company, Viacom Inc., announced the studio was ending its relationship with the Mission Impossible star. Paramount has maintained a contract with Cruise's film production company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, for 14 years. The latest contract is set to expire Aug. 31.
"As much as we like him personally… we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Viacom chair Sumner Redstone told the Journal.
"It's nothing to do with his acting ability. He's a terrific actor," Redstone continued.
"But we don't think that someone who effects creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot."
Outrageous behaviour led to public relations fiasco
After years of being guarded about his personal life, Cruise appeared to explode out of his shell last year.
He engaged in a whirlwind public romance with younger actress Katie Holmes, began vocally promoting his Scientology faith, leaped onto talk show host Oprah Winfrey's couch on-air while proclaiming his love for Holmes and, in interviews, criticized actress Brooke Shields for taking prescription drugs to treat her postpartum depression (Scientologists denounce psychiatry and its medication).
The media frenzy over Cruise and Holmes intensified when they announced they were expecting a child together. In April, Holmes gave birth to Suri Cruise — coincidentally, the same day as Shields gave birth to her second child. The couple has been maintaining a lower profile since.
Nevertheless, Cruise's star power was seriously damaged by his public outbursts. Though he recently topped Forbes magazine's annual list of powerful celebrities, the ticket sales for his last film, Mission: Impossible III, were lower than expected. Around the time the film was released in May, a Gallup poll found that more than half of the respondents surveyed had developed an "unfavourable" opinion of the star, whose credits include Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, Magnolia, War of the Worlds and Born on the Fourth of July.
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Cruise's longtime business partner Paula Wagner shot back at Redstone's announcement later Tuesday, saying it was Cruise/Wagner Productions that decided against renewing the contract with Paramount in favour of seeking independent financing.
Wagner added that Redstone's pronouncement was "surprising."
"For some reason, Paramount has chosen to negotiate in the press," she said. "It's not really the most businesslike approach."
According to Wagner, Paramount's collaboration with Cruise/Wagner Productions has produced $2.5 billion US worth of business. Still, she says, she and Cruise have considered seeking independent financing "for a long time."
Viacom and Paramount have declined further comment.
With files from the Associated Press.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/23/cruise-paramount-studio.html
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Cynique
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Post Number: 4976
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 11:25 pm: |
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"Poor" ol Tom Cruise. He's really on the skids. Just shows how fickle fate is. One minute he's on top of the world and the next minute he's a laughing stock. Katie must've thought she was the luckiest gal around, and now she is probably having second thoughts about marrying him. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2624
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 09:38 am: |
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He's worth, I don't know, several hundred million dollars and he will probably only make ten million dollars for his next movie instead of twenty five.
We peons should be so unfortunate.
This happens periodically in Hollywood. Going all the way back to the times of Doug Fairbanks.
Some actor or actress becomes a star. Movie rakes in big bucks. The greedy bastards out there start trying to outbid each other. The agents tell their clients they should--and they should--get more money.
Soon actors fees are in the stratosphere and the thieves that run the movie industry are getting done to them what they are used to doing to everybody else.
As long as the actor or actress' movies are raking in mega bucks everybody plays along. The big suits pay out more and more bucks. Actors and everybody else demands more.
Soon several things happen:
All things come to an end. What goes up must come down. Sooner or later the actor's career goes flat. It is inevitable. Notice how the big boys brag about how much they are paying until it goes bust.
So much money is getting paid to the actor (and the director and the screenwriter and the supporting staff--after all, if Cruise is getting 25 million, his co star got to get 10 or 15) that the movie no matter how profitable don't make no money.
Soon everybody else is demanding more money. The studios are in business to do it to everybody else. Not to get done to.
So the guy gets his contract cancelled, the studios cut back on everybody else, the idiots in the peanut gallery, who were cheering for the star before, start razzing him.
Go back in time. Happens time and again. Chaplin. John Wayne. Burt Reynolds. Sonny Tufts. Diana Ross. (on a Negro level).
But look at how they threw money at LizTaylor, Madonna and others for bomb after bomb.
They will cut back and all will be well.
Until the next actor to hit the jackpot.
Tom better be glad they didn't pull the gay card on him--though with Mike Musto being hauled out to comment I think they may be threatening. |
Moonsigns
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Post Number: 1396
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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I think Tom is nutzo(!), and Katie has a look on her face that is just begging for somebody to rescue her from him! |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2627
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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Funny I would be prone to agree with you because I have always thought Tom Cruise overrated--but this is true of all most all American celebrities.
But what did he really do? All this is based on three incidents. He Jumped up and down on Oprah's couch. Went off on Matt Lahr. Said that about Brooke Shields.
He hasn't killed anyone or tried to commit suicide.
Oh. I forgot. The media said he is a nut. So he's gotta be a nut.
What happens when the media says he's allright again?
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Abm
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Post Number: 6238
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 01:05 pm: |
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The only irreconcilable offense that a celebrity that commit is for foks to become wholly UNINTERESTED in them. And Cruise is FAR from that point, just yet.
Cruise and Will Smith are good friends (as such 'friendships' go in Hollywood). And Will's Hollywood reigning box office 'god'. Were I Cruise, I'd try to cook up a project where he plays a bad to Will's hero in some kinda action/adventure flick. That way, he could sorta use some of the negative feelings about him to positive cinematic effect.
I'll bet they'd strike box office paydirt with a project like that.
If he does that and gives a tearful, sincere-looking Mea Culpa on Oprah, he'll be back on top again. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 4978
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 01:21 pm: |
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At some point celebrity-watchers become a little savvy and are not as gullible as some would have you think. The media didn't have to portray Tom Cruise as being "nutty". He did it all by himself. All it took for people to perceive him as becoming erratic was to watch him in action, and listen to what he was saying. What needs to be reminded here is that the American public has a notoriously short memory. If Tom Cruise's independent production company comes out with a hit starring him, all will be forgiven. And, actually, Cruise doesn't even have to star in a movie; all he has to do is produce - or even direct a successful film. His name retains its power to attract attention and evoke curiosity. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2631
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 03:15 pm: |
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Funny nobody posted in here about it before now--when the media told us he was a nut. |
Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 03:31 pm: |
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I've always thought Tom had a weird, glazed-over look in his eyes that made him look "nuts". And as far as I'm concerned, it's not so much what he does in the media, it's that weird, glazed-over look in his eyes --the one I took notice years ago --that has intensified. It's almost creepy! |
Abm
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Post Number: 6242
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 03:35 pm: |
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Moonsigns: "I've always thought Tom had a weird, glazed-over look in his eyes that made him look "nuts". And as far as I'm concerned..."
Oh. Don't mind that.
That mostly comes from being utterly AMAZE by how someone so talentless (and SHORT) could have remained such a big a deal as he has been for nearly 25 years. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 4980
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 04:10 pm: |
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Funny how anyone would think that in order for it to be posted on this board, the public would had to have been told by the media that Tom Cruise was acting nutty. |
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