I guess that means there will be no Mission Impossible 4
Tom Cruise is now homeless according to the Hollywood Reporter. Paramount Pictures, which was the star's filmmaking base of operations since making Top Gun in 1986, ended negotiations with Cruise's Cruise/Wagner productions.
What makes the split even more strange was a statement released to the Wall Street Journal by a Viacom executive. Chairman Sumner Redstone told the financial newspaper, "As much as we like [Cruise] personally, we thought it was wrong to renew the deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
Cruise/Wagner Productions say they will now work independently from any studios - making both high-concept and big-budgeted movies as well as smaller films funded by two private equities in L.A. and New York.
Now, I normally care nothing whatsoever about celebrity gossip. I mean as far as I am concerned, Tom Cruise can believe in aliens and jump on Oprah's couch until it breaks, and I will not care so long as he makes good movies. I honestly felt that was the case with M:I3 - the first film in the entire series that I liked.
But now it seems as though Cruise's lifestyle and gossip-mongering antics have gotten in the way of making films. And that, my friends, that is not excusable. He seriously needs to let America see his baby - even if it's crosseyed, covered in scabs, and has a rhino horn protruding from its skull, and while we are on the subject of his personal life, Cruise needs to let Katie Holmes run free. If she doesn't return to him, it simply was not meant to be, and then he needs to move on.
Cruise needs to get his personal equation under control (isn't that what Scientology is all about anyway?) before he finds himself starring on his own TV series in five years.
Then again, it may be too late.
You can read the entire Hollywood Reporter article here.
What makes the split even more strange was a statement released to the Wall Street Journal by a Viacom executive. Chairman Sumner Redstone told the financial newspaper, "As much as we like [Cruise] personally, we thought it was wrong to renew the deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
Cruise/Wagner Productions say they will now work independently from any studios - making both high-concept and big-budgeted movies as well as smaller films funded by two private equities in L.A. and New York.
Now, I normally care nothing whatsoever about celebrity gossip. I mean as far as I am concerned, Tom Cruise can believe in aliens and jump on Oprah's couch until it breaks, and I will not care so long as he makes good movies. I honestly felt that was the case with M:I3 - the first film in the entire series that I liked.
But now it seems as though Cruise's lifestyle and gossip-mongering antics have gotten in the way of making films. And that, my friends, that is not excusable. He seriously needs to let America see his baby - even if it's crosseyed, covered in scabs, and has a rhino horn protruding from its skull, and while we are on the subject of his personal life, Cruise needs to let Katie Holmes run free. If she doesn't return to him, it simply was not meant to be, and then he needs to move on.
Cruise needs to get his personal equation under control (isn't that what Scientology is all about anyway?) before he finds himself starring on his own TV series in five years.
Then again, it may be too late.
You can read the entire Hollywood Reporter article here.
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