Studio blows 'overpaid' Cruise off the screen
Studio blows 'overpaid' Cruise off the screen
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#0Studio blows 'overpaid' Cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:48am
SUPERSTAR Tom Cruise has joined the ranks of the unemployed. The Hollywood studio that bankrolls his films is not backing any more Cruise movies until he agrees to a significant paycut.
The 44-year-old actor is eager to get back to work to put behind him disappointments such as Mission Impossible: III, but last week his 13-year deal with the Paramount studio was allowed to lapse. Executives say Cruise faces a “financial adjustment and reality check” before he can continue his illustrious career.
Cruise fans fears that, unless the hardworking actor learns some humility, an illustrious career which has matured from the cocky boy of Risky Business and Top Gun to more naunced performances in The Last Samurai and Collateral may burn out. “Right now,” said an insider close to the negotiations, “he is simply too expensive to employ.”
Is it wrong that this makes me happy?
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#1studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:48amya beat me to it, addy.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#2studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:49am
Here's the link to the article
Bye, Bye, Tommy
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/8/06 at 09:49 AM
#4studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:50amtoo expensive to employ? I don't think so. That's ego, etc. There's nothing stopping him from working except greed.
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#5studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:50amAddy, it makes me really happy, too.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#6studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:50am
Karma, ain't she a b*tch! 
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#7studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:51am
I'll repent, RobbO.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 8/8/06 at 09:51 AM
#9studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:54am
Another great avatar, addy!
I hope I never see Tom on screen again. Did you see War of the Worlds? Boooooooo-ring.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:54am
I sure hope this doesn't send him into a deep depression.
PEACE.
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#11studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:57amI won't miss him at all. May he find his peace in midst of his scientology friends...
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#12studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 9:59am
i just bought a shirt today that says "Xenu is my homeboy"
I'm gonna wear it as I walk past the times square sceintology holy fortress of solitude.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#13studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:03amIf John Lloyd Young decides not to take the New Newlywed Game hosting duties, I think Tom would make a great second choice.
PEACE.
#14studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:26am
I found this video on Break.com, dated 5/9/2006
The best part:
"His career will self destruct in three months."
What's today's date? Oh well. One day off.
Anyone know the make of that car?
Click
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#15studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:44amNo more Tom Cruise movies to boycott? Works for me.
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#16studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:00am
"too expensive to employ"
Too crazy too.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#17studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:32amOh, poor Tom. However will he support his soon to be slave, I mean wife, and "baby?"
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#18studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:48am
I haven't paid to see a Tom Cruise movie since Jerry Maguire, but it was still nice to read this news.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Updated On: 8/8/06 at 11:48 AM
#19studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:12pmThis has made my day!!
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WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#20studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:24pm
Updated On: 8/8/06 at 12:24 PM
#21studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:32pmI saw this coming after Cruise threatened Comedy Central about reairing the South Park Scientology episode. He said if they reaired it he would not promote MI3. I don't think the Studios like being threatened or having the "STARS" they helped create threaten them. Since MI3 was not the huge blockbuster they had hoped for, Cruise can now be smacked downand taught a lesson.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#22studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:35pm
He's never been that good of an actor.
Not even in "Risky Business".
#24studio blows 'overpaid' cruise off the screen
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:47pmTo quote Kathy Griffin, this latest Tom Cruise development is "like a hug from Jesus."
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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