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As one of the foremost Tom Cruise enjoyers on this webbed site, how do you feel about Cocktail?

Okay…I wrote the most insane and unedited ramble of my life about Cocktail that, somehow, has very little to do with the plot of the craziest movie of all time

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how did this tom cruise thing. like.... start exactly. sorry i have been away from your blog for years.

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Tom Cruise walks into WB and cancels every streaming show thereby saving us from the Harry Potter streaming show

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i am cautiously extending my empty cup in hopes for some spilt tea. what's happening?

Today it was announced that Tom Cruise would be moving his production company to Warner Bros.

Now, Tom Cruise has had a long relationship with Paramount, starting in 1986 with Top Gun, so when he set up his production company in 1993 (31 years ago) they gave him a first-look deal and offices on their lot and—except for a brief stint in the late 00s, when he and his producing partner Paula Wagner had a falling out with former Paramount head Sumner Redstone and were kicked off the lot (it was said by Redstone to be because of Cruise’s public breakdown but everyone knew it was because Paramount was looking to cut costs and decided to slash and burn), which led to a brief stint where Cruise/Wagner co-ran United Artists with MGM for about 3 years before Redstone and co. got over themselves and brought Cruise back to Paramount—he has been until now.

His deal with Paramount was never exclusive and neither is his new deal with WB. He’s still working on MI8 and, as far as I know, plans to shoot that movie in space with Universal/NASA. He's worked with every studio (barring Disney and their subsidiaries since 1988) consistently over his career. It's just extremely notable that he would move his production company out of Paramount when he never has done so of his own volition before. The only comp I can think of (albeit on a smaller scale) is if Steven Spielberg suddenly moved Amblin out of Universal.

There are really fascinating business and creative implications here—What is the current state of Paramount? What are Shari Redstone et al doing that their biggest star has up and left? What does it say for Cruise’s late career that the press release seemed to really emphasize original theatrical releases?—BUT (!!) I love gossip. I want to know, blow by blow, exactly what, when, and how it happened that Tom Cruise decided to move his production company out of Paramount for the first time of his own volition.

I need to know. Is Cruise doing this as part of a larger effort to save WB from itself? Did Paramount know that Cruise was being courted by WB and so they intentionally fumbled the release of Dead Reckoning in hopes that it would flop in order to make a deal with Cruise look less desirable? Had Cruise noticed that almost all of his non-franchise work over the last 20 years had been with studios other than Paramount and, after one too many original ideas were shot down, he decided to start looking around? Did he fall out with Paramount leadership over something immensely stupid and catty? Did they fallout over his support for his agent who was being blacklisted for supporting Palestine? Is he being brought in to bring Zaslav to heel? I need to know everything. This is the juiciest thing to happen in Hollywood in a minute.

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From the November 1994 issue of “Interview Magazine”, that features a piece by Ingrid Sischy with Tom Cruise about IWTV. At the end, Cruise answers some questions in character. (Transcribed text below the cut)

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oh to have been a fly on the wall when rebecca ferguson told tom cruise to his face that she had a crush on him in interview with the vampire while they were at the gym together

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“The President of the United States has decided to seriously consider executive action on A.I. regulation after watching Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning in which Cruise fights a rogue A.I.” Sounds like something I would make up but it’s real

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“half of the US military budget is for tom cruise movies at this point” and it’s a much better use of that money than its intended purpose!! double the tom cruise budget!!

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I like how three of four are Mia Wasikowska & then there's him^TM :')

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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it’s tom cruise day

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list of people who wouldn’t even need to eat gillyweed to do the second task in the black lake for the triwizard tournament they can just hold their breath for that long:

tom cruise

kate winslet

a professional free-diver i dunno know call me when they can do all that AND have made some of the best movies of all time

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summer 1996 … harry potter spent two weeks in the real world before dumbledore took him to go emotionally terrorize and manipulate a senior citizen while on their way the weasleys … he definitely went to see mission: impossible in theaters at least once … i mean why not ….

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I wrote about Risky Business and its star for the film's 40th anniversary

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A beautifully written tribute to Tom Cruise on his birthday! 🥺

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TOM CRUISE RUNNING IN MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE SINCE 1996

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going through my inbox and everyone is on a cruiseathon before dead reckoning i planned this