OlderTom Cruise’s Mission to Save Himself
Last week, Tom Cruise met with former boss Sumner Redstone of Paramount Pictures, who decided not to renew Tom’s contract in 2006.
According to FoxNews.com, “The fact that Cruise groveled in public with Redstone would indicate that the actor knows just how bad “Valkyrie” is and that he’s trying to shore up his future before the eye patch hits the fan this fall. Certainly, a signed $20 million contract from Paramount would be insurance against this unavoidable disaster destroying his career.”
“More importantly, if Redstone allows Cruise back, he will be returning after the release this fall of “Valkyrie,” in which he plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler, with an eye patch, a withered limb and — according to the $100 million film’s trailer — a California accent reminiscent of Jerry Maguire.”
Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns), is set to be released this coming October, and follows Tom’s recent box-office blunder, Lions for Lambs.
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OMG Jared, why ar you posting this crap from foxnews???
It’s true that Tom’s career isn’t in good shape, and I have no idea if he’ll be able to make a comeback, but c’mon….Roger Friedman is an idiot, and never really knows what he’s taling about.
hmm…many people watched many a bad cruise movie simply because no one knew much about him and PR was tightly controlled…now that he has shown the public how looney he is its hard to forget
Hey tom , I will watch you movie if you will medicate yourself so we dont have to see you looney self acting stupid in anymore videos
OMG jared, why are you posting this crap from foxnews?? It’s true that Tom’s career is not as good as it used to be, and he might not be able to recover…but c’mon, Roger Friedman is an idiout, and never really knows what he’s taling about.
Sounds like biased gossip and nothing else. Now that’s excellent journalism panning a movie before it is even seen, a big budget film with a very talented cast and crew I might add. And Lions for Lambs was a low budget film and in no way similar in budget and theme to his usual films.
TC had make some great movies in the past I enjoy and love some of his films. but I beleive he had already pass his prime , Will Smith seems to be the it person in HW right now.
Where is his daughter Suri??? I miss Suri…It’s already Suri month :smile:
i can’t wait to see carice van houten in valkyrie
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Suri used to be very polite when she was younger…but as she is growing up she seems not to be polite anymore…She is such a cutie
Yeah 16 more days to celebrate Suri’s 2nd Birthday. How I miss the little kid. Hope to get to see her soon.
When is he going to realize that his “star” is burning out? People his age or older are tired of looking at him and the younger generation really do not care who the hell he is. To them he is the Jack Nicholson of our generation. It is kinda funny though, he is going back to beg and you know Redstone will have fun with that!
I call BS on this Fox report. From things I’ve read it’s the other way around-Redstone wants Tom back in the fold…Don’t worry about Tom-he’ll continue to make great movies!
GREAT LOOKING
He is only making movies because he wants to, not because he needs to! He need never work again, and only just recently bought a new huge $20million mansion in Los Angeles.
He always looks happy
That’s actually the best picture of him I have seen in years. That’s the Tom Cruise I remember.
Whatever. I think “Valkyrie” is going to surprise a lot of people. FoxNews.com, that writer hates Tom Cruise and has been trying to find ways to blast “Valkyrie” for months. Let’s just wait and see as far as its quality. FoxNews.com did this before for “The Passion of the Christ,” too. Then he didn’t know what to do when the film turned out to be a box-office smash and in many people’s eyes, artistically brill. Just ask Quentin Tarantino. Argh, that FoxNews.com writer, whom I refuse to actually write the name of!
ı can’t wait to see Valkyrie. Tom is the best of the best. I know the film will be from MCM and stupid Roger Friedman is from FOX. So it is very clear now. I don’ t like B.S. gossip
Tom Cruise doesn’t need to grovel to Sumner Redstone. He’s got more money that you can shake a stick at and he’s also a power player in Hollywood.
He needs money!!!!????
Tom Cruise doesn’t need to grovel to Sumner Redstone. He’s got more money that you can shake a stick at and he’s also a power player in Hollywood.
Ermmm, Tom Cruise has his own effin movie studio now “United Artists” its highly unlikely he’s going to go back to Paramount now.
Tom has no idea about European history, he couldn’t be bothered with consultants - as it seems $cientologists know everything better anyway. The trailer was beyond cringeworthy, clichéd - it seems he has another well-deserved bomb on his crazy CV.
There’s only one way to redeem himself - break off with $ciento completely and admit that they’re a dangerous and totalitarian sect, not a “church”. No wonder many European countries don’t buy their “teachings” and never granted them the tax-exempt status like the US did.
Hey,
The Cruise PR machine never hesitate to sue people or deny any report.
Just wait. So far I haven’t heard anybody sued, including Morton.
I think there’s some truth to the FOXNEWS.com story. Anybody after the 2 major bombs, e.g. MM and LFL, should try something else.
He may not need the money, even though KH’s shopping habit and taste are both pretty obscene
However, anybody addicted to such fame and accolade, not to mention “the biggest movie star of the world” would try to revive his glorious days.
uh MM was not a Tom movie…
OVER—-he is soooooooooooo OVER. i just love it when celebs kill their own career!!! and they’re droppin like flies now! just think, if will & jada have joid the lrh crazy farm, they can say bye bye too!
In this country money is power. He, no doubt, has enough for many lifetimes, but he(and his wife also spend like there’s no tomorrow so it’s probably never enough.
Well, too bad, after the intensive exposure and intervention, KH’s MM can never be separated from TC.
Who cares he’s rich.
http://IGotUGGs.com
Don’t do it Redstone!!! Cruisazy is box office poison!
Seems like they unleashed a bunch of Koolaid drinker from the slave ship today…and when pray tell has roger friedman been cnosidered stupid other than by scicnetologist..which tells me he is VERY VERY clever adn the first to question the wierdos on holmes dissapearance…
The lunatic needs to get on his medication fast and stop the niacin trips//
tom has so many wonderful fans, i think its great that all of you are showing your love and support for him.
t.i.c.k.s forever!
“California accent”?!$#%#^%$^$#&^&(*)
Oh. Bomb.
#24, when was the last time that Cruise actually sued anybody? Esecially in the past three years where jokes and rumors about the star ran rampant?
This story isn’t true (and Mission: Impossible 3 wasn’t a flop)
Buy. Buy. Buy.
You. Followers.
Buy. The. Fcuking. Tickets.
LOL.
I’m still looking forward to watch Valkyrie, too bad it’s coming till October! And I was thinking it would be before the summer!
So apparently you were away when Morton’s book was first published. The whole TC\Scieno legal machine claimed that they are going to sue the author and whoever publishes or distributes the book.
Also when TC’s lunatic videos first leaked to the internet, didn’t the lawyers at Scieno tried to sue the Gawker? You didn’t remember any of those “rumors”?
Well, good for you.
Go Tom,
Can’t wait to see trophic thunder & valkyrie!!!!
Wow fox news? truly the last bastion of truth and impartiality. I could almost watch it for entertainment if it didnt scare me so much that some people take it at face value. Anyway that was a bit OT! i find it hard to see tom as a character in movies now he’s in the media so much..
Suri is coming!
http://bauergriffinonline.com/2008/04/suri-cruise-surfaces-exclusive.php
Suri is coming!
http://bauergriffinonline.com/2008/04/suri-cruise-surfaces-exclusive.php
FREEK….
Hahaha. No one could be more out of the loop than some moron at Fox News. I don’t care how loony he seems, Tom Cruise is easily a bankable star and necessary for Hollywood. Also, Valkyrie looks awesome. Seriously, what a dumb ass.
The only thing that is right in this stupid artcle is the accent thing.
Come on people, a movie about Nazis with Tom Cruise and a bunch of British actors ? They’re not even attempting a German accent for ****’s sake !
Tom’s life is a disaster!!!!
He is bizarre.
Intelligen critical think learn to analyze news from different sources…
I read and watch all kindd of news irrespective of my affilitions, it helps to let you know what others are thinking even if you have different view point,..I detest scientology , yet I read their site to learn more about them
You do yourself a disservice by stikcing your head in the sand and ignoring all media that you disagree with.,.learn to read critically is all..
Amazing, how the same people keep coming back to defend Cruise. He is a complete jackass, who is a major player in a cult that KILLS people and he is certifiably nuts. His defenders are most likely lower tier dumbo Scientologist minions told to scour the web and debunk any bad stuff about their “star”. Your star is now a black hole and your “religion” has been exposed for the cult that it is. Tom Cruise is burnt toast and his “comeback” will happen right after your phony E.T., Xenu comes back to the planet. TOM CRUISE SUCKS AND SO DOES SCIENTOLOGY.
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fcuktard!
k n o b - c h e e s e
stupid airhead wife too.
Friedman never says anything nice about anyone in Hollywood.
Lions for Lambs earned big and got its budget back unlike
the rest of the anti war films. BTW Stop Loss flopped too by actor
Ryan Phillippe. Americans dont care for anti war films.
Go Tom Cruise.
FOX NEWS HATES HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
So hilarious because this is bogus. Many actors and insiders as well as critics say Cruise will rock on Tropic Thunder and Valkyrie.
Google Redstone wants to be friends with Tom Cruise and People magazine has the full news of Redstone desperate to be friends with Tom since 2007. Redstone is also dying to patch things up with his daughter also Geffen and Spielberg of Dreamworks.
Read Wall Street Journal, CNN Business and Time magazine not
Gossip by Roger Friedman.
God bless you Tom & your family.
Roger Friedman holds a grudge on Tom and Katie because they will never do an exclusive interview on him which he’s dying to. He kisses a$$ to them in person then backstabs them because his wish was not granted. He disses on People,Vanity Fair,Instyle,Harpers Bazzaar,Diane Sawyer,Larry King, Barbara Walters because Cruise grants them interviews but not him.
Jared, Im really shocked that you plug Roger Friedman when this man insults your idols Brad and Angelina Jolie. This man called Mighty Heart and Brad’s film FLOPS. Same man who contacts another tabloid US weekly aka trash paper and promises the public to keep digging on Heath Ledger’s past and dirt.
Friendman also calls your Brad and Angie bad parents and Bill O’Reilly keeps agreeing with his analysis.
This sleaze is equivalent to the Globe and National enquirer,Jared.
EEEECKKKKKK
And lastly, Jared Friendman and Fox news calls your idols Brangelina mental and unstable because of their United Nations family that keeps growing.
I cant wait for Tom to win the Oscars. He is a good man and extremely talented. Most of all he loves his family and fans.
Ok magazine will showcase many pics of Suri and Tom hanging out together.
Eversince Roger Friedman and Fox made fun of Cruise and said why is he wearing an eyepatch ? goes to show they know nothing about the Germany World War 2 history nor have heard of General Stauffenberg.
Ignorance displayed.
For the latecomers and in need of real news (play catch up since 2007)
Redstone on Tom Cruise ” he wants to be friends with him again”
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20013941,00.html
Redstone not in good terms with his own family and Dreamworks
guys Spielberg and Geffen.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/paramount12?currentPage=4
@ miapocca : Sorry, I think you are right. You never said the word “dumb”, I interpreted that way. (On KH thread).
@911, Graf von Stauffenberg was not a general. He was a colonel. And surely, he did not have californian (american) accent! Follow your own advice, read the history of 2nd WW better.
And of course, who does not want to be remembered as the one who tried to kill Hitler (even in virtual)? But do we buy it? Even as hard as TC tried to sell his image as Herr Graf, I still see TC. A try-so-hard-to be a good actor-with-american-accent-speaking-Graf-von-s
Stauffenberg-Wannabee. And I simply can not buy it.
Solaris…have you watched the movie already?
Anyway, the lunatic midget is in a hurry to sell his image as a hero that he goes out of his way to create his own accident scene in reality. Never in my life have I heard of someone always saving others AND then getting it photographed and on the NEWS…
In anycase havent seen a WW11 movie in ages and this one is defintely not on my list…
In anycase ihatetomcruise.com is on blipping fire!
Invasion of the koolaid drinkers..unbelievable…
L. Ron Cruise
@ Miapocca
I saw the trailer already. The madness in TC’s eyes scared me. I am not sure if Claus von Stauffenberg would have acted that way.
The last film I saw about WWII was The band of Brothers, moment…The flag of our father…I think. Isn’t Jamie Bell marvelous? But it is always a treat to see Damian Lewis. But “Catch 22″ is my fav.
I am such a loser, BUT! I got an opinion on all those rich successful people.
They better listen or I won’t leave my trailer park ever!!!!
hahahha
Thanks solaris ..hmm..maybe it will show on on publc tv and then if I actually want to see cruise embarrass himself I will watch it..hahah
Paula you are hilarious..I am sure Holmes will want to join you or send some cup cakes and a Christmas tree for you
In any case ,,they are out and about , they went to an Easter gospel brunch with Holmes mom and sister in toe and they were all color coordinated in cream including the scientolotot
See they have to let us know the rumors are so not true, but really why bother,….
HE IS TURNING INTO THE NEXT BEN AFFLECK..SO HE IS IN CHARGE OF HIS OWN STUDIO… SO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
Friedman is a moron. Great news on Cruise on New York Times site.
WTG TOM!!!!!!!
Tom is fine, he try to, with all the trash surrounding his family.
Yes Tom’s family love him, unlike Redstone: his family is a mess, they are all angry at each other.
When one is powerful & happy there will always be jealous haters.
Tom has it all from his career and his family. That is hard to find in Hollywood. He also runs a studio.
The whole Redstone was classy on Tom and Wagner’s part because Redstone did all the trash talk but Tom and Wagner moved on and said nothing. Redstone appeared bitter and unprofessional then took back all the things he said. Now with the reunion Redstone is still doing the talking while classy Tom and Paula remains intact.
Similar with The Dreamworks Spielberg and Geffen, Paramount camps trashed talk them saying who needs Spielberg and Dreamworks but Spielberg and Co. never said anything but went about business remaining classy and professional throughout.
Praying for Tom’s Oscars but even with none he’s already a winner
and American legendary actor in the biz.
@flygirl
Can you tell me which movies are already made by PW & TC? I saw MI 3, and let me tell you, girl: it sucks! Antichrist? Give me a break (Shame on you Simon Pegg!). If you listen word by word to what TC said…ah forget it.
Fake Berlin…ew! The reason I watched it was one and the only JRM. All this big bang did not impress me at all.
I will say, all the bad and wrong news about TC do not mean that they are bad, and do not mean that they are wrong.
Have you seen the new pix of Suri and her “father”’s outing at the park recently?
Gosh! Somebody help that girl to get out of TC’s grip.
Can anything be more fake than those staged photo ops?
In none of those pix did the child look excited or happy. She was lonely with no interaction with any of the other kids. She wore an expensive prom dress to the sand box, knowing no one there, not even sure whether she knew how to play.
This is just pathetic.
Yeah.the park in a pretty frock is mighty interesting,..hahha…
This is how suri and isabella and connor are living through
http://exscientologykids.com/
Ah…..I find it delightful as sceintologist defect asn SPEAK ..out
http://www.factnet.org/?p=255
Frankly if a lot of you all defect, you will keep the organization too busy to play fair game, so if you are thinking of leaveing, just leave,
Even Miscaviage own family called them liars..wise up you kooliad drinkers…
Contd…………
They can’t speak to their children because they have left the Church on their own determinism. This is a widespread practice and if you dare deny it I have a list of all of there names together — these people’s families are crying every day because they can’t speak to their children who did nothing but leave the Church of their own free will.
If I am in fact wrong and you want to prove me as such, then allow me and my family to be in contact with our family members that are still part of the Church such as my Grandpa, Ron Miscavige, and his wife, Becky. Allow the same of my friends. And don’t even start with the, “it’s their choice all along story…” — nobody is going to buy that, there are way too many destroyed families for that to be true.
I am tempted to take up many of the other accusations you categorically deny in your novel, but for the purpose of keeping this letter readable and focused on the most important part (family) I will resist.
I will suggest however that maybe you should spend the manpower and time of drafting your masterpiece rebuttal — why don’t you take the high road for once and put that time towards repairing the families you have destroyed, starting with the family of David Miscavige himself — hell, if Scientology can’t keep his family together — then why on earth should anyone believe the Church helps bring families together!
Best,
Jenna Miscavige Hill
http://www.xenu-directory.net/accounts/20080125-miscavigehill.html
I think we should avoid, actually ban, the word “church” when we talk about the Scientology cult. We are unwillingly giving them credibility if we choose that word. It is a sect, or a cult. It is dangerous, and it destroys people’s lives, their financial situation, their happiness, their freedom and their families.
As long as Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes let themselves be used as PR robots for this cult whose only real interests and goals are money, control and power, we should boycott their movies.
Don’t contribute, don’t help the Scientology cult in any way. It is a destructive and sick organization, and it gets stronger each time we endorse Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, or any of the other artists they use to promote their cult.
I agree with you, Emma. Church is a place where we celebrate “LOVE”, “COMPASSION”. Scientology, by the names, means “study of Science”, Church is not “Study of GOD”, …well, I do not want to preach, but we all know what church is.
Scientology, by its act, will never understand the meaning of Love, let alone compassion. An organization which demands a total and blind obedience will never teach love.
I just wish with all my heart, KH will be free one day. She is still young, and life is still long for her. I hope she wakes up not too late. Life is so precious to be wasted away.
your the best man I love you
He is so disgusting!!!
Fox news!!! Man oh man people who visits these sites are messed up and have such boring lives they have to comments on Celebrities. This guy has done wonderful stuff. I think he wants to make movies not just fade away because he has money. If he is doing his own studio he couldn’t afford to do all the big budget stuff, it wouldn’t be feasible for someone to invest $50 mill of their own money, even if they do have tons of it. I couldn’t believe the comment of, where’s Suri, I want to see Suri. Now I will blow out of here and never come back. Seriously people get your own life happening. Your life is what matters not some movie star’s. Live Life to the fullest peoples.
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