OlderThu, 14 August 2008 at 2:44 pm
It’ll Be A Tom Cruise Christmas
Check out this new pic of Tom Cruise in his latest movie, Valkyrie, from director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X2, Superman Returns).
The WWII drama, based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise), has changed release dates once again, but has finally been settled: Friday, December 26.
The company’s distribution head Clark Woods told The Hollywood Reporter, “We’ve now completed the movie, and it’s fantastic. Until now we didn’t have a movie that was done. But now we have a movie starring Tom Cruise that deserves the best possible playtime.”
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Tom knows this is going to tank BIG TIME.
How else can you explain the 6months of blanket google/ youtube/ banner ads that are EVERYWHERE online.
Tom, tom, tom, you’re glib… you still think you can buy back your dignity.
Geez …how many $cientologists are poised ready to strike whenever any reports on Tom appears in the media.
Give the cult a comments section and awwwwaaaaaaaaay they go.
BOYCOTT THE CULT OF GREED
BOYCOTT KATIE
BOYCOTT CRUISE
What says feelgood “Christmas” movie more than a movie about a failed plot to kill Hitler?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-fi-wagner14-2008aug14,0,5188999.story?track=rss
From the Los Angeles Times
ENTERTAINMENT
Paula Wagner steps down at United Artists
The CEO’s departure raises uncertainty about the film studio and Tom Cruise, her longtime business partner.
By Claudia Eller
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 14, 2008
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.’s much-ballyhooed plan to revive the moribund United Artists studio was derailed Wednesday when the movie label’s chief executive, Paula Wagner, stepped down after less than two years on the job.
Wagner’s departure marks an end to her longtime business partnership with actor Tom Cruise, who, along with Wagner, was recruited by MGM chief Harry Sloan in 2006 in a bid to bring UA back to life and help return the struggling MGM to its former stature as a major Hollywood player.
Wagner and Cruise have been a producing team for more than 15 years, making such movies as the “Mission: Impossible” series and “War of the Worlds.” Before the two formed a production company in 1992, Wagner was Cruise’s agent for 11 years.
The development also spells uncertainty for Cruise, who had hoped to revive his career by resuscitating one of Hollywood’s most storied movie studios. Cruise and Wagner joined UA just two months after their dramatic departure from Paramount Pictures amid a bitter falling out with Sumner Redstone, chairman of the studio’s parent, Viacom Inc. Redstone publicly berated Cruise for his off-screen antics, which the mogul blamed for the actor’s diminishing box-office appeal.
The fate of UA and how long Cruise will stay in the fold are now in question. Cruise is not an executive at UA but, together with Wagner, owns a 30% stake in the studio and is involved in creative matters.
“I love Paula,” Cruise said through his publicist. “We’ve worked together and have been friends for almost 25 years. I support her in anything she does . . . and I look forward to working together and producing films in the future.”
In a statement, MGM said that the two would retain their ownership interest and that “nothing will change in regard to Mr. Cruise’s involvement with UA.” MGM said he and Wagner would continue to work on some UA projects together.
MGM did not name a successor to Wagner, who has been negotiating to leave her job for several weeks, as was first reported Wednesday on the Wall Street Journal’s website.
Wagner, who like Cruise was not available to comment, will return to being a producer under her own movie shingle.
“As much as I’ve enjoyed my time as an executive, I have longed to return to my true love, which is making movies, so that’s what I’ve decided to do,” she said in a prepared statement.
Wagner had a tough time making the transition from producer to studio chief and putting together an annual slate of movies, according to several people close to the situation. They said there was friction between Wagner and Sloan over the lack of movies that had been greenlighted for production since her arrival.
After Sloan brought Wagner and Cruise aboard to operate UA as an autonomous movie unit in November 2006, he was able to secure a $500-million revolving film fund with Merrill Lynch & Co. for them to produce four films a year over five years with budgets averaging $40 million to $50 million.
Not complying with certain start dates and release dates could jeopardize the financing, said one person with knowledge of the deal who asked for anonymity because it is confidential.
This person said Wagner was not used to these types of deadlines and was not queuing up movies fast enough to meet the fund’s requirements. Wagner and Cruise had the authority to give the go-ahead to any movie with a budget up to $60 million. MGM, which markets and releases UA films, has to approve films above that budget level.
Since Wagner joined UA, the studio has released just one picture, the $35-million political drama “Lions for Lambs,” starring Cruise, which bombed at the box office and lost tens of millions of dollars.The company’s next release, “Valkyrie,” a World War II drama also headlined by Cruise and costing close to $85 million, was pushed off until next year but MGM announced Wednesday that it would hit theaters Dec. 26.
Wagner was said to be upset when MGM passed on a big-budget production she submitted this year called “Ranger’s Apprentice,” written and directed by Paul Haggis, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning hit “Crash.” MGM didn’t think the children’s fantasy story justified a $100-million-plus budget, a person close to the studio said.
Wagner tried to shop the project to other studios but found no takers.
Her impending departure is a black eye for Sloan, whose plan for UA is unraveling at a time when he is attempting to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in sorely needed film financing for debt-ridden MGM. He recently hired former Universal Pictures executive Mary Parent to turn around MGM’s sagging box-office fortunes.
Sloan, a media entrepreneur, was recruited in 2005 by a consortium of investors, including Sony Corp. of America, Providence Equity Partners and Texas Pacific Group, to help MGM regain its footing.
claudia.eller@latimes.com
Times staff writer Rachel Abramowitz contributed to this report.
I read the review for this movie at AICN and it sounds great. Looking forward to it.
LuckyL, you’ve a lot of time on your hands. LOL!
he doesn’t look much like a German in that photo…
and for those who worry how he is going to pull off a German accent… don’t worry! He is not even trying to!
I can’t wait to see this movie!!!!
Tom Cruise is the boss the one and the only! hands dow to this talented actor who travel us throught the years with his amasing movies he is the man.
To the 1 or 2 TC hater here who is getting crasy “repeating “hiself to bash TC well you could only wish to have TC career to be famous like him and rich like him, you are just a ridiclous uknown loser keep crying on night long, you will change nothing pathetic loser,hope his up coming movies will kick your ass so hard *****.
omg! They actually bumped the movie! Sweet! I don’t have to wait till next year to see it!! Wooo!
It probably has to do with the fact that his partner left him to do what she love most “MAKE MOVIES!!!” Since Tom isn’t making anymore..
That is probably why it got bumped up to December..She is staying
to finish any other projects…GOOD IDEA United Artist getting Tom
involved when his last movie bombed.. didn’t even make the budget..
This movie has been the Gigli movie for Tom.. It has bad reviews
already..!
I think the season when we’re to remember to show love for ALL of our fellow man is a great time to release a film that shows that Germany’s sicko man, Hitler, did NOT represent a whole country of people who were equally evil and bad but also trapped in a tyranical nightmare by that madman. There were Germans surrounding Hitler who wanted to rid the world of an evil for the good of their country and mankind! That’s a holiday message to me and I watch Jimmy Stewart every Christmas too!
Can’t wait for it to come out!!!!
Cruise is not and never has been an actor, he’s only a movie star and frankly not a terribly interesting one.
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I think Tom is a great actor,always.Now noone seem to care just because he made a mistake.Everyone makes mistakes,but not everyone has courage to say,”I’m sorry”.he did.I will watch his movies anytime.He’s movies are all great.We just all of a sudden despised him,hated him,criticized him,for what?being honest about his love toward Katie?his negative remarks toward depression and drugs?It doesn’t matter,he was always good in all his movies otherwise he wouldn’t make all those billions of dollars.If one of us doesn’t make any mistakes at all we are doomedly in denial.
Good luck to him and all his upcoming movies.I will definitely come and see all of his movies not his wrongful doings from the pass.
The critics gives more negative remarks towards him,because everyone knows he is a great person,he is humble,yes humble.If noone actually likes him anymore,why bother commenting and not leave him alone?Let’s just face the facts,he is TOM CRUISE,scientologist before then and now,great actor before then and now.He is just the best human being and great,for multiple times great actor.Watch the movie,if not like it,leave before it ends.But i would definitely see all his movies over&over.He always has potential.And if MI3 will be repeated to be in theater,I will watch it again,he was good in that MI3 just like his other movies,he just made the bad antics that people will not accept because people actually don’t make bad decisions, and or mistakes.
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