What outrageous demands , aside from his usual 20 million pay day along with a percentage of the profit
And how can anyone complain that cruises recent antics cause WOTW to perform badly ?
Budget 132 million
Domistic Gross : 234 million
Worldwide gross : 591 million.
Never mind the fact that for the past 6 six year , has brought in considerable $$$ for Paramount.
I was reading the IMDB news , and already the other big chiefs at paramount are unhappy with the remarks made by the CEO.. They were renegotiating deals with the Cruise/Wagner production company but when it didn't come to an agreement , they were all ready to end this in a very professional matter
Read for yourself :
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-08-23/
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone commented, "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal. ... His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
In an interview with today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times, Cruise's production partner, Paula Wagner, denounced Redstone's remarks. "It is graceless. It is undignified. It's not businesslike," she said. In a separate interview with Daily Variety, she pointed out that during the last six years, Cruise/Wagner movies have accounted for 32 percent of Paramount's theatrical revenue.
Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper said that Paramount had offered them $2 million a year plus a $500,000 discretionary fund for each of two years. When Cruise/Wagner turned down the deal, Paramount Chairman Brad Grey prepared to announce an amicable end to the relationship, the Times said, citing one source. Grey and Viacom CEO Tom Freston were reportedly upset by Redstone's comments and told the newspaper's sources that he had not discussed his views about Cruise during the negotiations.
I can get the bad performance of MI-3 , but still i think it's the media who messed cause the downfall of Cruise. Not himself. Sure he made some dumbass remarks and his scientology beliefs , but the media messed it up. And they're doing it again with Gibson.
Anyways , i think the big loser here is going to be Paramount. The Cruise/Wagner production will just go to another company and still make $$.
I mean check out the more wellknown flicks of them :
MI- trilogy
Total Budget : 355 million
Total WW BO : 1394 million
The Others :
Budget 17 million
WW BO 209 million
Vanilla Sky
Budget 68 million
WW BO 203 million
Minority Report
Budget 102 million
WW BO 358 million
Last Samurai
Budget 140 million
WW BO 456 million
And for the record , i think Cruise is a really great actor. Despite his "weird" antics on medical drug use , he seems to be a pretty cool guy. At least that's what the people who have worked with him say.
