Did Tom Cruise get a raw deal?

Did Paramount dump Tom Cruise or did Tom Cruise dump Paramount?
Well why don’t we look at the numbers and see if we can’t figure out who dumped whom.
Tom Cruise has made studios several billion dollars over the course of his career, so let’s just go over the last few years and see what we can figure out from this:
Tom’s Recent Movies:
1999 – Eyes Wide Shut – $162 mil. for Warner Bros.
1999- Magnolia – $48.5 mil. for NL
2000 – Mission: Impossible II – $546 mil. for Paramount
2001 – Vanilla Sky – $282 mil. for Paramount
2002- Minority Report – $358 mil. for Fox
2003- The Last Samurai – $457 mil. for Warner Bros.
2004- Collateral – $218 mil. for DW
2005- War of the Worlds – $592 mil. for Paramount
2006- Mission: Impossible III – $395 mil. for Paramount
OK, now follow this closely because this is important. In the last couple years, which supposedly is when Cruise’s career took a nose-dive and ol’ man Redstone says Paramount is hurting as a result. Well let’s just look at the figures shall we:
This is a list of Parmounts highest grossing films during the supposedly self-destructive Cruise era:
Paramount’s Highest Grossing Films of 2005:
1. War of the Worlds – $592 mil
2. The Longest Yard – $190 mil.
3. Sahara – $119 mil.
4. Four Brothers – $92 mil.
5. Coach Carter – $77 mil.
Parmount’s Highest Grossing Films of 2006:
1. Mission: Impossible III – $395 mil.
2. Failure to Launch – $128 mil.
3. Nacho Libre – $88 mil.
4. World Trade Center – $56 mil.
5. Last Holiday – $43 mil.
One last statistic. In the world, several thousand movies are created by studios every year. So how well did Tom’s Mission: Impossible III do up against the WORLD competition? Well let’s look at the WORLD’s highest grossing movies of 2006.
Highest 2006 “WORLDWIDE” Grosses:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. The Divinci Code
3. Ice Age: The Meltdown
4. X-Men: The Last Stand
5. Cars
6. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III
Not bad huh. This is just theater ticket sales. This doesn’t even include DVD sales and rentals. So who dumped who again?
Judging by the statistics, I’d say that ol’ man Redstone has got to be a little bit p.o.’d by Cruise/Wagner Productions cutting business ties.
People say nasty things and tend to lie a bit when they are upset wouldn’t you agree Redstone?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2006&…
So what’s the real story of Viacom’s discontent with Tom Cruise. Well here’s a brief summary of what happened:
Tom Cruise attacks the drug pushers, (psychiatrists), the drug suppliers, (drug companies) and the drug advertisers, (media conglomerates/main stream media).
As a result he becomes public enemy #1 to these bastards because they fear the influence he has all over the planet. This story is just more attacks on him by this drug cartel. Let’s take a look at some facts:
Based on the statistics above, obviously Paramount did not fire Cruise/Wagner Productions for underachieving. Cruise/Wagner Productions left Paramount and was brokering this deal with First and Goal for awhile now. Another very important fact is that Viacom, Paramount’s parent company, makes half of its revenue from drug company advertisements. This dollar amount is much more than Tom Cruise would ever bring in for them.
The mainstream media is relying on individuals to not read past the headlines. They’re relying on individuals to not do any research for themselves. This story is also ol’ man Redstone’s senility acting up.
I challenge the media to actually go out and do a little research on this and tell the real story of what’s really going on. Why is Tom Cruise, day after day barraged with insults and lied about in the press with wild abandon? Is it because his behavior is so completely reckless and what he speaks of is so completely off-base? Or is it really that he spoke the truth and might have hurt an industry that relies on the public’s ignorance in order to survive?

I cannot for the life of me understand why everyone thinks Tom Cruise is so crazy?!? Seriously. It all started when he jumped on the couch and Oprah — that was too enthuiastic – people thought it was fake. Then they got engaged, but set no date — fake(?) and had a baby together — fake(?) Tom is being criticized for not following the gossip rag script. Here’s part of it: Let us take your photo with your new girlfriend, kiss her in some of these photos, but not too often, we don’t want to overdo it. You’re part of an “alternative” religion — kabbalah is OK scientology is weird. We like it if you wear bracelets to identify you as a religious person, but please don’t ever tell us about your beliefs. Yuck! You can express your opinion about drugs if you’re on your way into or out of rehab or if you’re campaigning for the legalization of something or another (a la Woody), but don’t talk about prescription meds, that’s big business (they advertise in People). And finally when you have a baby with your fiance, you sell those pictures to us as soon as you can or we may question in print whether she was ever even born. This is insane. Tom Cruise seems to me to be living his life happily, and the way he wants to. That he is deviating from the way the celebrity magazines want him to behave doesn’t seem crazy to me, with a new fiance and baby his life has changed. And the fact that people seem to think he himself has changed for the worse make me laugh, I don’t think they’ve ever even met the superstar in peson.

Oh and by the way…he is a rageing idiot and I hope he never shows his face in the movies or on tv ever again! I will never watch any program or movie he is in… Now you tell me.. What IDIOT would get his babies first poopies bronzed???!!!!! Now you tell me the creep is not a twisted brain dead idiot!
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Well,whatever said and done, I love Tom ! I quite enjoyed his couch jumping incident ! It certainly livened up the interview !
He is rather nice to his fans and has an adorable laugh and grin !
I hope that he being cut off from Paramount, does not mean that he won’t be acting in any more films…