October 20, 20231 yr On 10/18/2023 at 7:22 PM, Jade Bahr said: He literally said he won't do anything else in the next 20 years. So better prepare yourself seeing him doing the same shit in his 80s lol https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/7/vmil3bhc9cbmvfdb5xxhjlrdmnh1ta Who knows
January 10, 20241 yr Some good news at last for the actor Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise Signs Massive Film Deal With Warner Bros — Here's Why This Could Be Great News I’ve been waiting it out a bit before reporting this news. I’ll tell you why in a moment. According to Deadline, Tom Cruise has signed a new deal with Warner Bros which would allow him to produce and star in movies for WB. This is said to be a non-exclusive deal, so Cruise can still work with Paramount — where he’s currently shooting a new ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie and ‘Top Gun 3’ is in the works. I’m thinking WB hopes he wraps up whatever prior obligations he has over at Paramount and starts making movies with them in the near future. I’m also not sure where this leaves his Doug Liman shot-in-space movie (Universal) — maybe it’s dead. Cruise is 61, it’s not like he has decades of films left in him. It’s far too early to know exactly what he might work on, but it’s clear WB wants to team up with him, and it doesn’t sound like it’s for IP or franchise stuff either. This is a multi-film deal and, except for “Edge of Tomorrow,” there is no other old Cruise/Warner title I can think of that could warrant a sequel — unless Zaslav is hyped up for “Eyes Wide Shut 2.” Warner is likely where Cruise will make his “gnarly and violent” R-rated original film with Christopher McQuarrie. I cannot wait for that one. Fact of the matter is that Cruise is one of the last true movie stars left. He can still turn in a hit on name recognition alone. However, here is what gets me very excited about this WB deal … Cruise has been mostly dabbling in action for the last decade, but his talents as a dramatic actor are undeniable — further proof can be found in seminal performances such as “Magnolia,” “Collateral” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” These last 15 or so years, Cruise’s focus on big budget franchise films, especially the ‘Mission: Impossible’ stuff, haws amassed a large audience, but with ‘Dead Reckoning — Part One’ underperforming at the box-office, maybe now is the time for Cruise to hop on-board original films again and showcase his vastly underused talents as an actor.
May 15, 2024May 15 Tom Cruise in Mallorca New film in Mallorca!!!!! I wish it would be true! https://www.hola.com/actualidad/20240514253942/tom-cruise-mallorca-playa-visita-sorpresa/ https://www.diariodemallorca.es/cultura/2024/05/14/tom-cruise-gonzalez-inarritu-preparan-102359558.amp.html
May 28, 2024May 28 Hollywood never learn. ‘Mission: Impossible 8' Production Delayed, Again — Budget Said to Be Nearing $400M
June 11, 2024Jun 11 He IS back https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ultimahora.es/vips/quiosco-rosa/2024/06/09/2181087/tom-cruise-regresa-mallorca.html I Hope someday find him and take a photo together (or more than one where both be perfect 😌)
June 15, 2024Jun 15 Never heard something more contradictory @Lilja K 😅 Report: ‘Mission: Impossible 8' Budget Keeps Ballooning After ‘Dead Reckoning' Lost $200M+ In Theaters
June 15, 2024Jun 15 2 hours ago, Jade Bahr said: Never heard something more contradictory @Lilja K 😅 Report: ‘Mission: Impossible 8' Budget Keeps Ballooning After ‘Dead Reckoning' Lost $200M+ In Theaters
June 19, 2024Jun 19 The story about Daniel Day Lewis and his method acting here is cracking me up @Lilja K Neil Jordan has a new memoir out called Amnesiac and he writes about Interview With the Vampire and the backlash that came for all of them, but especially Tom, when he was cast as Lestat. At the time, everybody hated the idea, including the book’s author Anne Rice. It’ll be 30 years since the movie’s release this November and remember, in 1994, Tom Cruise was all about planes and race cars and all-American heroes, the most handsome and dazzling of movie stars. Casting him as a vampire was not on anyone’s bingo card. An excerpt from the book was published a few days ago and here’s how Neil recalls the situation (via Variety😞 “The problem was the casting of Lestat. Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed Daniel Day-Lewis would be playing Lestat, an assumption shared by [author] Anne [Rice]. I offered it to Daniel, who read it, and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character. A few years before, he had confined himself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in ‘My Left Foot.’ He would have had to sleep in a coffin for the entirety of this production if he followed the same practice. So we moved on.” LOLOLOLOL FOREVER. Neil Jordan is a WRITER. And the tone he takes with that paragraph is masterful. “So we moved on” after the whole bit about sleeping in the coffin is sending me… Anyway, Tom did not need to sleep in a coffin to become Lestat. And he proved people wrong when they eventually saw his performance. He also proved Neil Jordan right, because Neil obviously saw it before everyone else after meeting with Tom in LA: “I finally got it. He had to live a life removed from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be. He had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He could well be Lestat.” Is there a double entendre there when Neil says that Tom “made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be”? Is it a contract with the fame devil, that compromise that all stars must submit to in exchange for the spotlight? Or, you know, is it a contract with the Thetan in exchange for, um, extraterrestrial immortality? Neil Jordan is too skilled of a writer to not know that there can be multiple interpretations of that sentence. But two things can be true. Whatever Neil is alluding to in that passage can co-exist with his profound respect for Tom as an actor. In Neil’s opinion, Tom is “also a superb actor” and yet still underestimated: “The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’ He’s a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange.” Maybe you have to be strange to be the last remaining film star. Maybe that’s the only way to remain a film star. Tom Cruise is one of the few stars who refuses to perform normal. Tom Cruise is not out here dangling from a moving train while insisting that he’s “just like us”. He’s never tried to be “just like us”. We don’t know what he’s like at all. At least not anymore. We used to know too much, and it resulted in a dramatic dimming of his star power. So he lives outside the gaze of others, maintaining that contract with whatever hidden forces, and hiding in the shadows, a vampire who doesn’t need a coffin.
June 19, 2024Jun 19 4 minutes ago, Jade Bahr said: The story about Daniel Day Lewis and his method acting here is cracking me up @Lilja K Neil Jordan has a new memoir out called Amnesiac and he writes about Interview With the Vampire and the backlash that came for all of them, but especially Tom, when he was cast as Lestat. At the time, everybody hated the idea, including the book’s author Anne Rice. It’ll be 30 years since the movie’s release this November and remember, in 1994, Tom Cruise was all about planes and race cars and all-American heroes, the most handsome and dazzling of movie stars. Casting him as a vampire was not on anyone’s bingo card. An excerpt from the book was published a few days ago and here’s how Neil recalls the situation (via Variety😞 “The problem was the casting of Lestat. Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed Daniel Day-Lewis would be playing Lestat, an assumption shared by [author] Anne [Rice]. I offered it to Daniel, who read it, and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character. A few years before, he had confined himself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in ‘My Left Foot.’ He would have had to sleep in a coffin for the entirety of this production if he followed the same practice. So we moved on.” LOLOLOLOL FOREVER. Neil Jordan is a WRITER. And the tone he takes with that paragraph is masterful. “So we moved on” after the whole bit about sleeping in the coffin is sending me… Anyway, Tom did not need to sleep in a coffin to become Lestat. And he proved people wrong when they eventually saw his performance. He also proved Neil Jordan right, because Neil obviously saw it before everyone else after meeting with Tom in LA: “I finally got it. He had to live a life removed from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be. He had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He could well be Lestat.” Is there a double entendre there when Neil says that Tom “made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be”? Is it a contract with the fame devil, that compromise that all stars must submit to in exchange for the spotlight? Or, you know, is it a contract with the Thetan in exchange for, um, extraterrestrial immortality? Neil Jordan is too skilled of a writer to not know that there can be multiple interpretations of that sentence. But two things can be true. Whatever Neil is alluding to in that passage can co-exist with his profound respect for Tom as an actor. In Neil’s opinion, Tom is “also a superb actor” and yet still underestimated: “The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’ He’s a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange.” Maybe you have to be strange to be the last remaining film star. Maybe that’s the only way to remain a film star. Tom Cruise is one of the few stars who refuses to perform normal. Tom Cruise is not out here dangling from a moving train while insisting that he’s “just like us”. He’s never tried to be “just like us”. We don’t know what he’s like at all. At least not anymore. We used to know too much, and it resulted in a dramatic dimming of his star power. So he lives outside the gaze of others, maintaining that contract with whatever hidden forces, and hiding in the shadows, a vampire who doesn’t need a coffin. I can't see anyone in the role of Lestat other than Tom Cruise. This is the perfect casting💯 Funny that Tom is no less a freak than Daniel, but in a different way. But as actors, I admire both of them.
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