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     Gringo Comedian Username: Gringo Post Number: 1348 Registered: 10-2014 Posted From: 72.15.229.180 Rating: N/A |
http://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cruise-career-from-scient ology-to-mission-impossible-2015-4 In August 2006, it seemed like Tom Cruise was finished. In an announcement unprecedented by the head of a major conglomerate, the chairman of Viacom, Sumner Redstone, publicly ripped into the star, who at the time was one of the most profitable at Viacom's movie studio, Paramount Pictures. “We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,” Redstone told The Wall Street Journal. “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.” Nine years ago was certainly the toughest and strangest time of Cruise’s career. The then 43-year-old actor had a lifetime box-office gross of over $1.5 billion, but his flawless transition from young heartthrob to respected dramatic actor to gargantuan action star had seemed to self-destruct as quickly as one of the messages his character, Ethan Hunt, receives in the “Mission: Impossible” movies. The studio he'd called home for 14 years was parting ways with him. http://i.imgur.com/eI7517s.jpg?1 |
