Tom Cruise landed a new gig not long after Paramount chairman Sumner Redstone fired his bat-crazy ass last summer. CEO Harry E. Sloan announced Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Cruise to resurrect the foundering United Artists movie studio. Sloan gave Cruise and Cruises producing partner, Paula Wagner, complete control over the studios production slate with Cruise, of course, staring in UA films.
United Artists turbulent past concerned MGM honchos. For some unexplained reason, they think Cruise can restore the studio to its former glory.
United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. The studio operated as an artist-centered company for decades, churning out such hits as Some Like it Hot and a string of James Bond films, starting with 1962's Dr. No.
In 1967 the company was sold to Transamerica, which owned it until 1981 when it was bought by MGM. In 1980, the studio released one of the most notorious flops in movie history, Heaven's Gate.
Cruise generated a shitload of cash for the studio with 1988s hit film, Rain Man, which went on to win four Oscars. Sloan hopes Cruise can keep his shit together long enough to generate a shitload more cash for the studio.
Although Cruise has no useful business experience, his questionable acting ability and his crazy Scientology shit undoubtedly prepared him for the corporate world. Cruise with producing partner, Paula Wagner
wow...UA...that means alot of questionable films will not be made if they go against his ideology...say goodbye to any remotely interesting films from UA....
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NewSpectre
Baltimore, MD
March 2005
NOV 03, 2006 09:15 AM
i want more movies based on his ideology. Seriously, it's so fucking crazy that it makes great movies.
call me insane, but I enjoyed Battlefield Earth on the sole grounds that these people believe this shit is real.
SpectreInTheUK said:
i want more movies based on his ideology. Seriously, it's so fucking crazy that it makes great movies.
call me insane, but I enjoyed Battlefield Earth on the sole grounds that these people believe this shit is real.
I have to agree with you on this. These crazy self righteous pricks will come out with some mind numbing crap. At the sametime will be rather humous to see where they go with it. Go Tom go, show us more of why you're a freak
SpectreInTheUK said:
i want more movies based on his ideology. Seriously, it's so fucking crazy that it makes great movies.
call me insane, but I enjoyed Battlefield Earth on the sole grounds that these people believe this shit is real.
It's not? Dude, you have no idea what this means.
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ricosuave
I'm lost
September 2005
NOV 03, 2006 11:48 AM
His act is so damn tired, I cannot remember the last Tom Cruise movie I paid to see. Clooney is da man now, or one of the seemingly endless stream of Aussie actors (except Russel Crowe. His act is wearing thin as well.)
Alyk
Boston, MA
February 2005
NOV 02, 2006 08:40 PM