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Tom Cruise dumped by Paramount.

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Tom Cruise has been unceremoniously dumped by his Paramount studio partners for his sofa-jumping antics on TV. Revered Paramount boss Sumner Redstone has ended his company's 14-year relationship with Cruise/Wagner Productions because he no longer wants to be associated with the movie star. Redstone tells newspaper The Wall Street Journal he believes Cruise's bizarre antics on TV shows like Oprah and Today had a negative effect on the box office take of Paramount's 2005 summer blockbuster War Of The Worlds. He snipes, "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."


All I can say is - serves him right.
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Snap!

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Ah, ya beat me to the punch. CNN Article is here.

The Today Show is also citing that Katie is dumping him too, but I can't find a written source for this yet.
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I do admit he's getting really weird, and that whole scientology thing is creepy, but I really don't think couch-jumping is going to destroy someone's box-office take...

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Hopefully she'll get custody of the kid and get as far away from his screwy cult as possible.

I can't say that I feel sorry for the guy. He clearly went out of his way to bring this upon himself. Besides, he's a talented enough actor that he'll find another job eventually.

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Tom who?
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He's still able to draw millions upon millions of $ so I'm sure any other studio is ready to jump at him with offers.

That and I sincerely hope Kate gets away from the whole Scientology thing.

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You know....I don't even know why he jumped on the couch, or what he said? I've only seen the footage with the Force lightning added.

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Tom Cruise is so funny I just love to hear about him.
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
You know....I don't even know why he jumped on the couch, or what he said? I've only seen the footage with the Force lightning added.


I think he was talking about how much he loved Katie when he did that.

And I haven't seen the Force lightning.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I do admit he's getting really weird, and that whole scientology thing is creepy, but I really don't think couch-jumping is going to destroy someone's box-office take...
Well, I didn't see MI:3 because of my growing dislike for Mr. Cruise.

War does not make one great.

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I didn't see MI:3 because I didn't really care to continue the franchise. ^_^

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Well yeah, the fact that MI:2 sucked also added to me not seeing 3. Tom was the deciding factor though. (Incidently, I heard MI:3 was actually quite good)

War does not make one great.

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You know, I was just counting the number of posts I had until I caught you, and you just had to come back, didn't you?

Hehe, I'm glad you came back.

Honestly, I don't even remember the first two MI movies. I know I saw the first two, though. Just don't remember them except for the two other agents, Jack and Hannah, dying at the beginning of the first movie.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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The original Mission Impossible was a very good suspenseful spy movie. The second one was James Bond on Steroids with too many demaskings.

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...you'll fall down. And it'll be really funny.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I do admit he's getting really weird, and that whole scientology thing is creepy, but I really don't think couch-jumping is going to destroy someone's box-office take...
Well, I didn't see MI:3 because of my growing dislike for Mr. Cruise.

I know what you mean. I was never really a Tom Cruise fan to begin with, but sometimes I'd sit through his films IF the film itself looked interesting. Now I can't watch his films at all, because all I can think of when I see him is the couch jumping, Scientology ranting and the Brooke Shields bashing.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Same here. I talked my entire family out of seeing MI3 because of Cruise...

I guess I'll catch it whenever they air it on TV.

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on this other forum I go to we are having the funniest talk about it haha
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I liked M:I 3 mainly for the way it was shot and the effects and shit. It just had cool stuff in it, I didn't care too much past that. J.J. Abrams made it very much like his style for Lost and Alias, which I like. And Phillip Seymour Hoffman was very badass.

But of course when he's on screen I just automatically see and think about the stupid things he's done. He's kinda like a way too serious Leslie Nielson now. You'll be laughing over the same shit each time you see the guy.

Anyways, maybe he'll head off into the independent low budget arena like other semi-washouts in Hollowood (think a super complex Collateral)......but I liked that movie.

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he clearly hurt the box office take on war of the worlds and mission impossible 3 by being associated with a insane cult. Paramount actually did something right for once!

a while back spielberg disolved his relationship with cruise because his son has attention deficit disorder and takes medication for it.

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Maybe Paramount finally woke up to the fact he can't actually act very well - he did more 'acting' in his ealrier roles than most of the forgettable dross he's done since the 80's.

Better save the big pay cheques for someone who actually shows signs of improving as an actor- and can maybe vary his preformance a little?

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Its strange... Tom Cruise went from hot A-lister to insane scientology-brainwashed metrosexual pariah by jumping on a couch over Katie Holmes. what the heck????
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This is why we need to go back in time and personally camp L-Ron in the head.

All of us.

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