Hi, my name is illuminate and i hate tom cruise because...
we can have different motions:
"i motion we make big posters of cruise in top gun and hold a vigil chanting "bring old tom back"
we can hold fund raisers:
Let's sell "i hate tom cruise" buttons and "save katie" shirts. The money will go to a good cause ('CAUSE we need to go to vegas)
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
okay so I got dragged to this movie this weekend. HEY, IT WAS BETWEEN THIS AND RV!! i chose the lesser of two evils.
and yes, it was lame. the action sequences were alright. SOOO FAKE but hey, it's a movie. I won't ruin the ending or anything, but i'll say this, I liked the part RIGHT BEFORE the last two scenes. Maybe it was the second to last scene. YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
the only thing I got from the movie was:
has anyone ever noticed that tom's teeth aren't centered?
PSH was great. It seemed like he really didn't wanna be in the movie but he was still great.
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
Film tops weekend box office with less cash than hoped
Sunday, May 7, 2006; Posted: 9:39 p.m. EDT (01:39 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Fewer people chose to accept Tom Cruise's latest mission, a possible sign that the odd behavior of Hollywood's biggest star may have taken a toll on his box-office charm.
Paramount's "Mission: Impossible III" debuted with $48.025 million, a solid opening, yet well below industry expectations and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's previous installment, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Industry analysts had expected the movie to open in the range of "Mission: Impossible II," which debuted with $57.8 million from Friday to Sunday over Memorial Day weekend in 2000, and Cruise's "War of the Worlds," which premiered with $64.9 million from Friday to Sunday over Fourth of July weekend last year.
Rob Moore, Paramount's head of worldwide marketing and distribution, said he did not believe Cruise's private life had any impact on "Mission: Impossible III," directed by "Lost" creator J.J. Abrams.
"I don't think so. There's no question it concerns us if the press is writing about things other than the movie," Moore said. "If people are writing about his personal life, then by definition, they're not writing about the movie."
Cruise's antics in the past year or so, publicity over his romance with Katie Holmes and the tabloid blitz regarding their daughter's birth in April may have left some movie-goers burned out or disenchanted with the actor.
Traditionally reserved about his private life, Cruise abruptly became an open book, jumping up and down on a couch while professing his love for Holmes in an interview with Oprah Winfrey and spouting his Scientology beliefs, including rants against psychiatry.
"Expectations were really high for this film. I think it's a good number, but people were obviously expecting better numbers," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. "There's a lot to be said for how a star's public persona can affect a movie's box office."
"Mission: Impossible III" earned generally favorable reviews, some critics calling it the best in the franchise and many offering high praise for Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plays Cruise's nemesis.
Along with potential Cruise backlash, the long six-year interval since "Mission: Impossible II" may have dulled audience appetites.
Head-to-head comparisons are difficult, since the previous "Mission: Impossible" movies and "War of the Worlds" opened over long holiday weekends, when Sunday grosses typically are much stronger than during a regular weekend.
Debuting in about 55 other countries, "Mission: Impossible III" took in $70 million, for a worldwide total of $118 million. Paramount noted that the new movie beat the $115 million worldwide debut of "Mission: Impossible II" in those same countries.
Factoring in higher ticket prices, the debut for "Mission: Impossible III" looks worse. About 7.3 million people saw the new movie, compared with 10.7 million over the opening weekend for "Mission: Impossible II" and 10.3 million for "Mission: Impossible," which opened with $45.4 million over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.
The weekend's other wide releases had fair to poor openings. Freestyle Releasing's "An American Haunting," starring Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland in a 19th century supernatural tale, debuted at No. 3 with $6.4 million.
New Line's family film "Hoot," adapted from Carl Hiaasen's novel about teenagers trying to save endangered owls, earned $3.4 million, tied for No. 9.
"Mission: Impossible III' led Hollywood to its seventh-straight weekend of rising revenues. The top-12 movies took in $99.4 million, up 27 percent compared to the same weekend last year, when "Kingdom of Heaven" led the box office with an anemic $19.6 million.
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Man, it nails almost $50 million, but since it didn't make the industry projection of $60 it's not a success? Uh, ok.
But, Cruise's salary is $25 million up front and he gets about 30% of the box office take.
It's over $100 million worldwide, should double by the time they pull it from theaters. Double that again in DVD sales. Then a network is going to buy the rights to it for another $50 million. I think the powers-that-be behind this flick will be alright.
I'm sure that they aren't hurting... but, they were expecting a bigger amount in ticket sales for opening weekend. I think that Tom's behavior about scientology, and things with Katie, have caused people to lose interest in supporting him. I used to LOVE Tommy... but, now I don't care.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
this movie sucked. Thought it was going to be good - but the story blew like a scientology trollop on dollar day. good action, but the rest of the movie uke:
05-05-2006 08:46 PM
