Should Tom Cruise Stick to Action Films?

Published: November 13, 2007, 7:32 am

Tags: cinematical, lions for lambs, meryl streep, minority report, mission impossible, robert redford, the last samurai, tom cruise, tomcruise, war of the worlds

Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Tom CruiseI was watching my local news last night on Fox when during their entertainment portion (we love ya Toni Senecal), they absolutely bashed Tom Cruise. Which is odd for them because they don't usually go after someone hard like that. Toni? What's up? Over the weekend, Cruise's latest film Lions for Lambs -- and his first for the revived United Artists -- took in a little over $6 million. You have to go all the way back to 1986 (The Color of Money) to find another film starring Tom Cruise that opened so poorly. And this was a big deal for Cruise and United Artists; they went and snagged Robert Redford to direct, star; they got Meryl Streep and even Cruise stepped in to up the ante. They wanted raves. They wanted Oscar nods. They got ... $6 million and bad reviews. To add insult to injury, when Fox was done ripping apart Lions for Lambs and its poor box office take, they next went after Valkyrie saying the buzz was

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