tom cruise would have many oscars if he were x% less beautiful or y% less box office successful
kiefer sutherland talking about tom and jack nicholson on a few good men
“but any actor will tell you that jack … if it wasn’t for the performance that tom … give an ovation …”
People want Tom Cruise in the Criterion Closet when we all know he’d be the first person to not pull a single movie off the shelf, let alone mention one. And you’d still come away believing he lives and breathes this shit
another revelation in McQ chat is that Tom called Paramount in Feb 2020 and said we’re not laying off people they’re going to keep their jobs so I look at that $291m budget with different eyes. 40% mi8 already filmed + cast/crew still got paid during shutdown. what a boss move.
tom cruise advice to hayley atwell, which is a really good life lesson for anyone
“But if you have integrity, and the people around you who love you want things for you and not from you, then everything else you can let go.”
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well this made me tear up 🥹 it really feels like this is it
“the best part of four years. so there’s a strange sense of achievement and loss heading my way. I’m gonna miss my mission family. I do love them so.”
-Simon Pegg on getting closer to wrapping Mission Impossible 8
about to enter that award season phase where weird people want to claim that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman don’t interact or can be in the same room
golden globes 2004:
organizing an imf team to temporarily acquire the set of leather bound screenplays that Tom Cruise has, with his own notes, for all his films. a historical treasure trove for mr king of cinema president of movies.
#MileyCyrus
channeling a pseudo Jane Fonda Barbarella look eating up all those pop girlies with that Flowers / Tina Turner finale performance
“I just won my first Grammy” ha I love it
Color of Money hive where you at
“There is one scene where the camera goes in a 360-degree circle without a single cut, and I have to clean off the whole table. We shot it 18 times."
Until you finally got it right?
Cruise laughed. "I cleared the table 17 out of 18 times.
for those awaiting tom cruise as pumbaa from the lion king tonight on james corden’s prime time special here is james saying tom was his favorite guest
“he was like a marvel superhero in my eyes”
@Variety
you keep doing this on the odds that the person you’re misrepresenting won’t get their lawyer on the phone with you like Matt Damon did where you had to delete your tweet but we’re still on to what you’re doing
@egeofanatolia
subtle. a wink and nod. a little more saucy than we usually get in MI. makes me lol every time. I’m cinemas audiences always guffawed. everyone gets it!
the longtime trick of celebs wearing the exact same outfit over and over to make the paparazzi photos less valuable for publishing but also pee paw is in his idgaf creature of habit era
@jailedamanda
she also told a story where she’d show up on collateral set for her public relations job but had interest in filmmaking so he’d show her around set and invited her to come anytime and hang out and observe and continued to support her transition to being a director
watched mission impossible dead reckoning. every time I notice something new.
in first desert scene, Ethan shoots pistol with right trigger finger. but automatic rifle sometimes he’s using right trigger finger and sometimes he’s using left trigger finger.
ambidextrous king
Tom Cruise always the gentleman
he and his bodyguard helping up a photographer at Oswald’s Club in London Mayfair where Victoria Beckham held her swanky 50th birthday party
oh now this is an encouraging clarification from tom cruise
“I said I’m gonna make *movies* as long as I can. We’ll talk next year, we’ll see more about Mission, we’ll see.”
going out on a limb and predicting Ethan Hunt will not 💀 in Mission Impossible 8 because McQ and Tom are too clever than to repeat (sorry, spoilers) the last James Bond and the last John Wick. it may be Tom Cruise’s last MI but Ethan lives on.
what’s the worst audition that you ever had the one you tanked that haunts you to this day
tom cruise: I auditioned for films and I got them
funniest man alive 😂
how tom cruise gave james corden his phone number by way of thank you balloons a cake in shape of rotary phone and mission impossible mystery
(the film award was The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation: Pioneer of the Year Award. the first actor to receive it)
Stanley Kubrick to Nicole:
Don’t ever ask that question +
Sit down when you read a script for the first time
Nicole is still so taken with making Eyes Wide Shut and working with him
Simon Pegg: the last four movies that Christopher McQuarrie has worked on were the highest rated action movies for that year. Where are the plaudits? He’s a master.
Rogue Nation (94/87), Fallout (97/88), Top Gun Maverick (96/99), Dead Reckoning (96/94)
(but also tom cruise)
translation:
tom cruise sends a cease and desist to his weirdo handbag obsessed stalker for planting those fake dating rumors, who was merely an acquaintance at the same place and time three months ago, who he otherwise completely ignored in lieu of his chaperone sister
that time 23 years after they starred together in Jerry Maguire, when Renee Zellweger personally thanked Tom Cruise in her SAG Best Actress speech for his “example of professionalism on set and striving for excellence and generosity and unconditional kindness” 🥹
📖 Why is Tom Cruise always overlooked at the Oscars?
What a great read
“In anyone else's hands, that would be a silly name for a mission force but with Cruise in the role, it's cinéma vérité.”
#MissionImpossible
Dead Reckoning has grossed $371m globally which doesn’t include 29 of 35 intl markets Sat-Sun.
vs. Mission Impossible Fallout $329 atp which didn’t have competition or lose IMAX
Ask why the spin is different 🤔
tom cruise gave dakota fanning her first cell phone a Motorola Razr when she was 11. he still sends her birthday gifts, she turned 30 in February. I gotta get on that gift list.
McQuarrie: Tom came downstairs we were having breakfast I looked at him sitting there and Eddie was there too I was like your hair looks great this morning we need to go with THAT
when Tom’s bedhead disheveled hair determines the look for an entire movie
remember when bradley cooper said he practiced for *six years* to conduct for maestro
honestly I still think abt that bc cate blanchett didn’t practice for six years for tar what is going on
nice photo from Doug Liman congratulating tom cruise and christopher mcquarrie plus a fun throwback video from filming American Made with tom flying and domhnall gleeson getting a zero gravity thrill
[26 Feb 2024]
Simon says the Mission Impossible gang (him, Hayley, Tarzan, Kat, Henry, Lucy, …) were going on a “Rebecca Ferguson support trip” to see Dune 2 and then send her a funny selfie. I wonder if they did that?! And I wish they had posted the photo!
🥹 when the Tom Cruise Coconut Cake inventor died last year, Tom called her and talked to her before she passed. if more people saw him for how normal and gracious he is instead of this one dimensional caricature.
we should all consistently show up as our best self
Rebecca Ferguson:
I think I owe a lot to Mission Impossible. I owe a lot to that franchise and Tom Cruise. They wrote the most incredible character and I loved her. And I got to study one of the biggest film stars in the world, in the flesh.
… It basically generated a career
best film adjacent moment of 2023 was when king of cinema tom cruise bagged the oscars (everyone got mad) and went to sir michael caine’s 90th birthday party (everyone had fun), with this bawdy joke about caine and his wife shakira to bring it home
let’s not forget Hayley Atwell and Angela Bassett in a dance off at Tom Cruise 60th birthday party (2022). and Cruise won, doing a jazz split. because of course he did!
🤯
Christopher McQuarrie:
“My very first meeting on a Mission Impossible was with Oliver Stone when he was considering directing, I think, the second Mission”
“right around 1999 and y2k… abstract ideas… that was very difficult to make people feel it”
shari lansing fmr head of paramount on tom cruise
“A person who is kind to everybody respectful to everybody … ”
“In all the times … I never saw him try and influence anybody or try and convince them in any way shape or form to be a scientific”
New "Twisters" footage blew
#CinemaCon
away with a giant tornado storm and Glen Powell in a soaking wet t-shirt.
The cast shot in 120-degree heat, got hit with a jet engine, smothered with hay, had a water tank dumped on them, got pelted by ice, covered in trash and dragged by
🫶🏻 at him reading fan letter
thinking about that person who kept commenting over and over that Tom Cruise “couldn’t read” and had people reading his scripts to him, all because he was dyslexic *as a child*
Tom Cruise: I’d like a Diet Coke with ice and lemon
another career clip reel set to the score of Oblivion aauugghh what I imagine the afterlife sounds like
I cannot stop giggling at tom cruise stopping in the middle of a live interview to politely answer the phone for someone calling for pat (his publicist) idky this is so funny to me 😂
@people
one died of drug overdose
one died of accidental drowning
one died by suicide after pleading guilty to child p0rn
weird framing they don’t have anything to do with each other
never let it be said when this film is over that tom cruise doesn’t find a way to wear super tight jeans his navy sweater and a cute leather jacket to work everyday and get paid loads of money for a costume he’s had in his own closet for decades
Grace’s actual British passport that she shows Kittridge in the train, she’s named after her mother Marie (Mariela Garriga) from the flashback scene with Gabriel
Let us give thanks to Thee Tom Cruise for his unfailing perfection and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things."
-Tweety 1:2-3
[on 9 March 2024]
Simon had a “movie and pizza and popcorn night” with some of the Mission Impossible family 🥹
(avail to rent)
“Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders
RT 96% 🍅
slice of life drama about a Japanese public worker and the people who come and go through his life
love that tom cruise new header includes the og imf Luther and Benji. everyone else has come and gone or not been officially imf but these are the besties of the besties do not mess with my guys