Tag: Cruise
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One Of Reacher’s Biggest Changes For Season 2 Was A ‘Huge Relief’ For Alan Ritchson
This post contains spoilers for “Reacher” season 2Season 1 of Prime Video’s “Reacher” was a big hit for the streamer, topping the Nielsen streaming charts back in 2022. Now, with the arrival of season 2, Jack Reacher has triumphed once again. Not only has he overcome Robert Patrick’s insidious Shane Langston in an explosive season…
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‘Top Gun 3’ in the Works at Paramount
Tom Cruise may be headed back to the danger zone.Paramount has tapped “Top Gun: Maverick” co-writer Ehren Kruger to work on a script for a sequel to the action blockbuster, according to a knowledgeable insider. The studio is also hoping that “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski will get back into the cockpit for another…
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From ‘Collateral’ to ‘Interview with a Vampire,’ Let Tom Cruise Play Villains
Back in 2004, Michael Mann gave us a gritty thriller with Collateral, starring Jamie Foxx as a cab driver named Max who gets hijacked by Vincent, a coldly maniacal contract killer who forces Max to chauffer him from murder to murder over the course of one terrifying night. Vincent is played with reptilian glee by…
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Every Reason Why We Haven’t Gotten an ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel
As Edge of Tomorrow approached its theatrical release, audiences had valid reasons to be skeptical. The Doug Liman-directed sci-fi epic bore a resemblance to Tom Cruise’s previous film, Oblivion, in which he went toe-to-toe with malevolent alien lifeforms. It featured an arguably gimmicky time loop plot device that saw Cruise’s character living the same day…
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An Indian Superstar Has Finally Landed At The US Box Office – Here’s Why That’s A Big Deal
Earlier this year, when Bollywood action hit “Pathaan” made waves at the North American box office, there was a brief firestorm of internet backlash against a description of star Shah Rukh Khan as “India’s Tom Cruise.” The comparison was centered around how both actors had returned to the big screen after four years with a…
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This Tom Cruise Performance Was Written With Tom Hanks in Mind
Although Tom Cruise is most closely associated with the action genre due to the success of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, in the 1990s, it feels like he made it a goal to work with nearly every great filmmaker on a prestige project. Between Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Neil…
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Mission: Impossible 4 Took A Major IMAX Risk, But It Paid Off In One Key Scene
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” was not the film that turned the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise into the “Tom Cruise Stares Death in the Face” show. No, that honor belongs to “Mission: Impossible II,” which opens with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt free solo rock climbing in Moab, Utah (which Cruise did for real wearing a harness…
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One Mission: Impossible – Fallout Prop Meant The Difference Between Life And Death
The “Mission: Impossible” series is known for its death-defying stunts. In “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” Tom Cruise does a Halo (High Altitude Low Open) jump — a military technique in which a skydiver jumps from an incredibly high altitude and deploys their parachute at the last minute from a very low altitude.Tom Cruise, director Christopher…
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This Tom Cruise Movie Had the Lowest Box-Office For a #1 Film, Ever
The 1996 Tom Cruise star vehicle Jerry Maguire has lots of accomplishments to its name, even just in the realm of box office figures. For one thing, at the time of its release, it was the fifth-biggest R-rated movie ever at the domestic box office thanks to a $156 million North American haul. Meanwhile, it…
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Heart of Stone review – Netflix’s Mission: Impossible-esque thriller is rock solid
Gal Gadot leads the streamer’s latest ambitious franchise-starter that delivers just about enough dumb summer fun to have us curious for moreThere were some impossible calculations made this summer in the making and marketing of Tom Cruise’s seventh mission as Ethan Hunt, the gambit of a gargantuan almost $300m budget yet to prove a decision…