the cruise ( 1998 film )
the cruise
was initially rejected by many film festivals. it premiered at the los angeles independent film festival in 1998 and was later screened at new york' s docfest. on october 14, 1998
the cruise
was released in new york city at the angelika film center. after being picked up by distributor, artisan entertainment ,
the cruise
was released nationwide on november 6, 1998 .
the cruise
was also nominated for the daring digital award at the jenjou film festival. among the film' s wins are the wolfgang statuote award and the don quixote award at the berlin international film festival, demonstrating the film' s international diffusion .
the cruise
also won the best documentary audience award and the feature competition special jury award at the newport international film festival .
the disney team saw the spec, by lauren hynek and elizabeth martin, as a jumping - off point for a more nuanced and elaborate adaptation, combining the legendary chinese ballad and the 1998 animated film .
after their first major animated film antz (1998), they also turned out the prince of egypt (1998), the claymation chicken run (2000), joseph: king of dreams (2000) (direct - to - video), the road to eldorado (2000), and best animated feature - winning shrek (2001) .
it was significant that the first new hollywood studio in many decades, dreamworks (skg), was formed in october 1994 as the brainchild of director - producer steven spielberg, ex - disney executive producer jeffrey katzenberg, and film producer / music industry giant david geffen. the studio' s first theatrical release was first - time feature director mimi leder' s the peacemaker (1997) starring george clooney and nicole kidman. this was followed by amistad (1997), mouse hunt (1997), paulie (1998), deep impact (1998), and small soldiers (1998). their first real hit was also their first film to be nominated for best picture - saving private ryan (1998) .
the film debuted on united lands television (the family film channel) on october 4, 1999, and had 5. 43 million viewers .
the cruise was nominated for a number of filmmaking awards. these included best documentary from the online film critics society and the satellite awards. michael levine, the film' s editor, was nominated for the best edited documentary film award (
eddie
) of the american cinema editors .
similarly, likeable girl - next - door star sandra bullock made uneven appearances in speed (1994), while you were sleeping (1995), the net (1995), in love and war (1996), speed 2: cruise control (1997), hope floats (1998), practical magic (1998) and forces of nature (1999) .
as this film is a remake of the 1961 the parent trap, it features a number of references to the film it is based on. among them are :
cruise and kidman spent much of 1997 and 1998 in england shooting eyes wide shut, an erotic thriller that would be director stanley kubrick & apos; s final film. the movie came out in the summer of 1999 to mixed reviews, but that year cruise enjoyed greater success with the release of magnolia. his performance as a self - confident sex guru in the ensemble film earned him another golden globe award and an academy award nomination for best supporting actor .
sir tom stoppard is a czech - born british playwright whose famous works include rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (1964) and every good boy deserves favour (1978). he co - wrote the screenplay for the 1998 academy award winning film shakespeare in love .
many film productions have been shot in galveston over the years. below is a list of some of the more prominent film, television and commercial productions filmed here .
tom cruise, who had arrived with his wife katie holmes, wasn’t on the guest list. even the film’s john cusack expressed surprise at their presence. rob corddry, who also stars in the film, said later that cruise was constantly texting him during the movie saying how funny he thought it was .
upon release, the film received generally positive reviews from film critics. the website rotten tomatoes states that 86% of critics gave the film a
fresh
rating. on metacritic, the film has a score of 64 / 100, indicating
generally favorable
. it also received
two thumbs up
from siskel and ebert .
others reckon cruise is getting a raw deal. ‘the fault is not with tom cruise, but with the material he is being offered, ’ says heywood gould, who wrote both the book and film of cocktail, the 1988 movie that showed cruise had attained a stellar level of public stardom. cruise is now understood to be looking for future projects that combine ‘humour with humility’ .
the success of the film
titanic
has cruise industry executives, like so many celine dions, warbling the praises of the iceberg epic and its baby - faced star, leonardo dicaprio .
the use of the sugar and water mosquito repellent which the twins give meredith was also given to vicki in the original film .
the film was met with generally positive reviews, holding an 86% approval rating on rotten tomatoes. it entered the box office charts at number 2 on july 31, 1998. it ended up with a gross of over $ 66 million in the u. s. and $ 92, 108, 518 worldwide .
meredith talks to a
reverend mosby
, named after a character in the original film .
actress joanna barnes, who played vicky robinson (a character like meredith blake) in the original film, plays meredith' s mother (also named vicki) in this film .
4. when nicole kidman and tom cruise arrived in london in the fall of 1996 to shoot the movie, they expected to be wrapped and back in los angeles by the following spring. instead, the production didn' t conclude until january 1998, making it the guinness world record' s longest - running film shoot in history. (kidman and cruise reportedly signed open - ended contracts that stated they' d stick with the project no matter how long it took to complete. )
in december 2008, cruise released his second project through united artists. the film, entitled valkyrie, was a world war ii drama about a plot to assassinate german leader adolf hitler. cruise starred as a german army officer who became involved in the conspiracy .
like the 1998 animated film, mulan is based on the chinese legend of hua mulan, the daughter of an aged warrior who disguises herself as a man in order to take her father' s place in the army and go to war. aided by her trusted dragon, mushu, she becomes a skilled warrior and one of the country' s greatest heroines .
another deleted scene appears in the trailer that debuted in 1998. the scene shows hallie standing out on the deck of her vineyard - estate house. she sees a shooting star and sings the rhyme
starlight, starbright .
annie appears standing outside her window, too .
cruise ship damages pristine coral reef. how big an impact do cruises have on the environment ?
but while spielberg agreed to the installation of a scientology tent on the set of war of the worlds, he became disenchanted at how cruise’s aggressive promotion of scientology overshadowed the film’s release. marvin levy, spielberg’s spokesman, admitted at the time that cruise’s rants against prescription drugs ‘certainly took some of the emphasis away from where we would have liked it’ .
cruise quickly rebounded and on november 2, 2006, he announced his new partnership with film executive paula wagner and the united artists film studio. their first production as a team, the political drama lions for lambs (2007), proved a commercial disappointment despite a strong cast that included meryl streep and robert redford .
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: the anti - cruise is an attempt to imprison us. at every level of living it exists. younger cruisers have asked me ,
why ?
why is the anti - cruise so avaricious and constant in its attempt to stop the cruise? and i have no answer. there is no answer. i mean, it' s gravitational, it' s a relationship that' s made up of reciprocals and pulling gravities. it simply exists. where there is cruise there is an escort of anti - cruise. but even in a bastion of anti - cruise fodder... there is cruise. somewhere ...
timothy
speed
levitch is mind blowing. this is another example of how a low - budget documentary film can be a foot in the door for aspiring film directors like bennett miller (capote, moneyball, foxcatcher) .
the camp counselors, marva kulp sr. and jr. , are named after nancy kulp, who played the younger camp counselor in the original film .
the presence of high - profile actors is no longer guaranteed to make a film successful; the movie has become the star. cruise can’t control the cult of the a - list celebrity being on the wane in hollywood box office terms, but the same can’t be said for his devotion to the cult of scientology .
cruise also devised much of the film’s content. a motorcycle obsessive, he dreamt up the climactic chase on a speeding bike. and although the script is credited to first - time scribe patrick o’neill, many writers doctored the dialogue, foremost among them cruise. he conceived much of the verbal repartee with diaz including an exchange that revolves around his character proclaiming: ‘i’m the guy’ .
it is highly unusual – almost unprecedented – for cruise to attend a premiere that he has no connection with. but then these are unusual times for tom cruise. he could have been forgiven, while watching the film’s flashbacks, for wishing that he himself could travel back in time to the summer of 2005 and modify his public behaviour. for it was then that cruise’s image as hollywood’s most consistently commercial star was shattered .
his next film, risky business (1983), grossed $ 65 million. it also made cruise a highly recognizable actor — thanks in no small part to a memorable scene of the young star dancing in his underwear .
as scientologists move up within the hierarchy, they are encouraged to more vigorously promote its virtues to the outside world. but pat kingsley, cruise’s notoriously fearsome publicist for the first two decades of his career, discouraged cruise from talking about the subject .
the news that the studio is turning its 1998 animated hit into a live - action title comes after such successes as maleficent, the jungle book and cinderella, among other titles. and disney is currently gearing up for the release of the live - action beauty and the beast, which opens march 17 and is expected to be one of the top - grossing titles of 2017 .
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the anti - cruise is an attempt to imprison us. at every level of living it exists .
officially, he is soon set to begin work on mission: impossible 4 for paramount but rumours are rife that the film’s fate depends on the international performance of knight and day (cruise’s films now do best outside the us, and for proof of how well cruise wants this one to do watch this week’s top gear, in which he is the star in the reasonably priced car) .
a fantastic chatacter portrait that gets sadder the longer it goes on. only complaint is that its really more of the same for the whole film. fortunately the same is pretty entertaining .
thomas cruise mapother iv, better known as tom cruise, was born on july 3, 1962, in syracuse, new york, to mary and thomas mapother. cruise & apos; s mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher, and his father was an electrical engineer. his family moved around a great deal when cruise was a child in order to accommodate his father & apos; s career .
cruise sales have been spurred by hit movie. world' s largest ship set sail may 27 .
from his breakthrough performance in 1983’s risky business onwards, cruise certainly was ‘the guy’. his achievements were all the more impressive given his turbulent upbringing. he was born thomas cruise mapother in 1962; his mother raised him and his three sisters with little income after divorcing his father. always on the move, cruise attended 15 schools and battled dyslexia .
sella issued a public mea culpa to the los angeles times. ‘blame me, don’t blame tom cruise, ’ he said. ‘we did lots of focus groups for this film and no one ever said there was a star problem. never. tom cruise was not the issue. i take full responsibility. ’ sella’s confession was greeted with scepticism. ‘i find it a little convenient for everybody who isn’t the marketing chief, ’ says kim masters of the hollywood reporter and a veteran cruise chronicler .
as a result, the wake of the top - grossing film of all time is sloshing even more money into the coffers of europe' s lucrative cruise industry .
in europe,' titanic' guaranteed a 20 percent increase in the sales of cruises ,
says vincenzo zaccagnino, editor of the italian magazine cruises .
the independent film channel was launched by the bravo cable network in 1994 as an outlet for independent films. in similar fashion, in 1995, the sundance channel was created by the showtime cable tv network (in partnership with robert redford). robert redford’s sundance institute (established in 1980) took over the utah / us film festival. in 1991, it was renamed the sundance film festival (the film festival was held annually since 1981 in january in park city, utah and expanded in length) -
dedicated to the support and development of emerging screenwriters and directors of vision, and to the national and international exhibition of new, independent dramatic and documentary films .
cruise’s allegiance to the church of scientology prompted another embarrassing mishap. on morning television’s the today show, he clashed with host matt lauer over the history of psychiatric medicine, which scientology is opposed to. cruise exclaimed: ‘matt, you’re glib… you should be a little more responsible’ and – the phrase that became cruise’s unofficial catchphrase for a while – ‘you don’t know the history of psychiatry. i do. ’
his role in taps was upgraded after director harold becker saw cruise & apos; s potential, and his performance caught the attention of a number of critics and filmmakers. in 1983, cruise appeared in francis ford coppola & apos; s the outsiders, which also starred emilio estevez, matt dillon and rob lowe —all prominent members of a group of young actors the entertainment press dubbed the
brat pack .
the film was not well received, but it allowed cruise to work with an acclaimed director in a high - profile project .
michelle trachtenberg was considered the role (s) of the twins. coincidentally, her birthday falls on the same day (october 11th) as annie and hallie' s birthday does in the film .
in 1986, after a two - year hiatus, the budding actor released the big - budget fantasy film legend, which did poorly at the box office. that same year, however, cruise & apos; s a - list status was confirmed with the release of top gun, which co - starred kelly mcgillis, anthony edwards and meg ryan. the testoterone - fueled action - romance, set against the backdrop of an elite naval flight school, became the highest grossing film of 1986 .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
anyone who thinks cruise won’t be concerned about losing his audience has never seen a tom cruise movie. he is fond of telling the story that when his mother left his abusive father, when he was 12 years old, he thought: ‘i gotta figure this out. ’ thirty - five years later tom cruise once more has to figure it out .
tom cruise was born on july 3, 1962, in syracuse, new york. after developing an interest in acting during high school, he rocketed to fame with his star turns in risky business and top gun. cruise later earned acclaim for his work in the hit film jerry maguire and the mission: impossible franchise. he also was targeted by the tabloids for his marriages to actresses nicole kidman and katie holmes .
6. cruise was so anxious about giving the legendary director what he wanted that he developed an ulcer. he never told kubrick .
cruise exuded the magical aura that any a - list movie star must possess. actress thandie newton, who starred with cruise in mission: impossible 2 and interview with the vampire, said recently: ‘you could practically feel tom’s glow before he arrived on set. ’
in the 1990s for the most part, cinema attendance was up - mostly at multi - screen cineplex complexes throughout the country. although the average film budget was almost $ 53 million by 1998, many films cost over $ 100 million to produce, and some of the most expensive blockbusters were even more. in the early 1990s, box - office revenues had dipped considerably, due in part to the american economic recession of 1991, but then picked up again by 1993 and continued to increase. the average ticket price for a film varied from about $ 4. 25 at the start of the decade to around $ 5 by the close of the decade. as indoor multiplexes multiplied from almost 23, 000 in 1990 to 35, 600 in the year 2000, the number of drive - ins continued to decline (from 910 in 1990 to 667 in 2000) .
by the end of the decade, however, independent film - making had become more mainstream and institutionalized - sharing some of the same concerns and corporate worries that traditional hollywood studios had always confronted .
the production of the film has also drawn critical commentary. james berardinelli wrote ,
' the cruise' is a typical example of low - budget documentary film making. it' s in grainy black - and - white (a blowup from the video it was shot on) with a flat audio. oddly, however, this approach gives levitch' s new york a timeless quality. the gershwin song
but not for me
plays as the camera captures the modern skyline, creating a sense of the past and present blurring together .
next, cruise hit the big screen with two huge hits—the $ 64 million blockbuster mission: impossible (1996), which the star also produced, and the highly acclaimed jerry mcguire (1996), directed by cameron crowe. for the latter, cruise earned a second academy award nomination and golden globe for best actor .
in numerous scenes, the girls refer to meredith as cruella de vil, a reference to the 1996 film version of 101 dalmatians which feature richardson' s sister, joely richardson .
attempting to woo a younger crowd, fox switched the film’s us release date to avoid clashing with twilight: eclipse. what the studio did not foresee was that grown ups, an adam sandler comedy that opened the same weekend as knight and day and which received some of the worst reviews of the year, would make twice as much as the cruise / diaz movie .
5. to say kubrick is a perfectionist is an understatement: his intent was to film scenes so many times that it would wear down his actors and they' d forget the cameras existed. during the course of shooting
eyes wide shut ,
the director filmed 95 takes of cruise walking through a door .
at the march premiere of the crude, unashamedly silly, eighties - set time travel comedy hot tub time machine, in los angeles, an unlikely guest quietly entered the auditorium just before the film started, having bypassed the red carpet .
actor tom arnold was married to actress roseanne barr for four years and wrote for the sitcom roseanne. he starred in the film true lies (1994) and hosted the best damn sports show period .
joanna barnes, the actress who played meredith blake' s mother, vicki blake, had also played the twins' father' s fiancée, vicky robinson, in the original film. both characters' names are vicki, but the main antagonist' s last name in the original film was robinson, but due to being married, there is still a chance that she could be the same character .
nevertheless, cruise was a tireless promoter of scientology behind the scenes. sources say that when promoting a film in paris, he would spend the morning at the us embassy lobbying diplomats to persuade the french government to relax its hardline stance towards scientology. when he split from kingsley in 2004, replacing her with his sister lee anne devette, cruise increasingly brought scientology into the public domain and woe betide anyone who fell foul of its philosophies, as brooke shields and matt lauer discovered .
consumers modified their movie - watching practices again when the online dvd movie rental service netflix began offering its website subscribers postal shipping of rented dvds in 1998. inevitably, netflix experienced market - share competition from blockbuster, hollywood video, and wal - mart (and more recently from cheap $ 1 dvd - rental kiosks or automated vending machines in grocery and discount stores) .
1996: time / warner acquired ted turner' s turner broadcasting system (tbs), including its cable tv stations and its extensive film library .
many think cruise’s smartest bet lies in reminding people that he can act. ‘unless cruise can find the role of a vampire’s father, he’s now best off becoming a character actor, ’ says his biographer wensley clarkson, author of cruise control. veteran director james toback believes cruise should embrace his eccentric persona: ‘the more off - centre he is, the better he is, like in magnolia or tropic thunder. he’s obviously a complicated guy so he’s got to play complicated roles – anything that lets him play his humorous or psychotic side. ’
before the film' s release, the industry was concerned the story of a disaster at sea would send the market plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. but
the romantic character of the story prevailed and had a positive effect on the public ,
says francesco di cesare, a venice - based industry analyst .
in 1992, cruise proved once more that he could hold his own opposite a screen legend when he co - starred with jack nicholson in the military courtroom drama a few good men. the film grossed more than $ 15 million its first weekend, and earned cruise a golden globe nomination. he continued to demonstrate his chops as a leading man with the firm (1993) and interview with a vampire (1994), which co - starred brad pitt .
his next effort, mission: impossible 3 (2006), also scored well with audiences. however, cruise was faced with a professional setback in august when paramount pictures ended its 14 - year relationship with the actor. the company & apos; s chairman cited cruise & apos; s erratic behavior and controversial views as the reason for the split, though industry experts noted that paramount more likely ended the partnership over cruise & apos; s high earnings from the mission: impossible franchise .
cruise returned to one of his most popular franchises in 2011 with mission: impossible—ghost protocol. breaking into new territory, he then starred in the 2012 musical rock of ages. although cruise received some positive reviews for his performance as a rock star, the movie failed to attract much of an audience .
cruise married actress mimi rogers in 1987. it was through rogers that the actor became a student of scientology, the religion founded by writer l. ron hubbard. cruise credited the church with curing his dyslexia, and he soon became one of its leading proponents. however, while his spiritual life flourished, his marriage to rogers ended in 1990. that same year, cruise made the racecar drama days of thunder with australian actress nicole kidman. though the movie was unpopular among critics and fans alike, the two lead actors had real chemistry. on christmas eve 1990, after a brief courtship, cruise and kidman married in telluride, colorado .
some think cruise, who has a net worth of around $ 320 million, should scale down his salary demands when looking for the right comeback movie. he received over $ 20 million for knight and day but not every studio is willing to give him his asking price and that’s slowed down his film schedule .
a - list actor and scientologist tom cruise is the star of several box - office hits, including risky business, a few good men, the firm and jerry maguire .
this was spelt out to cruise when columbia pictures opted to recast salt, a spy thriller he had long been hoping to make. angelina jolie replaced him and the eponymous cia spy operative’s name was changed from edwin salt to evelyn salt. plans for cruise to play the us president in a thriller entitled the 28th amendment also fell by the wayside .
holmes, 31, appeared in simon mcburney’s 2008 version of arthur miller’s all my sons on broadway and has aspirations to perform on stage rather than in film. so a repeat of an experience along the lines of eyes wide shut – the 1999 stanley kubrick erotic thriller that cruise co - starred in with kidman and which is widely thought to have harmed their marriage - seems highly unlikely. cruise and holmes have also confounded initial suspicions that their union was a publicity stunt .
when asked by hallie ,
you talkin' to me ?
meredith replies ,
what are you, robert de niro ?
, a reference to the film taxi driver .
in its opening weekend, the film grossed $ 11, 148, 497 in 2, 247 theaters in the united states and canada, ranking # 2 at the box office, behind saving private ryan, was the best debut for a disney film that week. by the end of its run, the parent trap grossed $ 66, 308, 518 domestically and $ 25, 800, 000 internationally, totaling $ 92, 108, 518 worldwide .
cruise proved he remained a top draw by starring in the steven spielberg - directed remake of the science - fiction classic war of the worlds (2005), which grossed more than $ 230 million at the box office .
following close behind was arnold schwarzenegger, who starred in some of the biggest hits of the decade, including total recall (1990), terminator 2: judgment day (1991), and true lies (1994). will smith (in independence day (1996), men in black (1997), enemy of the state (1998) and the wild wild west (1999) ), whoopi goldberg, eddie murphy, and denzel washington were the best box - office draws among african - american stars of the decade .
jesse prince, a former high - level scientologist, outlined in a 1998 interview how when cruise married second wife nicole kidman in 1990, he had ‘a fantasy of just running through a field of tall grass’ with his new wife at gold base, scientology’s international headquarters located in california. according to prince, gold base workers were ‘staying up overnight, just extended schedules, de - rocking, ploughing a field, planting tall wheat grass, and when nicole kidman came – here’s a field. now they’re running through the damn field of grass. it took weeks. ’
11. cruise isn' t the only actor who filmed dozens of takes. vinessa shaw, who played the prostitute domino, recalled having shot about 90 takes for a single scene .
at the film’s brazilian premiere in july, cruise tried to capitalise on world cup fever when he wore a brazilian football shirt emblazoned with the name ‘tomzinho’ – ‘little tom’. it’s a reference to his diminutive height (he is reputed to be 5ft 7in) but for someone whose films have made over $ 2. 6 billion worldwide, the grosses are getting significantly smaller, too .
according to the latest official figures, in 1996, 6 million people went on cruises, a 40 percent increase from 1990. cruise ship production is mainly european .
while promoting war of the worlds, steven spielberg’s sci - fi blockbuster, cruise made an appearance on oprah winfrey’s couch that has become famous for all the wrong reasons. proclaiming his love for new girlfriend katie holmes, cruise jumped on the sofa in such an odd fashion that oprah exclaimed: ‘we’ve never seen you behave this way before… you’re gone! ’
the cruise is a compelling documentary which chronicles the humorously irreverent and painful reflections of timothy
speed
levitch, an eccentric new york city tour bus guide with an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city .
despite its tragic plot ,
the film really brought to people' s attention just how grand cruising can be, just how splendid a sea cruise is ,
says gill haynes, marketing manager of britain' s p & amp; o princess cruises, which commissioned the grand princess .
titanic re - aroused this hidden desire. certainly among the young, who are now asking their parents to take them on a cruise ,
agrees mario martini, marketing manager of genoa - based costa crociere, italy' s market leader in the sector .
taking a break from weighty material, cruise delighted audiences with his performance in the comedy tropic thunder (2008). despite his relatively small role in a movie that featured robert downey jr. and ben stiller, cruise stood out by obscuring his trademark good looks to play a balding, obese movie studio executive .
in knight and day, a slick action comedy, cruise plays roy miller, a secret agent. oozing adrenalin, intensity and charm, miller doesn’t seem a million miles away from cruise himself. ‘i’m pretty good at what i do, ’ he reminds june havens, an everywoman he’s taken under his wing, played by cameron diaz; later on she accuses miller of freaking her out. it’s hard not to equate the high - wire protagonist with the cruise that unravelled in the summer of 2005 .
existing alongside mainstream hollywood film production is that of the independents. by the end of the decade, most studios had formed independent film divisions (such as fox' s searchlight division) that would make films with artistic, edgy, or' serious' social issues or themes, and without major hollywood stars. unlike the glitzy academy awards oscars, the ifp independent spirit awards - founded in 1984 - honored visionary, innovative film - makers, and unsung actors and actresses in independent films who
embody independence and who dare to challenge the status quo .
indicative of the times, in the 1996 academy awards race, four of the five best picture - nominated films (all but jerry maguire (1996) ) were from independent studios .
miramax' s biggest cult hit of the 90s was quentin tarantino' s pulp fiction (1994), made with a budget of $ 8 million, and went on to win the palme d' or at cannes and seven oscar nominations, miramax studios then gathered together a stable of hip, young actors including gwyneth paltrow, ben affleck, and matt damon. during the decade, hollywood was disturbed that miramax did so well, with the releases of kevin smith' s low - budget black and white debut film clerks (1994), woody allen' s bullets over broadway (1994), sirens (1994), larry clark' s kids (1995), sling blade (1996) and swingers (1996), the best original screenplay - winning good will hunting (1997), the best picture - nominated italian film life is beautiful (1998), the talented mr. ripley (1999), and the cider house rules (1999) .
it’s hard not to see how cruise himself isn’t heavily culpable. there’s the perception problem that knight and day director james mangold (walk the line, 3: 10 to yuma) seemingly alludes to in the film’s press notes: ‘one of the things i’ve missed about tom’s movies in the last several years and what i really wanted to see again in knight and day was tom in a role that is both human and funny. ’ quite .
really enjoyed taking a cruise with speed. was well in tune with everything he had to say and he has joined my pantheon of underground heroes .
in june 2005, after a two - month courtship, cruise proposed to holmes in a restaurant at the top of the eiffel tower. in october, they announced that they were expecting their first child together. the hasty proposal and surprise pregnancy quickly became tabloid gossip. but cruise made even bigger headlines that year as an outspoken advocate for scientology. he openly criticized former co - star brooke shields for using anti - depressants during her recovery from postpartum depression. he also denounced psychiatry and modern medicine, claiming scientology held the key to true healing. cruise & apos; s statements led to a heated argument with news anchor matt lauer on the today show in june 2005, for which cruise later apologized .
at age 14, cruise enrolled in a franciscan seminary with thoughts of becoming a priest, but he left after a year. when he was 16, a teacher encouraged him to participate in the school & apos; s production of the musical guys and dolls. after cruise won the lead of nathan detroit, he found himself surprisingly at home on the stage, and a career was born .
on february 5, 2001, cruise and kidman announced their separation after 11 years of marriage. the couple cited the difficulties involved with two acting careers, and the amount of time spent apart while working. following the divorce, cruise briefly dated his vanilla sky co - star penelope cruz, followed by a much - publicized relationship with actress katie holmes. a month after his ties to holmes became public, cruise professed his love for the actress in a now - famous appearance on the oprah winfrey show, during which he jumped on winfrey & apos; s sofa, shouting
yes !
an excerpt from amy nicholson' s book ,
tom cruise: anatomy of an actor ,
printed in vanity fair, offers details about the project' s goings - on. coupled with a 1999 entertainment weekly article pegged to the film' s release and a los angeles times report about its box - office expectations, the passage reveals some things you may not know about
eyes wide shut .
cruise toyed with going into business with working title, britain’s most successful film company. one comedy he considered making with them was lost for words, originally written for hugh grant, about a shallow actor in a love triangle. another was food fight in which he would have played a superstar chef reduced to cooking school dinners. both never got off the ground .
watched this film for the first day of my summer class :
nyc on film
. it' s a fast - paced, comedic, and honest idea / fantasy / reality of what nyc is. timothy
speed
levitch, the new york city bus tour guide is an enthralling and enthusiastic person to say the least. this documentary was beautiful and captured, in only an hour or so, the philosophies and everyday life of tim. he' s a funny guy and the final scene with the twin towers was both fulfilling and sad (watching it now). i wonder what tim is doing today, and if he still spins. the cruise is a must watch .
the instrumental music featured prominently in the hotel scene where the girls and their parents cross paths serendipitously is
in the mood
, which was previously made famous by the glenn miller band. later in the hotel, hallie sings a few bars of
let' s get together
, a tune from the first version of the film that was a hit for its star, hayley mills .
the film was in production for 3. 5 years and miller worked as a one - man camera crew, solely operating a handheld video camera, a wireless microphone on levitch, and a sennheiser shotgun microphone which was collapsible and thus easily transportable. miller discarded the first 80 hours of footage he captured of levitch only to start from scratch. levitch reportedly chose not to sit in on the majority of the editing process, choosing instead to stick to his core principles: to succumb to the chaos of the universe. the production team, including editor michael levine, spent 8 months editing the film .
cruise then starred in the long - awaited smash hit mission: impossible 2 in 2000, alongside anthony hopkins, thandie newton and ving rhames. in 2002, he starred in vanilla sky, his second collaboration with crowe, as well as steven spielberg & apos; s minority report. the following year, cruise traveled to australia to shoot the $ 100 million war epic the last samurai, which earned him another golden globe nomination .
at the time of the film' s release, stephen holden wrote ,
filmed in high - contrast black and white that makes the city look harshly magnificent, at once irresistible and forbidding, the cruise could be described as a whirlwind tour both of new york and of levitch' s feverish mind .
following the film' s release to dvd in 2006, brett cullum wrote ,
although we do get to see some familiar sites, including winsome glimpses of the world trade center towers, the camera hardly ever leaves the face of our tour guide. this is all one extended character study, and is not concerned with narrative or sight seeing. no, this is a dadaist manifesto delivered off the pavement leading to the brooklyn bridge. it runs like an hour of poetic jazz — verbal scats and flourishes aplenty .
scientology remains integral to cruise’s life but, on the advice of his handlers, he has once again stopped discussing scientology in the public eye. one fixture from 2005 that has remained constant in his life is the doe - eyed actress katie holmes .
when you' re up there, it' s almost like hovering in a helicopter over the back of the ship ,
says haynes .
that' s when you really know you are on the world' s largest cruise ship .
in 2016, cruise reprised the role of jack reacher for never go back. he then headlined a reboot of the mummy (2017), which performed respectably at the box office but was savaged by critics, before earning better reviews later that year for the crime thriller american made .
knight and day represented something of a gamble in the 21st - century summer blockbuster stakes since it’s an old - fashioned star - driven vehicle, not a remake or sequel. but the inquest over its underwhelming performance has resulted in the uncommon spectacle of an individual publicly claiming responsibility for its commercial failure – in this case fox’s marketing supremo tony sella. (the poster featured two silhouette cut - outs of cruise and diaz instead of a photo of the pair, which unkind observers suggested was deliberately created so as not to deter punters from seeing the film. )
1. kubrick always intended to cast an actual married couple as the movie' s leads, but cruise and kidman weren' t who he had in mind. the initial pair he thought of was alec baldwin and kim basinger .
the mission: impossible franchise has been highly lucrative for cruise. he made $ 162 million from the first two movies as actor - producer – more than paramount. when i talked to mission: impossible director brian de palma during the release of his last movie, he mentioned the reported conflicts with paramount while making the blockbuster .
it was for this reason that just before knight and day’s release, cruise performed a skit at the mtv movie awards as les grossman, the foul - mouthed studio boss he played in ben stiller’s 2008 comedy tropic thunder. his dirty dancing act with jennifer lopez was warmly received and led to an official announcement from paramount that a grossman feature - length film was in the works. (it’s unlikely to happen. the announcement was good publicity for paramount and mtv and an even better story for viacom which owns both companies. )
bennett miller’s documentary is both an ode to new york city and to one of its eccentric citizens who cruises around the streets delivering idiosyncratic tour guides in an open top bus. the film follows the fast - talking, effeminate and nasal - toned timothy ‘speed’ levitch as he philosophises about life and the city whilst delivering a dizzying guide about the big apple to his dumbstruck passengers .
shot in grainy black and white and opening with a gershwin number, this is a film that romanticises the city of new york much like the work of woody allen. although remaining focused on levitch’s tours and his own personal life, miller’s documentary also explores the past and present of a living and constantly evolving city. …
foretelling new methods of internet - based marketing, eduardo sanchez and daniel myrick' s roughly - made, offbeat independent film the blair witch project (1999) (from small - time distributor artisan films) was a quasi - documentary about an october 1994 horrifying camping trip and investigation of a local legend that was experienced by no - name actors: three vanished montgomery college student film - makers (heather, josh, and mike) in maryland' s black hill forest (near burkittsville) .
cruise followed the tremendous success of top gun with a string of both critically acclaimed and commercially successful films. he first starred in the color of money (1986), with co - star paul newman, and then went on to work with dustin hoffman on rain man (1988). cruise & apos; s next role, as vietnam veteran ron kovic in the biopic born on the fourth of july (1989), earned him an academy award nomination and a golden globe for best actor .
according to sources at cruise’s pr representatives, 42 west, the actor is determined to lighten his act. he showed astute comic timing as repressed teenager joel goodsen in risky business (1983) and in cameron crowe’s jerry maguire (1996). cruise has become intrigued by the faux - nostalgic flipness that has marked pop culture’s recent forays into the eighties, hence his impromptu trip to hot tub time machine. ‘tom knows some people are laughing at him, ’ says the source. ‘so he’s now intent on having the last laugh. ’
8. director todd field (
little children ,
in the bedroom
), who starred in the movie as piano player nick nightingale, said of kidman and cruise: “you’ve never seen two actors more completely subservient and prostrate themselves at the feet of a director. ”
and with the digital revolution, some pioneering film - makers were experimenting with making digital - video (dv) films, pushing digital imagery and special effects, or projecting films digitally. a number of films also used special - effects cgi in more subtle, innovative ways :
cruise & apos; s parents divorced when he was 11, and the children moved with their mother to louisville, kentucky, and then to glen ridge, new jersey, after her remarriage. like his mother and three sisters, cruise suffered from dyslexia, which made academic success difficult for him. he excelled in athletics, however, and considered pursuing a career in professional wrestling until a knee injury sidelined him during high school .
1995: seagram bought mca / universal from matsushita for $ 5. 7 billion and renamed it universal studios. disney bought the abc network. two members of the creative artists agency, one of the world' s leading talent and literary agencies, moved to head hollywood film studios: ron meyers to mca, and michael ovitz to the disney company (until 1996) .
jeffrey wells, who writes the blog hollywood elsewhere, says that cruise has ‘in effect become the new william shatner, albeit in a higher pay bracket – he’s the guy whose routine is slightly crazy. whether people think it’s the most glorious thing they’ve ever seen or not, that’s what he is doing. nobody gets to be the superhero all their life. ’
for much of the 1990s, cruise and kidman found themselves fiercely defending the happiness and legitimacy of their marriage. they filed two different lawsuits against tabloid publications for stories they considered libelous. in each case the couple received a published retraction and apology, along with a large monetary settlement which they donated to charity .
the background song heard in the campfire scene is
how bizarre
by the music group omc .
cruise was introduced to scientology, the controversial movement founded by l ron hubbard, by his first wife mimi rogers in the late eighties. scientology supplied the direction he was seeking as a young actor navigating hollywood’s perilous waters and he credited it for helping him cure his dyslexia. and the church frequently bent over backwards to please its most prominent member .
the issue had arisen because cruise had become embroiled in a war of words with the actress brooke shields over her use of antidepressants to combat postnatal depression. he said that the drugs shields had taken were dangerous and added: ‘i care about brooke shields because she is an incredibly talented woman – where has her career gone? ’
just minutes south of houston, galveston island is a film - friendly city that is rich in unique locations. expansive beaches, authentic victorian neighborhoods, historic ships, classic urban alleys, world - class architecture and much more make galveston island a wealth of diverse filming locations .
‘the studio wasn’t so much of a problem as convincing tom of certain things, ’ he said, then added: ‘when they asked me to do the next one i said: “are you kidding? why would you ever want to do this again? ”’ cruise’s status as a mogul has suffered from a recent ill - fated stint running troubled studio united artists along with his producing partner paula wagner. despite securing $ 500 million in financing through merrill lynch, their reign produced little else other than cruise’s hitler drama valkyrie .
on top of this, his new action comedy, knight and day, has performed disappointingly at the us box office, opening in only third place. twentieth century fox, who bankrolled the $ 117 million film, has discovered to its cost that if the actor, who memorably exclaimed: ‘i feel the need, the need for speed’ in top gun, is ever to reclaim his pre - 2005 audience, then he’s taking his time doing it.
the cruise is a 76-minute documentary released in 1998 . it was the debut film of bennett miller , who became prominent after directing capote ( 2005 ) . the film records the worldview and personality of timothy " speed " levitch , who was then a guide for bus tours of new york city . levitch had become popular for his unconventional narrative about the city that he delivered at a frenetic pace . 
the cruise is a 76-minute documentary released in 1998. it was the debut film of bennett miller, who became prominent after directing capote (2005). the film records the worldview and personality of timothy " speed " levitch, who was then a guide for bus tours of new york city. levitch had become popular for his unconventional narrative about the city that he delivered at a frenetic pace.
the cruise is a 76-minute documentary released in 1998. it was the debut film of bennett miller, who became prominent after directing capote (2005). the film records the worldview and personality of timothy " speed " levitch, who was then a guide for bus tours of new york city. levitch had become popular for his unconventional narrative about the city that he delivered at a frenetic pace.