Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Paramount Pictures publicly announced that they are severing all ties with Tom Cruise and his production company, Wagner Productions.
Even though Tom Cruise‘s last seven films have grossed more than $100 million, Paramount Pictures and parent company, Viacom Inc., have decided to part ways with the increasingly crazed superstar. Sumner Redstone, Chairman of the Board at Viacom Inc., said Tom Cruise’s “recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.” Finally someone has recognized Tom’s recent decent into Scientology induced insanity.
In the recent year Tom has jumped on Oprah‘s couch like a madman, professing his recently aquired love for Katie Holmes, written off postpartum depression and the use of antidepressants for treatment as a dietary problem and, allegedly, given birth (with wife Katie Holmes’ help) of course, to the mysterious baby Suri Cruise, who’s very existance is still being questioned. Let’s face it, Cruise has been anything but a balanced individual over the past year.
It’s no wonder Paramount, Viacom and Sumner Redstone collectively decided to flush him and his sinking career straight down the toilet. It’s actually rather surprising that it took them this long to make the decision, especially with the less than fantastic box office numbers brought in by Tom’s most recent work, Missions Impossible III.
Hopefully Viacom and Paramount dropping Tom Cruise from their roster will finally see a drop in the flow of so called “news” coming from the Cruise household. Although, with the illusive Suri Cruise supposedly waiting in the weeds for just the right opportunity to appear on the cover of People Magazine, US Weekly or any number of other magazines, I have the feeling we’re not free of the Cruise family just yet.
Read the Article @ Yahoo! News
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