Hollywood New Century

The summer of 2006 was doomed to be rocky, with Mel Gibson's outrageous remarks and Tom Cruise's amicable breakup with Paramount Entertainment.

In late August, the 83-year-old Viacom Group and CBS Group Chairman Summer Redstone was parachuted into Paramount Pictures. The industry is angered by taking a lot of profits.

Paramount announces that Paramount Pictures and Cruise-Wagner Productions are not renewing their contract.

Paramount broke the 14-year business relationship between the two.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Summer Redstone stated the reasons for his termination of the partnership between the two:

"Even though we all like him as a person, we think it would be wrong to re-sign him. Paramount can't accept his bizarre behavior of late, but it has nothing to do with his acting ability, and he is a great Actor. However, we don't consider someone who is going to commit creative suicide and lose out on revenue for the company that he should have earned."

Summer Redstone's comments are thought to be a reference to Tom Cruise's recent frenzy to embrace the "Scientology of Scientology" and his accusation that Ms Brooke Shields should not be taking antidepressants after giving birth .

Tom Cruise has remained silent in the face of face-to-face accusations from Hollywood entertainment mogul Summer Redstone.

And Tom Cruise's production company partner Paula Wagner responded in front of reporters:

"Mr. Summer Redstone's comments are offensive and disrespectful, and whatever Mr. Summer Redstone's comments about Tom Cruise personally, or, as an actor, have a Irresponsible. But they must have another agenda, which is that the studios miss a part of their greatest asset, and they're here to slander him that way."

However, despite online talk that Summer Redstone kicked Tom Cruise out of the house, Paramount was in financial trouble and didn't want to pay Cruise-Wagner Productions' exorbitant annual operating fees.

But Summer Redstone argues that Tom Cruise's actions cost the movie at least $150 million in box-office sales before Mission: Impossible 3 was released.

And he goes on to say that Tom Cruise even threatened not to promote Mission: Impossible 3 if Viacom didn't cancel a "Scientology" play in South Park. It is precisely because of these things that he made up his mind to choose not to renew his contract with Tom Cruise.

In Beverly Hills, Nicole Kidman came to this villa rented to Simon Pike, looked at him sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, and said a little sourly:

"Obviously, I have a net worth of tens of millions, and I don't buy a few houses myself, and I don't buy all kinds of things that should be enjoyed!"

"Uh," Simon put down the newspaper and looked up at Nicole Kidman, feeling a little radiant.

"Wouldn't it be good to see Tom Cruise in such a downhearted way?" Simon joked.

"I didn't say anything, just to tell the truth, Tom Cruise and his girlfriend have been like conjoined twins since last year, whether it's the promotion of "War of the Worlds" or "Bat Butterfly: Mystery of the Shadow" "The publicity of "The War of the Worlds" shows love all the time. The exposure of "World War" has indeed increased. Isn't this a hype? His first ex-wife Mimi Rogers also said the same in an interview!" Nicole · Kidman said in an interview with reporters that Tom Cruise shouldn't use his romance with Katie Holmes to hype.

The love news of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes not only made many netizens feel very contrived, but even Sony Columbia Pictures couldn't bear it.

Sony Columbia Pictures has announced that Batman's girlfriend in the next "Dark Knight" is no longer Tom Cruise's girlfriend Katie Holmes, and it has been replaced by the heroine and Maggie. Gyllenhaal.

Because when promoting "Batman: Mystery" last year, the behavior of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes made the movie promotion become their love interview!

Arguing with the host about the correctness of Scientology of Scientology on The Jimmy Show;

"Today Show" accused Perth Xiaoji, who had put on postpartum depression, not to use antidepressants;

Six times on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," he got down on one knee to hammer the floor, jumped on the sofa to announce his love with girlfriend Katie Holmes.

Now, the most serious thing is that he has been publicly criticized by Hollywood tycoon Summer Redstone. Tom Cruise's current image is extremely bad!

Simon got up and poured a glass of water for Nicole Kidman, and said, "The perfect image that Tom Cruise has built up over the years is estimated to be ruined by more than half this time, like this kind of contract termination with big studios. It's not common in Hollywood!"

"Simon, you wouldn't deliberately talk to me because I'm his ex-wife?" Nicole took a sip of the water in her hand and put it down on the coffee table in front of her, "I'm not interested!"

"Where," Simon shook his head, "I just think that entertainment tycoons like Summer Redstone and Rupert Murdoch speak too much!"

"Of course, they're billion-dollar entertainment tycoons with a lot of resources in their hands," Nicole Kidman said truthfully, especially News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, who is worth a fortune. But the super rich of tens of billions of dollars!

"I heard that Tom Cruise is talking to Wall Street's venture funds to seek financial support for his entry into United Artists, and he will rely on MGM to distribute his films in the future. We have been talking for a while.

Now," Simon said and sat down on the sofa, and continued:

"With Tom Cruise's appeal, it's not a big problem. In the current film fund market, the capital is too thick!"

"You seem to have mentioned last time that you are also interested in United United States?" Nicole Kidman asked casually.

"Forget it, what can I do if I'm interested, what I want is a complete United Artists, not a United Artists with a movie released by MGM. Besides, I don't have any funds right now. No matter what Sony chooses, it will choose Tom Crewe. Come on," Simon's most important thing at the moment is Marvel!

"Forget it, I came here to ask you what you think about "Australian Chaos", the project is about to enter formal preparations!" Nicole Kidman looked embarrassed. If Simon said that the movie was not good, What should I do myself?

"Well, I read the script. It is indeed a big scene, a big investment, and it is a movie about Australia. The team is basically Australian, and it is a war-time romance. You are now the most successful movie star in Australia. In the past two years She is still the highest paid actress in the world, and 20th Century Fox doesn’t want you to be the heroine, and there really isn’t anyone else to look for!” What can Simon say, although it’s a movie that hits the streets, it can’t hold back the enthusiasm of the people in his hometown. It may be a little less, but there are not many big investment movies like this every year. Of course, Oscar winners must often participate in big productions.

"You suggest me pick it up?" Nicole Kidman laughed.

"I don't suggest you take it, would you not? If you don't take it, the heroine of this movie must be Naomi Watts, although she is not Australian, but she grew up in Australia, twenty Century Fox always has to consider influence, although Cate Blanchett is born and raised in Australia, but in terms of fame, the heroine of "King Kong" is still more influential!" Simon just analyzed the producer's thinking. Let's take a look, anyway, if you look at what she means, this movie will most likely be picked up.

"You didn't say that you really like this movie?" Nicole Kidman wanted to gain some confidence from Simon!

"Come on, big productions with an investment of more than 100 million need to compete. The Oscar winners produce one every year. As long as the big productions are not Waterloo, their influence is still great," Simon is indeed considering Nicole Kidman. Well, if it is a low-cost independent film like the previous "Fur", you can directly reject it, but such a large-scale project is very helpful for the popularity of stars.

"Pearl Harbor" can be said to be a complete failure, with low word of mouth and low box office, but the heroine Kate Beckinsale has become a well-known actress from a new actress.

"You don't seem to be optimistic!" Nicole felt when she heard Simon's words.

"About war romance films, the most influential film in the past few years is your "Cold Mountain", which has a good reputation and failed at the box office, and as long as it is about war, I am not interested in calling out epic love or epic blockbusters, you Think about it for yourself, in addition to the success of "Saving Private Ryan" and that "Gladiator", the war movies "King Arthur", "The Great Pressure Mountain", "Troy", "Kingdom of Heaven" and modern war movies in recent years "Pearl Harbor", "Tears of the Sun", "Black Hawk Down", none of them were successful, "Troy" is also estimated to have been sold for the past few years, and the rest are all losses, and will be released at the end of October. The movie about the battle of Iwo Jima, "The Banner of the Fathers," must be a loss," Simon said, looking at Nicole Kidman,

"These films are all well-known and influential. Why, the investment is huge!"

Nicole Kidman nodded. Of course, with an IQ of 132, he knew what Simon meant. Simon was the boss of a film company. He would not engage in such war movies, and the return on investment was poor.

However, as an actor, participating in big projects is the best way to maintain popularity. Of course, the failure of the movie also has an impact, if it is before, it doesn't matter. But he has failed several movies in a row, and now he desperately needs a movie to restore his reputation, damn the box office!