Cruise Control
Women—angry about Tom Cruise attacking Brooke Shields and creeped out by Katie Holmes’ vacant eyes and silent births—don’t want to see the new Tom Cruise movie.
Andrew Sullivan doesn’t want you to see the new Tom Cruise movie.
Audiences don’t appear to be all that excited about seeing the new Tom Cruise movie.
But not to worry, Tom! Your fellow Scientologists will do what they can to make it look like people want to see your new movie.
While some of Tom Cruise’s pals from the mothership clearly failed in their mission to support Scientology’s brightest light on his big day, at least one other emissary did her part to make sure a local theater was packed with a Cruise-friendly contingent. Reported an operative on Saturday night:“I’m buying tixs for the movie here at the arclight and standing next to me is a woman self-admittedly from the scientology center who is buying 700 tickets with piles of cash. wow.”
Hollywood Interrupted also has an eyewitness account of the (same, we assume) group sale, claiming a purchase of 900 tickets for almost $9000.
As satisfying as it would be for this movie to fail miserably, by reading the NYT analysis, it sounds like it did okay given their expectations and the weekend it premiered. Darn darn darn.