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File this one under: I have no idea if he’ll say yes, but it’s a fun idea. I’m told New Line has offered Tom Cruise a supporting role in Rock of Ages, the movie version of the hit Broadway musical. Cruise has been asked to play a bartender, and he would get to belt out a bunch of 80s hair band tunes. Cruise has started work reprising his Ethan Hunt role in a fourth installment of Mission: Impossible. And while I’m on the topic of Cruise, it’s worth nothing that by the time Knight and Day completes its run in Japan, the film will wind up grossing better than $264 million worldwide. Because the picture did only around $76 million domestic, Cruise and Cameron Diaz got a pretty good drubbing. But the number is comparable to films like the Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups, which was considered a summer hit. That film had a strong opening weekend and did most of its business domestic, but Knight and Day did better overseas. That overseas launch came later because of the World Cup.
I’ve heard that Cruise has always wanted to do a musical, but can he sing? Only time I can remember him trying onscreen was his macho barroom version of You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ in Top Gun. Relive the memory, below:
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With Autotune (TM) you don’t need to be able to sing anymore. Witness Jane Lynch singing “Vogue” on Glee.
Watch Jane Lynch on SNL, she can sing and was no less or more autotuned than anyone else on the show.
Jane Lynch trained as a singer in real life, so it was always funny she plays the Glee hating coach.
But I agree much of the cast is autotuned (as well as most popstar/actresses seem to be)
Jane Lynch can sing. Listen to her in “A Mighty Wind”.
he sang a few lines magnolia too i remember
Cruise’s strength has always been overseas, he is a true Global star….how many stars can do 200M Worldwide consistently? I mean with all the bad press he gets, its truly amazing
This scene was precisely my immediate thought when I saw the headline. Great minds
His voice is truly awful in the scene, though any decent singer can sound bad if that’s part of the character. So who knows?
Cruise blows.
His films steadily became more expensive, and he chewed up more and more of the profit. Now he has been forced to reduce his percentage and the profits of his films have not recovered from his time on the couch. Ask teenagers through 24s, the guy is a dork. Well, in actual fact, first off they say he is old. All of which indicates Tom should play his age. 48. Let me spell that out. Forty-eight.
What has Cruise done? Three Oscar nominations. Sincerely, congratulations on that. Kudos. Plus he has worked with Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese, DePalma, Stone, Kubrick, Pollack, and Neil Jordan. Again, sincere congrats and respect.
But by the time Warren Beatty was 48, he had produced BONNIE & CLYDE, produced and co-written SHAMPOO, co-written, produced and co-directed HEAVEN CAN WAIT and co-written, produced and directed REDS. AND he acted in all those films. ELEVEN OSCAR NOMINATIONS.
Films we will remember.
Cruise? Mission COLON 1, 2, 3 and now 4.
Do you mean we will not remember, RISKY BUSINESS, TOP GUN, THE COLOR OF MONEY, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, RAIN MAN? All of Beatty’s films were vanity productions while Cruise helped Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman to Oscars. Cruise also supported a hugely profitable franchise together with other megahits for Spielberg. Some of his recent work has been excellent and somewhat risky, COLLATERAL, TROPIC THUNDER. The huge profits that Cruise has created with most of his projects cuts him a great deal of slack and by all accounts he is still a profit maker. That can’t be said for Beatty’s career. In fact, the money he lost and the terrible choices he has made in his recent work almost cancels out any success he may have had. I don’t know why you think teen- agers opinions are important anyway.
Let’s not forget A Few Good Men. Love him or hate him; Tom Cruise is an icon.
Since your post really seems to be “what has Tom Cruise done COMPARED TO WARREN BEATTY,” I guess the answer is: Tom’s films have grossed a total of $2,871,844,825 and he was a co-studio head, albeit of a troubled studio.
I respect Warren’s accomplishments as well, and so will not seek to diminish them except to say that he achieved nowhere near the grosses of Tom’s films (one of his biggest hits, Dick Tracy, only made $162M for example, and REDS only grossed $40M), was never a studio head and he made movies in an era which allowed for much greater artistic freedom and in which there was much less competition.
Mike, you are the best. Don’t ever leave Deadline. Whoa whoa whoaaaaa…
FYI: Knight & Day made $76.5 million domestic.
Regardless of Cruise, Rock of Ages is a really fun show – would be a great film.
They better cast KG to reprise his role in the Los Angeles performance!!!!
What does Warren Beatty have to do with Tom Cruise? Why are you comparing the two? I mean, really, your comparing what they’d done by age 48? Its two different periods. You are stupid. (And Im not really a Tom Cruise fan either, I just find your comparison bizarre)
He sang in Magnolia and was good.
Nikki, according to Box Office Mojo Knight and Day has made $76 domestic. Not sure where you got that $69 million figure.
He also sang a song (a capella) to put Dakota Fanning to sleep in War of the Worlds. Don’t know if that counts.
Notwithstanding his involvement in Scientology, I still enjoy Tom Cruise. I think he needs a good career reinvention because most of his recent roles have been pretty mundane.
I concur. Maybe he can pick up cocaine, renounce scientology and pull a Robert Downey Jr. 3 years down the road.
I’m not sure about the whole musical thing, but I like the idea of TC taking a few smaller roles that would be more charactery, and perhaps some darker and morally ambiguous roles…I think he also works well in an ensamble.
Don’t forget his rendition of Tom Petty’s “Free Falling: in Jerry Maguire!
A twist from action to musical is great indeed, it’s fun and sure, everybody will enjoy seeing Tom in a musical movie or rather would like to see Tom singing in a movie, not bad at all.
The reason Kelly looks so uncomfortable is because she was very uncomfortable, she’s always been a lesbian but she had to cover that up back then. She was a great actress and she should make a big comeback on HBO or Showtime doing something smart and funny. She should have been cast in The L Word but at the time she was still in the closet. She was fabulous in Witness but Top Gun completely miscast her and you can tell she had zero chemistry with Tom every scene they did together was awkward. Now we know why.
I totally called the gross of “Knight and Day”. (One of the WORST titles for a film. Ever!) Okay, so I actually said, $100m domestic max, and twice that foreign.
I love how people are quick to call Tom’s films flops…76 million is only a flop by Tom Cruise standards. He has so many mega hits that a medium success like Knight and Day stands out.
I think Knight & Day ended up doing better than might have been feared around the time of it’s US debut.
And certainly other films have made similar amounts on similar budgets and have been fine.
But it’s probably still not made as much as FOX had originally intended or hoped for. It’s just not a catastrophe either now that figures closer to finals are in.
Well said Tim Teets. The hostility toward Tom Cruise that has been brewing in the culture is utterly inexplicable. He jumped on a couch so now we hate him? He’s delivered 25 years of entertaining films, always tried to do different types of movies, always high quality productions, never once sleepwalked through a performance that I’ve ever seen, yet haters, who see a little vulnerability, have decided to gang up on him, overexaggerating everything to portray Cruise as the anti-Christ or something.
Here’s all the things Tom isn’t doing: he isn’t screaming racial slurs or profanities at anyone, he isn’t physically attacking his wife or girlfriend, he isn’t trashing hotel rooms and scaring hookers, he isn’t getting DUIs or going in and out of rehab. So why all the hatred toward him?
And his religion, sorry, it’s no more destructive or greed oriented or mind-controlling than every other religion in the world.
I’ve enjoyed Cruise’s movies since Risky Business and RARELY have his films been worth less than the price of admission (Cocktail, Far and Away maybe). He’s been the most consistent movie star in the world for over 20 years and deserves all the success he’s had.
And Knight and Day was a lot of fun if you don’t go into it with a personal grudge against Cruise.
Are we really casting Cruise for this? what a HUGE mistake. honestly no one has really liked this guy since Jerry McGuire. Annoying smile, Oprah meltdown, fake marriage, etc…the guy has to play someone you don’t even recognize to enjoy. stick to producing Thomas. MI4 will be such a flop. $37 million opening with $100-$120 million cost. You do the math.