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...eyes of many in Hollywood, Paramount-where Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone publicly blamed Cruise's "inappropriate behavior" for the disappointing box office returns of Mission: Impossible III-is no longer such a place. Under Cruise/Wagner Productions' unusually generous Paramount deal, the studio paid out as much as $10 million a year in overhead and development. When Cruise began jumping on Oprah's furniture in rapture about fianc?e Katie Holmes and finger-wagging about psychiatry on the Today Show, "he was embarrassing the studio," Redstone says in December's Vanity Fair. Not to mention costing Paramount, the outspoken executive estimates...
Meat Loaf “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose” (Virgin...
...consider the novel’s ostensible climax: Santini must race to China in a supersonic jet-plane in order to halt a misguided preemptive strike on North Korea that could result in World War III. But before he arrives, we’re treated to 30 pages of refueling and bureaucratic bickering...
...have received a wide release, and 10 of those opened as their weekends' top grossers. Granted, to get that number into double figures I'm including V for Vendetta, which is after all about a defaced creature in a cave who plots violent revenge on his enemies, and Saw III, which would require a blackout on 3,000 screens to keep it from being declared #1 on Sunday. But the very first weekend of January, Hostel emerged triumphant over King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia. Two and four weeks later, Underworld: Evolution (a sequel) and When a Stranger Calls...
...Morose devotion is the theme of Saw III, though I doubt the folks at the Regal dwelled overmuch on this aspect. Jigsaw's main victim is Jeff (Angus McFayden), who has been consumed with bilious revenge since his beloved son was killed by a driver who received a light prison sentence. Now in Jigsaw's lair, Jeff must go through several torture tests to prove he can forgive those who wronged him. In an apparently unrelated "B" story, Jigsaw has kidnaped Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a doctor, to see if she can relieve the pain of his brain tumor. For those...