The Economics of Tom Cruise!

[Da Lone-Warrior]

Why Tom Cruise Is Right to Join the Hedge Funds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=a5JL9vsIAS.4


It is hard to believe that Redstone cares if Cruise is an oddball or not. Most actors are pretty loopy. Only a very strange person wants to spend his or her life pretending to be other people. The Paramount business was built around early stars such as Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich, neither of whom was noted for being everyday, ordinary folks. If you can't handle weirdos, you have no place in the entertainment industry.

Cruise's returns weren't that poor. ``Mission: Impossible III,'' his most recent film, has already grossed $393.2 million worldwide from May 5 to July 20, according to movie tracker Box Office Mojo.com -- not bad when you consider what a clunker the second film in that series was. Over his career, Cruise's films have taken in $2.7 billion in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.com. That's serious money.

Long and short. It seems that from an Economic standpoint, it doesn't matter if Cruise's movies suck so long as they are able to do well globally with them.

Cruise is going to be able to make money with funds loaned directly from Hedge and Private-equity funds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund). It seems the business has changed enough that the movie-making studios aren't as important as they were in the past.

Does anyone else ever feel like ants watching a parade of elephants go by with these things?

dlw

[semmie'ssister]

Why Tom Cruise Is Right to Join the Hedge Funds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=a5JL9vsIAS.4


It is hard to believe that Redstone cares if Cruise is an oddball or not. Most actors are pretty loopy. Only a very strange person wants to spend his or her life pretending to be other people. The Paramount business was built around early stars such as Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich, neither of whom was noted for being everyday, ordinary folks. If you can't handle weirdos, you have no place in the entertainment industry.

Cruise's returns weren't that poor. ``Mission: Impossible III,'' his most recent film, has already grossed $393.2 million worldwide from May 5 to July 20, according to movie tracker Box Office Mojo.com -- not bad when you consider what a clunker the second film in that series was. Over his career, Cruise's films have taken in $2.7 billion in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.com. That's serious money.

Long and short. It seems that from an Economic standpoint, it doesn't matter if Cruise's movies suck so long as they are able to do well globally with them.

Cruise is going to be able to make money with funds loaned directly from Hedge and Private-equity funds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund). It seems the business has changed enough that the movie-making studios aren't as important as they were in the past.

Does anyone else ever feel like ants watching a parade of elephants go by with these things?

dlw

:yes:

[docjam]

[QUOTE=Da Lone-Warrior]Why Tom Cruise Is Right to Join the Hedge Funds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=a5JL9vsIAS.4


It is hard to believe that Redstone cares if Cruise is an oddball or not. Most actors are pretty loopy. Only a very strange person wants to spend his or her life pretending to be other people. The Paramount business was built around early stars such as Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich, neither of whom was noted for being everyday, ordinary folks. If you can't handle weirdos, you have no place in the entertainment industry.

Cruise's returns weren't that poor. ``Mission: Impossible III,'' his most recent film, has already grossed $393.2 million worldwide from May 5 to July 20, according to movie tracker Box Office Mojo.com -- not bad when you consider what a clunker the second film in that series was. Over his career, Cruise's films have taken in $2.7 billion in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.com. That's serious money.

Long and short. It seems that from an Economic standpoint, it doesn't matter if Cruise's movies suck so long as they are able to do well globally with them.

Cruise is going to be able to make money with funds loaned directly from Hedge and Private-equity funds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund). It seems the business has changed enough that the movie-making studios aren't as important as they were in the past.

Does anyone else ever feel like ants watching a parade of elephants go by with these things?

dlw[QUOTE]


that depends, are they those pink, spotted ones?

[semmie'ssister]

[QUOTE=Da Lone-Warrior]Why Tom Cruise Is Right to Join the Hedge Funds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=a5JL9vsIAS.4


It is hard to believe that Redstone cares if Cruise is an oddball or not. Most actors are pretty loopy. Only a very strange person wants to spend his or her life pretending to be other people. The Paramount business was built around early stars such as Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich, neither of whom was noted for being everyday, ordinary folks. If you can't handle weirdos, you have no place in the entertainment industry.

Cruise's returns weren't that poor. ``Mission: Impossible III,'' his most recent film, has already grossed $393.2 million worldwide from May 5 to July 20, according to movie tracker Box Office Mojo.com -- not bad when you consider what a clunker the second film in that series was. Over his career, Cruise's films have taken in $2.7 billion in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.com. That's serious money.

Long and short. It seems that from an Economic standpoint, it doesn't matter if Cruise's movies suck so long as they are able to do well globally with them.

Cruise is going to be able to make money with funds loaned directly from Hedge and Private-equity funds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund). It seems the business has changed enough that the movie-making studios aren't as important as they were in the past.

Does anyone else ever feel like ants watching a parade of elephants go by with these things?

dlw[QUOTE]


that depends, are they those pink, spotted ones?


I make pink elephant cookies everytime I make cutout cookies

pinkelephant

that pink elephant has no spots, but he can dance!

pinkelephant

:woohoo: look at him go!

:woohoo: pinkelephantpinkelephantpinkelephant

[docjam]

[QUOTE=semmie'sbrother][QUOTE=Da Lone-Warrior]Why Tom Cruise Is Right to Join the Hedge Funds:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_lynn&sid=a5JL9vsIAS.4


It is hard to believe that Redstone cares if Cruise is an oddball or not. Most actors are pretty loopy. Only a very strange person wants to spend his or her life pretending to be other people. The Paramount business was built around early stars such as Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich, neither of whom was noted for being everyday, ordinary folks. If you can't handle weirdos, you have no place in the entertainment industry.

Cruise's returns weren't that poor. ``Mission: Impossible III,'' his most recent film, has already grossed $393.2 million worldwide from May 5 to July 20, according to movie tracker Box Office Mojo.com -- not bad when you consider what a clunker the second film in that series was. Over his career, Cruise's films have taken in $2.7 billion in ticket sales in U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.com. That's serious money.

Long and short. It seems that from an Economic standpoint, it doesn't matter if Cruise's movies suck so long as they are able to do well globally with them.

Cruise is going to be able to make money with funds loaned directly from Hedge and Private-equity funds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund). It seems the business has changed enough that the movie-making studios aren't as important as they were in the past.

Does anyone else ever feel like ants watching a parade of elephants go by with these things?

dlw


I make pink elephant cookies everytime I make cutout cookies

pinkelephant

that pink elephant has no spots, but he can dance!

pinkelephant

:woohoo: look at him go!

:woohoo: pinkelephantpinkelephantpinkelephant


:turtle1::smurf:

there's my turtle chasing a smurf...but I don't see any pink elephants