Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible 3" under-performs w/ $17M Box Office

[npincus]

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27265597.shtml

on Opening Day. Apparently, this falls short of expectations based on past performance in the series, and standards as 'blockbusters' go. Could it be that the public has lost interest in this little, L. Ron Hubbard- luvin', couch-jumping, egocentric, Brook Shields-bashing, overpaid freak? GOOD.

And while I'm on a roll: FREE KATIE!

According to rival studio estimates, Paramount's MI3 will gross in the mid-$40 millions -- $45 mil-to-$46 mil -- for this opening weekend, much lower than the pre-Friday estimates of $63 mil from 4,054 theaters.

That's also disappointing compared with MI2's 2000 gross of $57 mil for the Friday-Saturday-Sunday period and $71 mil over the 4-day Memorial Weekend. Friday night's MI3 box office figure was only in the vicinity of $17 mil domestically.

There are some early reports that Cruise's film experienced dropped overseas, too.

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It will really have to soar today to get close to $60 million

[wildhorses]

1. I have not seen any of his movies since he split from Nicole

what a fucking jerk...

[bigwillq]

2. Good....

I hope Cruise's downfall continues...I hate that mother fucker....:mad:

[npincus]

4. you've gotta love a guy who brags about buying a 200K sonogram

machine and using it on his girlfriend for amusement, when there are 40 million Americans without health insurance, and many of whom couldn't afford even a simple medical check-up, much less a sonogram procedure. And many of these uninsured folks squander their hard-earned cash to see Cruise's hammy, overpaid self in crappy, bloated Hollywood 'blockbusters'. Well, maybe not any more!

Jeez, what an arrogant, insensitive, stupid stupid ARSE-hole.

[wildhorses]

5. I don't "hate" him but, he obviously does NOT need anymore of

MY money!!!

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Schadenfreude.

Just call me Gary Coleman. :)