That's why the studio reportedly rebuffed strong offers from Netflix and Apple.
Invaluable, and irreplaceable on the release schedule. Obviously, the two sides patched things up, and now Cruise's two franchise films are the crown jewels of the studio's slate. This after Paramount severed ties with the actor back in 2006 at the behest of Sumner Redstone despite the studio's then 14-year relationship with Cruise and his company. Though Paramount has sold off nearly its entire slate over the past year, throughout the pandemic, the studio has never wavered in its commitment to Cruise.
and still going strong at age 58, mind you. That's why his involvement as an executive producer on the Jurassic World movies ensures Dominion's debut on the big screen.Īnd then there's Tom Cruise, one of the last true gods of the silver screen.
West Side Story, on the other hand, is less of a liability, but it is a strong awards play, and make no mistake, there is only one Steven Spielberg, and he's still The King of Hollywood. In Disney's case, the Avatar sequels represent a huge financial gamble, though they also seem like a safe bet, and the first one out will be the real test. Heck, I could imagine a pandemic-ravaged world in which The Batman and Fast & Furious 9 end up debuting on HBO Max and Peacock and No Time to Die is sold to a streamer for pennies on the dollar before I could imagine any of those five movies debuting anywhere that's not a movie theater - each for different reasons, of course. These are the movies that under no circumstance could I even possibly see debuting on a streaming service by virtue of the power players involved - James Cameron's Avatar 2, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story as well as the Spielberg-protected Jurassic World: Dominion, and Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 7. There's a reason that Paramount's Chris Aronson was the first executive named in the Wall Street Journal's article about Hollywood blockbusters being delayed, and it's because Paramount has two of the five Untouchables.
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