How YouTube and the Internet Killed Tom Cruise, America’s Last Movie Star
http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-05-28/film/tom-cruise-on-oprah/full/
What nonsense. Paramount parted ways with Cruise for box office performance at the time. That’s the only reason a studio cuts anyone loose ever.
And MI Ghost Protocol came out AFTER the couch jumping, and made a gazillion dollars. The couch thing didn’t hurt Cruise at the box office. At all.
Of course, he’s fifty-one, at the outside age for hunkiness and action roles. It remains to be seen if he can parlay his experience into more mature roles, a la Sean Connery. But for right now, Cruise was and is one of the last great American movie stars, a reliable draw. To claim otherwise is to ignore the only measure that counts: ticket sales.