What The Hell Happened to Tom Cruise?

Tom Cruise spent forty years as the one movie star Hollywood could always count on. Then Digger, his dark satire with Alejandro González Iñárritu, opened to just 8 million dollars and finished fifth, his weakest opening weekend since Lions for Lambs in 2007. Verity, starring Anne Hathaway, made four times as much. This video breaks down how Tom Cruise went from Risky Business and Rain Man to hanging off planes in Mission Impossible, why Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning cost so much and earned so little back, and why audiences who follow him into any stunt stayed home for Digger. Warner Bros now faces losses of up to 200 million dollars, and his next two films are Top Gun 3 and a new Days of Thunder. Chapters: 0:00 - Tom Cruise's Worst Opening in 19 Years 1:11 - How Tom Cruise Became a Movie Star 2:37 - The Stunts That Changed His Career 3:46 - Mission Impossible's Rising Costs 5:06 - Making Digger With Iñárritu 6:45 - Bad Reviews, Big Losses and the Backlash 8:22 - Why Audiences Didn't Show Up 9:47 - Top Gun 3 and the New Days of Thunder Subscribe to The Black Carpet for more Hollywood careers that did not go the way everyone expected. #TomCruise #Digger #TopGun #MissionImpossible #AnneHathaway #Inarritu #Hollywood