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Tom Cruise has entered the following section of his private mission to save lots of the movie show trade.
The “Prime Gun” star and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming as much as develop and produce unique and franchise theatrical movies beginning this yr, in accordance with a news release on Tuesday. (Warner Bros. Discovery is the father or mother firm of CNN.)
“Excited to share this information. I sit up for making nice films collectively!” Cruise wrote on his Instagram Tuesday, alongside a photograph of the studio’s announcement.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Tom, an absolute legend within the movie trade. Our imaginative and prescient, from day one, has been to rebuild this iconic studio to the heights of its glory days,” Warner Bros. Movement Image Group co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday.
Their assertion went on to say that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and president David Zaslav inspired a partnership with Cruise because the studio continues its “mission to convey Warner Bros. again.”
Tuesday’s announcement didn’t elaborate on particular initiatives they’re creating collectively, however Cruise has a storied historical past with Warner Bros., having beforehand starred in iconic movies produced and distributed by the studio equivalent to “Fringe of Tomorrow,” “Rock of Ages,” “Magnolia,” “Eyes Large Shut” and “Dangerous Enterprise,” amongst others.
Cruise has been an outspoken advocate for audiences seeing movies within the movie show amid the pandemic and rise of at-home streaming platforms, taking to his personal social media to encourage moviegoers to move to the theater to see a few of 2023’s largest blockbusters like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
He was additionally praised by director Steven Spielberg final yr, who mentioned 2022’s “Prime Gun: Maverick” – the long-awaited sequel of the 1986 unique “Prime Gun” movie by which he starred – “may need saved your entire theatrical trade.”
The sequel introduced in almost $1.5 billion worldwide since its September 2022 theatrical launch, making it the fifth highest-grossing movie in North American historical past.