Tom Cruise is the true definition of a Hollywood movie star.
October 10, 2006 it was declared “Tom Cruise Day” in Japan; the Japan Memorial Day Association said that he was awarded with a special day because he has made more trips to Japan than any other Hollywood star. Since 1986 and the release of Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’, Tom Cruise has never had a single box office flop.
Of course, he has had several box office disappointments and some movies made less than studios have hoped. But, for the past 30 years, Tom Cruise has never had a bad movie.
Tom Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. Starting his career at the young age of 19 in the movie ‘Endless Love’. Cruise would later be featured in ‘Taps,’ ‘The Outsiders,’ and his first leading role in the romantic comedy ‘Risky Business’ in 1983.
But, the movie that launched his movie career was ‘Top Gun’ in 1986. Since 1996, Tom Cruise transformed himself into Ethan Hawke in the ‘Mission Impossible’ franchise, whose latest feature film, ‘Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation’ just hit theaters.
But, in the last past thirty years Tom Cruise has become one of the most successful movie star in Hollywood. Do you think it’s a joke? Since, ‘Top Gun’ in 1986 every movie has never flopped in the box office.
In the 1980’s, Tom Cruise starred in ‘The Color of Money,’ ‘Cocktail,’ ‘Rain Man,’ and ‘Born on the Fourth of July’. Then in the 1990s, he starred in a number of hit films, including the romantic comedy ‘Far and Away,’ the drama ‘A Few Good Men,’ ‘The Firm’, the romantic horror film ‘Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles’, the romantic comedy-drama sports film ‘Jerry Maguire,’ the thriller ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and the hit drama ‘Magnolia’.
In the 2000s, Tom Cruise starred in a number of several successful films, including the sci-fi thrillers ‘Vanilla Sky’ and ‘Minority Report’.
Tom Cruise would later become a ninja in ‘The Last Samurai’, an assassin in ‘Collateral’, and a soldier in the ‘Edge of Tomorrow’.
Year after year, Tom Cruise has made movie studios millions of dollars and unlike several other A-list actors, he is the only actor to successfully entertain moviegoers generation after generation.
H/T: Forbes
