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Tom Cruise cites $4.76 billion summer box office run
Hindustan Times··4d ago
Tom Cruise said artificial intelligence is coming, but argued audiences still want real things on screen. He spoke at a BAFTA Life in Pictures session in London on Monday. Cruise called theatres a different art form from streaming. He cited USD 4.76 billion summer box office from May 1 to Labour Day. He also discussed Digger with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
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What It Means For You
- Cruise is publicly tying cinema's future to live theatrical crowds rather than AI-only production.
- He said he has nothing against streaming but treats theatres as a separate art form.
- Digger, his next film with Inarritu, is being positioned as an original theatrical release.
What's Happening
- Moderator Edith Bowman asked about AI, noting Mission Impossible films have used advanced technology.
- Cruise said there is nothing like human performance and that theatres bring people together.
- He said he wore a fat suit and prosthetics for Digger that initially took six hours to apply.
What Digger Is About
- Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil baron whose company actions trigger an ecological disaster.
- Warner Bros Pictures is presenter and global distributor.
- Inarritu's previous English-language film was The Revenant in 2015.
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