M-Net
Movies Presents: Tom Cruise Pop-Up Channel 109 has
arrived. M-Net Movies premium audiences are being treated to a pop-up channel
that has almost every Tom Cruise film, with over 30 movies that he has led or
starred alongside in. The earliest is Taps
from 1981, and the most recent 2018’s Mission:
Impossible – Fallout.
Every week M-Net Movies will release
entertaining trivia about the icon Tom Cruise and the amazing films he has been
a part of.
Still to come are the following:
Cocktail
Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 14h11
Actress Gina Gershon stated in a podcast
Interview that during their bed scene, Tom Cruise, knew she was extremely
ticklish, and tickled her so hard, they both fell off the bed. It was, in fact,
the take used in the movie.
The term for the flamboyant tending of the
bar by Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) and Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) is
"flair bartending" which is an acrobatic bar-tending skill. John
Bandy, a flair bartender, trained Tom Cruise for the film.
Stars Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue had to
endure extremely cold water conditions whilst shooting in Jamaica.
According to the The 80s Movies Rewind
website, "Tom Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers at the time, and it was
rumoured that they fought off-set constantly".
Rain Man
Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 15h56
During filming, Dustin Hoffman and Tom
Cruise doubted the movie's potential and jokingly called it, "Two Schmucks
in a Car".
Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Mel
Gibson turned down the part of Raymond.
Tom Cruise always wanted to rehearse while
filming. He and Dustin Hoffman rehearsed while driving to the set, and in their
trailers during takes. They frequently switched roles.
Sir Michael Caine has revealed that Tom
Cruise's performance in Rain Man was
one of his personal favourites of all he'd ever seen on film.
At one point, this movie was the biggest
grossing Best Picture Oscar winner. It was subsequently surpassed by Forrest
Gump (1994), which had been put into development at a rival studio at roughly
the same time.
Top Gun
Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 18h10
After the "car chase" when
Charlie tells Maverick that she didn't want anyone to find out she was falling
for him, Maverick originally had a line to say. Tom Cruise forgot the line and
"ad-libbed" by kissing Kelly McGillis instead. Tony Scott liked it so
much, he left the scene like that.
Jerry Bruckheimer on convincing Tom Cruise
to sign on to the film after his initial reluctance: "So they (the Navy)
take Tom up there, and they do five Gs. They do barrel rolls, they do everything.
He's heaving in the plane. He gets on the tarmac, runs to a payphone ... and he
said, 'I'm in. I'm doing the movie. I love it. This is great.'"
The tension between Maverick and Iceman
isn't just down to good acting, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer kept their distance
from each other and never socialized.
When Tom Cruise went up in a real F-14 for
the first time, he was with Lieutenant Commander Lloyd "Bozo" Abel.
After Bozo did some manoeuvres, Cruise finally had no choice but to reach for
his sick bag. However, as he did so, Bozo did a manoeuvre that put Cruise's
head to the floor of the cockpit as he struggled to activate the intercom to
tell Bozo what was happening.
Mission: Impossible III
Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 20h00
Tom Cruise did the vast majority of his own
stunts in this film. Most of them were done without major injury. However, he
cracked a couple of ribs once when he turned his upper torso too quickly.
Mission:
Impossible III was J.J. Abrams' directorial debut on
a feature film.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) makes references to
Lake Wanaka. Lake Wanaka is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand, which
Tom Cruise visited while in New Zealand filming The Last Samurai (2003). He
liked the place so much that he included it in this film.
Ethan Hunt makes references to Lake Wanaka.
Lake Wanaka is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand, which Tom Cruise
visited while in New Zealand filming The
Last Samurai (2003). He liked the place so much that he included it in this
film.
David Fincher was first slated to direct
but dropped out to produce Lords of
Dogtown (2005), which he also dropped out of directing. The basic storyline
of the version on which he was working dealt with black market trade of body
parts in Africa.
It's coincidental that one of the disguises
that Tom Cruise adopts in the film is that of a priest. In real life, Cruise
briefly studied to become a priest before he got the acting bug.
Mission
Impossible III was Tom Cruise's eighth movie in a
row to gross over $100m domestically.
A Few Good Men
Sunday, March 22, 2020, at 22h05
Jodie Foster, Linda Hamilton, and Michelle
Pfeiffer were considered for the role of Joanne Galloway.
Tom Cruise's Jack Nicholson impersonation (when
his character is quoting Colonel Jessep) was not scripted. Demi Moore's and
Kevin Pollak's reactions are genuine.
According to Rob Reiner, Tom Cruise would
always stay after rehearsals to work on perfecting his role.
Kevin Bacon praised Kiefer Sutherland for
embracing the darkness of his character. Sutherland praised Tom Cruise for
inspiring him with his acting.
Tom Cruise was attracted to this
challenging role because of the "tremendous writing". He travelled to
New York City to catch the Broadway play before signing on.
Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Lieutenant
Junior Grade. This is one rank below the previous Navy officer whom he
portrayed in Top Gun (1986), Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.
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