You know, given Cruise's frequent box office failures.

Tom Cruise’s new film “Lions for Lambs” didn’t even crack the top three at the box office, and “Tom is not happy,” says a source close to the actor. “Lions,” Cruise’s first release since “Mission Impossible: III,” is also the first film to come from Cruise and Paula Wagner’s United Artists studio.

“Tom wanted to really hit a home run with his first United Artists movie,” says another source. “It was more about how the industry was going to view him than the moviegoing public that Tom was worried about.”

Oh, I see. it isn't how the little people who buy tickets to the movies view him. Rather, it is how the insiders in the motion picture industry view him that matters.

Could that be why he stars in movies that are critical and commercial failures as often as he stars in hits?

And could that attitude explain why Hollywood really doesn't attract viewers like it used to? After all, when the consumer doesn't matter to the producers, the result is lower sales.

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