CONGRATULATIONS, BOSS!

Thanks to fans all over the world, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol is not only the highest-grossing film of the four film MI franchise, it’s also the highest-grossing film in Tom’s 30-year movie career! With more than $603 million earned worldwide, it has surpassed War of the Worlds ($591.7 million) to put Tom in rare company: According to deadline.com, in the last 15 years, he has been involved with five of Paramount Pictures’ top 10 grossing films.  To put this milestone in perspective, click here to see all the movies in Tom’s filmography that Ghost Protocol out grossed.

More than just an action-adventure spy film, M:I4 was a massive physical achievement for Tom. Much has been made about his live-action stunt work, and the Burj Khalifa scenes are fast becoming the stuff of legend. Choosing Brad Bird to direct his first live-action film has also paid off handsomely, as well as the decision to shoot more than 20 minutes of the film in IMAX. So stunning are some of these scenes that people have actually experienced vertigo.

#TeamTC not only wants to congratulate Tom for this great success but we also most sincerely want to thank the fans around the world who made this impressive achievement possible!

Here’s to continued success in 2012!

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Tom’s 2012 is starting with the same sizzle his 2011 ended with. Thanks to fans like you, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol is poised to become Tom’s highest-grossing film ever, with $580.3 million in worldwide revenue to date. That’s only $12 million behind War of the Worlds, his most successful movie.

And now he’s honored to be presenting at the 84^th Academy Awards on Sunday, February 26^th.  Fans who have followed his career closely know this isn’t his first dance with the entertainment industry’s most hallowed ceremony: Not only has Tom received three Academy Award nominations, one each for his roles in Born On The Fourth Of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, but he also presented the Best Director Oscar to Steven Soderbergh for his work on Traffic at the 73rd Academy Awards ceremony.

Click here to watch Tom present Steven Soderbergh with the Oscar for Best Director at the 73rd Academy Awards.

If you didn’t get to see Tom when he and much of the Mission: Impossible crew visited four continents to spread the word about Ghost Protocol, then here’s your chance. The award ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to 225 countries around the world.  If you already have plans that night, no problem! Download the official Oscars app here, and follow the excitement wherever you are.

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We asked you to share your favorite quotes (#TCMovieQuotes) by a Tom Cruise character and you responded with speed and volume! So, are you ready for the truth about the “Show Us The Quote” results? (We know you can handle them.) You guys took our question to heart and demonstrated a superior and expansive knowledge of quotes from characters portrayed by Tom Cruise. Although the responses covered his entire 30-year acting career, the most popular will be familiar to everyone, and for good reason: Fans will be reciting them deep into the 21^st century.

After culling your responses from the various TomCruise.com social media channels and sorting for popularity (and for appropriateness for all audiences), we’ve included five of the most popular quotes straight from the movies themselves. Included below the movie clips are tweets from fans with quotes that stuck in their cerebral cortex, and that’s followed by a list of the next most memorable moments in Tom’s film career, according to your feedback.

So, without further adieu, here are the fan favorites.

Jerry Maguire

“Show Me The Money.”

There are few scenes from the last 20 years of film more memorable than this classic with Cuba and Tom, and it’s no surprise that it ranks as one of your favorites.

Top Gun

“I feel the need, the need for speed!”

Who could resist throwing this line around after the movie debuted in 1986? Even today it finds itself in heavy rotation where wheels and wings are involved.

A Few Good Men

“I want the truth!”

Quotable courtroom dramas could fill your queue at Netfix for a month. But there’s something unforgettable about this head-to-head encounter between Cruise and Nicholson.

Knight and Day

“I’ve been trained to dismantle a bomb in the pitch black with nothing but a safety pin and a Junior Mint.”

Cruise and Diaz sizzled together in this spy thriller, and this was just one of many great lines that lodged in your memory.

Jerry Maguire

“You complete me.”

This movie is literally chockablock with quotable lines, so it’s no surprise a few turned up in the top five.

Straight From Twitter

As we said above, fans had Tom’s entire career covered in quotes. These tweets show just how deep you guys went into his filmography.

THE BEST OF THE REST

After the admittedly awesome Cruise character quotes above, the following quotes are also frequently mentioned by fans as all-time favorites:

VANILLA SKY

Tom Cruise as David Aames:

“Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.”

“Do you remember what you told me once? That every passing minute is a another chance to turn it all around.”

THE LAST SAMURAI

Tom Cruise as Nathan Algren:

“There is life in every breath.”

“A man does what he can until his destiny is revealed.”

MAGNOLIA

Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey:

“In this life, it’s not what you hope for. It’s not what you deserve. It’s what you take!”

JERRY MAGUIRE

Tom Cruise as Jerry Maguire:

“I am out here for you. You don’t know what it’s like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?

TOP GUN

Tom Cruise as Maverick:

“That’s classified. I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”

“This is what I call a target-rich environment.”

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With more than 30 movies wrapped and sealed for posterity on the silver screen, Tom Cruise can fill a weighty tome with unforgettable quotes from his myriad characters—and every Tom Cruise fan has a favorite quote. In the name of public service—and harmless fun—we at Team TC have a question for you: What quote from a Tom Cruise character is your absolute, one-and-only favorite?

Sounds simple, right? Check back up top. With 30 films, Tom has uttered many mouthfuls of memorable quotes, and what you loved last year might begin to pale when held up to another great movie moment. And once you start to compile your list, the hardest part will not be selecting an iconic quote but tearing yourself away from watching every movie “just one more time.”

If you’re game to throw some quotes our way, submit them in the blog comments section below, on Twitter with #TCMovieQuotes, or as a comment on Facebook, Orkut, Gree, Sina Weibo, Google+ and Tencent Weibo posts.

We’ll stop taking entries at 9 a.m. PST Friday, January 27th, so start quoting now!

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“This place is about to become a sea of sweat, ear-shattering music, and puke.” So goes the flamboyant and outrageous Rock of Ages movie trailer released by Warner Bros. Pulling a 180-degree role reversal from Ethan Hunt, Cruise, with long hair, tats and hardly a shirt to speak of, steps into the swaggering guise of 1980’s rocker Stacee Jaxx in the film version of the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages. Watch Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and others vamp, dance, sing and swill their way through a Glam Rock Hollywood circa 1987 complete with big hair and bigger egos. Def Leppard, Foreigner, Journey, Poison, Twister Sister and other incomparable 1980s rockers provide the soundtrack for this promiscuous rock-n-roll romance.

Based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, Rock of Ages tells the tale of a small-town girl and a young man from South Detroit who follow their rock-star dreams to Los Angeles in 1987. Rock of Ages stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), Mary J. Blige (@MaryJBlige), Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta (@DiegoBoneta) and Julianne Hough (@JulianneHough).

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George Lucas is no stranger to Tom Cruise fans. Although the famous director of the Star Wars empire hasn’t helmed any of Tom’s films, the technology developed by his company Lucasfilm Ltd has figured prominently in Minority Report, War of the Worlds and Mission: Impossible.

That same technology is at work in the visually stunning Red Tails, which Lucas executive produced. Twenty-three years in the making, the movie follows the heroic and turbulent true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American fighter pilots who overcame rampant racism and intense cultural prejudice during World War II to distinguish themselves as some of the war efforts most talented and dedicated flyers. Lucas believed so strongly in the necessity of bringing this story to the silver screen that he invested millions of dollars of his own money to get it made. If its opening weekend is any indication, this high-octane aerial adventure should reward that heavy personal investment.

But Lucas isn’t the only familiar face to Cruise fans in Red Tails. Playing the role of Major Emmanuel Stance is the one-and-only Cuba Gooding, Jr. The Show-Me-The-Money star of Jerry Maguire is involved with this story for the second time. In 1995, he acted in HBO’s “The Tuskegee Airmen”, along with Laurence Fishburne. For that production he told The Huffington Post recently that he went through a boot camp-style training program and flew with professional pilots, an experience that often left his lunch in his lap after repeated loops and spirals. As intense as the training could be, and as visually electric as the film is, the reality of the story does more than just provide fodder for an action-adventure movie. Gooding told MTV.com that it is also “educating the audience of what African Americas did in the war effort in World War II.” Combine that history lesson with Lucas’s skill at generating tension, and “you’re going to see an amusement park ride,” says Gooding.

For a taste of what he’s talking about, check out the official trailer.

Red Tails Story Synopsis

Inspired by the perseverance and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails begins its story with World War II in full swing. As the war continues to take its toll on Allied Forces in Europe, the Pentagon brass, desperate to protect its dwindling numbers of bombers, look to an option previously considered unthinkable. At long last it gives the Tuskegee Airmen the chance to prove themselves in battle and forever put to rest the misplaced belief that blacks lacked the courage, discipline, and intelligence to be fighter pilots. Against all the odd, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in awe-inspiring displays of bravery and heroism to fight for their country and for the fate of the free world.

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If you, like the flight deck here at TomCruise.com, are always gazing heavenward and imagining F-14 Tomcats tangling with MiG-28 military aircraft, then take heart, we have a solution for you: For the first time ever, Paramount Home Entertainment made Top Gun‘s Blu-ray and digital copy combo available for purchase via Facebook. The offer is now over but you’re in luck—Tomcruise.com will continue to give away free copies all week!

Click here to find out if you have the TG trivia knowledge to take home a copy compliments of Team TC and Paramount Home Entertainment.

The Blu-Ray and digital copy combo of Top Gun is packed with extras that are sure to invoke a need for speed!

Special Features

• Commentary by Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Director Tony Scott, Co-Screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr., and Naval Experts
• Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun (6-Part Documentary)
• Multi-Angle Storyboards with Optional Commentary by Director Tony Scott
• Best Of The Best: Inside The Real Top Gun

Vintage Gallery

• Kenny Loggins: “Danger Zone”
• Berlin: “Take My Breath Away”
• Loverboy: “Heaven In Your Eyes”
• Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens: “Top Gun Anthem”
• TV Spots
• Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
• Survival Training Featurette
• Tom Cruise Interviews

HOW YOU CAN WIN A FREE COPY OF TOP GUN!

Thanks to Paramount Home Entertainment, we have copies of Top Gun to giveaway— but you’ll have to earn it. No, you don’t have to go through flight school. To win, be the first to answer the following Top Gun trivia question correctly in the blog comment section below! RULES: YOU MUST BE 18 OR OVER TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PLAY. TomCruise.com reserves the right to redefine game rules, prize awards, and winner eligibility requirements at any time.

Top Gun Trivia Question #5: We have a winner of the last blu-ray & digital copy giveaway this week! Megan V. was the first to answer the below question correctly!

Decode the FINAL clue in our week-long Top Gun trivia series! Provide the words in their correct order and specify their significance to the film Top Gun.

Clue: Dehu Naoyy lacoafniri  iagnzmae

Answer: Top Gun was inspired by the article “Top Guns” written by Ehud Yonay for California magazine.

That does it for this week’s Top Gun trivia series folks! It certainly flew by A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the contest and congratulations again to all the winners!

Top Gun Trivia Question #4: We have a winner of the fourth blu-ray & digital copy giveaway! ‘Geoteter’ was the first to answer the below question correctly!

Put Your Mind Burners On! Unscramble the fourth clue in our week-long Top Gun trivia contest. Give us the answer and its significance to the film Top Gun!

Clue: naiajk9nisaka0w0

Answer: The Kawasaki Ninja 900 motorcycle was ridden by Maverick in the film!

If you haven’t won already, we’ll be rounding off this weeks Top Gun trivia series with ONE last chance for you to play for a Top Gun blu-ray and digital copy! Stay tuned for your challenge coming later today!

Top Gun Trivia Question #3: We have a winner of the third blu-ray & digital copy giveaway! @Jonjobutcher was the first to answer the below question correctly!

What 80′s band featured in Rock of Ages was considered to record the Top Gun theme song “Danger Zone” before Kenny Loggins?
Answer: Kenny Loggins got the Top Gun gig for the hit single “Danger Zone”, but REO Speedwagon, who is featured in the Rock of Ages musical, was considered first.

Congratulations @Jonjobutcher! For your chance to win the Top Gun blu-ray and digital copy, make sure to check back in for trivia question #4 later today!

Top Gun Trivia Question #2: We have a winner of the second giveaway! Kevin Bell was the first to answer the below question correctly!

What Top Gun actor has appeared in three Tony Scott films?
Answer: Val Kilmer, who played “Ice man” in Top Gun. He teamed up with director Tony Scott in two more films: True Romance and Deja Vu.

We’ll be giving away the Top Gun Blu-ray and digital copy combo all week so make sure to stay tuned for your next chance to win!

Top Gun Trivia Question #1: We have a winner of the first giveaway. @Shirlise was the first to answer the question below correctly and takes home the Blu-Ray and digital copy combo of  Top Gun.

How many times is James Tolkan addressed by his character name throughout the film? Answer: Zero times. The character, Stinger, is only referred to as ‘Sir.”

Check back shortly for the next trivia question and yet another chance to add this Cruise classic to your film library.

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The Burj Khalifa’s prominent role in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the biggest part to date for this colossal architectural feat of steel and glass that currently ranks as the world’s tallest building. Letting Tom Cruise spend some quality time clinging to its gleaming and impenetrable-seeming façade only increased its cache as an up-and-coming figure in international cinema.

Tom’s derring-do in Dubai has been well-documented here, and for good reason: Where actors step aside for stuntmen or perform what appear to be dangerous acts in front of a green screen, Tom opts for authenticity by leaping headlong out the window himself. And while that sometimes seems the domain of the mad man, there are people who actually make it their business to punch the clock on the outside of the world’s most difficult to access structures.

Enter Megarme, an industrial rope-access firm whose job it is to repair, paint, clean, fasten and otherwise perform maintenance on the most hard to reach structures on the planet. Exhibit A below gives you a good idea of what this work entails. Remember, this is their day job.

The technicians in the work-at-height sector, as it is known, must be IRATA-certified (International Rope Access Trade Association)—and fearless. One day they might be rappelling down Tornado Tower in Qatar and the next they’re changing lights on an oil rig deep in the heart of the Indian Ocean. But certification alone isn’t enough to get you up the elite limited-access buildings.

“You wouldn’t send someone who is fresh out of a course up a building like the Burj Khalifa,” said Daniel Gill, Megarme’s head of business development. “There is a very big difference between having a piece of paper that says you can do it, and actually going up and doing it.”

If washing the windows on the Burj Khalifa is your dream job, start tying your knots now.

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If you haven’t seen Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in IMAX, time is running out.  On January 20^th the fourth installment in the M:I franchise ends its engagement on most IMAX screens—and with it goes the chance to witness some of the most awe-inspiring footage shot in this format.

The 70mm IMAX camera brings a clarity and vividness to the movie experience that is unmatched by 35mm film. Director Brad Bird said he chose IMAX for the bright, sharp imagery and the intense visceral feeling the format creates on the screen. For those reasons, some of Tom’s most daring stunts are captured with this unique camera, including the scenes on the Burj Khalifa, the Kremlin explosion and the climactic car-park scene. In fact, in the video below, Bird mentions the vertigo some viewers experienced when confronted with the huge IMAX screens. About 30 minutes of the film was shot in 70mm, so if you had the pleasure of seeing it on a traditional screen, catching it on IMAX in its final week will add another layer of awe to the experience.

In case you’re waffling about whether to take in this visual treat, check out what fans had to say after catching M:I4 on IMAX.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol had a record December opening for an IMAX film, and to date has grossed $509,447,000 in all theaters worldwide.

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You would be forgiven for watching Minority Report in 2002 and marveling at the incredible technology and the nimble minds that concocted such things, and then relegating it all to the far-reaches of your memory. Most movies with a futuristic bent have significantly overshot the mark on how technology will alter the future. Because of that, movie tech is mostly fun for the ‘what-if’ factor, and not for waiting up at night, thinking, “I can’t wait to get one of those!”

Minority Report, however, sought a more realistic future world, and Steven Spielberg consulted technology professionals to help create gadgets that wouldn’t press the “yeah, right’’ button in viewers too often.

When it came to computer processing, Spielberg’s man for the job was John Underkoffler. Underkoffler proposed a computer that Cruise would control with gestures, by simply pointing and waving his hands and arms like a conductor to process data. Keyboards and touch screens certainly had no place in the year 2055. Spielberg loved the idea.

Far from producing an attractive model that would smolder on the silver screen and end up in the junk pile at the end of production, Underkoffler built an actual working model at MIT. Since that time he has refined the technology, and now, through his company Oblong, offers something very similar to what you saw in the movie. Of course it’s not quite ready for prime time – meaning the casual consumer. At half a million dollars, the system is expensive, but Underkoffler believes that with time it will not only become more affordable but it could figure in any technology with a computer chip such microwaves, TVs and car dashboards.

In this scene from Minority Report, Tom puts Underkoffler’s computer through the paces.

Minority Report Synopsis

For six year, Washington D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Precrime Unit (Cruise)  is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up or he’ll fall victim to the perfect system he helped create.“It’s a mind-blowing action thriller that’s such an achievement it reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place.”  ( Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.)

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