We’ve got another guest blog from Jacobs Media’s Dave Beasing:
No actor in history has made more money for Paramount Studios than Tom Cruise. So why would Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone publicly dump the actor? Some insiders say other studio chiefs are privately wondering the same thing, worried his rough handling of the decision might frost relations with other artists.
Yet for others, that Paramount severed its 14-year relationship with Cruise serves as a reminder that – in business – it’s impossible to separate the personal from the professional. Some say that Cruise’s unusual off-screen behavior hurt the box office take of Mission Impossible III. Whether that’s true – or whether a bad script is partly to blame – investors demand results. They demand that Tom talk about his movies during interviews rather than argue about psychology, that actress Lindsey Lohan not party the night before work, and that Mel Gibson not make offensive, drunken remarks. Whether you’re in movies, television, on the radio – or just hope to be seen as a leader in your industry or community – public behavior matters.
Business is business. Even show business.
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