Tom Cruise could be seen as a leading man in a holding pattern right now. The fans still come out for his films, but maybe the base hasn't grown despite an impressive box office record carried into the 2000's. It depends where you consider that base should come from. "Oblivion," his latest, banked a solid non-3D $38 million by the end of Sunday. One wonders what that does for the Cruise brand: consider that back in 2001, Cruise guided "Minority Report" to a very similar gross. Given more than a decade of inflation and absolutely zero competition as studios clear the decks for "Iron Man 3" in May, shouldn't you expect more?Yes and no. Outside of the "Mission Impossible" films, easily Cruise's best performing franchise, "Oblivion" is Cruise's second highest opening after Spielberg's "War of The Worlds" which peeled wide to a whopping $64 million in 2005 (in another era before the recession and rampant movie pirating). Plus internationally, where Cruise is a mega megastar,...
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