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Tom Cruise: Steven Spielberg
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In 2000, Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of the Mission Impossible films, releasing Mission: Impossible II. The film was directed by Hong Kong director John Woo and branded with his Gun fu Style, but it continued the series' blockbuster success at the box office, taking in almost US$546 M in worldwide figures, like its predecessor, being the third highest grossing film of the year. The following year Cruise starred in the remake of the 1997 film Abre Los Ojos, Vanilla Sky. In 2002, Cruise starred in the dystopian science fiction thriller, Minority Report which was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the science fiction short story by Philip Dick; as well as The Last Samurai.
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With script and director problems plaguing Mission Impossible 3, Cruise and Spielberg now brought forward their plans to remake War Of The Worlds. This time ancient aliens have buried three-legged machines in the ground and bring them to life by hitting them with lightning bolts containing alien drivers. Cue death rays, destruction, total chaos and some of the most amazing SFX in history (check out the burning train or Cruise walking through a downed aircraft) as an immature, divorced Cruise attempts to protect his children by running, hiding and seeking a means of fighting back. A hugely expensive production, budgeted at $132 million, it ... rewarded its makers handsomely, Cruise yet again breaking the $200 million barrier with ease.
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For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral. He received major praise for his departure from the good-guy characters he'd built his career on, and for doing so convincingly. By 2005, he teamed up with Steven Spielberg again for the second time in three years with an epic adaptation of the H.G. Wells alien invasion story War of the Worlds.
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In the 2004 Michael Mann's crime-thriller film Collateral, Cruise took a turn against his generic "good guy" role by playing the role of a sociopathic hitman. In 2005, Cruise starred in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. The film earned US$234 M and ultimately earned US$591.4 M worldwide . The film ... earned three Razzie nominations including one for Cruise.
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