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Tom Cruise sells the perfect haircut

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Everyone loves zombie movies, and a zombie apocalypse is fun, so darn it, you better see Tom Cruise now. In a movie. Now.

This weekend, filmgoers flocked to a monster movie suitable for children. They also saw Monsters University. Proving that stories of development woes and behind-the-scenes strife matter only to the entertainment journalists writing about them—a lesson everyone should have learned from Titanic 16 years ago—the troubled production World War Z buried its bad industry buzz with a lively $66 million intact. That's the biggest opening of Brad Pitt's career, edging outs Mr. & Mrs. Smith ($50 million in 2005), which similarly costarred a rail-thin creature with a taste for third-world children. The bloodless Max Brooks adaptation did well enough, in fact, that executives at Paramount are surely fast-tracking its inevitable prequel, The Zombie Survival Guide, starring Tom Cruise as the host of a $200 million infomercial about the safest, most sensible haircut to sport during the zombie apocalypse. (Hint: It's closer to Cruise in A Few Good Men than Cruise in Magnolia.) Lasse Hallström will direct.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/weekend-box-office-audiences-do-the-monster-mash-a,99349/
 

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