Apparently, The Church of Scientology is like the mafia. Couch Jumper apparently used the church to strong arm the movie company to make sure he kept his huge cut of profits from MI:3.
According to the source: Paramount Pictures honcho (Brad) Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3. Grey, who had recently joined the studio, entered the talks determined to make Cruise accept a smaller share of the gross revenues than he had from the first two installments in the franchise. (For those films, the actor reportedly took home an unheard-of 30 percent of the total revenue.) Leaving the office one night, the diminutive Grey, walking to his car in the Paramount lot, suddenly found himself surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor, according to the source. Following a terse exchange, the visitors allowed Grey to get into his car and leave, but the message was clear.
And Tom isn't the only alien worshipper to use these tactics. Apparently that's how John Travolta got that piece of crap movie Battlefield Earth made. And no shock to anybody, that stupid movie was based on a novel written by the cult's leader, L. Ron Hubbard.
More from source: In the late nineties, John Travolta furiously lobbied reluctant former Fox studio chief Bill Mechanic to produce Battlefield Earth, the science-fiction stinker based on a story by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. "He had Scientologists all over me," Mechanic told Radar last year. "They come up to you and they know who you are." (He) was unswayed: "Do you think in any way, shape, or form that weirding me out is going to make me want to make this movie?"
So yeah. Make their movies, or you will swim with the fishes.
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