‘Generous’ Tom Cruise threw a $150,000 party for his London cast & crew
A rough-looking Tom Cruise has finally wrapped filming on All You Need Is Kill, which he’s been working on in London since last September (with the first mega-craptastic film still of Tom crapping his pants in robot suit surfacing in November). If that seems like a long time even for an big-budget action movie to finish filming, consider also that the film relies on a time-loop gimmick, so it’s been a case of the entire cast and crew being subjected to very similar situations that probably feel like the same scenario on repeat. So it’s like Groundhog Day, but instead of Bill Murray, we’re getting an evil, lift-wearing monkey, and any humor will be of the unintentional variety.
But alas, the film has now wrapped, and Tom Cruise has decided that his time in London was such an amazing experience (which is interesting since much of Tom’s time has been spent awkwardly raving in nightclubs) that he decided to throw the party to end all parties for the cast and crew to the tune of $150,000, and of course his team leaked the details of the bash to make Tom look like such an awesome dude. I noticed that the informant in this story neglected to mention the Scientology-themed goody bags, but here are the nauseatingly gushy details:
Tom Cruise may just be the most generous superstar in all of Hollywood. The acting legend spent a whopping £s;100,000 on a wrap party for cast and crew on his latest blockbuster – but failed to attend the glitzy celebration himself.
Tom, 50, was in London filming All You Need Is Kill, and planned the huge celebration for the entire cast and crew. Unfortunately, the Top Gun star found himself stuck on set until late on Saturday night as filming ran over and he was not able to join the lavish party he had paid for.
Cruise booked one of the top five star luxury venues in town with free food and drink all night for the 400 people who worked on the film. Tom got his people to book the luxurious Altitude London venue on the 28th floor of the Millbank Tower near the Houses of Parliament.
A source close to the action hero told Mail Online: “He chose the venue because it has the most amazing panoramic view of the whole of London.” But due to filming over-running Tom wasn’t able to attend his own leaving do. The source added: “He was still at the studios right up till late Saturday night filming last minute action sequences to the multi-million budget action flick.”
Instructions were sent from the set to managers at the venue that there should be a free bar all night with unlimited champagne and cocktails. The source said: “By the end of the night over 350 bottles of champagne had been popped. There were also delicious canapes of crab cakes, Chinese dim sum, mini Kobe beef burgers, sausage and mash, and satay chicken.”
One of the crew at the party told Mail Online: “Tom’s had an incredible time filming this movie, he’s ridden a vintage motorbike down the Mall to Buckingham Palace and dropped out of a helicopter into Trafalgar Square.
“He said that filming in London has been one of the greatest experiences of his life, and this was his way of saying thank you to all the production team that made it possible.”
The crew member added: “I’ve worked on quite a few Hollywood films and with big star names, but this is without a doubt the most lavish wrap party I’ve ever been to. There’s going to be a few sore heads on Sunday morning though.”
The shindig included a DJ playing all night up to 3am and the party got started early with people wading in at 9pm at the free bar. Hundreds of full champagne flutes were lined up across the bar and were replenished as soon as they were drunk. Waitresses kept going round with seemingly never ending trays of canapes.
There was even a dressing up cupboard laid on complete with Mission: Impossible style outfits and a photo-booth so that crew could take pictures of themselves because there was a strict no photos rule in the party.
[From Daily Mail]
Well of course Tom missed the party that he so selflessly organized because he’s such a hard little worker bee and had to finish the last night of filming on set. I would be willing to bet a copy of Dianetics that this party was written into the film’s budget with Tom necessarily getting all of the credit. I’m sort of wondering exactly what Tom will be doing in the immediate aftermath of this latest gig. He’s got a lot of movies on his roster and is due to start promoting Oblivion soon, but this will be his first official mini-break since Katie filed for divorce last summer. Tom doesn’t do well with downtime, so this could get funky.
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