As one of many world’s largest film stars, Tom Cruise is a big advocate for the theatrical expertise. He is made it his mission to do something he can to maintain theaters flourishing, even when which means risking his life for death-defying stunts that audiences can see on the large display screen or mendacity to studios and international locations in the course of the pandemic to maintain productions going.
Cruise’s perception in theaters paid off with High Gun: Maverick changing into the summer season blockbuster of 2022 because it grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide. With phrases like “we’ll see you on the motion pictures” now changing into a signature of his, he is embraced a place as the largest champion of theaters, a title that solely Christopher Nolan could possibly problem.
One of many methods Cruise has achieved it’s by going out of his solution to “endorse” numerous movies as titles individuals should go see in theaters. He did this in years previous with Tenet, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Twisters posting on social media that he went to the theater to see the movie and inspiring audiences to do the identical.
This development has continued in 2025, with the A-list star throwing his identify behind just a few main titles. In every case, they’re movies that he believes need to be seen on the large display screen, and virtually all additionally contain individuals with whom Cruise has labored intently in his profession. These are the 5 2025 movies with the Tom Cruise signal of approval.
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Sinners
Ryan Coogler’s vampire-filled horror/musical about black artists, Sinners, is without doubt one of the finest motion pictures of 2025. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, and Jack O’Connell, the movie shocked everybody with how properly it did in theaters.
Warner Bros. wager massive on Coogler’s imaginative and prescient, and audiences responded extremely properly, leading to a $366 million field workplace haul. Cruise had no involvement with the making of Sinners, nor has he ever labored with Coogler or Jordan earlier than. However that did not cease him from praising the movie on social media after he noticed it throughout its second weekend in theaters.
Cruise took it upon himself to congratulate “Ryan [Coogler], Michael [B. Jordan], and to your complete solid and crew” in his social media put up earlier than telling his followers that it is a “should see in a cinema,” surprisingly with no point out of the movie’s IMAX availability.
So why did Cruise assist Sinners? He did signal an unique take care of Warner Bros. final 12 months, however he did not make any effort to spotlight one thing like A Minecraft Film from the studio. This may occasionally have simply been a case of the actor loving seeing an unique style film made by individuals he admires do properly in theaters.
Along with highlighting an ideal theatrical expertise, Cruise may additionally have thrown assist behind Sinners out of an curiosity in working with Coogler and Jordan sooner or later. The latter got here to Mission: Unimaginable — The Last Reckoning‘s London premiere afterwards, and Cruise instructed he’d like to make a film with him. Maybe one thing is within the works?
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Mission: Unimaginable — The Last Reckoning
Within the least surprising improvement, Cruise desperately wished individuals to see his film, Mission: Unimaginable — The Last Reckoning, in theaters this 12 months. Main as much as its launch over Memorial Day weekend, he did all the pieces he might to advertise the ultimate movie within the franchise.
Whereas this included loads of posts on social media, Cruise additionally had many extra obligations to advertise this one. Late-night discuss reveals, press junkets, premieres all over the world, and extra had been achieved to place butts in seats. He even did an extended interview with Pat McAfee on ESPN to try to actually drum up curiosity with male audiences.
His tireless promotional tour principally paid off. The Last Reckoning made $598 million on the field workplace, which marked a rise on Mission: Unimaginable — Lifeless Reckoning’s efficiency. Because the movie did properly, Cruise made positive to thank all of the filmmakers, crew members, and co-stars he had, in addition to each theater that carried the movie for a file opening weekend and all the workers who labored on the places.
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Ballerina
On the heels of The Last Reckoning‘s launch, Cruise confirmed his assist for a “rival” motion film. The primary-ever John Wick spinoff film, Ballerina, got here out two weeks later with the hopes of continuous the Keanu Reeves-led franchise’s surging success.
Keanu returned because the principally silent hitman for a small half, with Ana de Armas moving into the lead position of Ballerina. Whereas Cruise has praised the John Wick franchise prior to now, it was Armas’ involvement within the image that led the actor to present the movie his assist on social media.
Cruise shared his private opinion on the spinoff earlier than this, as he referred to as it “simply kick a**” in his Ballerina assessment. So when it got here time for a social media put up, he used it as a solution to encourage audiences to see two motion motion pictures in a single weekend. This was doubtless attributable to his relationship with Ana de Armas.
Forward of Ballerina‘s launch, it was revealed that she would co-star with Cruise within the Doug Liman-directed supernatural underwater film Deeper. It was then reported that the 2 performers had been in a romantic relationship. Nonetheless, Deeper has hit setbacks since then, and the romance has reportedly ended.
For Cruise, backing Ballerina was one other probability to assist a colleague and shut acquaintance. That did not wind up benefiting the movie a lot, as Ballerina‘s field workplace underwhelmed, ending at $137 million worldwide.
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F1: The Film
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In one other try and again a significant motion blockbuster, Cruise was very supportive of F1: The Film. Apple Studios gave the Formulation 1 racing film starring Brad Pitt a theatrical launch in IMAX slightly than put it straight to streaming, they usually had been rewarded with a $629 million field workplace hit.
Cruise took a unique technique right here to indicate his assist. He went to the European premiere of F1 and walked the crimson carpet, snagging footage with Pitt, with whom he starred in Interview with the Vampire over 30 years in the past. It is a uncommon Hollywood operate for a film that’s not his, however that is as a result of his connections to F1 run deep.
Not solely did Cruise and Pitt star collectively in a film in 1994 (and had been connected to make an earlier model of Ford v Ferrari), however F1 is directed by Joseph Kosinski, whom Cruise labored with beforehand on Oblivion and, extra notably, High Gun: Maverick. He and Kosinski are poised to reunite on High Gun 3, and he clearly wished to indicate assist for his newest movie.
The film can be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, a longtime collaborator of Cruise’s. They labored collectively on the High Gun movies in addition to Cruise’s racing film Days of Thunder. The latter got here out 35 years to the day earlier than F1, which is why Cruise used the latter’s launch as an opportunity to have a good time his prior movie.
There’s even been some enjoyable discussions a few potential F1 sequel crossing over with Days of Thunder. If that occurs, then Cruise’s assist of the unique will actually have paid off.
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The Operating Man
The most recent 2025 film that Tom Cruise has supported is The Operating Man. The contemporary adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, which was beforehand dropped at the display screen starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987, beneficial properties Cruise’s assist thanks to 1 man: Glen Powell.
They obtained to know one another by way of High Gun: Maverick, the place Powell auditioned for Rooster and impressed Cruise a lot that he beefed up Hangman’s position to present Powell a considerable position after Rooster went to Miles Teller. It was throughout this film that Powell discovered numerous classes from Cruise about appearing and being a film star and began making use of them to his personal profession.
With High Gun: Maverick serving as a breakout position, Powell adopted Cruise’s recommendation and rapidly grew to become an under-40 actor Hollywood seen as a field workplace draw after hits in Anybody However You and Twisters. The latter additionally gained Cruise’s public assist, and he referred to as again to that second when praising The Operating Man.
This offers Powell the consideration of being the one actor to have a number of motion pictures endorsed by Cruise. The 63-year-old star even made positive to spotlight how humorous and thrilling The Operating Man to present audiences a way of what they’ll anticipate when it comes out on November 14.
With the 12 months coming to an in depth, this very properly could possibly be the final 2025 film that Tom Cruise helps in such a public method, until he desires to advocate for a blockbuster like Avatar: Hearth and Ash or Marty Supreme to again one other rising star in Timothée Chalamet, who’s a fan of the motion star’s work.
- Birthname
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THOMAS CRUISE MAPOTHER IV
- Birthdate
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July 3, 1962
- Birthplace
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Syracuse, New York, USA
- Career
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Actor
- Professions
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Actor, Producer