We get Graham Norton's UK chat show about 3 or 4 weeks after it screens there, and it's often very funny. (It is just about the most relaxed celebrity chat show ever made, I reckon - is it because of the alcohol served?)
Anyway, last night's episode featured Tom Cruise promoting The Mummy (along with his female co-star whose name I don't recall), and Zac Efron, appearing to promote Baywatch.
Both movies were - shortly after that show was taped - pretty much panned by most critics and are already considered box office failures. (Although, I see that The Mummy has made $300 million internationally in a few weeks of release, so at a claimed production cost of $120 million, it's not a complete disaster - even allowing for the rule of thumb that a movie has to make about 3 times its production costs before it becomes profitable. Baywatch is doing considerably worse. But for a complete, it won't even make its production cost disaster, look at Guy Ritchies' King Arthur movie. Why does anyone employ him?)
However, on last night's appearance on Norton, both Cruise and Efron seemed very genuinely positive about their respective movies. Either they are really good at faking it; really unable to see defects in their own movies; or the movies are better than what most critics and audiences seem to think. (I seriously doubt that with respect to Baywatch, where even Zafron was talking about its high quotient of penis jokes.)
Anyway, somehow while browsing the net after the show, I stumbled across a Simon Pegg twitter account, and he was talking about being in Queenstown, New Zealand, shooting for Mission Impossible 6. Indeed, it has been in the New Zealand media. I wonder if NZ is standing in for some other country?
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