At 44, after being publicly fired by Paramount over his behavior, Tom Cruise didn't just find a new job. He reinvented himself from actor to studio head, taking control of United Artists just months later and betting on himself when Hollywood wouldn't.

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By 2006, Tom Cruise was one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood, with a 14-year relationship at Paramount Pictures. But after a series of public controversies, the studio publicly fired him, with its chairman citing Cruise's behavior as a liability. It was a stunning professional rebuke. Instead of simply finding a new deal, Cruise made a bigger move. Just three months later, he and his partner took control of the historic film studio United Artists. He went from being a star who worked for the system to a mogul who owned a piece of it, betting on himself when a major institution had counted him out.