Is Tom Cruise the next Charlie Chaplin? He and his production partner Paula Wagner have taken control of United Artists, the studios set up by Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. But does Cruise, who was sacked by Paramount after his bizarre public antics were deemed to have hurt the box-office performance of Mission: Impossible III, have the nous to run a studio making four films a year? Time will tell.