Meanwhile, Tom Cruise is to attend a scaled-down screening of his new film Jack Reacher in Pittsburgh.

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Where is George W.--the great reacher-out, the great healer--while that is going on?

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Whether all this will provoke a Reacher franchise remains to be seen.

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While Jack Reacher might not have been huge, it still beat the slew of other new movies that hit theaters this week.

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Of the five new films that opened wide, only Reacher and the Judd Apatow comedy This Is 40 ranked in the top 5.

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Based on the best-selling book One Shot from author Lee Childs, Reacher is supposed to be the kind of movie that Cruise excels in.

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The only two non-erotic novels in the mass market fiction chart were Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller, The Affair, and John Grisham's The Litigators.

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Paramount Pictures said the decision for Jack Reacher was made "out of honour and respect for the families of the victims whose lives were senselessly taken".

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On Saturday, premieres in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles for Tom Cruise's new action film Reacher and Billy Crystal comedy Parental Guidance were postponed in light of the shootings.

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Now comes Jack Reacher.

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