Movies, TV Shows, & Film News. on Instagram: "In Vanilla Sky (2001), one of the most striking and surreal sequences shows Tom Cruise running through a completely deserted Times Square. The image of one of the busiest places in the world emptied out added to the dreamlike, unsettling mood of the film. Director Cameron Crowe insisted on filming it practically, shutting down Times Square at dawn for just a few minutes at a time. The cost of pulling this off was enormous—permits, police coordination