Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol sets IMAX opening record

IMAX and Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol The IMAX Experience, earned approximately $14 million at the box office in IMAX theatres worldwide during its opening weekend. Domestically, the film generated $10.5 million on 300 IMAX screens, for an IMAX per-screen average of $35,000. Internationally, it generated $3.4 million on 89 ….

Image and movie poster gallery for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

This holiday season, two-time Academy Award-winner Brad Bird directs, with producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, the action-packed spy adventure Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol”. Left without any ….

Mission: Impossible 4 first movie to be released in IMAX before theaters, with added 30 minutes of action

IMAX and Paramount Pictures today announced that Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which was partially shot with IMAX cameras, will begin previews in IMAX beginning Friday, December 16th, 2011, and play through the film’s run at the box office, which begins worldwide on December 21st. This marks the first time a U.S. feature film has ….

Edward Norton circling role as villain in next Jason Bourne spy film

Edward Norton is in talks to play the villain in Universal Picture’s The Bourne Legacy opposite Jeremy Renner, according to Variety. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director Tony Gilroy – who wrote scripts for the previous Jason Bourne adventures – is attached to direct Bourne Legacy from his own screenplay. Rachel Weisz is also attached to ….

Well reviewed Thor to get IMAX 3D release opening day

IMAX, Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment formally announced today that they will indeed release the epic film Thor in digital IMAX theatres worldwide day-and-date on May 6, 2011. The film, which has been getting rave reviews from critics, is based on the Marvel comic of the same name. Thor is directed by Kenneth Branagh, produced ….

Ben Affleck appearing this week for screening and discussion of The Town & Gone Baby Gone in Los Angeles

Actor and director Ben Affleck will attend a screening and discussion of his 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, and this year’s critically acclaimed The Town. In The Town, masked armed robbers hold up a bank and briefly take employee Claire (Rebecca Hall) hostage, leading the gang’s leader Doug (Ben Affleck) to insinuate himself into her ….

Tom Cruise hangs off world’s tallest building for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol stunt

Remember the opening sequence to Mission: Impossible 2, when Tom Cruise ignored warnings from producers, and insisted on doing much of the rock-climbing work at Dead Horse Point in Utah? Well, he’s at it again, this time for the latest sequel in the M:I franchise, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. According to Moviefone, last Saturday, Cruise ….

Maya Entertainment nabs rights to Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut

Maya Entertainment has nabbed U.S. distribution rights to Sympathy for Delicious, the feature directorial debut of Mark Ruffalo, to be released theatrically in the Spring of 2011. Written by Christopher Thornton, who also stars in and produced the project, Sympathy for Delicious follows the true story of a newly paralyzed DJ who gets more than ….

New villains cast in Mission: Impossible 4

Léa Seydoux, the French actress who recently appeared in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and the opening farmhouse scene of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, will butt heads with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4, according to RiskyBusiness. Seydoux will play the lead female villain in the sequel, which just began shooting in Europe. Mission: Impossible 4 ….