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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 ….

Drew Struzan-looking Super 8 movie poster online

Super 8 hits theaters today, and so does this Drew Struzan-looking movie poster featuring some of the film’s main young cast members. Super 8 is written and directed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Steven Spielberg and stars Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler, Ron ….

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 ….

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 ….

Dragon Tattoo actor to play villain in Mission: Impossible IV

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) has been tapped to play the villain for Paramount’s fourth Mission: Impossible film, according to Variety. The Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)-directed espionage thriller is set to begin shooting this fall in ….

Lost and Alias creator producing period robot graphic novel adaptation

Paramount Pictures, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production shingle nabbed rights to the graphic novel Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a story centered on a robot set in the Victorian Age, HeatVision reports. Boilerplate was written by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, and tells the story of the world’s first robot, who purportedly, in the ….

Simon Pegg in talks to return for Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible 4

Simon Pegg is in negotiations to reprise his role as lab geek Benji Dunn in Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 4, which will be directed by Brad Bird, according to Heat Vision. While not officially greenlit, the film is eyeing an early September start. Brad Bird is known for animated fare, including Ratatouille, The Incredibles and animated ….

Resident Evil: Afterlife joins IMAX slate of big screen releases

IMAX and Sony Pictures today announced that Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released to digital IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s wide release on September 10, 2010. Resident Evil: Afterlife was photographed in 3D using the same equipment used to lens Avatar, will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX ….

JJ Abrams and Stephen Spielberg team up for Super 8

HeatVisionBlog has posted details on JJ Abrams’ and Stephen Spielberg’s hush-hush collaboration project, tentatively titled Super 8, which they concocted a year ago from discussions of their own early filmmaking experiences. Apparently bits and pieces about the project began bubbling up last week. Abrams wrote and will direct the film this fall for a summer ….