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Tom Cruise confirmed for another Impossible Mission if Knight and Day performs overseas

Paramount has been quietly putting together a fourth installment of Mission: Impossible, and according to THR, the studio has gotten Tom Cruise to commit to returning as “C.I.A. Agent Ethan Hunt.” According to the report, Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said Tuesday. “We absolutely are excited about having Tom Cruise star in this movie.” But ….

Biggest names in Hollywood gather for “Night Before” fundraiser

As Tinsel Town gets ready for its biggest night of the year, Academy Award nominees and presenters joined some of the most well-known film stars in the world for the eighth annual “Night Before” party to benefit the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF). Money raised supports the extensive programs and services MPTF provides to ….

Quantum Of Solace director circling Ludlum espionage thriller

According to Variety, Paramount has tapped Quantum Of Solace director Marc Forster for its adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s political thriller The Chancellor Manuscript. According to report, the studio has also contracted Peter O’Brien – who wrote a much buzzed about script for a female-driven thriller titled Unlocked – to write a new draft of the ….

Johnny Depp in talks to play opposite Angelina Jolie in spy thriller The Tourist

Johnny Depp is now in negotiations to star with Angelina Jolie in Sony Pictures’ espionage thriller The Tourist, according to Variety, which Graham King’s GK Films is financing and distributing in association with the studio. Tim Headington, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman are also attached to produce. Depp would play the role of ….

Columbia grabs jail-set action horror film script Supermax

Columbia has nabbed a spec script titled Supermax from actors-turned-writers Mitch Rouse and Christopher Nelson, according to THR. Todd Garner is producing the project. Supermax is an action horror set inside a maximum-security prison for the supernatural, focused on a skilled prison guard who is re-assigned to the facility. After a riot erupts, he must ….

Robert Downey Jr. eyeing the role of Lestat in The Vampire Chronicles

According to BloodyDisgusting, the popularity of vampires continues to spread, with the news that Universal Pictures is looking to jump-start Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, the story of the vampire Lestat Du Lioncort, a nobleman-turned-vampire in the late 18th century. There was no word on how they plan on unfurling franchise, but according to the ….

Mission Impossible 4 now has writers to go along with producers

Paramount and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the script for the newly revived Mission Impossible 4 project, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-exec producers of the spy show Alias, and will pen M:I 4 based on a story ….

Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington to top-line French spy thriller remake

Charlize Theron (Monster) and Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, upcoming Avatar) have signed to star in Spyglass Entertainment’s thriller remake The Tourist, according to THR. Worthington is taking over the role previously meant for Tom Cruise. The pair will play the leads in the remake of the 2005 French spy thriller Anthony Zimmer, which was written ….