Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Cruise to star and produce with JJ Abrams
05-06-10, 04:56 PM
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Re: Mission Impossible 4 -- Coming 2011 -- Cruise to star and produce with JJ Abrams
The first 3 have all opened in May. Deadline Hollywood said they are close to hiring a director, so they could have probably made the previous Memorial Day release date. The last 2 Bond flicks have done well with late November release dates. Maybe they're hoping for similar success by having this released late in the year.
05-06-10, 05:24 PM
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05-07-10, 05:11 AM
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05-07-10, 07:47 AM
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Awesome. Ratatouille and The Incredibles are two of Pixar's best (and quite frankly, two of their few exceptional titles.)
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05-07-10, 07:52 AM
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After looking at next May's schedule, I can see why they decided to push this to December. Pirates of the Caribbean 4 opens May 20 and The Hangover 2 opens May 26. Smart move, imo.
05-07-10, 10:59 AM
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Re: Mission Impossible 4 -- Coming 2011 -- Cruise to star and produce with JJ Abrams
Anything else big slated for that quarter in '11?
Edit: n/m. According to Dark Horizons, the only competition it currently has is from Alvin 3 and Tintin.
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05-07-10, 11:17 AM
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Well, I wonder if Paramount is worried about the competition for Summer 2011. Too bad they didn't get moving on this sooner as this summer is fairly light outside of Iron Man 2...
Of the movies that could have tough competition:
May:
Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean 4
June:
Fast Five, Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class
July:
Captain America, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, Transformers 3
And that's not to mention a few family movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and Cars 2.
Summer 2012 is a tad better but even then you have to contend with The Avengers (May) and Batman 3 (July).
Of the movies that could have tough competition:
May:
Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean 4
June:
Fast Five, Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class
July:
Captain America, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, Transformers 3
And that's not to mention a few family movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and Cars 2.
Summer 2012 is a tad better but even then you have to contend with The Avengers (May) and Batman 3 (July).
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05-07-10, 01:44 PM
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07-19-10, 03:06 PM
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July 18, 2010
Simon Pegg in talks to return for fourth 'Mission: Impossible' (exclusive)
By Borys Kit and Ace Fernandez
Simon Pegg is being brought back into the Impossible Missions Force fold. The actor is in negotiations to reprise his character of lab geek Benji Dunn for Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 4," which is being directed by Brad Bird.
While not officially greenlighted, the movie is tracking for an early September start, and Bird has been reading actors this week.
Tom Cruise is returning as agent Ethan Hunt in a plot whose details are being kept under a lid of secrecy. J.J. Abrams, who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay.
The move also would reunite Pegg with Abrams, who not only directed the third installment but also directed the actor in the rebooted "Star Trek," in which Pegg portrayed Starship engineer Scotty.
The UTA-repped Pegg will be at Comic-Con this week to showcase "Paul," the Universal-Working Title comedy about two geeks who encounter an alien while traveling across the U.S. to a comic convention.
Simon Pegg in talks to return for fourth 'Mission: Impossible' (exclusive)
By Borys Kit and Ace Fernandez
Simon Pegg is being brought back into the Impossible Missions Force fold. The actor is in negotiations to reprise his character of lab geek Benji Dunn for Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 4," which is being directed by Brad Bird.
While not officially greenlighted, the movie is tracking for an early September start, and Bird has been reading actors this week.
Tom Cruise is returning as agent Ethan Hunt in a plot whose details are being kept under a lid of secrecy. J.J. Abrams, who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay.
The move also would reunite Pegg with Abrams, who not only directed the third installment but also directed the actor in the rebooted "Star Trek," in which Pegg portrayed Starship engineer Scotty.
The UTA-repped Pegg will be at Comic-Con this week to showcase "Paul," the Universal-Working Title comedy about two geeks who encounter an alien while traveling across the U.S. to a comic convention.
07-19-10, 04:57 PM
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Fuck yes. MI:III is one of my favorite action movies of recent years and I'd love to see more. Pegg was a great addition to the team and he definitely needs to come back.
07-19-10, 05:25 PM
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Yeah, it would also be nice to see another team member return other than Ving Rhames, who has been the only constant between the three movies (supporting role-wise).
08-26-10, 12:46 PM
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Jeremy Renner is being brought on board to inject "new blood" into the franchise.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/excl...nimpossible-4/
This along with The Town and Avengers ... Renner is having a pretty solid year.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/08/excl...nimpossible-4/
Originally Posted by Deadline Hollywood
BREAKING: Paramount Pictures has chosen Jeremy Renner to infuse new blood in its Mission: Impossible franchise. Renner, the Oscar-nominated star of The Hurt Locker, will star alongside Tom Cruise in the fourth installment of a franchise that will begin production in the fall. Brad Bird is directing and Cruise is producing with JJ Abrams.
It is the second major role for Renner coming out of his turn as the bomb dismantler in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. The 41-year old Renner also will star in Marvel Studios' The Avengers, playing the role of Hawkeye in that star-studded superhero ensemble that will be directed by Joss Whedon. Paramount is expected to release that film under its distribution deal with Marvel Studios, made before the company was acquired by Disney.
The studio has struggled to find the right co-star to play an operative opposite Cruise, and one factor was to selecting an actor who could potentially carry the series, should Cruise's Ethan Hunt character not continue to be the emphasis. While Cruise is expected to return for a fifth installment, production chief Adam Goodman wanted a guy who could grow into a leading man in his own right. Actors like Tom Hardy and Star Trek's Chris Pine were considered, but were booked. The studio planned to test a group of young actors later this week, and Deadline spent all day going back and forth with the studio over candidates Kevin Zegers, Christopher Egan and Anthony Mackie, the latter of whom starred with Renner in The Hurt Locker. Deadline eventually posted a story about those actors, but it was clear that Paramount wasn't sure what it was going to do. Those tests have been canceled. Goodman, sources said, felt Renner "has a Daniel Craig quality" that the studio chief liked.
It is the second major role for Renner coming out of his turn as the bomb dismantler in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. The 41-year old Renner also will star in Marvel Studios' The Avengers, playing the role of Hawkeye in that star-studded superhero ensemble that will be directed by Joss Whedon. Paramount is expected to release that film under its distribution deal with Marvel Studios, made before the company was acquired by Disney.
The studio has struggled to find the right co-star to play an operative opposite Cruise, and one factor was to selecting an actor who could potentially carry the series, should Cruise's Ethan Hunt character not continue to be the emphasis. While Cruise is expected to return for a fifth installment, production chief Adam Goodman wanted a guy who could grow into a leading man in his own right. Actors like Tom Hardy and Star Trek's Chris Pine were considered, but were booked. The studio planned to test a group of young actors later this week, and Deadline spent all day going back and forth with the studio over candidates Kevin Zegers, Christopher Egan and Anthony Mackie, the latter of whom starred with Renner in The Hurt Locker. Deadline eventually posted a story about those actors, but it was clear that Paramount wasn't sure what it was going to do. Those tests have been canceled. Goodman, sources said, felt Renner "has a Daniel Craig quality" that the studio chief liked.
08-26-10, 12:59 PM
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^ "A Daniel Craig quality"? I read this as: "He's pretty enough that women will want to see him and ugly enough that men will think he can take some punishment in the physical arena".
08-26-10, 01:09 PM
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He's 41? Shit. I thought I was older than him. 
08-26-10, 01:27 PM
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Nice. Glad Renner is getting more work. 
08-26-10, 01:38 PM
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08-26-10, 01:41 PM
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08-26-10, 02:35 PM
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I always figured he was around 40. No big shock there. Lots of actors look younger than they actually are.
I remember first noticing him about 8 years ago playing Jeffrey Dahmer.
Nice addition to the cast.
I remember first noticing him about 8 years ago playing Jeffrey Dahmer.
Nice addition to the cast.