Paramount Pictures is putting a super-sized version of the Tom Cruise-starrer in the large format theaters on December 16, ahead of wide release on December 21, 2011.
TORONTO – Imax is giving Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol a sneak peek preview from Friday, Dec. 16, ahead of a wide release on Dec. 21, 2011.
The move marks the first early engagement for a domestic feature, according to Toronto-based Imax.
Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton.
Imax is also to include around 30 minutes of scenes shot with its proprietary cameras when it rolls out the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
One featured Imax sequence includes a stunt performed by Cruise as he scaled the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai.
“Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible will be among the highlights of the holiday movie season and we’re very happy to share the film with audiences early in Imax,” said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures.
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The new poster is out, with the IMAX release dates, which will be earlier in some theaters! Click the poster to get the big one
The Tom Cruise-tentpole begins previews in Imax and other large-format theaters on Dec. 16; Steven Spielberg’s two Christmas movies “Adventures of Tintin” and “War Horse” also shift dates.
Paramount is taking the unusual step of opening Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol first in Imax and other select theaters five days before it opens everywhere Dec. 21.
In another key change to its 2011 holiday calendar, Paramount said it is moving up the release of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin by two days to Dec. 21 (including Imax theaters). That quickly promoted Disney to announce it will now open Spielberg’s second Christmas film War Horse on Christmas Day, instead of Dec. 28.
The moves reflect an aggressive effort to capitalize on the lucatrive–and crowded–Christmas frame.
Ghost Protocol, returning Tom Cruise in the marquee role of Ethan Hunt and introducing Jeremy Renner to the franchise, now launches Dec. 16 in north of 250 theaters in what Paramount are calling preview runs.
From the beginning, Bird wanted Ghost Protocol to open first in Imax theaters, since parts of the pic were shot with Imax cameras.
And from Paramount’s perspective, hosting previews should be a great way to build word-of-mouth.
“Our thought was to get the movie going heading into the Christmas. We’ve screened the entire movie, and the response has been fantastic. People also saw how great the Imax footage was,” Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said. It isn’t the first time Paramount has used unorthodox measures to open a film. So far, they’ve worked well. This summer, Paramount held exclusive 3D showings of Transformers: Dark of the Moon the night before the movie opened nationwide. And the studio launched box office hit Paranormal Activity in 13 college towns.
With Guest Protocol, Paramount is being even more aggressive in an effort to whip up interest.
News from the movie Horizons!
Universal Pictures has finally settled on Jessica Chastain to play one of the female leads in Horizons. We reported last month Jessica Chastain was one of five finalists, along with Olivia Wilde, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace and Olga Kurylenko.
The story is set in a world where the Earth has become too toxic for humans, with society moving to cities built above the clouds. Tom Cruise plays one of the last men on Earth, a repair man who discovers a mysterious woman has crash landed on the planet. They both set off on a journey that causes them to question everything they know about Earth.
The two female lead roles are the mysterious woman and Tom Cruise’s wife. It isn’t known which of these roles Jessica Chastain is in talks for. It is also believed that one of the other actresses mentioned may land the other female lead.
Joseph Kosinski is directing Horizons from a script by Karl Gajdusek and William Monahan. Joseph Kosinski created the graphic novel which the project is based on. Production is scheduled to begin this winter, with a July 19, 2013 release date already set by Universal.
Awesome news! I hope they make it a good 3D!
Tony Scott’s 1986 classic Top Gun is being converted for a 3D re-release, which may hit theaters early next year. Legend3D is behind the conversion, and the company recently presented a four-minute clip of the converted movie at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam earlier today. Here’s what Legend3D CEO Rob Hummel said about Top Gun in 3D.
“We think there is great potential for catalog titles in 3D, but studios have had trouble justifying the expense. As I understand it, they are planning to release it in 3D in early 2012, though I known they want to get Tony Scott’s approval before they go forward.”
Paramount Pictures, which distributed Top Gun, is fronting the 3D conversion costs. Here’s what Rob Hummel added about why the aerial classic starring Tom Cruise is ideal for 3D.
“I think Top Gun lends itself to 3D due to the aerial flight. You can have fun with 3D by bringing things off the screen if they are not attached to the edge of the screen.”
Top Gun was released May 16th, 1986 and stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside, John Stockwell, Barry Tubb. The film is directed by Tony Scott.
The poster for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been released by Yahoo! Movies.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol directed by Brad Bird, and stars a new team Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Simon Pegg.
Plot: The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.
The movie opens in December 21, 2011.
Tom’s new project Horizons (formely known as Oblivion) is on the look for it’s female lead, Variety (via Showblitz) reports. (I’d love to see Olivia Wilde get the part!). Joe Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) will be directing and the movie is set it for a July 19, 2013 release.
Here’s the article from Huffington Post:
Above all else, Tom Cruise is still a major movie star. And as such, being his film love interest is a major shot of exposure and star power, a boost A-list actresses openly seek as aggressively as they did during Cruise’s 80s and 90s heyday.
According to Variety, no fewer than five top actresses are vying to co-star with Cruise in “Horizons,” the re-titled big screen adaptation of Joseph Kosinski’s “Oblivion,” which has been retitled to “Horizons.” Cruise will play a “scavenger” court marshaled into serving as a lone soldier stuck on an uninhabitable Earth’s surface, fixing drones that protect the planet — and its sky-bound clone citizens, who live above the polluted clouds — from attacking aliens. A numbed being, when he finds a beautiful woman in a fallen ship, adventure and an awakening of a past life love ensue.
Amongst the names competing to play that beautiful woman in a fallen ship are Jessica Chastain, Olivia Wilde, and Brit Marling, three of the hottest commodities in Hollywood. Chastain has had an absolute breakout of a year in 2011, starring in “The Tree of Life,” “The Help,” and the upcoming films “The Debt,” “Take Shelter,” “Wilde Salome” and “Texas Killing Fields.”
Wilde has also had a big year, featuring in “Cowboys & Aliens,” “The Change-Up,” and set to feature in the upcoming “In Time.” She has a history with Kosinski, having co-starred in his “Tron: Legacy” in 2010.
As for Marling, she is perhaps the newest and hottest commodity; she wrote and starred in the indie hit “Another Earth,” and in 2012 will star in “Arbitrage,” “The Company You Keep,” which she wrote and will feature in with Alexander Skarsgard, and “The Company You Keep,” with Shia LaBeouf.
This is the second big leading lady hunt for a Cruise flick this month; earlier, at least three actresses tried out for the actress lead in “One Shot,” another action adaptation, with the role eventually going to Rosamund Pike.
Some rumours are going around that Tom Cruise will be working on Paper Wings, which is currently eyeing Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones) as director. It’s rumoured that Tom will be working on the script developement, and possibly starring. Here is the full story from Variety.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Kirk, the “Game of Thrones” helmer who’s in talks to direct “Thor 2,” is also in negotiations to take the reins of Sony’s rodeo pic “Paper Wings,” which is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for Tom Cruise.
Overbrook Entertainment and Temple Hill Entertainment are teaming to produce the Les Bohem-scripted pic, which follows a rodeo champ who falls for an up-and-coming country singer.
Prior to Kirk’s attachment, there hadn’t been any movement on the long-gestating project since last summer, when Cruise, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith performed a table read at the Saddle Ranch Chop House in Hollywood.
While there are no actors officially attached, sources tell Variety that Cruise had a hand in selecting Kirk for the gig and will work with the helmer to develop the script.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing for Temple Hill, while Overbrook’s principals include Will Smith, James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith and Ken Stovitz, who is running point on the project.
Bohem and Bowen developed the romance story after meeting at the 2005 Nashville Screenwriters Conference. Charles Stone was previously attached to direct “Paper Wings” when it was set up at New Line back in 2006.
Kirk will make his studio debut with Marvel’s “Thor 2,” which Disney will release on July 26, 2013. Irish filmmaker has directed episodes of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” Showtime’s “Dexter” and BBC’s “Luther,” as well as episodes of HBO’s upcoming series “Luck” and BBC’s three-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations.”
CAA reps Cruise and Kirk, who’s also repped by Independent Talent Group.
Another still Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been released by MovieWeb.com
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