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Category: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
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Empireonline.com Exclusive: ‘I’m very sensitive to it.’
There are casting calls so controversial that they look likely to reduce the internet to a smoking wasteland of charred avatars and ashen memes. Michael Keaton as Batman, Daniel Craig as Bond, The Last Airbender… that kind of thing. It’s fair to say that the choice of Tom Cruise to play Lee Child’s towering do-gooder Jack Reacher in One Shot has smoke pouring out of the web again.
With the movie currently filming in Pittsburgh, Empire tracked the man down to ask about the farrago. “Firstly, I’m very sensitive to it,” Cruise explained, revealing that Child came to watch his readings. “This is Lee’s book and Lee’s character. Him giving me his blessing is what made me do it. If he hadn’t then I wouldn’t have done it.”
And what of the discrepancy in height – Cruise giving away more than a few inches to the clock-brained legend? “Lee told me that the reason he wrote him that size (6′ 5″) is because that was just one element to his character, and that opened the door to me playing him.”
As Cruise himself is quick to point out, he’s no stranger to controversial casting. His pick to play Lestat in Neil Jordan’s Interview With The Vampire may have been pre-trolling, but it still caused a stink with fans of Anne Rice’s novel – and, briefly, with the writer herself.
No-one should doubt the actor’s commitment to the role, though. “Reacher is such a great character,” he enthused. “He doesn’t have a cell phone, he doesn’t have email. He’s off the grid. He pays for things in cash. People look at things through the prism of the colours of their life, but Jack Reacher does things the way we want to sometimes. In that sense he’s sort of a Dirty Harry, a James Bond, a Josey Wales.”
Source: Empireonline.com
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.
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.
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.
Another still Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been released by MovieWeb.com
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Holiday schedule shuffle also sees Fox Searchlight’s “The Descendants” moved to a Thanksgiving-friendly date.
Let the holiday games begin.
Studios have begun tweaking their year-end schedules, led by Paramount pushing back the release of Tom Cruise starrer Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol by five days, from Dec. 16 to Dec. 21.
Overseas — where Cruise remains immensely popular — Ghost Protocol still opens in Asia, Russia and two-thirds of Europe, including France and Germany, on Dec. 16.
Hours after Paramount revealed the switch-up, Fox Searchlight said it will now open Alexander Payne’s George Clooney starrer The Descendants in a limited run on Nov. 23, instead of December 16.
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Summary: 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.
Directed by Brad Bird, best-known for his work on films such as The Incredibles, the movie stars Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway and a large cast of other well-known actors.
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