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WORLD WAR Z Gets a Rewrite and Reshoots

It’s never a good sign when a movie is delayed, sure some run over schedule or filming schedules change – but when a film has already been completed and the studio orders re-shoots, you know that something is awry. That’s the case with director Marc Forster’s zombie apocalypse pic World War Z  which stars Brad Pitt as a United Nations employee who’s in race against time to stop the Zombie […]

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Director Brad Bird Talks MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5 and GHOST PROTOCOL’s Ending

Brad Bird made his live-action directorial debut in a big way with last years Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, delivering a crowd pleasing flick that has helped re-invigorate the franchise. The staging of Tom Cruise‘s death defying stunts were visually impressive, and the film’s tone captured the essence of a classic Mission: Impossible, where no team member was a rat, and […]

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL Trailer #2

As the December release date draws near, a new trailer for Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been released. It offers more clues to this latest mission and highlights some of the visually appealing action sequences to maximize interest. Where the third installment utilized a retrospective narrative with Ethan Hunt strapped to a chair and the majority of the flick shown in flashback, this new one […]

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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Gets Early IMAX Release

Brad Bird‘s first live action directorial feature Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol will be opening a week earlier in the prestigious IMAX format, ahead of the film’s national December 21st release. The original movie directed by Brian De Palma had some fantastic twists not to mention it’s show-stopping train top finale, though the new film is said to take […]

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL – Incredible First Trailer

Okay so it’s just another Mission Impossible flick you’re thinking right? perhaps not – the fourth installment marks the live-action directorial debut of Brad Bird whose understanding of cinematic choreography and character design propelled his CGI superhero movie, The Incredibles to earn more than $600 million worldwide and win an Oscar in 2004 for Best Animated Feature. Watching the new trailer you see everything you’d expect from a ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie and […]

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Tom Cruise – Ghost Protocol Stuntwork

Here’s some vision that’s turned up from the spectators watching in awe as Tom Cruise hangs from the worlds tallest building from a single rope. If the couch jumping thing had you worried then this should put your mind at ease. It’s unbelievable footage of a man rumored to be worth more than 1/2 billion […]

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Cruise’s Team Accepts Their Mission

After months of speculation and rumor, the latest addition to the series with master animator Brad Bird making his directorial debut, finally settles on a title. For months the word was the studio was going to call it The Mission, yeah that’s was crazy – in the hopes it could be a reboot so that […]

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Josh Holloway joins Mission

News has begun to spread like wild fire that the latest cast member on board for the Tom Cruise ‘Mission 4‘ action extravaganza is none other than former Lost star Josh Holloway. Whilst rumors were circulating that he might be a contender for a Rockford Files TV reboot which have yet to come to fruition,  […]

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