Tag: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
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Mission: Impossible 3’s Maggie Q Accidentally Crashed A Car Her First Day On Set
The “Mission: Impossible” series has become easily my favorite film franchise over the course of the last decade. Not only is its consistency unmatched in today’s Hollywood blockbuster landscape, but the franchise has pulled off the remarkable feat of remaining consistent; the later entries of the series are actually the best of the bunch. As…
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Mission: Impossible 4 Took A Major IMAX Risk, But It Paid Off In One Key Scene
“Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” was not the film that turned the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise into the “Tom Cruise Stares Death in the Face” show. No, that honor belongs to “Mission: Impossible II,” which opens with Cruise’s Ethan Hunt free solo rock climbing in Moab, Utah (which Cruise did for real wearing a harness…
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Tom Cruise Was Flying Blind In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’s Plane Hang Stunt
Tom Cruise has become renowned for his death-defying stunts in the “Mission: Impossible” movies. In the recent film, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise rode a motorcycle off a cliff. In “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” he scaled the side of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. And in “Mission:…
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This Is Tom Cruise’s Wildest Stunt in the Mission: Impossible Franchise
Over the years, the Mission: Impossible franchise has featured no shortage of amazing action sequences and wild stunts. Many of the stunts are legitimately performed by Tom Cruise, as he’s risked life and limb to push the envelope for some of the franchise’s biggest moments. Some of those stunts include performing a live Halo jump…
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How ‘Mission: Impossible III’ Stands Alone Within Its Own Franchise
It took a minute for the Mission: Impossible franchise to really kick off as a pop-culture juggernaut. While the original 1996 movie was a massive hit, the first sequel in 2000 provided divisive enough (though also enormously lucrative) to provide questions on what the long-term future of the series was. The fourth film, Mission: Impossible…
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Was Jeremy Renner Meant to Take Over the Mission: Impossible Franchise?
We all have ambitions that don’t quite pan out. In the early 2010s, Hollywood had grand plans for Jeremy Renner to be its new blockbuster leading man. This was the guy who would become an Avenger, take over the Bourne movies, and, arguably most impressively, was being eyeballed to emerge as the new protagonist of…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’: Simon Pegg Ranks Tom Cruise’s Most Dangerous Stunts
Since teaming up on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the creative brain between writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise has bolstered Ethan Hunt’s narrative and given the franchise a more authentic edge-of-your-seat quality. From scaling the world’s tallest building to now racing a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, Cruise’s passion for wowing audiences…
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Anil Kapoor Talks Indian ‘Night Manager’ Adaptation, Divorce Comedy ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’ (Exclusive)
Indian actor Anil Kapoor, known globally for his roles in “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” has a raft of projects lined up.First up is Viacom18 Studios and Dharma Productions’ “Jug Jugg Jeeyo,” directed by Raj Mehta (“Good Newwz”), which is due a June 24 release. The film follows a father and son…
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‘Mission: Impossible’ Tops ‘Christopher Robin’ for Weekend #1; ‘Black Panther’ Reaches $700M
August 2017 saw the worst grosses for the eighth month of the year in twenty years and the writing was on the wall very early with the disappointing debut of The Dark Tower to begin the month. While this weekend’s crop of new releases didn’t exactly light the box office on fire, with Disney’s Christopher…
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‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Rising Up Tom Cruise Box Office Records
The latest installment of the ‘Mission: Impossible‘ franchise has only been in U.S. theaters for a week but is already proving one of Tom Cruise’s biggest box-office hits.The sixth part of the spy thriller series took $61.2 million on its opening weekend, setting a new record for the franchise in which Cruise plays secret agent…