The search for a new star to carry Paramount’s latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise is over. Oscar-nominated star Jeremy Renner, who anchored Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed Iraq War drama, “The Hurt Locker,” has been hired to carry on the mantle of international espionage. Deadline reports that Renner won’t replace, but rather star alongside, Tom [...]
Apparently J.J. Abrams knows something the rest of us don’t: Studios love lens flare. After this year’s critically acclaimed and monstrous box-office hit, “Star Trek,” which featured an unhealthy dose of said camera technique, Hollywood execs have been clamoring for more J.J., even willing to plop down close to $2 million for an untitled pitch [...]
Producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, along with Paramount, are serious about “Mission: Impossible IV.” So much so that they have already hired Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to pen the screenplay, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec have long been collaborators with Abrams on his TV endeavors, spending four seasons as co-exec producers of [...]
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