In this edition, find out how eight Tom Cruise stunts were practically pulled off, take a look back at the long legacy of The Muppets, and more.
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The rumors were true: Tom Cruise almost handed the Mission: Impossible franchise over to Jeremy Renner.
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In Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, director Brad Bird takes what he learned in the realm of animation and directly applies it to live action.
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In preparation for 'Fallout' David, Devindra, and Jeff dive into every film in the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise. Be sure to read Erik Lundegaard's piece on Mission: Impossible, and Matt Singer's piece on why Mission: Impossible 2 is actually good(?). You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also,…
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What is your favorite action scenes from movies or television shows? Here is a list of our favorites, spanning From Russia With Love To Mad Max: Fury Road.
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You may not realize it, but there are countless movies shot in Vancouver where the city doubles for locations as varied as India, Los Angeles and Seattle.
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Brian De Palma's first Mission: Impossible film wasn't packed with action setpieces -- there are only three, really, but those three are all top-tier action filmmaking, and one of those three defined the series for years to come. In the two decades since, the series has been tackled by a variety of directors -- John…
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Next to the $1B+ grosses for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, Project X's respectable $100M worldwide take seems like spare change. But there is one arena in which the Todd Phillips-produced raunchfest is king: illegal downloads. Project X has emerged as the single most pirated film of 2012 -- as well as the lowest grossing of…
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Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative -- did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its…
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I have yet to get the Blu-ray release of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (it comes out on April 17th, available for preorder for 51% off on Amazon) but it appears that director Brad Bird decided to not include the expanded IMAX footage in the home video transfer. For those of you who didn't know,…
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Odds are if you visited a movie theater recently, you might have been there to see Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol or War Horse. The former has been deservedly sitting atop the box office charts since its release and the latter is the latest, tear-jerker live-action drama from one of our most beloved filmmakers, Steven…
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End-of-year list-making is typically a daunting, tricky, and arbitrary task. At its best, it's a way to express ideas and share interesting finds. At its worst, it's a shouting match about WHY DIDN'T YOU PICK THE EXACT FILMS I LIKE? In 2011, I probably saw around 70-80 new release films in theaters. I'm certain that…
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We've got news for you on several sequels today, some more realistic than others. On the "coming soon to a theater near you" end, there's a new synopsis for G.I. Joe: Retaliation; meanwhile, projects like Gremlins 3 and Pineapple Express 2 have been rumored for ages but as far as we can tell they're still…
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol is Brad Bird's first live-action movie. Think about that for a second. In the film community he's easily one of the most exciting and respected directors out there but he's never released a movie with a flesh and blood person in it. It's fairly mind-boggling. Then you watch The Iron Giant,…
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Chances are you saw the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and didn't catch Robin the boy wonder or a reference back to the very beginning of the trilogy: Batman Begins. And you probably also saw Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in IMAX but somehow missed the hidden Pixar easter eggs that…
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra, and Adam discuss The Dark Knight Rises prologue, praise the rarely seen Enlightened, and reflect on shows that have come back from the dead, creatively. Special guest Tasha Robinson from AV Club joins us for this episode. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail…
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Composers probably count themselves lucky if, within their lifetime, they can come up with a single piece of music that becomes ingrained enough in popular culture that it is instantly recognizable after only a few notes. Lalo Schifrin is one such composer. While Schifrin's work spans decades, one of his most well-known pieces is the…
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Without exaggeration, you can probably count the amount of static dialogue scenes in Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol on one hand. In seemingly each and every scene, director Brad Bird’s first live-action film is bursting with vitality. Things are always moving, situations are stressful, not everyone is who they say they are, and more often than…
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Where can you be the among the first audiences ever to see The Cabin in the Woods, The Grey, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the first trailers for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and G.I. Joe Retaliation as well as huge upcoming titles like The Adventures of Tintin, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and…
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Tonight I was invited to the IMAX Theatre at Universal Citywalk to get an early look at Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises prologue, which will be attached to huge screen IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol on December 16th 2011 (participating theaters list). I don't want to reveal any spoilers, so my…
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/Film readers were the first to know a 6-minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises would be appearing exclusively in front of IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. It was then revealed the prologue wouldn't be at all IMAX locations showing Brad Bird's film, just the 70mm ones, which cuts the number down drastically.…
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Thursday not only brings a brand new trailer for Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, it brings the permission for me to let you know what I thought of the two full, IMAX action scenes I saw from the film earlier this month. Paramount invited members of the press to the Rave Motion Pictures…
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Here's the full trailer for Brad Bird's first foray into live-action, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. This follows the same basic opening thread as the teaser trailer before kicking into gear with more story, suspense and action. There are some visual callbacks to past films in the series, and Simon Pegg gets a good moment.…
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UPDATE: The prologue is actually six minutes, not eight. Independent sources have also confirmed the story. A trusted theater (read: exhibitor) source has just exclusively alerted /Film that Warner Bros. plans to attach a six minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises to all IMAX prints of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Christopher Nolan's third…
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The past few hours saw a whole bunch of release date shuffles as both of Steven Spielberg's 2011 releases, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, got new US dates, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will now open five days earlier than planned, but will only play in IMAX for those days, and Gangster Squad…
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One of the first official promo shots we saw from Brad Bird's Mission: impossible - Ghost Protocol was a shot of Tom Cruise looking sultry, serious and rather Marshall Mathers-esque in a grey hoodie jacket. Now the first one-sheet for the film is out, and it recycles that image, with the recognizable Mission: Impossible burning…
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New images from three of the most anticipated films of this holiday season have popped online. After the jump, check out photos from Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, both out December 21 and Bill Condon's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One out November…
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