Actor/producer Tom Cruise confirmed for Empire Magazine that the talented Brad Bird will make his feature film debut with Mission: Impossible 4. Cruise will return to lead the IM Force’s field leader, Ethan Hunt, for the big budget Paramount Pictures release. The studio initially announced a May 2011 release date but either the production schedule…
Nikki Finke has the numbers: “Early overseas estimates from Paramount have Iron Man 2 grossing just over $100 million from 53 markets. And some large territories haven’t even opened yet, like Germany, Japan, and China. In local currencies, the film opened 25% ahead of the original Iron Man (despite the fact that in those two years both…
After being turned down by Emily Blunt and possibly others, Marvel Studios issued a release announcing relatively unknown actress Hayley Atwell has been added to the Captain America cast as Peggy Carter. Atwell is known to some from her work in A&E’s disappointing remake of The Prisoner, but she has also been seen in The…
Paramount Pictures has gone out of their way to announce Mission: Impossible 4 — what feels like a rushed project, coming out in just over a year. The film is being described as a reboot, without J.J. Abrams behind the camera and will most likely introduce agents to take over the franchise. It also arrives…
From Nikki Finke: Viacom’s Nickelodeon announced today it has acquired the global intellectual property rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from The Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment. The purchase price was about $60 million. Nickelodeon also announced plans to develop a new CG-animated television series based on the popular superhero franchise for 2012. Also,…
And now, the other shoe drops. Jeff Trexler points to this New York Times piece saying that the Jack Kirby estate sent notice of copyright termination to Marvel, Disney, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and others who have been making films and other forms of entertainment based on the characters Jack…
There are only so many hours one can devote to television watching so a show has to garner some excellent buzz in order to get sampled in my household. I was initially tempted by TNT’s Leverage last winter but something or other kept us from trying it but as it aired, people started chiming in…
I told them they were going to have to spray for those things, now they’re everywhere… So to promote season 2 of the original Star Trek on BluRay, Paramount is looking for pictures of people with their Tribbles. There’s no way this ends well… the best case scenario is that somebody’s going to grab a…
Galaxy Quest does not turn 10 until Christmas, but with all the [[[Star Trek]]] hoopla this month, Paramount Home Video wisely releases the 10th anniversary edition on Tuesday. This love letter to [[[Star Trek]]] and its fans was the commercially successful and satisfying in joke-filled story of the actors from a cancelled science fiction classic…
The concept behind Mission: Impossible had never been attempted on television before and the CBS series about a covert government operation taking on; well, impossible, cases became a smash hit. Guided by the steady Peter Graves, Greg Morris and Peter Lupis, the series received awards, acclaim and most importantly, ratings. Early on, the show was…
Paramount Pictures has tweaked its release plans for Star Trek, allowing theaters to show the first screening on Thursday, May 7, beginning at 7 p.m. According to Coming Soon, this improves on the normal midnight screening used to create an event.
From 1941 through 1942, Max and Dave Fleischer rewrote the rules for animation and people have been trying to match those results ever since. When no one had previously tried adventure in animated form, the Fleischers took their lessons from [[[Popeye]]] and applied them to [[[Superman]]] with astounding results. The seventeen shorts, released by Paramount…
