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Rosario T. Calabria on February 9, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Paramount Pictures today announced that they’ve signed a deal with Tom Cruise to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible IV. Cruise will produce with Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams. Screenwriters Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec will write the script and the studio is in the process of looking for a director [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 9, 2010 at 10:52 am
Paramount Pictures has set a release date for the follow-up to J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. The film will be released on June 29, 2012, roughly three years after the release of Star Trek (May 8, 2009). There are currently no other films slated for June 2012, although the month before has The Avengers (May 4, [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 6, 2009 at 2:26 pm
J.J. Abrams is close to inking a deal to return to the directing chair on a television series. The Star Trek director is in talks to direct Undercovers, his Warner Bros. pilot for NBC described as a mix between Mr. & mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity. He is also attached to executive produce the [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on October 11, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Producer/writer/director J.J. Abrams about several of his current and upcoming projects, including Fringe, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible IV. Here are some excerpts:
On the possibility of shooting the “Star Trek” sequel in 3-D:
Abrams: Paramount talked to me about doing the first one in 3-D and, having it only be my second [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have tapped Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the screenplay to Mission: Impossible IV. Applebaum and Nemec are the creators of the new ABC series Happy Town and previously created October Road and the recent U.S. version of Life on Mars for ABC.
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Rosario T. Calabria on June 10, 2009 at 9:19 pm
The latest issue of TV Guide reports that director J.J. Abrams is reuniting with Tom Cruise to serve as a producer on Mission: Impossible IV. Abrams directed Mission: Impossible III in 2006. It was his directorial debut (for film).
“I am incredible honored that Tom has invited me back as a producer on Mission [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 12, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have recently opened up on the proposed scene that wrote to fit William Shatner’s Kirk into Star Trek. Here’s a video of the writing duo explaining the scene to MTV:
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 8, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Trek fans were out in force last night as J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek grossed an estimated $7 million from 7:00pm-midnight showings according to Variety. It’s important to note that while that’s a good deal higher than what ‘Wolverine’ grossed last weekend (about $5 million), ‘Wolverine’ didn’t start its run until 12:01am Friday, so Star Trek [...]