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Mission: Impossible 6 enlists Angela Bassett as CIA director

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As filming continues on Mission: Impossible 6, Deadline is reporting that Oscar nominee Angela Bassett has signed on to portray the new Director of the CIA. Bassett has recently wrapped her work on Marvel’s Black Panther, and will follow up her Impossible Mission exploits with the new series 911, which she is also executive producing […]

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation opens to $56 million; second-biggest opening of the franchise

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Having received a variety of rave reviews (read ours here and here and listen to the podcast review here), it seems as though there is still some life and fun to be had in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Early reports had it down that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth in the series, would have […]

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation opens big in China

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With the recent news that Terminator Genisys has enjoyed massive success in China over the past few weeks, it looks like Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is set for a similar run. Opening in China on Tuesday, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation earned a huge $18.5 million, enjoying the fifth biggest debut in history for a US production, […]

Exclusive Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Ving Rhames character profile

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Ahead of its release this week, we’ve got an exclusive character profile for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, featuring Ving Rhames’ Luther Stickell; check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y70K8-GFjso SEE ALSO: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation featurette and director and cast interviews With the IMF disbanded, and Ethan (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, the team […]

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation tracking soft at the box office

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We are less than an fortnight away from the return of Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the fifth Mission: Impossible film, Rogue Nation, but it may face a slight uphill battle at the box office if early estimates are to be believed, reports Variety. Opening on July 31st, Rogue Nation is tracking behind many […]

Mission: Impossible 6 already in early development

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We’ve still got over two months to go before the release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, but it seems that Paramount Pictures is already planning Tom Cruise’s next impossible mission. According to The Tracking Board, Paramount, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions are already in early development on Mission: Impossible 6, which will see Cruise […]

The Joys of Old School Practical Effects

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the use of old school effects and filming techniques and whether they still have a place in the CGI age… Computers are a wonderful thing. The computer generated image has take cinema up to a point where almost limitless creative possibilities are at a film-makers disposable. You can create a whole […]

Cruise Control: The Mission Impossible Franchise at 25

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Coming up to 25 years after the release of Mission: Impossible, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the franchise that is still going strong… In the mid 9’s, modern adaptations of old TV shows tended to be a mixed bag. More often than not, the update didn’t match the popularity of the source. Whether it was […]

The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]