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Tom Cruise chats about all of his upcoming films, including Jack Reacher , Van Helsing , and the long-mooted Top Gun 2 . And we also pressed him on the possibility of another Mission: Impossible installment, not least as Ghost Protocol was Cruise’s biggest hit to date. On the fourquel’s success, Cruise told us, “Seeing an audience respond… to have that experience is really wonderful. “I started Mission: Impossible hoping I could make many of them. It’s a character that I can grow with. At that time it was the most expensive film in the history of Paramount Pictures, and the first film I was producing. “It’s been pretty exciting. I’ll make a bunch of those. I’ll make as many as people want to see... because they’re very challenging, and so much fun to make.” Any ideas for the plot and set-pieces? “We’re already working on different images. Talking conceptually. I love travelling around promoting different movies because I’m always looking at different places, and I always w

Paramount's Tom Cruise -starrer Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol continued to tower over the competition as moviegoers rang in 2012, grossing $31.3 million for the three-day New Year's weekend for a domestic total of $134.2 million. Paramount estimates that Ghost Protocol , directed by Brad Bird, will earn another $8.7 million on Monday--a national holiday--for a projected domestic cume of $142.9 million. Overseas, the tentpole has sailed past the $200 million mark, although final figures for the weekend won't be available until Monday. All in, Ghost Protocol will likely earn $600 million globally, a franchise best. Steven Spielberg's War Horse made news when moving up the box office chart to No. 4, grossing $16.9 million for the three-day weekend and putting the film's eight-day cume at $43 million. The DreamWorks film, which Disney is distributing, was up more than 22 percent on Saturday, the biggest jump of any film in wide release and indicating the pic

What would the end of the year be without a Best of 2011 movie list? Our buddy RAMA has come up with his Best of 2011 list. Rama’s SCREEN doesn’t have its own ceremony, its own presenters, its own envelopes yet, but hey, we could still have our own list of winners for both the traditional categories and the fun ones. BEST PICTURE The Artist BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE X-Men: First Class BEST ACTOR Jean Dujardin (The Artist) BEST ACTRESS Viola Davis (The Help) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Albert Brooks (Drive) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs) BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) BEST DIRECTOR Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillaume Schiffman (The Artist) See the entire list after the Jump... BEST EDITING Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash (The Descendants) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Woody Allen (Midnight In Paris) B

Tom Cruise is a guy who likes to stay busy. With two films in the can ( Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Rock of Ages ), one filming ( One Shot ) and another ( Horizons ) lined up after that, Cruise is solidifying his interest in starring in the Warner Bros. sci-fi actioner We Mortals Are , with negotiations expected to begin soon. Based on the 2004 Japanese graphic novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and Yoshitoshi Abe, the film would have Cruise playing a soldier defending Earth from attacking aliens. Killed in battle, he is then stuck in a time loop that causes him to relive that day over and over while gaining strength and skill each time as he tries to change his fate. Dante Harper and Joby Harold wrote the adapted screenplay. Has Ghost Protocol hitting theaters December 21 and Rock of Ages opening in June. With Paramount's One Shot shooting now for a February 2013 release, and Universal's Horizons lined up to start production in the new year

The holiday season has once again come around, and Hollywood has prepared a selection of entertaining and thrilling films to be chosen by movie lovers. To help them in picking which movies to check out with families or friends throughout the month of December, AceShowbiz provides this 2011 Holiday Movie Guide. Some of the movies which make it into the list are romantic comedy " New Year's Eve ", high-octane action " Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol ", mind-bending thriller " The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)", and touching drama " War Horse ". Also included are some limited releases, such as " Carnage ". WIDE RELEASE : " New Year's Eve " Release Date: December 9 What happens if plenty of Hollywood A-listers come together in one romantic holiday movie? "New Year's Eve" offers the answer to the question. Jessica Biel getting close to delivering her baby, Zac Efron helping Michelle Pfeiffer

Tom Cruise would make a great Survivor contestant. Despite his peculiar public image and less-than-stellar domestic box office in recent years, the 49-year-old has four big studio movies hitting theaters in the next 18 months: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol in December, the now-filming One Shot for Paramount, June's Rock of Ages for New Line and the untitled Joseph Kosinski sci-fi epic for Warner Bros. And THR has learned that Warners is again talking to the actor for the lead in its big-budget sci-fi war pic We Mortals Are (aka All You Need Is Kill), being directed by Doug Liman . "The studios are interested in him again," says one producer. What a turnaround. When Mission: Impossible III opened in May 2006, the actor had been under siege for his over-excited Oprah appearance, his public stumping for Scientology and his anti- psychiatry rant on Today. MI-3's $398 million worldwide gross was nearly 30 percent less than the previous film's global t

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions are negotiating with Tom Cruise to star this fall in One Shot , a thriller based on the Lee Child book series about former military policeman-turned-drifter Jack Reacher . Christopher McQuarrie will direct his script. The talks going on right now is for Cruise to make the movie before he stars in the Joseph Kosinski-directed Oblivion at Universal, which starts in January. Making a Cruise deal is always tricky, and if the One Shot deal takes awhile to come together, it would happen after Oblivion shoots next year. Paramount will co-finance the film with Skydance Productions, whose principal David Ellison also co-financed Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol . Fans of the Reacher book will have to absorb this development, because Cruise is very different physically from the bruising tough guy who has created mayhem over 15 bestselling novels that have sold 40 million copies. In the books, Reacher is 6'5," about 250 pounds, a

Have You Lost That Love And Feeling? Reinflate your beach volleyballs, don your aviators, and apply some Coppertone to your shaven chests, lads, for the sequel to Top Gun is nigh! We have  learned that Paramount Pictures has made offers to both producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott to follow up their action classic, and has a missile lock on Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) to update the script, one in which Tom Cruise’s Maverick would play a smaller role. Maverick would be confused and slightly depressed by the state of Top Gun these days, anyway. Last June, at a junket for Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Bruckheimer let slip that he had been “recently approached again to start talking about [a sequel]” but noted that “the aviation community has completely changed since we made the movie a long time ago.” Since 1986, the TOPGUN syllabus has been changed so the focus is far less on the spectacular and dramatic air-to-air do

“Lost” star Josh Holloway To Join In On A  Mission “Lost” star Josh Holloway is joining the “ Mission: Impossible ” team. In his first major screen role since wrapping the ABC show, Holloway is in final negotiations to act as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, the secret agent task force headed by Tom Cruise in Paramount’s “ Mission: Impossible 4 .” Holloway boards the ever-growing Brad Bird-directed pic, whose cast, in addition to Cruise, already includes Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov as well as franchise vets Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg . Story details are being kept in a self-destructable vault thus no information on Holloway’s character was available. J.J. Abrams , who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay. The production is scouting locations in Vancouver, Prague and Dubai for a fall shoot with an eye towards a December 2011 release. “ Im