Check out HOLLYWOOD SPY's spotlight on two of the upcoming blockbusters which will hit cinemas at the end of December, premiering this festive season.
GHOST PROTOCOL
If you want your festive season spiced up with some action, you might want to check out
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL. The new film in the series which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide, will feature locations in Dubai, Moscow, Prague and Vancouver, and will have the IMF shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
The cast of this
$140 million worth movie is lead by
Tom Cruise, but since there's an idea of him passing the lead role in the franchise onto someone else in the future, there's
Jeremy Renner too. They are joined by
Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway and
Tom Wilkinson. The team also features some Academy Award winners such as director of photography Robert Elswit ("There Will Be Blood"), editor Paul Hirsch ("Star Wars") and visual effects producer Tom Peitzman ("Mission: Impossible III", "Alice in Wonderland").
Brad Bird, the director of the film, is also an Oscar winner as the creator of famous animated films THE INCREDIBLES and RATATOUILLE.
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE
One of the films which will try to touch you deeply when you are the most vulnerable (which means exactly at Christmas) is
powerful drama with a long title
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE. Directed by famous genius and amazing Oscar winner
Stephen Daldry (THE HOURS, THE READER, BILLY ELLIOT), this movie is actually an adaptation of the bestselling book by
Jonathan Safran Foer which follows eleven-year-old Oskar Schell, an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. After finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the
World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an exceptional journey, an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity, who are all survivors in their own
ways. Ultimately, Oskar's journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: love. The cast of the film is lead by
Sandra Bullock (looks like a powerful role),
Tom Hanks and little
Thomas Horn, beside
John Goodman, James Gandolfini and
Viola Davis.
When it comes to
Tom Cruise, he has two films planned for the future: the remake of
ROCK OF AGES in which he will star next to
Catherine Zeta Jones, and huge sf epic
HORIZONS.
Jeremy Renner is, as you know, Hawkeye in
THE AVENGERS and he is taking another franchise from an older star in
THE BOURNE LEGACY.
Sandra Bullock has
a lot of projects ahead of her, the biggest probably being sf epic
GRAVITY with
George Clooney.
