| by Grady Smith Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol led the Friday box office with a strong $9.7 million, which should lead the action blockbuster to a $27 million weekend and roughly $60 million total earnings by Sunday night. more |
| Entertainment Weekly ( 12/24/2011 11:53:00 AM -08:00 ) |
| 'Mission: Impossible' Wins Friday Box Office With a Strong $9.7M |
| By Brent Lang & Joshua L. Weinstein at TheWrap Updated Saturday, 10 am PT "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" stayed on top of the box office Friday, pulling in an estimated $9.7 million. The Paramount/Skydance action movie has grossed about $42 more |
| Reuters ( 12/24/2011 10:15:31 AM -08:00 ) |
| 'Ghost Protocol' nabs $6.4 mil at BO: Internationally, 'Mission' has cumed $96 |
| Paramount maintained its holiday BO lead, as "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" collected Thursday $6.4 million, bringing the pic's Stateside cume to $32.4 million. Internationally, "Mission" has cumed $96 million through Wednesday. Warner Bros. more |
| Chicago Tribune ( 12/23/2011 10:15:18 PM -08:00 ) |
| 'Mission: Impossible' brightens holiday box office | |
 | By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY The mission, which Tom Cruise chose to accept, was to give a shot in the arm to the box office and revitalize a franchise. AP Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. more |
| USA TODAY ( 12/23/2011 5:02:55 PM -08:00 ) | |
| Mission: Impossible? Tom Cruise Is Back, Topping Thursday BO With $6.4M Haul |
| By Brent Lang at TheWrap The Tom Cruise career resuscitation is in full force. After testing fan loyalty with couch-jumping antics and tired film vehicles like "Knight and Day," audiences are flocking to accept Cruise's latest mission. more |
| Reuters ( 12/23/2011 12:25:50 PM -08:00 ) |
| Cruise's sandstorm chase to stay in reel life | |
 | By Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief Al Ain: It seems the weather was truly impossible, In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, that is. It is so impossible that the Met man is flummoxed. A shot in the movie shows a storm engulfing the Dubai International more |
| gulfnews.com ( 12/23/2011 11:05:28 AM -08:00 ) | |
| 'Mission Impossible' gadgets actually quite possible |
| Ever since it launched as a TV series in 1966, the allure of “Mission Impossible” has been its entertaining combustion of cunning and pyrotechnics. With the explosion of “MI” onto the big screen as a Tom Cruise star vehicle, the technical more |
| Washington Post ( 12/23/2011 9:19:18 AM -08:00 ) |
| Cruise again on a ghostly mission |
| Tom Cruise works his way up Dubai's Burj Khalifa in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Source: Supplied THERE'S a "wow" moment in every one of the four feature films based on Bruce Geller's vintage television series, and in the latest, more |
| The Australian ( 12/23/2011 5:12:02 AM -08:00 ) |
| Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol: film review | |
 | by David Edwards 23/12/2011 The signs were never particularly good. The last Mission: Impossible movie was the series' lowest grossing while the franchise's lead is Tom Cruise – perhaps Hollywood's least-loved star. But write off the sofa-jumping more |
| Mirror.co.uk ( 12/23/2011 2:41:26 AM -08:00 ) | |
| Mission: Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol, review | |
 | Tom Cruise rises to the challenge in the latest 'Mission: Impossible' caper, a fast-paced, gravity-defying thrill ride. By Tim Robey Tom Cruise is out to prove something. When is he not? Of all modern movie stars, he may be the one most eager for more |
| Telegraph.co.uk ( 12/23/2011 2:30:43 AM -08:00 ) | |
| 'Mission: Impossible' lights up early holiday BO: Paramount pic grosses $8.6 |
| "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" easily is the early BO leader this Christmas weekend, having collected $8.6 million on Wednesday for a domestic cume of $25.7 million. Paramount launched the film last weekend exclusively at large-screen houses. more |
| Chicago Tribune ( 12/22/2011 10:15:58 PM -08:00 ) |
| Mission Accomplished | |
 | By ALEX ZANE AFTER a solid third instalment, but one that failed to ignite the box office, the number from the title has been cunningly dropped. Ghost Protocol is when the entire staff of the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) are considered public enemy more |
| The Sun ( 12/22/2011 5:28:08 PM -08:00 ) | |
| Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | |
 | Directed by Brad Bird. Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Ving Rhames 12A cert, general release, 132 min WE'VE BECOME accustomed to seeing Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt more |
| Irish Times ( 12/22/2011 4:14:14 PM -08:00 ) | |
| CINEMA: Suspense all the way |
| By BIBI NURSHUHADA RAMLI NOTHING'S impossible for Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt. After being blamed for a terrorist bombing, he is disavowed and his agency is shut down. To clear the agency's name, Ethan (Tom Cruise) must go on yet another more |
| New Straits Times ( 12/22/2011 4:01:18 PM -08:00 ) |
| Tom Cruises Dodges Question on More Children, Says Suri is a 'Sweetheart' |
| Hollyscoop caught up With Tom Cruise at the Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Premiere where he talked about his new film, his daughter Suri Cruise and more. more |
| HollyscoopTV ( 12/22/2011 3:18:48 PM -08:00 ) |
| Box office update: 'Mission: Impossible' 4 climbs to No. 1 on Wednesday |
| by Adam B. Vary After a highly lucrative advance run almost exclusively in IMAX theaters, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol formally debuted wide on Wednesday, and leapt to the top of the box office with $8.6 million (including $2 mil from Tuesday more |
| Entertainment Weekly (blog) ( 12/22/2011 2:32:49 PM -08:00 ) |
| Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – review | |
 | Cinema's most respectable hoodie Tom Cruise is back, slouching moodily out of the poster for the latest enjoyable Mission Impossible caper, directed by Brad "Incredibles" Bird. He is Ethan Hunt, leader of the International Missions Force or IMF – wiry, more |
| The Guardian ( 12/22/2011 2:08:31 PM -08:00 ) | |
| 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol': A sleight-of-hand thriller |
| By Owen Gleiberman, EW.com (EW.com) -- You've seen it a hundred times, in any thriller that finds the hero perched on a ledge or on the edge of a building's rooftop. The camera moves up and tilts downward, in a smooth unbroken shot, so that we can all more |
| CNN ( 12/22/2011 1:15:16 PM -08:00 ) |
| Zaki's Review: Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol |
| As I alluded to last week, I got off to a bit of a rocky start with the Mission: Impossible movie series, with my initial outrage at how the first film in 1996 blowtorched the legacy of the TV show whose name it appropriated turning to apathy at how more |
| Huffington Post ( 12/22/2011 1:00:57 PM -08:00 ) |
| Movie Projector: 'Mission: Impossible' sequel to rule Christmas |
| Moviegoers will have a handful of new films to choose from this Christmas, but none will likely reach the heights of Tom Cruise's latest "Mission: Impossible" sequel. The fourth installment in Paramount Pictures' action franchise, "Ghost Protocol" more |
| Los Angeles Times ( 12/22/2011 12:23:49 PM -08:00 ) |