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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (2006)

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THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    The stakes have never been higher. The action has never been hotter. This is Mission: Impossible... like you've never seen it before!
    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias). Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Lawrence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan face his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) an stop Davain from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Bursting with breathtaking excitement and thrilling plot twists. "this movie delivers!" - Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight.

STARRING:

Tom Cruise: Ethan Hunt
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Owen Davian
Ving Rhames: Luther
Billy Crudup: Musgrave
Michelle Monaghan: Julia
Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Declan
Keri Russell: Lindsey Farris
Maggie Q: Zhen
Laurence Fishburne: Theodore Brassel

SCREENWRITER: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams

DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams

RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes

STUDIO: Paramount

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B +

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GIGGLES
(1 nomination and 0 wins)

Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GLOBES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• In the end credits of the film one of the groups thanked by the producers is "The Hanso Foundation" a fictitious organization linked to the TV series Lost which director J.J. Abrams created.
• Before Keri Russell landed her role in this film, the part was offered to Scarlett Johansson who accepted the role only to pull out before filming began.
• David Fincher was original slated to direct this film, he had been working on a script that involved Ethan Hunt busting open an African black market body part smuggling ring. He dropped out early in the project and was replaced at Tom Cruise's request by Joe Carnahan after the actor was impressed by Suspect Zero. Just weeks into the production the director left sighting creative differences. The project then went into hiatus and Cruise went on to film War Of The Worlds. The helm was then handed to Brett Ratner, but on Tom Cruise's return Ratner was replaced with J.J. Abrams as Cruise had been impressed with the director after watching a few episodes of Ailias on DVD. Abrams agreed to sign on and left the project he had been working on Superman Returns. Ratner ended up directing X-Men: The Last Stand after Bryan Singer left that film to direct Superman Returns.
• The role of the villain in this movie was offered to Kenneth Brannagh who had to drop off of the film after it's long delays.
• In the draft of the script that Joe Carnahan was working on Thandie Newton was offered a chance to come back as Nyah from Mission: Impossible 2 but declined the offer. The roles was the rewritten and offered to Carrie-Ann Moss, however after Abrams took over directing the film he re-wrote the script yet again and eliminated the part that Moss would have played.

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