Brad Bird Articles

That Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol would easily top the North American box-office this four-day New Year's weekend was no surprise. Directed by Brad Bird (Ratatouille) and starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, and Paula Patton, MI4 brought in $38.32 million (+30%) as per studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Weekend box-office actuals will be released tomorrow. [Photo: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Breaking [...]

Tom Cruise, Ghost Protocol New Year's Weekend Box Office: Promising or Foreboding? Take Your Pick If studio estimates are correct, Brad Bird/Tom Cruise's Paramount-distributed Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol is now officially the most successful December release at the domestic box office: $134.13 million (after adding $31.25 million this weekend) vs. Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' $132.1 million (after [...]

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, MI4 – Ghost Protocol Tom Cruise/Brad Bird's Paramount-distributed Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol topped the North American box office this Christmas weekend, collecting $29.5 million — three million more than estimates released yesterday — according to revised studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Not to be left too far behind, 20th Century Fox also upped its estimates for [...]

Paula Patton, Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible IV As expected, Tom Cruise/Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol easily topped the North American box office this Christmas weekend. Ghost Protocol collected $26.53 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Cruise's latest was followed by Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows with $17.8 million (-55%) and Mike Mitchell's Alvin [...]