Brad Bird Articles

Paula Patton, Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible IV As expected, Tom Cruise/Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – 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 and [...]

Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Ghost Protocol Tom Cruise remains the only bright light at the North American box office as 2011 comes to a close. According to early, rough estimates found at both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.com, apart from Cruise/Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, every mid-to-late December wide release is performing somewhere between "disappointingly" and "poorly." Among those [...]

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Following a series of disappointments and/or downright flops at the North American box office in the last several weeks, Tom Cruise has arrived (via Dubai) to save the day. Reports affirming the demise of Cruise’s stardom were apparently grossly exaggerated, as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is going to become a major [...]

Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law/SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Underwhelms: Box Office The silver lining at the North American box office this weekend is the Brad Bird/Tom Cruise $140 million-budgeted combo Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which has raked in an impressive, IMAX-boosted $4.6 million — including $1m from [...]