“The thing I loved about the show is watching these incredibly accomplished operatives seamlessly working together to pull off a very specific goal,” Abrams said. Abrams, creator of TV’s “Lost” and “Alias,” said he aimed to balance action with character interplay in the spirit of the television show on which the movies are based. Tom Cruise’s first two “Mission: Impossible” capers were heavy on action and style. “I did have a moment all alone with the Mona Lisa in the wee hours, and that was pretty fantastic.”Īfter stumbling out of the gate last year, when summer movie attendance fell 12 percent to its lowest level since 1997, Hollywood seems to have a more crowd-pleasing lineup to lure audiences back to theaters. You didn’t want to wander away from the rest of the film crew, let me put it that way. Being there at 2:30, 3 o’clock in the morning to film eerie, suspenseful scenes in this environment, it was one part heaven and the other part kind of almost haunted house. “The building itself is a monument, and you’re surrounded by the works of so many of the great masters. “It was an almost out-of-body experience filming there,” director Howard said. The film was shot at churches, cathedrals and landmarks around the world, including the Louvre in Paris, where the story begins. This year’s summer lead-ins: “Mission: Impossible III,” pitting Tom Cruise against supervillain Philip Seymour Hoffman “Poseidon,” a remake of “The Poseidon Adventure” directed by Hollywood’s king of the sea, Wolfgang Petersen (“The Perfect Storm,” “Das Boot”) the animated “Over the Hedge,” an animals-against-humans comedy from the makers of “Shrek” and “The Da Vinci Code,” reuniting Tom Hanks with director Ron Howard.Ī globe-trotting mystery, the adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-seller follows a symbologist (Hanks) and cryptographer (Audrey Tautou) racing to uncover clues about the murder of a member of a shadowy society harboring deep secrets about Christianity. Last year’s first big May releases: The historical snoozer “Kingdom of Heaven” and the forgettable comedies “Kicking and Screaming” and “Monster-in-Law.” LOS ANGELES – There’s something really wrong with Hollywood if it can’t get off to a better start than it did during the dreary summer of 2005.
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