The Shanghai Evening Post tells us that Mission: Impossible III (or M : I : III, as the cool kids are calling it) will make its world premier in Shanghai. Yes, Shanghai! The red carpet event is slated for April 22 at the Shanghai Grand Theater. But leave your camcorders at home:
It didn't seem like Tom Cruise was in China all that long, considering 40 percent of the film is reportedly supposed to take place here (but apparently not all Shanghainese will be sad to see him go). Cruise and Mission: Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams talked with journalists yesterday atop Bund 18. They must not have said much because we only found one quote in the two stories we read about the "press conference." Cruise said of Shanghai: "It's spectacular. It's unbelievable. It's going to look extraordinary on film." He said he plans on coming back to China as a tourist some day. There was also reportedly a moment during the rooftop gathering that involved Cruise singling out a Chinese journalist who started talking on his mobile phone -- Cruise insisted that he talk to the person on the other end ... and he even said Ni hao and Xie xie! He is SO DREAMY! (Good thing it wasn't a squirt phone.)
Get your squirt guns ready, folks. Everyone's favorite crazy man Tom Cruise will bring his freak show to Shanghai this November to film the "climactic final scenes" of Mission: Impossible III, according to Variety.com:
