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CAA Signs Actress Paula Patton

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 13, 2013 @ 9:10am PSTTags: CAA, Paula Patton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol’s Paula Patton has signed with CAA. She had been repped at WME. Patton, whose credits include Deja Vu and Precious, makes the rep switch after completing Disconnect opposite Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgård (the film opens April 19); Two Guns opposite Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington (opening August 16); and the Fox Searchlight romantic comedy Baggage Claim, which opens in October. Her husband, singer Robin Thicke, is also repped at CAA. She continues to be lawyered by Jason Sloane and Shelby Weiser.

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Fox Searchlight Teams Paula Patton And David Talbert For ‘Baggage Claim’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Baggage Claim, Fox Searchlight, Paula Patton
Mike Fleming

Paula Patton Baggage ClaimEXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has set Paula Patton to star in Baggage Claim, a comedy that David Talbert has adapted and will direct from his bestselling 2003 novel. Patton will play flight attendant Montana Moore, who at 35 is the oldest woman in her family not married. With her sister tying the knot, Montana and her fellow flight attendants become determined to put a claim check on a husband in 30 days or 30,000 miles.

The film will shoot in September and it will be Talbert’s second time behind the camera. He wrote and directed First Sunday for Screen Gems, which was based on his play. Talbert is an underrated resource at a time when urban-themed films are in high demand after the success of Think Like A Man. Like Tyler Perry, Talbert developed a following in the black community by writing and touring his plays, the most recent of which was What My Husband Doesn’t Know, which played in 40 cities. He’s been doing that for 20 years and seems poised for a screen breakthrough. Read More »

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Paula Patton Loading Up For ’2 Guns’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 12:07pm PDTTags: 2 Guns, Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paula Patton is in talks to star with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in 2 Guns, a film that’s based on a Steven Grant graphic novel published by Boom! Studios. Baltasar Kormakur, who just directed Wahlberg in … Read More »

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Paula Patton Joins ‘Disconnect’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 7:45am PDTTags: Alexander Skarsgard, Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Stern, Disconnect, Frank Grillo, Henry Alex Rubin, Jason Bateman, Marc Forster, Mickey Liddell, Paula Patton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paula Patton has joined the cast of Disconnect, the indie drama that’s being directed by Murderball‘s Henry Alex Rubin. She joins Alexander Skarsgard, Andrea Riseborough, Frank Grillo and Jason Bateman in the Andrew Stern-scripted drama about disparate lives that … Read More »

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Paramount Moves Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ To December 21 And Sets ‘One Shot’ For Early 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: Anil Kapoor, Brad Bird, Christopher McQuarrie, Jack Reacher, Jeremy Renner, JJ Abrams, Lee Child, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, One Shot, Paramount Pictures, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures will move Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol from its Dec. 16, 2011 release date to Wednesday, Dec. 21, putting the picture smack into the holiday corridor. That moves the film back from opening against Warner Bros’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel. It will now open against the David Fincher-directed Sony drama The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and be released two days before Paramount’s The Adventures of Tintin, Summit’s The Darkest Hour, Fox’s We Bought A Zoo, and FilmDistrict’s release of the Angelina Jolie-directed In The Land Of Blood And Honey.

At the same time, Paramount will soon formalize a Feb. 8, 2013 release date for One Shot, the Christopher McQuarrie-directed adaptation of the Lee Child mystery novel series that the studio hopes will launch another Cruise franchise. Cruise committed earlier this month to play Jack Reacher, a retired military policeman who wanders the country with his toothbrush, the clothes on his back and his bankbook and inadvertently gets involved in conspiracies that find him taking the side of the powerless and exploited. He often settles matters with explosive violence. For Paramount, the strategy is to replicate the winter release pattern it followed successfully on Shutter Island, the Dennis Lehane novel that was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio. Read More »

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Who’s Reading For ‘Total Recall’ Gals?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:47am PDTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Colin Farrell, Eva Green, Eva Mendes, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, Len Wiseman, Neal Moritz, Paul Verhoeven, Paula Patton, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Total Recall
Mike Fleming

Sony Pictures is casting up its Total Recall remake, which Len Wiseman will direct with Colin Farrell starring in the role originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are two major female roles in the film, and several top actresses are vying … Read More »

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New ‘Mission: Impossible’ Title Revealed

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 10:10am PDTTags: Jeremy Renner, Mission: Impossible 4, Mission: Impossible Franchise, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Movie Deals, Movies, Paula Patton, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

The 4th entry will be titled Mission:Impossible Ghost Protocol. The name was announced at a press conference in Dubai attended by Tom Cruise, director Brad Bird and co-stars Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton. It’s in production now and is scheduled for release in December 2011. Besides the Dubai location, other shooting spots … Read More »

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Melissa Sagemiller In For Paula Patton On NBC Drama ‘Law & Order: SVU’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Law & Order: SVU, Mission: Impossible 4, Mission: Impossible 4 Casting, Paula Patton
Nellie Andreeva

After Paula Patton just landed the biggest movie role of her career, the female lead in Mission: Impossible 4, she had to pull out of Law & Order: SVU where she was to play Assistant District Attorney Mikka Von. So now Melissa Sagemiller has been tapped to step in and recur as a new ADA on the show, which returns for a 12th season on Sept. 22. I hear the producers of the veteran NBC procedural Read More »

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Paula Patton Joins ‘Mission: Impossible 4′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Brad Bird, Jeremy Renner, JJ Abrams, Mission: Impossible 4, Mission: Impossible 4 Casting, Mission: Impossible Franchise, Paula Patton, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise MI4
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paula Patton has landed that female lead role that Deadline told you she was testing for, alongside actresses Lauren German and Kristen Kreuk. I’m told that Patton will play a young operative who works with Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt … Read More »

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CASTING: ‘M:I4′, ‘Wanderlust’, ‘The Sitter’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 27, 2010 @ 8:48am PDTTags: Jeremy Renner, John Cusack, Judd Apatow, Mission: Impossible 4, Mission: Impossible 4 Casting, Movie Casting, Paula Patton, The Raven, The Raven Casting, The Sitter, Wanderlust Casting
Mike Fleming

Now that Jeremy Renner snagged the big male lead opposite Tom Cruise in the next Mission: Impossible, the focus of Paramount Pictures, director Brad Bird and producers Cruise and JJ Abrams are intent on filling the role of a young female operative. I’m … Read More »

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