New MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL Images; Plus Paramount Makes Entire M:I Catalogue Available to Stream on Facebook

Paramount Pictures Offers Entire Mission: Impossible Movie Catalogue For Rental Directly To Fans on Facebook® Platform

All Three Feature Films Now Available to Stream Using Facebook Credits

Los Angeles, CA (November 22, 2011) – Paramount Pictures announced today it is offering the entire Mission: Impossible movie catalogue including Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III available for rent directly through the Mission: Impossible Facebook Page. Fans of the franchise can also play the new social spy game Mission: Impossible the Game (https://apps.facebook.com/mission-impossible), the first 200 players to locate a hidden Easter Egg in the game will receive a code for a rental of one of the Mission: Impossible movies on the movie’s Facebook page.*

Millions of people that Like the Mission: Impossible Page can easily rent and enjoy the entire collection of Mission: Impossible movies directly through Facebook using Facebook Credits at https://www.facebook.com/missionimpossiblemovie. Consumers simply click the ‘Rent Movies’ link on the Mission: Impossible Facebook Page and choose among three Mission: Impossible movie apps to seamlessly rent, watch and enjoy the action packed adventures of IMF operative Ethan Hunt.

“Over the past decade movie fans have followed the impossible exploits of Ethan Hunt and his team of IMF operatives,” said Amy Reinhard, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Domestic Home Media Distribution for Paramount Pictures. “Now fans of Mission: Impossible on Facebook who are eagerly awaiting the release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol have a chance to relive and share the adventures.”

Mission: Impossible movies can be rented individually using Facebook Credits and viewed for up to 48 hours. While watching through Facebook, consumers will have full control over their movie viewing experience and can watch in full screen, pause the movie, leave Facebook and resume playing when logged back in.

Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III can each be purchased for 30 Facebook Credits ($2.99). This offering is currently only available to consumers in the United States. The Mission:Impossible movies are rated PG 13.

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*Full details and restrictions concerning promotions will be available on the game application.

About Paramount Pictures Corporation

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. Paramount controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC operations also include Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Media Distribution, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., and Paramount Studio Group.

This holiday season, two-time Academy Award®-winner Brad Bird directs, with producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams, the action-packed spy adventure Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol.”  Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency’s name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.

Tom Cruise returns in the starring role as Ethan Hunt and is joined by an international cast that includes Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor and Lea Seydoux. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is directed by Brad Bird, in his live action film debut, and written by Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec. Cruise, who produces the Mission: Impossible films, is joined by producers J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. The film will be co-financed by Skydance Productions. Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Paul Schwake and Dana Goldberg are the executive producers.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, the latest film in a series which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide, will begin previews in IMAX beginning Friday, Dec. 16 and play through the film’s run at the box office, which begins worldwide on Dec. 21, 2011

Visit the film’s official site: http://www.missionimpossible.com/
“Like” it on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/missionimpossiblemovie
Follow the film on Twitter: @ghostprotocol