Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to suspend the crazy of Tom Cruise and enjoy his newest movie. Before you shrug it off, know that it is the new Mission : Impossible movie and the new trailer is out and it looks exciting.

Joining the mission this time are Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Simon Pegg (returning from Part 3), and Josh Holloway (Lost). Although you’ll see “Bad Robot” plastered all over the place, J.J. Abrams does not return as director of this sequel. He did direct part 3 but this time around just helped write and produce the movie.

“Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” is set to open up in theaters this December and is directed by Brad Bird (Incredibles, Ratatouille, Iron Giant) in his first big break into live action movie making.

The forthcoming fourth installment in the ‘Mission Impossible’ series showcases Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as he goes climbing and jumping and ducking as everything around him explodes in slow motion. Check out the shots from Dubai and yes, that’s him off the building. Check out this video be some people filming Cruise hanging off the world’s largest building for the movie.

Super 8 actually refers to a type of old-school film camera that was popular in the 70′s. A lot of budding film makers cut their teeth on this form of film and Abrams and Spielburg pay a bit of homage to it with this movie about a group of kids who want to be making films but instead catch some freaky creature that escapes a military train during a derailment.

The Super Bowl commercial for “Super 8″ is the first extended look at the movie. In the late 70′s a train accident, which appears to be planned by someone, releases a mysterious creature or entity that will involve a young boy and his Super 8 camera.

It appears that Leonardo DiCaprio and his inception team are in the business of slipping into people’s dreams all Dreamscape like and stealing their secrets while they sleep. Also, DiCaprio may or may not be on his last job to get home or something? What happens beyond that is still mostly a mystery, but one thing is for sure, it looks cool.

So enjoy the trailer and try to wrap your noodle around the movie that is Inception. For those of you who are a little wary of a movie about dreams, don’t worry, these dreams don’t seem to come with snake head monsters or crispy pedophiles in need of a manicure.

A couple of days ago, we mentioned that the trailer for JJ Abrams’ new movie Super 8 would be making a surprise premiere before the Iron Man 2 movie. Since then we’ve had a chance to check out the trailer ourselves and have learned a thing or two.

First, we’ve learned that it isn’t a Cloverfield sequel/prequel but is indeed the Abrams and Spielburg collaboration that has been rumored to be brewing. Yes, you heard correctly, two of Hollywood’s titans of sci-fi are teaming up to bring us an alien movie.

Which brings us to the second thing we’ve learned. It’s an alien movie!

At least that is judging from the trailer that is now online. It has kind of an Encounters of the Third Kind on cocaine vibe, and an Area 51 reference. Screams aliens to us.

This also seems to support the rumor that Abrams would make the film as much an homage to the Spielburg films of the 70′s & 80′s as it is a collaboration with the great director. So will it be more ET or Close Encounters? Maybe a little Jaws thrown in for flavor?

We know the hype and speculation on this film is just beginning, but we’re already looking forward to finding out more. Enjoy the trailer.

For all of those who’re running out to catch Iron Man 2 in theaters this weekend, be sure to get to the theater early, and we don’t mean just to get a good seat. Although that in itself is a very good reason to get there early, really, who likes sitting on the front row of a packed theater. All of those people sitting behind you, breathing, shifting, rattling their boxes of jujubes, and the stares, boring into the back of your head, trying to pierce your brain with their awful, judgmental stares. Why can’t you just watch the screen?! Quite looking at our brains!!!

… Uh, sorry, we digress.

The reason to get to the theater early this weekend is there might just be a special treat worth the extra 10 minutes or so. As rumor has it, a trailer for a super secret JJ Abrams film, being referred to as Super 8 will have its premiere before Iron Man 2. This movie is so secret, that nobody even knew it existed. And to keep the suspense alive, the film cans containing the movie supposedly have electronic locks, whose codes won’t be sent to theaters until just before Iron Man 2 takes to the screens.

You’ve got to give JJ some style points on this one.

Of course this rumor has triggered a lot of questions and rumors of its own. Is he directing or just producing? Is this the movie he is rumored to be teaming up with Steven Spielberg on? Is this some elaborate hoax of it’s own? Is it a sequel/prequel to Cloverfield? Where does he get those wonderful toys?

We probably won’t know much more until Iron Man 2 comes out, and considering some of the teaser trailers Abrams has released in the past, we may not know anything even then. So if you get to the theater early enough, keep your eyeballs peeled for the Bad Robot, and if we find out anything more, we’ll let you know.

Grab your copy of “Star Trek” (on sale today – DVD/Blu Ray or catch it on Netflix) because it’s the best movie of the year and because of all the great bonus stuff.

One lucky chap went through it to find a stray R2-D2 flying around in space.  This little Easter Egg pops up early and we’re gonna be looking for R2 to make sure this isn’t a photoshop trick by Gizmodo.

Or…

We must repair whatever damage they’ve done!

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CHUD.com even claims the movie title will be “Cloverfield“. Or at least during the version he saw. There still is a few polished shots that will be added to the version the author saw but it looks like the new trailer and official name will be seen during the opening of Beowulf in a few weeks.

• THE CLOVERFIELD TRAILER – SEEN!>