'Mission: Impossible IV' gets weird new title

It looks like "Mission: Impossible IV" now has its final title (for now at least). At a news conference in Dubai earlier today, Tom Cruise said the sequel will be titled "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol." Huh?

Sounds quite awkward, I know, but that's what we have to get used to now. AFP reported the news about the fourth film in the franchise. The flick is currently shooting in Dubai, with Moscow to follow soon.

"One of the things that I always wanted with the franchise was for it to not have a number afterwards, because I haven't made sequels of films, and I never really thought of these films as sequels," Cruise said.

Paramount Pictures will release "Ghost Protocol" in theaters December 2011. Brad Bird is directing the film, which also stars Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway, Paula Patton and Ving Rhames.