Castro Powers (Film Series)

The Castro Powersare a series of action Sci-fi based on superhero comic charcter of the same name, and starring James Frano as Castro Powers named Datin Andrews. The series is the 4th highest grossing film series of all time with over $3.5 billion worth of worldwide gross.

Filming for the first film of the series began in August 2004. On August 21, 2004, the first photos from the set in Vienna, Austria were released.

Principal cast

Character	Film
	Castro Powers: World of Destruction	Castro Powers: Code of Disaster	Castro Powers: Rise of Codex	Castro Powers: Power of the Night	Castro Powers: Age of Doom
Datin Andrews	James Franco
Sarmin Andrews	Karley Scott Collins
Abril Canes			Jayma Mayas
Sam Sabowski	Carrie- Ann Moss
Castro-Clone	Timothy Olyphant
Fredrick Sums					Leonardo DiCaprio
Dr. Doom					David Boreanaz
Jean Gray/Dark Phoenix					Debby Ryan
Adrian Moist			Zachary Quinto

Crew

Film	Director	Producer	Writer	Composer	Editor	Cinematographer
Mission: Impossible	Brian De Palma	Tom Cruise Paula Wagner	David Koepp Robert Towne David Koepp Steven Zaillian	Danny Elfman	Paul Hirsch	Stephen H. Burum
Mission: Impossible II	John Woo		Robert Towne Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga	Hans Zimmer	Steven Kemper Christian Wagner	Jeffrey L. Kimball
Mission: Impossible III	J.J. Abrams		Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & J.J. Abrams	Michael Giacchino	Maryann Brandon Mary Jo Markey	Dan Mindel
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	Brad Bird	Tom Cruise J.J. Abrams Bryan Burk	Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec		Paul Hirsch	Robert Elswit
Mission: Impossible 5	Christopher McQuarrie	Tom Cruise J.J. Abrams David Ellison	Drew Pearce & Will Staples	Joe Kraemer

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release date	Box office gross			Box office ranking		Budget	Reference
		North America	Outside North America	Worldwide	All time North America	All time worldwide
Castro Powers	May 18, 2007	$156,678,770	$555,567,669	$712,246,439	#152 #148(A)	#119	$80 million
Mission: Impossible II	May 24, 2000	$215,409,889	$330,978,216	$546,388,105	#102 #156(A)	#82	$125 million
Mission: Impossible III	May 5, 2006	$134,029,801	$263,820,211	$397,850,012	#294	#153	$150 million
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	December 16, 2011 (Limited) December 21, 2011	$209,397,903	$485,315,477	$694,713,380	#109	#49	$145 million
Total		$739,811,483	$1,356,836,373	$2,096,647,856			$500 million
List indicator(s) (A) indicates the adjusted totals based on current ticket prices (calculated by Box Office Mojo).

Critical response

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
Castro Powers	70% (949 reviews)	76 (116 reviews)
Castro Powers 2	98% (941 reviews)	90 (133 reviews)
Castro 3	99% (1,018 reviews)	95 (138 reviews)
Castro Powers: Power of the Night	97% (1,227 reviews)	97 (138 reviews)

Controversy

Some fans of the TV series were upset that Jim Phelps, team leader in the series, became a traitor in the first movie, selling the details of government agents to an arms dealer. Actor Greg Morris, who portrayed Barney Collier in the original television series, was so disgusted with the film's treatment of the Phelps character that he walked out of the theater before the film ended. Martin Landau, who portrayed Rollin Hand in the original series, was equally negative concerning the films. In an MTV interview in October 2009, Landau stated: "When they were working on an early incarnation of the first one – not the script they ultimately did – they wanted the entire team to be destroyed, done away with one at a time, and I was against that", he said. "It was basically an action-adventure movie and not 'Mission.' 'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there. So the whole texture changed. Why volunteer to essentially have our characters commit suicide? I passed on it. The script wasn't that good either."

Peter Graves turned down an offer to portray Jim Phelps in the 1996 film due to the fact Phelps was going to be revealed as an antagonist.

Change to theme song

The television version is in a rarely used 5/4 (5 beats to a measure) time and is difficult to dance to, as was proven by a memorable segment of American Bandstand in which teenage dancers were caught off-guard by Dick Clark's playing of the Lalo Schifrin single release.

The opening theme music for the first three films are stylized renditions of Lalo Schifrin's original iconic theme, preserving the 5/4 rhythm, by Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, and Michael Giacchino respectively by the films' chronology. Most of the versions included in the score also retained the 5/4 time signature.

However, for Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen, Jr.'s remix featured on the first film's motion picture soundtrack, the time signature was changed to standard pop 4/4 (4 beats to a measure) time to make it more dance-friendly, although the intro is still in 5/4 time. Also, the Limp Bizkit song "Take a Look Around" from the soundtrack to the second film was set to a similar 4/4 modification of the theme, with an interlude in 5/4.

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