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Mission: Impossible III (2006) More at IMDbPro »

Follows

"Mission: Impossible" (1966)
Mission Impossible Versus the Mob (1968)
"Mission: Impossible" (1988)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Followed by

Mission: Impossible IV (2011)

References

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
 -  Ethan Hunt disguise when he flies to China
Mission: Impossible (1996)
 -  Of the Shanghai job, Luther says "Langley was a cakewalk compared to this" - a reference to the Langley break-in in the first Mission: Impossible.
"Lost" (2004)
 -  Lost's ficticious Hanso Foundation appears in the credits under 'Special Thanks'

Referenced in

Antitrust (2001)
 -  A guard shouts at Milo: "What's with all this Mission Impossible 3 shit, Milo?"
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
 -  Crocodile Dundee: "Do they usually cart the sets and the props from one country to another and back again?" Other guy: "Maybe in a big-budget international movie like 'Mission: Impossible 3', but I haven't seen Tom Cruise on the set, have you?"
Ellie Parker (2005)
 -  Other title mentioned
"Robot Chicken: Joint Point (#1.14)" (2005)
 -  Scarlett Johansen is introduced as "Mission: Impossible III's Scarlett Johanson.
Catering Impossible: M:i:III (2006) (TV)
"Howard Stern on Demand: Guessing Game" (2006)
 -  Howard mentions that Tom Cruise was in New York promoting the film
"Howard Stern on Demand: J.J. Abrams and the Film Festival Winner" (2006)
 -  JJ Abrams promotes his movie
Hot Fuzz Special (2007) (TV)
 -  Simon Pegg mentions what working on this film was like compared to Hot Fuzz.
"Entourage: The Return of the King (#3.17)" (2007)
 -  Mentioned as "M:I 3" by Ari
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (2007) (V)
 -  Discuss working on script with Cruise and Abrams
Mission Istaanbul (2008)
 -  The scene where the villian threatens Vikas of shooting his wife at the end of his countdown is a direct reference to the scene shown at beginning of MI:3

Featured in

"The Colbert Report: Frank Rich (#2.61)" (2006)
 -  clips from the trailer are featured
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
 -  clips

Spoofed in

2006 MTV Movie Awards (2006) (TV)
 -  Spoof movie.
Epic Movie (2007)
 -  the scene where Lucy's camera scans her eyes and she talks to Tumnus
Tropic Thunder (2008)
 -  Ben Stiller barely escapes the explosion on the bridge the same way that (co-star) Tom Cruise did on MI3

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