Deadline.com is reporting that 'Precious' actress Paula Patton has landed the lead female role in the fourth installment of the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise.

The Los Angeles native will play a young operative who works with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt character. The website also stated that the film will not be called 'Mission: Impossible 4.' Cruise and J.J. Abrams, who hatched the project together, always envisioned it as a franchise reboot. The film begins production in the fall, with Brad Bird directing Cruise, who'll co-star alongside Jeremy Renner, of 'The Hurt Locker,' who landed the other hotly contested role.

Patton, who was recently cast as the new assistant district attorney for the NBC drama series 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,' apparently beat out actresses Lauren German and Kristen Kreuk for the coveted spot.

Lionsgate announced that it will release Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' on Nov. 5 instead of its original launch date during Martin Luther King weekend in 2011.

The move, which would put the film in a good position to snag year-end awards consideration, also continues Perry's streak of releasing at least one film per year since 2005.

"It's a serious film that really lends itself to the fall period. From talking with exhibitors, I know they're really excited to have another Tyler Perry film this year," said David Spitz, Lionsgate's executive vice president and general sales manager.

Coming out this week is 'Machete,' which is directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis and based on the "fake" trailer in Rodriguez's 2007 'Grindhouse,' which featured Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey.

Trejo and Fahey are reprising their original roles, and the film will also star Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal.

The story finds former renegade Machete (Trejo) roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (De Niro) a corrupt senator. Double-crossed and on the run, Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Marin), his "holy" brother, and April (Lohan), a socialite with a penchant for guns. All the while, he's being tracked by Sartana (Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.

If there's anyone, besides Tyler Perry and Spike Lee, in the film industry currently bringing business to the film community, it's power producer Will Packer of Rainforest Films.

The Florida native's latest film, 'Takers,' just beat out 'The Last Exorcism' for the top spot at the box office despite showing in less theaters and overcoming low predictions from top film analysts.

In the last few years, Packer has attracted some of the most marketable names in the black Hollywood community and given them starring vehicles such as Columbus Short and Chris Brown, who did well with 'Stomp The Yard.' That was Packer's first film to hit number #1 at the box office.

With 'This Christmas,' the film starred Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Chris Brown, Columbus Short, Regina King, Sharon Leal, and Lauren London. On a budget of $13 million, the film went on to gross $50 million.

After playing at numerous festivals, Sean Baker's film, 'Prince of Broadway,' is finally making its way to the big screen and coming in with a big name to help promote it - Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels.

In the same way that Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey helped launched his Oscar nominated film, 'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' Daniels will be doing the same thing with this little independent film that has captivated audiences at festivals.

UPDATE: According to Comingsoon.net, as of Monday afternoon Sony is claiming the victory for Screen Gems' 'Takers' based on revised estimates including numbers from Sunday where 'The Last Exorcism' fell behind, dropping 45% on Sunday to 32% from 'Takers' and that allowed 'Takers' to win the weekend with $20.5 million to 'Exorcism's $20.4 million. It's still early and one can expect the numbers to be contested with it being so close, but right now, it looks like 'Takers' has indeed kept Lionsgate from having their first-ever third weekend at #1.

If the numbers do hold up, it would mark the third number one film for producer Will Packer after 'Obsessed' with Idris Elba and Beyonce, and 'Stomp The Yard' with Columbus Short and Chris Brown.

While Hollywood has offered an endless amount of heist films to the point where originality doesn't exist with new films, 'Takers' works because of its solid pace and action scenes, including one chase sequence that will have the audience rooting for both the cops and robbers.

With a multi-racial cast that includes Idris Elba, Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Tip "T.I." Harris, Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana, and Jay Hernandez, there are plenty of attractive names to lure audiences from all sides.

Screen Gems recently released a few clips from 'Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D,' and one of the videos includes Boris Kodjoe.

Directed by Paul WS Anderson, the film stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Kodjoe, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller and Sienna Guillory.

'Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D' is based on the very popular video game series of the same name, but this time it will be in 3-D. It revolves around Alice (Jovovich), who lives in a world ravaged by a virus that turns its victims into the undead. Alice is on a dangerous journey to find survivors and lead them to safety.

Magnolia Pictures' 'Night Catches Us,' which stars Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington, will be the opening night film for the 14th annual Urbanworld Film Festival.

The debut feature, from Tanya Hamilton, exposes the realities of African American life during the final days of the Black Power Movement, as potluck suppers, run-ins with the authorities and lingering radicalism threaten to set off a neighborhood teetering on the edge.

Set in Philadelphia in 1976, 'Night' focuses on two former Black Panthers (played by Mackie and Washington) who reunite during the summer before Jimmy Carter's presidential election. As friends forced to confront personal and political demons, the two actors give spectacular performances, while Hamilton's use of an intense soundtrack (by The Roots) and moving archival footage bring to life the history of black resistance.

Coming out this week is the horror film 'The Last Exorcism,' starring Patrick Fabian and Ashley Bell.

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, Rev. Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.

Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the blood-drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Marcus' own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late.