Quick Takes - Feb. 10, 2010

Cruise’s new ‘Mission’

Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission.

Paramount Pictures announced Tuesday that Cruise will be back in front of the camera for “Mission: Impossible IV,” due in theaters over Memorial Day weekend in 2011. The movie reunites Cruise and Paramount, which cut the actor loose from a long-term development deal in 2006.

J.J. Abrams will stick to producing this time, with the search on for a director to shoot the new installment.

-- associated press D.C. concert is held early

Among the myriad other disruptions that massive snowstorms are causing on the East Coast, a Black History Month concert at the White House delineating the role music played in the civil-rights movement had to be fast-forwarded a day to Tuesday.

New storms were expected to dump up to 20 inches of snow on the nation’s capital, so the concert featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Smokey Robinson, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson and numerous others was bumped up from Wednesday, although plans are holding steady for PBS stations around the country to broadcast the event on Thursday night (9:30 p.m. on KCET-TV).

“The civil rights movement was a movement sustained by music,” President Obama said in welcoming remarks to an East Room audience that included civil rights leaders, students and members of Congress and the Cabinet.

Other concert participants included Natalie Cole, Yolanda Adams, Morgan Freeman and the Blind Boys of Alabama.

-- Randy Lewis Probst renews with ‘Survivor’

Jeff Probst is sticking with “Survivor” next season as host and an executive producer.

CBS announced an agreement Tuesday with Probst, who has been host of “Survivor” since its debut in 2000. He’ll be back for the 21st and 22nd installments of network TV’s longest-running reality competition series, airing in 2010-11.

Probst has won two Emmy Awards as best host of a reality competition show.

-- associated press Lil Wayne has sentence delay

Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail -- for dental surgery.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper’s sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday because he needs to finish a string of recent surgeries before he goes to jail.

Lil Wayne, 27, one of music’s biggest sellers and rap’s hottest stars, is poised to spend as much as a year in jail under a plea deal, although good behavior could shave that to as little as eight months. He pleaded guilty in October to a charge of attempted criminal possession of a weapon, admitting he illegally had a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in July 2007.

Sentencing now is scheduled for March 2.

-- associated press Bidding war for original script?

Talk to anyone in Hollywood and they’ll tell you that the process of getting an original movie sold or made these days is about as easy as getting Sarah Palin to keep mum at a Tea Party convention.

Which is why it’s eye-catching that David Guggenheim, an Us magazine editor with no previous screenwriting experience, stirred a bidding war with a script called “Safe House,” a story of a young U.S. intelligence agent in charge of a safe house in a tumultuous part of South America. Soon after a prisoner is brought in, the house is attacked, and the agent and the prisoner must go on the run.

Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber just won the rights with a mid-six-figure offer.

Guggenheim, who has two brothers who are screenwriters, said he hopes the sale of his script “gives everyone else out there hope.”

-- Steven Zeitchik Actor cast for ‘Hawaii Five-0’

“Lost” star Daniel Dae Kim is the first actor cast for the remake of the hit cop series “Hawaii Five-0,” which ran from 1968 to 1980.

CBS told the Honolulu Advertiser that Kim will portray detective Chin Ho Kelly, who was originally played by the late Kam Fong. Kim plays Jin on ABC’s “Lost,” which is in its sixth and final season.

-- associated press