Filming in Shanghai

Actor Tom Cruise, left on the stage, and director J.J. Abrams pose atop Shanghai's historic Bund 18 building, with the skyline of the city's Pudong district in the background, after wrapping up filming in China for "Mission Impossible 3" Nov. 30, 2005. Cruise and Abrams said they finished shooting the Shanghai scenes early and that the city was "spectacular" and the local film crews "extraordinary."

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