Red Stewart chats with Lorne Balfe about Mission: Impossible – Fallout and video game scores… Lorne Balfe is a Scottish composer who has been working in the film, television, and video game industries since the early-2000s. He is best known for his work on video game titles Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin’s Creed […]
The Academy’s ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ is a demeaning category
Ricky Church on the new Oscar category ‘Achievement in Popular Film… The Academy Awards is the film industry’s most prestigious event of the year, celebrating outstanding achievements in a wide array of behind the scenes filmmaking from direction, acting to sound design and more. That’s how the ceremony is presented to audiences at least and […]
Christopher McQuarrie is wanted for Mission: Impossible 7, but he’s undecided about returning to the director’s chair
With Mission: Impossible – Fallout debuting to a franchise record opening as well as near-universally stellar reviews, it will come as absolutely no surprise to hear that Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise are already eyeing a seventh instalment in the spy series, nor will it come as a surprise that Fallout helmer Christopher McQuarrie is […]
Bond v Bourne v Hunt: Who is the Ultimate 21st Century Action Hero?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the three major action heroes of the 21st century… As we sit and bask in the aftermath of the most recent Mission: Impossible instalment, it seems as good a time as any to take a look at three of the most prolific government Assassins of the last couple of decades. Mr […]
Tom Cruise has thought about taking Mission: Impossible into space
With the latest chapter Mission: Impossible – Fallout setting a franchise high opening weekend at the box office, the Mission: Impossible franchise is certainly showing no signs of slowing down despite being six entries and 22 years into its run. Given the critical and commercial success of Fallout, a seventh entry in the series is […]
Jeremy Renner turned down a Mission: Impossible – Fallout death scene cameo
Despite the fact that Hawkeye was absent from the movie, Jeremy Renner’s commitments to the Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War created a scheduling conflict with Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which ultimately prevented his character Brandt from appearing in the spy sequel. However, director Christopher McQuarrie has revealed to Empire (via Collider) that he […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout director originally agreed to the removal of Henry Cavill’s mustache for Justice League
Director of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Christopher McQuarrie, said yes to removing Henry Cavill’s troublesome mustache. The talk regarding Henry Cavill’s now infamous mustache never seems to end. Having grown the mustache for Fallout and then needing to have the facial hair digitally covered (poorly) for Justice League became a symbol of that film’s issues […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout has no deleted scenes says director Christopher McQuarrie
The theatrical cut of Mission: Impossible – Fallout is all there is according to director Christopher McQuarrie, who has revealed that his film has no deleted scenes. The sixth film in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise has proven to be a massive hit with both critics and now with audiences at cinemas. But for those […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, Alex Baldwin, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, and Wes Bentley. SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. So […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout sets a franchise high $153.5 million worldwide opening
Coming off the back of stellar reviews [read ours here, here and here], Mission: Impossible – Fallout kicked off its box office run this weekend, with the six instalment in the Tom Cruise-headlined spy series setting a franchise high worldwide opening of $153.5 million. Fallout – directed by Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation helmer Christopher […]