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10 Movie Franchises That Need To End

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With a remake, reboot, or sequel every week, it’s time to look at ten franchises that need to end… Look at a coming soon list of mainstream movies across the next 12 months and you’ll notice something. The titles all seem familiar. We’ve been there and we’ve done it already. Sometimes for 10 movies no […]

Mission: Impossible 8 lands Twisters actor Stephen Oyoung

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After appearing in this summer’s Twisters, Stephen Oyoung has another blockbuster on his hands as Deadline reports that the actor is the latest to join Mission: Impossible 8. Plot details for this eighth entry remain under wraps, as does Oyoung’s role. Christopher McQuarrie will return to direct and is producing alongside lead star Tom Cruise. […]

Jeremy Renner keen on Mission: Impossible return

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Having survived his own real-life Mission: Impossible following his near-fatal snow-plough accident, Jeremy Renner has hinted that he’d like to take another assignment with the IMF in a future installment of the blockbuster espionage franchise.  Renner, who played William Brandt in 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and 2015’s Mission: Impossible -Rogue Nation, was speaking with […]

Three Recent and Wildly Overrated Sequels

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They’ve all been championed as some of the best of their genre but are these bloated and overlong sequels really that good? I love event cinema, especially when it’s good and in recent years, although we’ve seen an increasingly mediocre output from Disney and Marvel, we’ve still seen some pretty great blockbuster cinema. Top Gun: […]

Simon Pegg teases Pom Klementieff return in Mission: Impossible 8

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With the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise having been delayed until 2025 – and undergoing a name change as it drops ‘Part Two’ from its title – it may be a while before we hear any news about Mission: Impossible 8, but series star Simon Pegg did tease the return of a familiar face. Taking to […]

Are the Old School Action Veterans Headed Into Forced Retirement?

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With diminishing returns and a lack of interest from big-screen audiences, are old-school action heroes heading to the retirement home…? In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn’t move for action heroes. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger led a musclebound movement that led to younger, more grounded heroes like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One sets 4K, Blu-ray and Digital release

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Paramount Pictures has announced that the seventh instalment in the action-packed blockbuster franchise Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One arrives on digital on October 10th, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD release on October 31st; check out the cover artwork and details below…   Bonus content includes:  Commentary by director Christopher […]

Exclusive Interview – Lorne Balfe on Gran Turismo, Mission Impossible, Tetris and more

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Lorne Balfe has had an incredibly exciting 2023 working on some of the most successful blockbusters including Dungeons and Dragons, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and now Gran Turismo. We sat down with Lorne to discuss the scores for the films, how he balances his workload and moving from films to video games… Were you […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opens to $235 million worldwide

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Hollywood’s had a bit of a tough time at the box office recently with its big budget tentpoles with the likes of The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny bombing hard and ramping up the pressure on the struggling theatrical industry. However, in a repeat of last year with Top Gun: Maverick, […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Shea Whigham, Mariela Garriga, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Anton Valensi, Nico Toffoli, and Frederick Schmidt. […]