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Hannah Waddingham joins Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2

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Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two has gotten slightly bigger as the director has announced on social media that Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) has joined the cast of the Tom Cruise-led spy film. Details on Waddingham’s character were not revealed as both films, which have been shooting back-to-back for several years now, have kept […]

Tom Cruise vs. Keanu Reeves: Who will be 2023’s King of Action?

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Tom Jolliffe previews what promises to be a stellar year for action cinema as two titans bring franchise heavy-hitters to the table… As far as films have gone, 2022 was pretty damn stellar. It’s the first year in a long time where I can honestly say I’ll struggle to put a top ten together. It’s […]

Tom Cruise rides a motorcycle off a cliff in mind-blowing Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning featurette

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You literally can’t go an entire day without a death-defying stunt performed by Tom Cruise. Earlier on he was falling backwards out of a plane to thank audiences for the way they embraced Tom Gun: Maverick, and now the big-screen saviour is at it again in this mind-boggling behind-the-scenes featurette in which he leaps from […]

Tom Cruise teases another death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

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Tom Cruise is no stranger to performing crazy stunts on any number of his films and he just teased another major death-defying airborne stunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two. In the video, Cruise is seen in a helicopter and thanks fans for their support for Top Gun: Maverick’s huge success along with the […]

Is Tom Cruise the Last Great Big Screen Movie Star?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the enduring star power of Tom Cruise. In an age where concept and franchise rules over star, is Cruise the last great big screen movie star? From marriages in the public eye, to couch jumping, to being a poster boy for scientology, the career of Tom Cruise has brought with it […]

Tom Cruise hangs from a plane again in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning image

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In celebration of Tom Cruise’s 60th birthday on Sunday, director Christopher McQuarrie took to social media to share a new image from the hotly-anticipated action sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One which sees the actor pulling off another of his death-defying – and age-defying – stunts as he hangs from a plane (again). […]

The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is back in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer

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With Top Gun: Maverick flying into cinemas this week [read our review here], Paramount Pictures has taken the opportunity to release a first look trailer for Tom Cruise’s next hotly-anticipated sequel, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch the trailer here…  Mission: Impossible […]

Tom Cruise announces Mission: Impossible 7 title

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The Mission: Impossible franchise had attempted the impossible by continuing to shoot throughout much of the pandemic, leading to reports that the budget for the seventh intallment had ballooned to around $290 million, but now that the eighth film in the blockbuster franchise is officially in-production, Tom Cruise has used a break in filming to […]

Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 to serve as a “send-off” for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt

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While there isn’t a movie or television show out there that hasn’t been impacted by the pandemic, one of the projects hit hardest is without a doubt the next chapter(s) in Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media’s Mission: Impossible franchise. Originally planned to shoot back-to-back with Mission: Impossible 8 for release in July 2021, Mission: Impossible […]