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Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 delayed once again to 2023 and 2024

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The real impossible mission Tom Cruise faces is the completion of production on Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 as Paramount and Skydance have once again delayed the release dates of both films amid the ongoing pandemic. It has been a long road for the back-to-back sequels as they were originally slated for a July 2021 and […]

Tom Cruise does another insane Mission: Impossible stunt, this time by hanging upside down on a biplane

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While Mission: Impossible 7 awaits its release date later in 2022, Tom Cruise is already busy filming his next crazy movie stunt. Recent photos from the set show Tom Cruise flying a 1941 Boeing B75N1 Stearman biplane and then hanging off the wing as it makes a mid-air loop. We have no idea why Cruise’s […]

Filming has officially wrapped on Mission: Impossible 7

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It seems like forever now since cameras first began rolling on Mission: Impossible 7, but a year and a half after production first got underway – and numerous shutdowns and delays due to COVID later – director Christopher McQuarrie has taken to Instagram to announce that filming has finally wrapped on the next instalment in […]

The Top 10 Rejected Film Scores

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Hasitha Fernando on the top ten rejected film scores… Hans Zimmer once famously quipped that, ‘You haven’t made it as a film composer until you’ve had a film score rejected.’ Hollywood plays nasty like that. So much so that having a film score kicked to the curb, at least once in your career, has become […]

Mission: Impossible 7 CinemaCon footage promises the franchise’s biggest stunt yet

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The Mission: Impossible films are getting increasingly crazy with their stunts. From underwater feats to scaling the tallest buildings, star Tom Cruise is willing to do anything, and it seems he may have done his wildest stunt yet with the upcoming seventh instalment. During Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday, the audience was treated to […]

Brian De Palma reveals how Mission: Impossible’s opening scene was changed with George Lucas’s help

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Director Brian De Palma has revealed how the opening scene to the first Mission: Impossible instalment was completely changed after some advice by filmmaker George Lucas. “When George saw Mission: Impossible he said, ‘There’s no setup to this thing. You’ve gotta set this thing up! You’ve gotta have that scene where they’re all sitting around the table […]

Mission: Impossible 7 halts production for two weeks following positive coronavirus test

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The seventh instalment in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise has had to halt production after at least one crew member has tested positive for coronavirus. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the production will shut down for 14 days while those involved in the project self-isolate. A statement from the production reads: “We have temporarily halted […]

25 Years of Mission: Impossible: High Stakes Stunts, Dense Plotting and Tom Cruise

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Ricky Church on the 25th anniversary of the Mission: Impossible movie franchise… “Your mission, should you choose to accept it.” 25 years ago today those words were uttered as the action-spy genre was given a shot in the arm with a big screen revitalization of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Based on the 1960s TV series […]

Tom Cruise explains why Mission: Impossible 7 bike stunt was the most dangerous of his career

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Since the first Mission: Impossible film one aspect of the films that fans have come to expect in each instalment is leading man Tom Cruise performing death-defying stunts for our entertainment, and it seems like Mission: Impossible 7 will be no exception. In an interview with Empire, Cruise explained why riding a motorcycle off the edge […]

New images of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible 7

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As filming winds down on Mission: Impossible 7, Empire Magazine has given fans of the blockbuster spy series a new look at Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt thanks to a couple of promotional images from the film which show Cruise mid-jump on a motorbike, and taking a ride on the steam train we saw in the […]