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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 plenty […]

Tom Cruise soars through the sky on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning poster

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How is Tom Cruise expected to ground himself in a seat for the Oscars ceremony when he spends most of his time hurtling through the clouds performing death-defying stunts? Case-in-point is the official poster for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which has just been dropped by Paramount Pictures and Skydance and features the […]

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 their […]

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 announcement […]

Henry Cavill and Alec Baldwin may return for Mission: Impossible sequels

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Last week it was reported that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to reunite with Tom Cruise for two more instalments in the blockbuster spy series, which will be shot back-to-back for release in 2021 and 2022 respectively.While we can assume that Cruise’s Ethan Hunt […]

Tom Cruise takes a leap of faith in new Mission: Impossible – Fallout image, trailer date likely revealed

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After dangling off a helicopter yesterday, Tom Cruise has taken to social media yet again to share another image of a death-defying stunt he performed for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, while teasing the “most thrilling mission yet.” Check out the actor in the midst of a massive leap (one that it almost looks like will send […]

Henry Cavill shows off his “fashionable nipple attachments” with Mission: Impossible 6 set photo

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Henry Cavill has been shuffling promotional duties on the upcoming DC blockbuster Justice League with production on 2018’s Mission: Impossible 6 these past few weeks, and the actor has taken to Instagram to share a new photo from the set of the spy sequel which shows him performing a climbing stunt, complete with “fashionable nipple attachments”. […]

Mission: Impossible 6 will feature multiple death-defying Tom Cruise stunts

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Spider-Man sure does whatever a spider can, and so does Tom Cruise who has a seemingly addictive habit of staring death in the face during many of his risky yet spectacularly entertaining Mission: Impossible stunts.Generally, each movie contains one massively dangerous action sequence (think of Cruise darting across that plane for real in Mission: Impossible […]

Tom Cruise arrives back on set for Mission: Impossible 6 after injury

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Tom Cruise is back at work after his injury kept him away from the Mission: Impossible 6 set.We learned back in August that the film’s production would be shut down for nine weeks following Cruise breaking his ankle while performing a stunt where the Hollywood legend had to jump between two buildings.But now Cruise is back […]