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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). […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]