After a blistering start in China last weekend, Mission: Impossible – Fallout has pushed its global haul to $726.6 million, making it not only the highest-grossing instalment in the spy series, but also the biggest movie of Tom Cruise’s career to date. Fallout has earned $212.1 million domestically (leaving it just a shade behind Mission: […]
Top Gun: Maverick adds Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Lewis Pullman
Top Gun: Maverick isn’t done with its castings just yet. After signing on several actors yesterday, Deadline has revealed that Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Harris (Westworld) and Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale) have now been added to the star-studded sequel. There is no word on who they will be playing, but they […]
Rumour: Tom Cruise and Mark Wahlberg were wanted for Hal Jordan role in Green Lantern Corps
DC Films’ planned superhero space epic Green Lantern Corps took a step forward back in June when it was announced that former DC CCO Geoff Johns had signed on to serve as writer and producer on the project, replacing The Dark Knight trilogy and Man of Steel writer David S. Goyer. Whether or not Johns’ […]
The era of big stars is over, so are we on the cusp of the era of directors?
George Chrysostomou on whether we’re entering the era of the director… For many a year now, movies have been marketed and sold on the big name stars who appear in them. For a very long time, this method of selling a movie worked. There were periods of time that people would see Sylvester Stallone attached […]
Christopher McQuarrie is wanted for Mission: Impossible 7, but he’s undecided about returning to the director’s chair
With Mission: Impossible – Fallout debuting to a franchise record opening as well as near-universally stellar reviews, it will come as absolutely no surprise to hear that Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise are already eyeing a seventh instalment in the spy series, nor will it come as a surprise that Fallout helmer Christopher McQuarrie is […]
Bond v Bourne v Hunt: Who is the Ultimate 21st Century Action Hero?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the three major action heroes of the 21st century… As we sit and bask in the aftermath of the most recent Mission: Impossible instalment, it seems as good a time as any to take a look at three of the most prolific government Assassins of the last couple of decades. Mr […]
Tom Cruise has thought about taking Mission: Impossible into space
With the latest chapter Mission: Impossible – Fallout setting a franchise high opening weekend at the box office, the Mission: Impossible franchise is certainly showing no signs of slowing down despite being six entries and 22 years into its run. Given the critical and commercial success of Fallout, a seventh entry in the series is […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, Alex Baldwin, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, and Wes Bentley. SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. So […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Wolf Blitzer, and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar […]
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Wolf Blitzer, and Alec Baldwin SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, […]