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Mission: Impossible 8 Or Final Destination 6 – Which Film Is Winning Over Critics? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Two major Hollywood releases, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Final Destination Bloodlines, hit the big screens around the same time and are currently running in theatres. The eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible film series, starring Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, was released in Indian theatres today and will be out next week in the US. Meanwhile, Final Destination Bloodlines is also running in full swing! But which of these films has earned a better critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes? The answer might surprise you.

Mission: Impossible 8 Vs Final Destination 6 – Which Movie Is Leading On Rotten Tomatoes?

As of today, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning holds a critics’ score of 81% on the reviews aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 155 reviews (at the time of writing). On the other hand, Final Destination...

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2025 has been one of the weaker years for the film industry as high-budget films like Captain America: Brave New World and Snow White have failed at both impressing the audience and at the box office. While there have been many disappointments this year, it does not mean that there have been no good movies released this year, and to prove that, we have compiled a list of the best movies that have come out in 2025 so far.

Final Destination: Bloodlines (In Theaters) Credit – Warner Bros.

Final Destination: Bloodlines is a supernatural horror film co-directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein from a screenplay co-written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor. The 2025 film is the sixth entry into the Final Destination film franchise, and it follows a college student who saves the lives of many people who were supposed to die,...

Tom Cruise’s final film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is set to hit theaters on Memorial Day weekend. The film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie with a budget nearing $400 million, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, receiving a five-minute standing ovation. The movie picks up a few months after the events of 2023’s Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the Imf team on a mission to stop Gabriel Martinelli (Esai Morales) from accessing a world-ending rogue artificial intelligence known as “The Entity.” The cast also includes Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, and Pom Klementieff.

As of Thursday, The Final Reckoning holds an 82 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It will be released on May 23 by Paramount, the same day as the live-action Lilo & Stitch. Both films are expected to dominate Memorial Day box office sales.

Mission: Impossible All Movies To Watch On Ott In India(Photo Credit –YouTube)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eagerly anticipated eighth instalment of the Mission: Impossible film series, starring Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, will be released in US theatres on May 23, 2025, and a week earlier in Indian theatres on May 17, 2025. Before Mi 8 arrives in theatres, here is where you can stream all seven Mission: Impossible films on Indian Ott platforms.

The first six Mission: Impossible movies are streaming on Jio Hotstar. And the seventh Mi film, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, is streaming on the Netflix Ott platform. In case you are not a Jio Hotstar or Netflix subscriber, you can also rent these seven films on the Amazon Prime Video store. Here are the Ott platforms of all seven Mission: Impossible films.

1. Mission: Impossible (1996) – Streaming on Jio Hotstar & Amazon Prime Video (Rent)

Plot: Helmed by Brian De Palma,...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review On X/ Twitter! (Picture Credit: Facebook)

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt for one last time! Cine-goers are on a thrilling yet emotional ride. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will release in Indian theatres on May 17, 2025. But the premieres were scheduled last night in the domestic market. Critics and viewers have spoken up, and they’ve mostly good things to say about the Mi finale! Scroll below for the reviews on X (formerly Twitter).

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible 8 witnesses the ultimate event when Ethan Hunt stops Gabriel from obtaining the Entity. Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, and Angela Bassett will reprise their much-loved characters. It is one of the most expensive films ever made, so the stakes are high at the box office!

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning X Review

Early reactions to Tom Cruise’s starrer are polarised.

Ethan Hunt’s story is now over, supposedly — and early watchers are responding to the last Mission: Impossible installment.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the final film in the spy action franchise, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and received a five-minute standing ovation. The film was directed by Christopher McQuarrie with a budget nearing $400 million. Leading up to the highly anticipated movie’s release, Tom Cruise’s jaw-dropping stunts like him holding on the side of a helicopter and the under water sequence has been promoted on the film’s social media and the star’s own account.

Final Reckoning begins a couple of months after 2023’s Dead Reckoning ends. Hunt (Cruise) and the Imf team are on a mission to stop Gabriel Martinelli (Esai Morales) from getting access to the world-ending rogue artificial intelligence known as “The Entity.” Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames,...

Stars: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett | Written by Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen | Directed by Christopher McQuarrie

Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie return to our screens with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the direct sequel to last year’s Dead Reckoning Part One, and the eighth instalment in the Mission: Impossible film series. As such, it delivers the expected thrills, in terms of jaw-dropping action sequences, and the script finds clever ways to connect to the previous films in the franchise, making this feel like a satisfying wrap-up to the whole series.

Co-written by McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen, the story picks up two months after the events of Dead Reckoning, with Imf agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) continuing his mission to stop arch nemesis Gabriel (Esai Morales) from getting his hands on an all-powerful AI program known as “The...

Which Filmmaker Was Initially Set To Direct Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is geared up for the release of his upcoming film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He reprises his role as the daredevil agent Ethan Hunt, and the film is all set to hit the big screens on May 17, 2025, in India and a week later in the US. Before that happens, let us take you to the first Mission: Impossible film, which came out in 1996. An interesting fact about the movie is that the Tom Cruise starrer was initially supposed to be directed by an Oscar-winning filmmaker, and it was not Brian De Palma.

The Oscar-Winner Who Almost Directed Mission: Impossible

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker who was first approached to direct the 1996 film Mission: Impossible was none other than Sydney Pollack. According to an earlier report by Variety, Sydney Pollack was...

Eight movies. Five directors. Three dozen character actors. Two dozen exotic locales, each one of them the perfect background for globetrotting espionage. A dozen action set pieces. A half dozen peeled-off masks. One best-of-show brawl set in a public bathroom. Numerous car chases, motorcycle chases, helicopter chases, explosions, collateral-damage relationships, and falls and near-falls from both modest and great heights. Too many running scenes to count. So, so many running scenes.

For nearly 30 years, the Mission: Impossible franchise has managed to take the bare-bone elements of spy thrillers, summer blockbusters...

The reviews are in for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (via ActioNewz.com), but is this a worthy conclusion to Tom Cruise's nearly three-decade run as Imf agent Ethan Hunt?

It seems the answer to that question is yes and no. The action sounds phenomenal, but the story appears to be a little too jam-packed—you might want to rewatch the previous instalments before heading to theaters for this one—with a villain who fails to reach the high bar set by his predecessors.

Cruise, however, is receiving plenty of praise, and for longtime Mission fans, it seems The Final Reckoning is a win.

The Hollywood Reporter calls the movie "dull" and adds, "If it’s going to be the last we see of one of the most consistently entertaining franchises to come out of Hollywood in the past few decades...it’s a disappointing farewell with a...

Tom Cruise said goodbye to the “Mission: Impossible” franchise in electrifying fashion at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” earned a five-minute ovation thanks in part to Cruise’s commitment to putting breathless and death-defying practical stunts on the big screen. The Cannes premiere was a massive event, with a 40-piece orchestra welcoming guests into the theater with the franchise’s iconic theme before the screening.

The audience lapped up the film’s special effects but the long run-time left some theatergoers bleary-eyed and exhausted. In the final stretch of the film, featuring death-defying acrobatics from Cruise, a handful of attendees got up and fled the Palais.

Though Cruise’s willingness to risk his life for “Mission: Impossible” has been covered relentlessly, what the Cannes audience did not expect was how much he was willing to bare all.

The 62-year-old survived a three-minute knife fight...

iEnthralling and packed with nail-biting, armrest-grabbing tension, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning cements Tom Cruise as the greatest movie star in motion picture history! Perhaps no other actor puts more on the line—or exposes himself to more real danger—for the sake of his fans than Tom Terrific, Maverick, or, as Nick Offerman affectionately calls him, “Tom Cat.”

There’s nothing “Tc” won’t do to entertain the masses. The jaw-dropping action stunts in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are spectacular—and that intensifier is no overstatement. The sheer audacity, bravado, and maybe even outright arrogance of watching the world’s biggest star hang at 8,000 feet in 140 mph winds, without CGI, is so nerve-wracking that you can hardly stand it or sit still.

We know Cruise survives the real-life stunt, but people respond to guts, and this guy has them. He elevates the action-adventure genre to new,...

Three years after screening “Top Gun: Maverick” at the Cannes Film Festival, Tom Cruise has returned to the French Riviera to showcase his latest blockbuster stunt extravaganza, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”

Directed and co-written by frequent Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, the eighth and latest installment in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise is a direct sequel to 2023’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning.” That film introduced viewers to new characters like Hayley Atwell’s Grace, Esai Morales’ villainous Gabriel, Greg Tarzan Davis’ Degas, Pom Klementieff’s skilled assassin Paris and Shea Whigham’s Jasper Briggs. Those characters and actors are all set to return, once again, in “The Final Reckoning.”

They are accompanied in it by “Mission: Impossible” newcomers Holt McCallany (“Mindhunter”), Janet McTeer (“Ozark”), Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”), Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”), Katy O’Brian (“Twisters”) and Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), as well as returning franchise veterans like Simon Pegg,...

With just ten days to go until we light the fuse one last time, Paramount has debuted over fifty awesome new stills and a stunning new poster from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, offering one last look at Tom Cruise suiting up as Ethan Hunt for what is being described as his most personal and death-defying Mission yet.

In addition to the new photos that highlight much of the cast and some of the major stunts in the film, we also have a pair of stunning behind-the-scenes featurettes, and an amazing 1.90 trailer that previews the film in its IMAX-exclusive expanded aspect ratio.

Both featurettes spotlight Cruise's aerial acrobatics, so expect some major fireworks when we see the standout sequence finally realized on the biggest screens imaginable.

If you haven't already, remember to book your tickets now for the commercial-free IMAX Opening Day Fan Event on Thursday, May...

As the world’s leading movie star, Tom Cruise accomplished a pretty easy mission by touching down at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday night and whipping the city into a frenzy ahead of the Palais premiere of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.

Joined by his close friend and franchise collaborator, filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise walked the red carpet after signing a slew of autographs and posing for selfies with fans lining the barricades on the Croisette. Fans held Cruise memorabilia, from posters of The Last Samurai to a DVD of Mission: Impossible II. One fan set up a shrine to Val Kilmer, the late co-star of Cruise’s Top Gun.

Cruise and the cast arrived to a musical group performing the famous Mission: Impossible theme. They walked up the carpet, with orchestra players positioned up the red carpet steps of the Palais. McQuarrie took numerous selfies with the cast on an otherwise phone-free carpet.

Director Christopher McQuarrie unveils the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, currently on its global tour and delivering Tom Cruise’s climactic swan song to the iconic franchise.

McQuarrie was joined on the carpet by cast members Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Angela Bassett, Hannah Waddingham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Christopher McQuarrie, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales and Tramell Tillman on Wednesday, May 14 at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

Related: Tom Cruise Lights The Fuse On ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ With 7½-Minute Cannes Ovation

Other guests who attended the gala included Zoe Saldana, Sofia Boutella, Halle Berry, Andie Macdowell, Florian Zeller, Kim Go-eun, and more.

Picking up from Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt now holds the key to confronting the formidable AI known as the Entity, his most perilous adversary yet. The film propels the plot forward as Hunt must gather his team to...

Has the fuse finally been unlit? After 30 years of saving the world with stunts, set-pieces, spycraft and a substantial amount of sprinting, is Tom Cruise’s possibility-defying Imf agent Ethan Hunt finally hanging up his prosthetic mask? Whether or not Final Reckoning is truly the final Mission: Impossible remains to be seen. But there is a sense of an ending here, a much-deserved victory-lap for this most consistently thrilling of franchises.

It is, to some extent, ‘Mission: Impossible — The Greatest Hits’. It opens with a valedictorian montage of all seven previous films, makes a nice narrative link to Mission: Impossible III, and even offers a scene which plays out like the Seinfeld finale, Ethan’s lifetime of crimes and misdemeanours put on trial. Hapless analyst William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), a minor character from the first film, makes a welcome return here too, the resolution of an arc established in 1996 with the line of dialogue,...

Mission Impossible 8 India Box Office Advance Booking (3 Days Until Release)(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Mission: Impossible 8, aka Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is only three days away from its big release in India. It was earlier scheduled to hit theatres on May 23 but is now arriving in cinemas on May 17. The pre-release buzz is high, and the Tom Cruise starrer is set for the franchise’s biggest opening! Scroll below for the latest advance booking update for day 1 at the box office.

Advance booking at national chains

Within the first 24 hours, Mission: Impossible 8 had sold over 11K tickets via advance booking at the national chains. As of 10 Pm on Tuesday, Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial has crossed 45K ticket sales in pre-bookings at PVR, Cinepolis, and Inox combined.

It is to be noted that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One had sold over 68K tickets in final advance booking.

Wamg’s St. Louis and Los Angeles teams attended the screening of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on Monday evening. Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the last film ended on a literal cliffhanger, having just survived a vast locomotive plunging off a bridge, Ethan Hunt and his fellow Imf team members – Ving Rhames’ Luther, Simon Pegg’s Benji, and converts to the cause, Grace, played by Hayley Atwell – face an uncertain future.

St. Louis writer Jim Batts first reaction out of the early preview was “Tom Cruise and his cast, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, along with a talented behind-the-camera crew, once again take movie audiences on a spectacular around-the-globe “thrill-ride”, combining a “ripped-from-the-headlines” plot with some of the most amazing action stunt sequences ever committed to film. From a sunken submarine search to a breathtaking bi-plane battle, this fantastic film is a superior entry in the nearly thirty-year-old franchise.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning could be the last time fans see Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt risk life and limb to save humanity against various threats. If this is the final Mission: Impossible movie, critics are divided on whether the franchise is going out with a bang or a whimper, as reflected in the first critical reactions before its release.

Per X (formerly Twitter), several critics offered their thoughts about The Final Reckoning following advanced screenings, sharing mixed responses to the eighth Mission: Impossible film. Gizmodo critic Germain Lussier praised The Final Reckoning's action sequences, but lamented how "long" and "repetitive" the film is. Discussing Film's Andrew Salazar went further, suggesting it "comes nowhere near" the most recent installments and "felt nothing" by the end. Additionally, freelance writer Reyna Cervantes claimed the film committed some of "the biggest sins that modern blockbusters can have."

#MissionImpossible: The Final Reckoning...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is expected to be the end of the line for Tom Cruise's iconic Imf agent, Ethan Hunt, and the first critic reactions have been shared on X following screenings across the globe last night.

The response is largely very positive, though it does sound like you'll need to do your homework and rewatch each of the previous instalments to get the most out of this conclusion. Some seem to feel it's a little self-indulgent, comparing Hunt to the Fast & Furious franchise's Dominic Toretto.

Overall, though, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning sounds like a fun time at the movies, with plenty of edge-of-your-seat action and a story that does right by Cruise's most iconic silver screen role.

Of course, we know better by now than to put too much stock into social media reactions like these. Ultimately, it will be the...

Mission Impossible Final Reckoning Official Poster (Photo Credit – YouTube)

As you know, the eighth Mission: Impossible film, titled ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ starring Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, is all set for its grand theatrical release in the US on 23rd May 2025 and in Indian cinemas on 17th May 2025.

But have you ever wondered whether Tom Cruise is the only actor who has starred in all Mi installments, starting from the first Mission: Impossible film in 1996 to the upcoming sequel Mi 8? Let us inform you that there is just one more actor who has appeared in all Mi films, including The Final Reckoning. Read on to know the actor’s name.

Only One Actor Starred in All Mission: Impossible Films Besides Tom Cruise

The only other actor, besides Tom Cruise, who has acted in all eight Mission: Impossible movies is Ving Rhames. The name rings a bell? He plays...

“Tom Cruise has done it again!” That’s the very early verdict from press screenings for the Hollywood icon’s latest film, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, with the film variously described as “astonishing,” “jaw-dropping,” “insane” and the “action movie of the summer.”

Following a series of press screenings, first reactions to Final Reckoning are hitting social media after the embargo lifted on Monday night. The social media reactions come ahead of official critics’ reviews, which drop on Wednesday.

The eighth film in the long-running Paramount Pictures spy action franchise, Final Reckoning has a lot riding on it for the studio as well as the domestic box office. In November 2024, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the project has had a long and difficult journey, with a budget approaching a hefty $400 million amid production delays — partly due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes — making it one of the most expensive films ever made.

“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom ‘Death Wish’ Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Angela Bassett, opening May 23, 2025 in theaters:

“…taking place after the events of the TV series,…

‘…the films follow the missions of the ‘Imf' main field team…

“…under the leadership of ‘Ethan Hunt’…

“…to stop enemy forces and prevent impending global disasters…”

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As Tom Cruise prepares to star in what could be his final Mission: Impossible film, the acclaimed actor reveals why he resisted returning to another big action franchise for decades. Cruise shares why he opted against featuring in a second Top Gun film before finally agreeing to reprise his role in Top Gun: Maverick.

Speaking at a British Film Institute (BFI) event this past weekend (via Deadline), Cruise claimed he was asked by Paramount Pictures on multiple occasions to make a sequel to 1986's Top Gun following its critical and commercial success. Despite his performance in Top Gun further launching his rise to stardom, Cruise wanted opportunities to show his acting range and decided to focus on other projects. "They really wanted me to make Top Gun over and over. But I wanted to develop my talent in different areas, and I wanted more challenges," he said.

Also starring the late Val Kilmer,...

Is Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning the last franchise? ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

The eighth instalment of the Mission: Impossible film series, titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, will be released in US theatres on May 23, 2025, and a week earlier in Indian theatres on May 17, 2025. But the golden question is: Will Mi 8 truly be the final film of the blockbuster series? A recent post by Paramount India has given a major hint about its potential future.

Paramount Hints at What’s Next For the Mission: Impossible Franchise

Ever since the release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in 2023, fans across the globe have been brainstorming about whether Mi-8 will be the last Mission: Impossible instalment. A recent X post by Paramount India suggests what Tom Cruise fans fear most: the end of the film series. You can check out the X post here.

Tom Cruise is in London to receive the honorary BFI Fellowship. On his trip, however, he appears to have made time for a leisurely stroll up one of the city’s most iconic buildings.

On Sunday afternoon, the Mission: Impossible actor was photographed on the roof of the BFI IMAX building in London. It’s unclear how exactly the actor scaled up the roof, but we’ve confirmed with sources close to Cruise that it was indeed him.

From the footage, which you can view below, you can see the BFI IMAX building is currently wrapped in an advertisement for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Paramount Pictures will launch the eighth installment in the franchise in the U.S. on May 23. Before that, Cruise will debut the film in Cannes next week. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and the cast walking the famous red carpet.

In this behind-the-scenes photo from the Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning set, Tom Cruise went shirtless while filming one of the movie’s memorable underwater scenes. The film is the eighth installment of the American spy franchise and is a direct sequel to the seventh film, Mission: Impossible—The Dead Reckoning.

The latest movie picks up right where the characters left off. The main protagonist, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), continues his mission to stop the antagonist Gabriel (Esai Morales) from obtaining the AI program known as “the Entity.”

The film’s runtime is an impressive 2 hours and 49 minutes, packed with intense action sequences, emotional high stakes, and Cruise’s epic repertoire of stunts.

Alongside Cruise, other returning stars include: Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames as Imf agents Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell. Hayley Atwell will return as Grace. Also returning are Vanessa Kirby (Alanna Mitsopolis), Frederick Schmidt (Zola), Shea Whigham...

Seven films down with an eighth and final edition launching in cinemas this month, Mission: Impossible is undoubtedly one of contemporary cinema’s most enduring franchises.

But back in 1996, what made a young Tom Cruise, red hot in Hollywood thanks to hits like A Few Good Men and Interview with the Vampire, board the spy thriller?

“It was the music,” Cruise joked this evening in London, where he took part in a wide-ranging discussion about his career onstage at the British Film Institute. “I loved the theme music.”

The first Mission film was Cruise’s first credit as a producer, and he told the crowd in London that he sought the franchise out because he was interested in investigating how he could change the action genre.

“It was about looking at Mission and thinking ‘what can we do with action’,” he said. “It was about how I can evolve action...

Sarah Michelle Gellar is one of the new cast members of the upcoming Ready or Not 2. The highly anticipated sequel revealed its title, Ready or Not: Here I Come, recently.

The thriller horror Ready or Not came from Radio Silence, aka Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. The movie was a massive critical and commercial success, and a sequel was announced to be in development in March 2024. Shortly after the cast and title announcement, Gellar confirmed during an appearance on the Today show that she is part of the upcoming sequel.

The appearance featured an unexpected Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion, as Gellar joined forces with her former co-star Alyson Hannigan to discuss their partnership with Gsk for the Ask2BSure campaign to raise awareness of meningitis vaccinations. When asked about current projects, the hosts brought up the fact that Gellar arrived from Toronto, Canada, where the sequel is currently in production.

The Mission: Impossible films are known for their death-defying stunts, but for The Final Reckoning star Hayley Atwell, the most hair-raising moment didn’t come from a high-octane action scene — it came from an unexpected encounter with a polar bear.

“The hairiest thing was coming into close proximity with a polar bear who visited the boat we were staying on,” Atwell told Entertainment Weekly. “He was very curious, but thankfully for us, looked well fed. He looked majestic.” If you’ve watched any nature documentaries (or encountered any in the wild), you’ll know that a hungry polar bear can be downright ferocious.

Despite the close encounter with the polar bear, Atwell said he “absolutely adored” working in the Arctic, adding “It’s not lost on me that where we were able to go and how I was able to work there was a lifetime opportunity and only one that...

Mission Impossible Poster Featuring Spy Gadgets(Photo Credit –YouTube)

The eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible film series, titled ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ starring Hollywood heartthrob Tom Cruise, will be released in US theatres on 23rd May 2025 and a week earlier in Indian theatres on 17th May 2025. But did you know that long before Tom Cruise stepped into the shoes of the daredevil agent Ethan Hunt, there was a Mission: Impossible television series bearing the same name? Read on to know all about the series.

Created by Bruce Geller, the first season of the spy action television series Mission: Impossible aired in 1966. It was followed by six more seasons, which concluded in 1973. The basic plot of the show, spanning more than a whopping 170 episodes, revolves around an elite team of secret agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (Imf). They are assigned different missions and have to deal with unethical businessmen,...

With just weeks to go, the marketing campaign for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is starting to ramp up and Paramount has just shared an insane new featurette, spotlighting the film's high stakes underwater sequence that will be unlike anything you've ever seen on screen.

Teasing the sequence, star/producer Tom Cruise said, "From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, I have been studying and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years. We have always tried to push our filmmaking to the next level… In this movie McQ and I saw an opportunity to create an underwater sequence unlike any other. We are excited to share it with you."

While the context of the scene remains mostly under wraps, it seems probable that this unprecedented moment will have something to do with the missing Sevastopol, which Ethan Hunt and his Imf team will be racing to locate...

Whether hanging thousands of feet in the air or testing his limits underwater, Tom Cruise pulls out all the stops in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, his potential final movie in the titular action franchise. New behind-the-scenes footage sees Cruise plug "an underwater sequence unlike any other" among one of his many death-defying stunts from the film.

Via his Instagram, Cruise shared a sneak peek from The Final Reckoning, teasing the sequence where Cruise's central character, Ethan Hunt, is trapped in the Sevastopol submarine's wreckage. Cruise cited that he had been "studying and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years" to prepare him for such a scene, which was shot inside an 8.5-million-litre water tank. Cruise also cited the scene as an opportunity to "push our filmmaking to the next level."

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The ambitious underwater sequence, which ranks among Cruise's...

It’s no secret that Tom Cruise goes above and beyond the call of duty to stun audiences with death-defying stunts in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Cruise seems to cheat death every time Ethan Hunt returns to screens. In the latest featurette for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning from Paramount Pictures, we see other cast members and crew pushing themselves to the limit. As we’ve seen in promotional materials for Mission: Impossible 8, the over-the-top action sequel features a harrowing underwater sequence that laughs in the face of danger. Today, we learn how Cruise and his fellow filmmakers communicated while navigating the watery depths to shoot an unforgettable display of dedication to the art of acting.

“Everything we’re doing is underwater. We all know it’s a dangerous environment. We’ve developed hand signals underwater for talking to understand the depth of the frame or “do it again,...

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This May, we are getting a ton of content on streaming and theaters from the much-anticipated return of Love, Death and Robots and Nine Perfect Strangers on streaming, to the release of the highly anticipated A Simple Favor sequel and Guy Ritchie‘s Fountain of Youth. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the must-watch films that are coming straight to Theaters near you.

Thunderbolts* (May 2) Credit – Marvel Studios

Thunderbolts* is a superhero action film directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay co-written by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo. Based on Marvel Comics, the 2025 film follows Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker as they team up to survive a deadly trap laid out by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Thunderbolts* stars Florence Pugh,...

“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom ‘Death Wish’ Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Angela Bassett, opening May 23, 2025 in theaters:

“…taking place after the events of the TV series,…

‘…the films follow the missions of the ‘Imf' main field team…

“…under the leadership of ‘Ethan Hunt’…

“…to stop enemy forces and prevent impending global disasters…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

With a few weeks to go, the first tracking data for Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is out and it seems as though his ace Imf agent Ethan Hunt is gearing up to go out with a bang.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, The Final Reckoning is currently looking at an opening in the $72 million to $88 million range, with box office pundits targeting a $80 million domestic launch over the course of the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, which would be a franchise-best, topping the $61.2 million three-day launch for Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 2018.

Meanwhile, Disney's Lilo & Stitch is expected to open around $120 million over the four-day holiday, with projections expecting something in the $110 million to $130 million range, so based on these early estimates, it seems like we're in for one of the biggest movie weekends since 2023's Barbenheimer.

If the tracking holds, and if buzz continues...

Tom Cruise is a machine—and machines need fuel, especially when you’re clinging to the side of a biplane for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. So, what keeps Hollywood’s most relentless action star running? Eggs. Lots and lots of eggs.

“I actually eat a massive breakfast,” Cruise told People about preparing for the high-flying stunt. “The amount of energy it takes — I train so hard for that wing-walking. I’ll eat, like, sausage and almost a dozen eggs and bacon and toast and coffee and fluids. Oh, I’m eating! Picture: It’s cold up there. We’re at high altitude. My body is burning a lot.“

I can’t imagine wanting to do anything after eating a dozen eggs, let alone dangling hundreds of feet in the air, but I’m certainly no Tom Cruise.

The sequence features Cruise hanging from and crawling along the wings...

Paramount Studios and IMAX offer fans a chance to watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning before the action film makes its wider theatrical release with a special opening day screening. However, movie lovers must plan visits to the popcorn stand or bathroom accordingly for the special event.

Per Collider, Paramount and IMAX have teamed up for an opening day fan event featuring the exclusive screening of The Final Reckoning on May 22 at 2 p.m. Et. However, this won't be an ordinary screening as there won't be any commercials or movie trailers airing before the lights are dimmed for the feature presentation. As soon as 2 p.m. hits, the opening credits on The Final Reckoning will roll.

Tickets for The Final Reckoning opening day screening are available on the IMAX website's landing page, plus exhibitor websites, the IMAX app and participating box offices. Fans in attendance will receive a limited-edition 14x20 dual-sided collector's print,...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to turn up on time and be there sharp. Paramount and IMAX are officially teaming up to launch the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with an Opening Day Fan Event like no other, and if you're anxious about being late for things? This might not be for you. The exclusive screening is taking place on Thursday, May 22 at 2Pm (local time) in participating IMAX theaters across the country — and here’s the kicker: there will be zero trailers or commercials before the film. Just lights down, and straight into the action. No quickly running to the foyer for popcorn and Milk Duds for you, readers.

As an added bonus, ticket-holders will receive a limited edition 14x20 dual-sided collector’s print, available only at these early IMAX showings. Tickets are available now at the official landing page for the movie at IMAX.

Popcorn buckets have had specific films for movies for a long time, but, in recent years, the marketing teams have gotten even more creative. Following the success of 2024's Dune: Part Two's Nsfw popcorn bucket, every big film tried to impress the audience with a new clever idea.

After films like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Deadpool & Wolverine, and even Nosferatu came up with funny themes for the popcorn buckets, one of the biggest action franchises of all time joined the chat: Mission: Impossible. Since it's been hinted that the upcoming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning might be the final entry, Tom Cruise wanted to send the audience on a challenging adventure in the theaters. Regal has just unveiled the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning popcorn bucket on X, and a challenge it is, because it comes with a key!

It’s all come to this, the Final Reckoning. Get your Mission Impossible entity popcorn container,...

A new featurette titled “Filming in IMAX” has been released for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Check it out above! Remember, the film will be in theaters on May 23, 2025!

About The Film

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt Director: Christopher McQuarrie Screenplay: Erik Jendresen & Christopher McQuarrie Producer: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie

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The new action thriller, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom ‘Death Wish’ Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Angela Bassett, opening May 23, 2025 in theaters:

“…taking place after the events of the TV series,…

‘…the films follow the missions of the ‘Imf' main field team…

“…under the leadership of ‘Ethan Hunt’…

“…to stop enemy forces and prevent impending global disasters…”

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning tests Tom Cruise's limits in what could be the legendary actor's final turn in the beloved action film series. The latest preview of the upcoming blockbuster sees Cruise's Ethan Hunt sprinting into action during his toughest mission yet.

Via Screen Rant, a new The Final Reckoning ScreenX poster has debuted as tickets for the Mission: Impossible sequel go on sale. The poster sees Hunt full of intensity as he runs down the street in a bloodied suit during an action scene. The sequence also features London's famous Big Ben clock, indicating it takes place in the U.K. capital. The ScreenX format is a new movie industry innovation, featuring dual screens projected onto the walls on either side of the main theater screen, kicking in for select sequences to immerse audiences into the film being shown from different angles.

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Six years have passed since Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth films in the Mission: Impossible franchise would be shot back-to-back, and he has been in production on these films for a long time. We saw Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning back in 2024, and now the follow-up, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is almost ready to make its way out into the world, heading toward a May 23rd release date. Tickets are on sale now through sites like Fandango – and the Paramount marketing department has unveiled a new “filming in IMAX” featurette, which can be seen at the bottom of this article!

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tells the second half of the story that began in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt out to destroy an AI system called The Entity, which is housed in a sunken Russian stealth submarine. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,...

"Seeing it on IMAX, it invests you in that world. This is cinema." Get ready! Only a month to go until this is in theaters worldwide. Paramount has revealed another quick 45-sec featurette for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. This talks briefly about how it's an "IMAX experience" and shows some behind-the-scenes shots of them filming (including a helicopter with a camera rig). This is the 8th entry in the long running Mission Impossible franchise - and the conclusion to Dead Reckoning Part One from 2023. Plot details are still a secret - obviously Hunt needs to stop some dangerous weapon from destroying the world. The huge cast of Final Reckoning features Tom Cruise with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, & many more. The funniest thing about this featurette is they talk about how it's made for IMAX,...

Tickets for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning are now on sale, and to mark the occasion, Paramount Pictures has released two new featurettes, a pair of new stills and an awesome batch of new posters from the upcoming Tom Cruise blockbuster.

Speaking with Fandango, Cruise shared his excitement for audiences to finally get a chance to see the movie, which he's been working on for the better part of five years now.

"I can't wait for them to see the whole thing. I mean, the level of filmmaking across the board from our entire cast and crew and Christopher McQuarrie - what he's accomplished with this film, I just think it's exceptional. There's things you're going to see that have just never been done before and the emotional journey of the movie is... I just can't wait. I mean, there's so many things that it's just very, very rich filmmaking,...

Tickets for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning are now on sale, and to mark the occasion, Paramount Pictures has released two new featurettes, a pair of new stills and an awesome batch of new posters from the upcoming Tom Cruise blockbuster.

Speaking with Fandango, Cruise shared his excitement for audiences to finally get a chance to see the movie, which he's been working on for the better part of five years now.

"I can't wait for them to see the whole thing. I mean, the level of filmmaking across the board from our entire cast and crew and Christopher McQuarrie - what he's accomplished with this film, I just think it's exceptional. There's things you're going to see that have just never been done before and the emotional journey of the movie is... I just can't wait. I mean, there's so many things that it's just very, very rich filmmaking,...

Tom Cruise is holding on tight — literally and figuratively — in the exclusive new 4Dx poster for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Collider is thrilled to debut the stunning new poster ahead of the film’s release, showcasing Cruise’s Ethan Hunt once again risking life and limb for our entertainment. And what better way to experience the insanity than in the multi-sensory blast of 4Dx? Tickets for the movie are now officially on sale, so you can grab your seats for the film, which promises to be the ultimate high-stakes farewell for the thirty-year-long franchise, opens exclusively in theaters (including IMAX and 4Dx formats) on May 23, 2025.

The poster highlights Cruise doing what only Cruise would dare: clinging to the wing of an aircraft flying 8,000 feet above the ground — no green screen, no tricks, just Cruise being Cruise. In behind-the-scenes footage released by Paramount, we've already seen the actor strapped...