Tom Cruise’s latest mission won’t be hitting theaters until 2025.
Paramount Pictures has postponed the release of the next installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. Originally scheduled for June 28, 2024, the film will now be released on May 23, 2025. Like many other big-budget movies, the production of the eighth “Mission” film was disrupted due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. The film won’t be completed in time for its original summer release date unless the actors union and studios resolve their contract negotiations soon.
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As a result of this delay, the release date of the prequel to the 2018 hit film “A Quiet Place” has been moved from March 8, 2024, to June 28, 2024. Additionally, an untitled animated “SpongeBob SquarePants” adventure has been pushed back from May 23, 2025, to December 19, 2025.
However, it’s not all bad news. Director John Krasinski’s fantasy-comedy film “IF,” starring Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Alan Kim, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has been rescheduled from May 24, 2024, to May 17, 2024, enabling the family-friendly movie to avoid competition with other Memorial Day releases such as the “Mad Max” prequel “Furiosa,” “Garfield,” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” However, these release dates are subject to change as long as major productions remain on hold.
The next “Mission: Impossible” film will also undergo a name change. Paramount and Skydance have decided to drop the second half of its original title, “Dead Reckoning Part Two.” However, the sequel will continue the story from 2023’s “Dead Reckoning Part One.”
The seventh installment of the “Mission: Impossible” series, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, was released in theaters just before the global phenomenon of Barbenheimer. Despite positive reviews and the success of Cruise’s previous blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” the film fell short of box office expectations, earning a total of $567 million worldwide. “Part One” had limited screenings in IMAX format due to the dominance of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” throughout the summer. However, the next “Mission” film will have an exclusive three-week run in IMAX theaters.
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