NEW YORK: The eighth instalment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has experienced a one-year delay, making a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike exceeds three months of work stoppage.
Paramount Pictures changed the release date of the next “Mission: Impossible” from June 28 to May 23, 2025.
Production on the follow-up to Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” was halted in July while Tom Cruise and his team embarked on an international promotion blitz for “Dead Reckoning.” (The sequel had been titled “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two” but is now simply referred to as “Mission: Impossible.”)
“Dead Reckoning” managed to gross $567.5 million globally, falling short of the 2018 instalment “Fallout” ($791.7 million globally) and the heady highs of Cruise’s summer 2022 blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.5 billion). The 163-minute-long action thriller drew some of the best reviews of the 27-year-old movie franchise, but was quickly overshadowed by the box-office juggernauts of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
As Hollywood’s labour turmoil has continued, it’s increasingly overturned release plans not just for movies this fall that want to wait until their stars can promote them ( like “Dune: Part Two,” postponed to March), but some of next year’s major big-screen releases.
