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As CinemaCon heads into its final day, attendees were treated to a visit from one of global exhibition’s most beloved stars, Tom Cruise. Swooping into the Paramount presentation in support of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise
While Cruise has made surprise appearances at CineEurope in Barcelona post-pandemic, and sent video messages to CinemaCon, this is the first time he’s shown up in person in the Colosseum in several years. Back in 2023, the CinemaCon audience was the first to screen Top Gun: Maverick, and though that was not the case with Final Reckoning today
The Paramount/Skydance actioner drected by Christopher McQuarrie is billed as the epic finale to a saga that first began nearly two decades ago. It features Cruise as Ethan Hunt following the events of 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning which ended on a cliffhanger with the world threatened by a rogue and sentient AI known as The Entity. It grossed over $570M worldwide.
The Final Reckoning also stars 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, Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung and Angela Bassett.
The film is widely expected to be part of the Cannes lineup that’s due to be announced next week (Maverick riveted the Croisette back in 2022 replete with fighter jets buzzing the Palais).
Paramount begins overseas rollout on May 21 with the domestic release set for May 23.
McQuarrie produces alongside Cruise. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Chris Brock are executive producers.
