Video game adaptations have long held a sullied reputation for being lackluster shadows of their console counterparts; from 1994’s Street Fighter up to 2016’s Assassin’s Creed, there’s been little reason for fans to put down their controllers. However, that could be beginning to change, as recent years have seen a string of hits centered around […]
Continue readingThe sixth “Mission: Impossible” film, “Fallout,” has the most fun toying with its audience. The first time it does so is one of the best surprises I’ve ever experienced in a movie.The set-up: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his Impossible Mission Force (Imf) team fail to stop a terrorist group called the Apostles from stealing […]
Continue readingLast weekend, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” was creeping up on the half-billion mark at the worldwide box office with a running total of $493 million. Now, the latest installment in the Tom Cruise-led franchise has passed that milestone, but the fact that it took a week to do it is not a […]
Continue readingEver since Christopher McQuarrie took over writing and directing the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, you will oftentimes see characters confronted with a problem that needs solving, and they will deliver a line like, “I’m working on it” or “I’ll figure it out.” One of my favorite instances of this is in “Fallout” after the exceptional bathroom […]
Continue readingThe Mission: Impossible movies are not well-known for their consistent casts. While Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames have shown up in every installment of the saga, the cast of these movies has often remained incredibly fluid. The first four entries especially often gave Cruise’s Ethan Hunt an entirely new supporting cast and bosses to interact […]
Continue readingMaybe Tom Cruise won’t be playing Ethan Hunt at 80.“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount) grossed $80 million in five days in the U.S./Canada, with a worldwide total of $235 million. That’s needed money for theaters and stronger than expected Thursday-to-Sunday results elevated the gross from what some thought might be as low […]
Continue reading“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” topped domestic box office charts while falling short of initial expectations. Tom Cruise’s latest blockbuster collected $56.2 million between Friday and Sunday, a lackluster start for a movie that cost nearly $300 million before marketing.Heading into the weekend, Paramount and Skydance’s action-adventure was hoping to establish a new […]
Continue readingParamount’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” is defusing a bit at the domestic box office, readjusting for an estimated $78 million gross over its five-day opening. That’d be a substantial chunk behind projections headed into the weekend, which had the Tom Cruise action sequel hoping for $90 million.Some in the industry were expecting […]
Continue readingOlder-skewing franchises are usually slow out of the gate. Both Mission: Impossible — Fallout and No Time to Die had relatively soft domestic openings, but ended up grossing nearly $800 million worldwide. For its own sake, Disney would hope that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has a similar trajectory at the box office, […]
Continue readingHenry Cavill spent an “uncomfortably long” time in the bathroom while filming “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.” If you’ve seen the movie, then you’ll know Cavill’s character, August Walker, wasn’t on the toilet, waiting to die like John Travolta’s hitman in “Pulp Fiction.” (It’s a thing.)Part of the time, Walker is in a stall with two […]
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