Tag: Mission: Impossible
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‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Beats the “Part One” Curse
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.There’s nothing that Hollywood loves more than guaranteeing that audiences will come back for multiple installments in a recurring franchise. One of the most popular recurring trends of the past two decades has been for studios to split the final (or at…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Earns $16 Million Opening Day Box Office
The opening day box office numbers for the latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise are in, and they give a somewhat obscured look at an uncertain opening weekend for the film. According to the Deadline report, the Christopher McQuarrie directed Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One took in $16 million on its opening…
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Tom Cruise Is a Great Action Star, but He’s Just as Good in Dramas
It is, of course, impossible to tell Tom Cruise what to do. He is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood and one of the very few true movie stars we have left. He has remained steadfastly loyal to theatrical releases while stars of a similar caliber have played it safer with prestige TV…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Star Hayley Atwell Talks Hanging Off a Train With Tom Cruise and Female Representation in Action Movies
It’s 10 a.m. in Sydney, where Hayley Atwell is preparing to walk the red carpet as the “Mission: Impossible” crew’s newest member, joining producer and star Tom Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s ensemble of battle-hardened actors.“This is a pure cinematic experience. It’s unadulterated entertainment, and of a huge scale,” Atwell says to Variety about “Mission:…
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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Cast and Character Guide
Ethan Hunt and the Imf team are back in action in the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. The film marks Tom Cruise’s seventh time reprising playing the agent alongside recurring cast members and newcomers, such as Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff. To prepare you for all the…
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Luther Is Mission: Impossible’s Best Character, So Let’s Show Some Respect
Across the first seven Mission: Impossible movies, the cast has remained shockingly fluid. While other blockbuster franchises bend over backward to incorporate every character in every installment no matter what, the Mission: Impossible features have often been content to only bring back series mainstay Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) for multiple outings. While the fourth entry,…
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10 Best Simon Pegg Movies, Ranked
One of the funniest and surprisingly nuanced character actors of the 21st century, Simon Pegg has been a comedic force of nature. While he’s best known for his work alongside his lifelong friends Edgar Wright and Nick Frost, Pegg has also been a part of some of the most significant movie franchises in recent memory,…
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Kittridge Is Back: Henry Czerny Talks ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ and How He Almost Returned to the Franchise Earlier
Henry Czerny received a mission from filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie and chose to accept it.That mission? Return as former Imf chief Eugene Kittridge in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” 27 years after he first appeared in the original “Mission: Impossible” in 1996.At the “Dead Reckoning” premiere in New York, Czerny said when he first…
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‘Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning’ Box Office Preview Tees Up High Debut
It looks like Tom Cruise’s latest vehicle is off to an impossibly good start. The newest installment in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, has racked up $7 million in previews so far, on the higher end of Deadline’s exclusive preview projections. The film was booked at 3,300 locations,…
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‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Has Too Many Characters
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.There’s a scene in the first act of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One that continues to astound me, even days after I saw it. In it, a national security task force has been assembled to assess the threat of The…