Tom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning
has been postponed till 2025 amid Hollywood actors’ strike.
Paramount Pictures shifted the release date of the eighth
instalment of movie from June 28, 2024 to May 23, 2025.
Production on the follow-up to Christopher McQuarrie’s
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was paused in July while Tom
Cruise and company embarked on an international promotion blitz for Dead
Reckoning.
Dead Reckoning ultimately grossed $567.5 million
worldwide, falling shy of 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, garnered some of
the best reviews of the 27-year-old movie franchise, but was quickly eclipsed
by the box-office juggernauts of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
The ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike has upended release plans
of many movies like Dune: Part Two and next year’s top big-screen attractions.
A string of Marvel movies has previously shifted back,
as did the third Venom film. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, has been
delayed indefinitely after being dated for March 2024.
Paramount also announced A Quiet Place: Day One, a
prequel to the post-apocalyptic horror series starring Lupita Nyong’o, will
have its release pushed from March to when Dead Reckoning had been scheduled to
open on June 28.
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild-American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the studios are scheduled to
resume Tuesday.
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