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Al Arabiya
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Al Arabiya
Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here's What's Coming to Theaters and Streaming From May to August
Ethan Hunt's last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies including a romance, a superhero movie, and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with the release of Marvel's Thunderbolts on May 2. May also brings big studio releases like a live-action Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible 8, and a new Wes Anderson film. June heats up with race cars in F1, adventure in How to Train Your Dragon, zombies in 28 Years Later, and a New York love triangle with Dakota Johnson's matchmaker in the middle in Materialists. July is supercharged with Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, and Fantastic Four: The First Steps. And August closes out the season with comedies big (The Naked Gun) and dark (The Roses), horror (Weapons), and a lighthearted body-swap (Freakier Friday). Here's The Associated Press guide to help make sense of the many, many options in theaters and at home.
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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Mission accomplished: Tom Cruise's MI 8 storms past $500 million globally
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has smashed yet another significant milestone at the global box office. The movie exceeded Mission: Impossible I & III's global box office collection and is now on track to surpass the second movie, which is anticipated to take place this coming weekend. Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was released on May 23. Next weekend, the movie will surpass Dead Reckoning's domestic collections and rank as the 6th highest-grossing entry in the series. As Tom Cruise's final run as Ethan Hunt gathers steam, the film must maintain its box office momentum to close out the franchise on a high. Since he has been playing Ethan Hunt for around 29 years, it is a fond farewell for the fans. Furthermore, the audience is consistently impressed by Tom's thrilling stunts in these films. Mission: Impossible 8 – Box office collection in India In India, the Tom Cruise-starrer Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning has raked in over ₹115 crore nett so far. Hitting Indian cinemas on May 17 – nearly a week before its global debut – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning stormed the box office, becoming the biggest Hollywood opener of 2025 in India with a staggering ₹16.50 crore nett collection on its first day. The Ormax Media report shared, 'With three Hollywood films in this month's Top 10 highest-grossing films like Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Final Destination Bloodlines, and Thunderbolts, May 2025 has turned out to be a strongest month for Hollywood in India since July 2023 (the Oppenheimer-Barbie month), grossing ₹262 crore". Mission: Impossible 8 – Box office collection worldwide Mission: Impossible 8 made a healthy $21 million during its fourth weekend at the global box office. It outperformed Dead Reckoning Part One's $17.6 million fourth weekend revenue worldwide, dropping 48.3% from the previous weekend. Over 66 markets, it has reached the $340.5 million cume. With it added to the film's domestic total of $166.3 million, MI 8 has surpassed the $500 million mark. The global cume for the Final Reckoning is $506.8 million. Worldwide collection breakdown is: • North America – $166.3 million • International – $340.5 million • Worldwide – $506.8 million. Mission: Impossible 8: Cast and Crew Christopher McQuarrie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Erik Jendresen, is the director of the 2025 action spy movie Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. It is the 8th and last series of the Mission: Impossible film and the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Alongside Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, and Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in the movie. Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team fight to stop the Entity, a rogue AI, from wreaking destruction on humans around the world in the movie.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning'
Over the course of three decades, the Mission: Impossible franchise has given us some of the most consistently enjoyable cinematic thrills out there. Thanks in large part to Tom Cruise's devotion to sprinting and pushing the envelope when it comes to making impossible stunts possible, the series has managed to become a blockbuster singularity which has bucked the inevitable downslope trajectory most franchises succumb to. But it seems that even an anomaly as impressive as Mission: Impossible must face its reckoning. If 2023's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One felt like the M:I franchise finally hitting its diminishing return phase, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is proof that the series has truly jumped the shark. We pick up where we left off in 2023. The parasitic AI known as The Entity is still at large and has infected global cyberspace. As we're repeatedly told: 'Whoever controls The Entity controls the truth.' Having failed to stop the gaping digital sphincter in Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team have 72 hours before it gains full control of the world's nuclear arsenal and wipes out humanity. Thankfully, Hunt has always been 'the best of men in the worst of times.' He is 'the chosen one' who can "deceive the Lord of Lies." Yes, these are direct quotes from this ludicrous new adventure, one whose scale and tone have more in common with the worst chapters of The Terminator and The Matrix films than it does with the franchise's espionage roots. Considering this supposed last instalment wraps up the storyline left hanging in the previous adventure, it's hardly surprising that the eighth M:I film shares its predecessor's bum notes – notably a jumbled script, laughably portentous dialogue, and one of the most forgettable villains (Esai Morales returning as Gabriel) in the franchise's run. Not content to simply ride out this already anticlimactic wave, The Final Reckoning adds a crushing sense of dourness hitherto absent from the series, as well as hefty exposition dumps that make the first hour of this 2h50 runtime an absolute slog to get through. And then there's the copious Ethan Hunt mythologising. Our hero is more end-of-times messiah than secret agent here, a grating development galvanized by endless po-faced talk of destiny. It's a shame that it should end this way, as the inherently promising AI antagonist had so much going for it. It taps into modern fears regarding the alarming proliferation of artificial intelligence and the correlation with the rise in disinformation. The execution may have been dumb in Dead Reckoning, but there was hope for some redemption – especially when Entity 'fanatics' are mentioned at the start of The Final Reckoning. The IMF team vs a cult devoted to a digital overlord? Sign us up. Sadly, The Final Reckoning doubles down and makes The Entity a doomsday soothsayer and a manipulator of stakes straight out of a Michael Bay movie. It's genuinely baffling how producer / star Tom Cruise and director / co-writer Christopher McQuarrie thought this would be a fitting swansong to the Hunt era. They proved beyond a doubt with Rogue Nation and series high note Fallout that they had finessed the winning formula; here, everything they built is thrown out the window in favour of a lunatic devotion to callbacks and self-congratulatory flashbacks. By harking back so frequently to past M:I instalments and cackhandedly retconing certain plot points (not quite to the same extent as 007's Spectre, but close enough), they create a clumsy Greatest Hits compilation that falls into the Marvel-shaped trap of attempting interconnectedness at any cost. Which begs the question: When will directors and studios realise that not everything has to be uselessly intertwined? Most of all, if you're going to rely on the relentlessly frustrating storytelling device of using clip montages, the current film better be as deliriously entertaining as the past adventures you're visually referring to. Otherwise, you're just reminding audiences of films they'd rather be watching instead. By the time this instalment's two major set-pieces arrive – a terrifically shot submarine sequence and our indefatigable superspy hanging off a biplane with the fate of the planet still in the balance – the sluggish pace has taken hold and no impressive showdown can make up for it. Worse, the finale lacks the courage to commit to a send-off befitting the film's title. Unlike The Final Reckoning, the James Bond franchise had the cojones to cap off the Daniel Craig tenure with a surprising twist. Love it or hate it, killing off 007 in No Time To Die was bold move. No such luck here, despite ample opportunity to end with an emotional splat / bang. It's with a heavy heart, especially considering the impressive run of tightly wound and thrilling adventures the M:I franchise has delivered, that this legacy-obsessed victory-lap feels like this series' Die Another Day. If the long-running franchise isn't dead yet, what's needed is a Casino Royale–shaped, ground-level spycraft reboot. For now though, Ethan Hunt is done running, punching, swimming, flying and cheating death at every turn. Should his retirement be permanent, it's a shame that the fuse fizzled out with The Final Reckoning, which ranks at the bottom of the eight-film run. Because for all the early-00's nonsense that characterised M:I-2, there was never a dull moment in John Woo's silly ballet of slo-mo doves soundtracked to Limp Bizkit. Tom Cruise deserved a stronger swansong. Instead, audiences get the first mission they should choose not to accept. is out in cinemas now. Check out the video above for more thoughts on this final instalment of the series.
Geek Tyrant
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING Considered Killing Off Ethan Hunt — GeekTyrant
When the final Mission: Impossible film was retitled The Final Reckoning , fans started theorizing that maybe Ethan Hunt was going to die. After all, what better way to close out a decades-long franchise than to sacrifice its legendary lead? Turns out, that was actually very much on the table. In a new interview with Empire, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie revealed that he seriously considered ending Ethan's journey for good. He said: 'Everything is on the table. There was a moment in the editing of the final sequence of the movie where Ethan goes spinning into that cloud bank where I thought, 'If you cut to his grave right now, you'd feel the sacrifice was sufficient. Wow, that's very, very effective.'' So yeah, there was almost a version of this movie where Ethan Hunt didn't make it out alive. But McQuarrie ultimately pulled back from that ledge. He explained that ending Ethan's story with death wasn't quite the point. 'The idea of a conclusion of a story being the death of that character… they are not one and the same. When you fully tie off the story, the story ceases to be. And that's not life. Stories go on, whether or not the movies do.' Ethan Hunt's entire mission has always been about survival against impossible odds. Killing him off might have felt like closure, but McQuarrie clearly saw it as a disservice to the story's ongoing momentum. And just like Ethan, the film's main villain, the Entity, a rogue AI, also survives. That wasn't accidental either. While Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro apparently pitched the idea that the Entity should scream as it was destroyed, McQuarrie opted for something more unsettling: let it live. 'You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Really experienced experts in this field, who have been with it since its infancy, were telling me the only way that you'll ever be able to now combat AI is with AI. It's never going to go away.' So instead of some grand, explosive finale, The Final Reckoning ends with the Entity merely contained. It's still out there, unbeaten and undestroyed. 'Destroying the Entity was actually kind of a hollow and empty idea…. [Destroying the Entity is] not going to stop somebody else from making an Entity, and so the idea of Ethan keeping the Entity at the end was fully antithetical to everything we believed—and yet, there it was emotionally in the movie, and that's how the ending came to be.' McQuarrie didn't want to pretend the mission was ever really over, and while he says he's probably done with Mission: Impossible , he left just enough ambiguity to keep the door cracked. 'Do I think [Mission] is in my rear-view mirror? I want to say yes. Tom Cruise is a force of nature, and a very, very tricky one.' My question is, if Ethan Hunt would have died, would Tom Cruise have pulled off the ultimate stunt and died for real!? That may be the real reason they decided to change it.
Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Ethan Hunt Doesn't Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,' But They Considered It
When the eighth Mission: Impossible film changed its title to 'The Final Reckoning,' we all had the same thought: Tom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, was going to die. It would have been the most obvious way to add some real finality to the franchise, but we now know that doesn't happen. Instead, Ethan lives, as does his sworn enemy, the Entity. And, in a new interview, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie discussed those crucial decisions and many more. In an extended, spoiler-filled conversation with Empire, McQuarrie admitted he toyed with the idea of killing his main character and even had an idea of how to do it. 'Everything is on the table,' McQuarrie said. 'There was a moment in the editing of the final sequence of the movie where Ethan goes spinning into that cloud bank where I thought, 'If you cut to his grave right now, you'd feel the sacrifice was sufficient. Wow, that's very, very effective'.' Ultimately, though, he didn't think killing Ethan would've served the story in the right way. 'The idea of a conclusion of a story being the death of that character… they are not one and the same,' McQuarrie said. 'When you fully tie off the story, the story ceases to be. And that's not life. Stories go on, whether or not the movies do.' Which, of course, leaves the door open for more Mission movies. 'Do I think [Mission] is in my rear-view mirror? I want to say yes,' McQuarrie said, adding the caveat that 'Tom Cruise is a force of nature, and a very, very tricky one.' And so, the director admits, he could one day return to the franchise, but only 'if it was the movie I desperately wanted to make.' Another fascinating decision made by McQuarrie at the end of Final Reckoning was the one to not defeat the unstoppable AI, the Entity. Fellow Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro said he wanted the Entity to scream when it was defeated (another revelation from the interview) but McQuarrie chose not to do that and chose not to kill it at all. Instead, it's merely contained, a decision McQuarrie made as a commentary on AI at large 'You can't put the genie back in the bottle,' McQuarrie said about AI. 'Really experienced experts in this field, who have been with it since its infancy, were telling me the only way that you'll ever be able to now combat AI is with AI. It's never going to go away. Destroying the Entity was actually kind of a hollow and empty idea…. [Destroying the Entity is] not going to stop somebody else from making an Entity. And so the idea of Ethan keeping the Entity at the end was fully antithetical to everything we believed—and yet, there it was emotionally in the movie, and that's how the ending came to be.' Whether or not you agree with McQuarrie's thought process here—and we mostly do—it's refreshing to hear him explain why the decision was made. These are things he and his team clearly thought about at length, and no decision was made lightly. Read more from McQuarrie over at Empire and listen to the full discussion at this link. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now in theaters.
