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Indian Express
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Tom Cruise has fans freaking out over incredible behind-the-scenes look at biplane stunt from Mission: Impossible 8: ‘Tell me you had a parachute…'
Tom Cruise is making sure Mission: Impossible fans aren't deprived of any jaw-dropping stunt action, on screen or behind it. The actor, basking in the success of the franchise's 8th instalment, The Final Reckoning, dropped a wild BTS clip on social media, just after teasing the nerve-racking 'transfer' scene where he climbs mid-air from one plane to another. Cruise explained how the team pushed themselves to the next level with this stunt, using all their knowledge to make it incredible for the audience. Also read: Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise deserved better than a goofy Abbas-Mustan movie that chooses spoon-feeding over spectacle In the nearly 50-second clip, the Top Gun star performs a series of jaw-dropping mid-air stunts and said he's been obsessed with aerial sequences since he was a kid. He even admitted wanting to try wing walking after watching an old black-and-white film. In past interviews, the Hollywood A-lister has heaped praise on director Christopher McQuarrie, the filmmaker who, by all accounts, changed the game for him and helped turn Cruise's wildest stunt dreams into reality. When it came to pulling off the biplane madness, Cruise and the team aimed to build something that felt totally unique, but still classic. He said it's always a challenge to give fans a fresh thrill while stacking everything they've learned from past Mission: Impossible films. — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 30, 2025 The transfer. — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 30, 2025 Also read: Tom Cruise posts emotional message thanking Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning team: 'This was one for the history books' While critics have rated the 8th instalment a notch lower than the last few M:I films, fans clearly think otherwise. 'Tom Cruise, you're a badass! Make that a video game, bro!' one fan commented. Another wrote, 'Tell me you had a parachute somewhere on you just in case!' One more summed up the mood perfectly: 'Thank you Tom! This whole sequence had my palms sweaty and full-on anxiety. What a movie. Don't listen to the critics, go watch it for yourself!' Besides the stunt, Cruise also posted a heartfelt note addressed to his fans worldwide after the movie's opening weekend shattered box office records. 'Congratulations and thank you to every filmmaker, every artist, every crew member and every single person who works at the studios. To every theatre and every employee who helps bring these stories to audiences, thank you,' he wrote, while giving a big shoutout to Paramount Pictures and Skydance for their long-time support. 'And most of all, THANK YOU to audiences everywhere—for whom we all serve, and for whom we all LOVE to entertain. Sincerely, Tom,' he wrote.
News18
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 8 Earns Over Rs 82 Crore By The End Of Week 2
Last Updated: The film could only earn almost half of its week 1 collection, grossing over Rs 26 crore in week 2. Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was released in India on May 17, six days before it hit the theatres in the US. On Friday, May 30, the eighth and final instalment of the spy action franchise completed its two weeks in the cinemas. While the film opened strong at the Indian box office, raking in over Rs 33 crore during its opening weekend, its momentum has since slowed down. In its first week, The Final Reckoning earned around Rs 54.4 crore. But as the second week began, its collection slowed down. According to Sacnilk, the film could only earn almost half of its week 1 collection. It grossed around Rs 26.75 crore in week 2. On Day 14 alone, i.e., on its second Friday, Cruise's final appearance as the IMF agent Ethan Hunt could collect just Rs 1.75 crore (early estimates) across all languages, with an overall 16.50% English occupancy and 8.91% Hindi occupancy. By the end of week 2, the total earnings of The Final Reckoning in India have reached about Rs 82.90 crore. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the latest spy action thriller continues the story from Dead Reckoning Part One, which was released in 2023. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning also features Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett, among others. Before the film's release in India, Cruise and his team attended the Cannes Film Festival for its premiere. At the 78th edition of the festival, the spy actioner received a five-minute-long standing ovation from the Cannes crowd. Recently, the 62-year-old actor took to his Instagram account to talk about his experience of working on the Mission: Impossible films for three decades now. He shared a series of throwback behind-the-scenes photos from each of the Mission: Impossible films. The collection featured some group pictures with his co-stars and him performing his iconic death-defying stunts. In the caption, he wrote, 'Over 30 years ago, I began the journey of producing my first film, Mission: Impossible. Since then, these eight films have taken me on the adventure of a lifetime. To the incredible directors, actors, artists, and crews across the globe that have helped bring these stories to life, I thank you. It has been a privilege to work alongside you all." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Cruise (@tomcruise) Cruise further thanked his fans, saying, 'Most importantly, I want to thank the audience, for whom it is our great pleasure to create these films, and for whom we all serve. We're thrilled to share The Final Reckoning with you." First Published: May 31, 2025, 09:13 IST
Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Popular Tom Cruise Action Movie Set to Receive Long-Awaited Sequel
Tom Cruise is once again pushing the boundaries of cinema forward with his latest action extravaganza. Scaling to new heights and finding new ways to top themselves, the crew behind Mission: Impossible has once again captured lightening in a bottle with the eighth and final M:I film, Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning. As the shock waves continue to resonate around Cruise's latest venture, many are wondering what other adventures lie in store for the famed star of Top Gun, Jack Reacher and A Few Good Men. Surprisingly, that answer might actually be a continuation of a 1990 cult favorite film from Cruise's early years in the action genre. Released in the summer of 1990, Days of Thunder stars Cruise as a competitive NASCAR driver recovering from a serious racing accident. As he attempts to launch a comeback and compete against a conniving rival racer (Cary Elwes), Cruise's NASCAR star also contends with a newfound romance with a local neurosurgeon (played by Cruise's then-wife, Nicole Kidman). Penned by original Mission: Impossible writer Robert Towne and directed by Top Gun's Tony Scott, Days of Thunder earned largely mixed reviews at the time of its release, although many were quick to point out the strength of the movie's performances and pulse-pounding racing sequences. In the past few years, however, the film has gained more appreciative views from mainstream audiences. More recently, Cruise has confirmed that he's currently working on ideas for a potential sequel to Days of Thunder, alongside a planned third installment in the hit Top Gun series. 'Yeah, we're thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what's possible,' the 62-year-old Hollywood icon said. 'It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick, so all of these things we're working on, we're discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick." The Popular Tom Cruise Action Movie Set to Receive Long-Awaited Sequel first appeared on Parade on May 27, 2025
New European
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New European
Tom Cruise, the Nietzschean Superman
The most recent instalment of the series, The Final Reckoning, involves an evil AI called 'the Entity' and nods to Dr Strangelove with its theme of nuclear jitteriness. But Tom Cruise summed it up best in a late-night show interview: 'There's a mission, and it's impossible!' And that's all you really need to know. I have seen most of the Mission: Impossible films, but I couldn't tell you much about their plots, not in any real detail anyway. The basic formula doesn't change much: retrieve a top-secret gizmo from the most impenetrable place on Earth, disarm a nuclear device with a few minutes to spare, dodge a few double-crossing agents and, from time to time, kill off the leading lady to make way for a new, younger, one. While most of us don't watch these films for their plots, what we do remember are the insane stunts: Tom Cruise climbing the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, Tom Cruise hanging onto the side of a plane as it takes off, Tom Cruise running very, very fast, Tom Cruise holding his breath under water for six minutes, Tom Cruise riding a motorbike off a mountain. Cruise famously performs all of his own stunts, a fact I was acutely aware of while watching a heart-and-show-stopping scene in The Final Reckoning, where he swings around on the wings of a biplane as it loops, dives and rolls. At one point, I turned to my partner and whispered, with a laugh of amazement, 'He's 62!' I wasn't the only one thinking it. You could feel the entire cinema tense up, everyone lifting slightly out of their seats. It was one of those cinema experiences that reminds you why going to the cinema is a thing in the first place. We weren't watching Ethan Hunt, the main character of the franchise, we were watching actor Tom Cruise push the boundaries of entertainment and of human possibility. The term 'Übermensch' comes to mind here. When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche introduced the idea in the 1880s, he was thinking about how to prevent humanity from drowning in nihilism after he announced the death of God. Nietzsche imagined a superior being who could build his own values and overcome his limitations through self-determination, a creative ability to shape the world according to his will. The idea of the Superman is a wishful idea of what each of us could be, the potential to which we might be able to aspire, a better (according to the philosopher) version of humanity. This concept has been coopted, distorted and caricatured into near oblivion, and if we stretch it a little further, there is definitely a lens through which we can read both Cruise and his alter ego Ethan Hunt as embodiments of the Nietzschean Superman. Throughout the Mission: Impossible franchise, Hunt imposes his will on the chaos of the world, bending the rules of governments and institutions to enforce his own values of loyalty and justice, and, of course, to save the world. Cruise himself seems to have decided long ago that the laws of physics and of human mortality do not apply to him, and he is sometimes described as an alien, not just due to his long-standing affiliation with Scientology, but because of his apparent über-humanness. No matter your opinion of Tom Cruise, it's impossible not to be at least slightly fascinated by him. Never has someone exuded more natural charisma while seeming entirely removed from any recognisable form of human experience. It doesn't seem possible for him to exist without pushing life to its literal limits, putting himself in situations so extreme that he is likely the only person to have ever lived them. Even the way he eats popcorn reflects his desire to live to the max. The Übermensch is the one who enthusiastically says 'yes' to life, through joy as well as pain. But let's not get carried away. Nietzsche would no doubt disapprove of a hero like Hunt who operates within a traditional moral framework and whose mission isn't to transcend humanity but to preserve it. And Cruise's personal commitment to a rigid hierarchical structure like Scientology would probably not sit well with the philosopher either. When Nietzsche introduced the idea of the Übermensch, he was trying to imagine what our evolution as a species might look like. He envisioned a being as far beyond us as we are beyond our ape ancestors. Even Tom Cruise can't live up to this Nietzschean standard. But by Hollywood's standards, Cruise is the closest thing to a real Superman. I'd be willing to bet that if the stuntmen of early Westerns or the wing walkers of aviation's early days had been asked to imagine their ideal entertainer – someone as far beyond them as they were from, say, medieval jesters – they probably would have dreamed up someone like Tom Cruise. Someone who has spent years building stunts on a bigger scale than anyone in history, and continues to execute them flawlessly into his sixties, who advocates for the theatrical experience of cinema, who is credited with almost single-handedly saving the cinema industry during Covid lockdowns, and who likely influenced the Academy's decision to introduce a Stunt Design Oscar starting in 2027. A more cynical view might be that Cruise's image as the saviour of cinema, and as 'the last real movie star' is the result of a savvy PR campaign aimed at diverting from the more controversial aspects of his personal life. Whether or not that's true, there's something undeniably intoxicating about Cruise's unhinged enthusiasm, and he shows no signs of stopping. He recently said he plans to keep going well into his hundreds.
USA Today
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
How to watch 'Mountainhead,' a new TV film from the creator of 'Succession'
How to watch 'Mountainhead,' a new TV film from the creator of 'Succession' Show Caption Hide Caption 'Superman,' Mission: Impossible,' 'F1' and summer's must-see films USA TODAY film critic Brian Truitt releases his list of summer's must-see films. The highlights include "Superman" and "Mission: Impossible." Curious about how an eccentric group of billionaires would behave if the world fell apart around them? A new HBO Original film will explore how this hypothetical scenario might play out on screen. The movie, written and directed by "Succession" creator Jesse Armstrong, follows a billionaire friend group, who happen to all be cooped up in a cabin, when an international crisis breaks out. The tech tycoons in question are played by Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman. One of the billionaires' new generative AI tools may or may not be the cause of the "recent uptick in ethnic tension." Since the demise of human civilization is imminent, they hatch a plan on the best way to split the countries up between themselves in case they need to step up as rulers. "We are the smartest men in America," Randall, one of the billionaires, says in the "Mountainhead" trailer. "We literally have the resources to take over the world." Here's what to know about "Mountainhead," including how to watch. What is 'Mountainhead' about? According to the film's official logline, "Montainhead" is about "a group of billionaire friends (who) get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis." 'Mountainhead' release date "Mountainhead" will be released May 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. 'Mountainhead' cast From Steve Carell to Ramy Youssef, here are the actors and characters who make up the fearsome foursome. All of these characters have made their fortune in tech. Steve Carell as Randall Jason Schwartzman as Souper (Hugo Van Yalk) Ramy Youssef as Jeff Cory Michael Smith as Venis How to watch 'Mountainhead' "Mountainhead," an HBO original film, will premiere May 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. The movie will then be available to stream on HBO Max. Watch the 'Mountainhead' trailer
