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USA Today
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
When does Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' release on digital?
Tom Cruise's "epic, action-packed culmination of the groundbreaking Mission: Impossible franchise" is jumping from theaters to your home with the digital release of "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning." The eight-film franchise, a spinoff of the TV show from the 1960s and '70s, follows spy Ethan Hunt (Cruise) as he embarks on world-saving adventures across the world. In what is presumably his final faceoff, 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' picks up only a couple of months after the previous instalment with Ethan on a mission to eliminate a digital supervillain. "The Entity," a rogue artificial intelligence, has divided people and countries to a staggering degree, and Ethan is pretty much the only chance of staving off global nuclear annihilation. The original AI source code is on a Russian submarine at the bottom of the Bering Sea, and Ethan holds the key to unlock it. "Our lives are the sum of our choices," the film's synopsis says. Stream 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' USA TODAY's Brian Truitt gave the eighth installment ★★★½ out of four, writing "this installment feels different in terms of its emotional stakes and like more of a closure than ever, weaving in aspects of past movies while putting Ethan through the direst of straits." "If 'The Final Reckoning' is indeed at hand, you couldn't ask for a better death-defying, free-falling, edge-of-your-dang-seat sendoff," the review adds. Here is what to know about the "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning" digital release and when it will be available to stream. 'Mission: Impossible' review: Tom Cruise's 'Final Reckoning' is a death-defying joy Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. When will 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' release digitally? "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning" will be available to buy and rent on digital platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, Paramount Pictures announced July 22. Watch 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' on Amazon Prime | Apple TV Those who purchase the film on digital "can take a deep dive into the breathtaking production with behind-the-scenes interviews, exclusive commentary and deleted footage not seen in theaters," the studio said in its press release. Bonus content includes a behind-the-scenes look at the airplane and ocean stunts, deleted footage montage with optional commentary by director Christopher McQuarrie, the challenges of filming the technical and extremely dangerous stunts and an in-depth discussion with McQuarrie and Cruise. "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning" was released in theaters nationwide on May 23. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' 4K Blu-ray/DVD release "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning" will be available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 14, per Paramount Pictures. 'Mission: Impossible' movies in order: Here's where 'Final Reckoning' fits 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' cast The cast of "Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning," according to Paramount Pictures, includes: Watch 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' trailer Where to watch 'Mission: Impossible' movies For those looking to catch up, the first seven films in the franchise are streaming on Paramount+, as is the old series. "Mission: Impossible" Stream on Paramount+ Contributing: Brian Truitt, USA TODAY Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@ and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.
USA Today
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'Lilo & Stitch,' 'Mission: Impossible' wow box office with $492M global haul
'Lilo & Stitch,' 'Mission: Impossible' wow box office with $492M global haul Show Caption Hide Caption Young new star, Maia Kealoha joins Stitch from 'Lilo & Stitch' Hollywood's newest young star, Maia Kealoha, joins Stitch in studio to talk new remake 'Lilo & Stitch' The live-action remake of 'Lilo & Stitch' and the adrenaline-fueled 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' racked up a combined $494.2 million in worldwide ticket sales, including $208.5 million in North America, setting the stage for a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend. 'Lilo & Stitch,' which re-imagines Disney's 2002 animated film about a mischievous blue alien who crash lands in Hawaii and is adopted by two sisters, brought in $304.2 million around the world through Sunday, including $145.5 million from domestic sales. "Lilo & Stitch' set a domestic box-office record for the first three days of the long holiday weekend, besting 2022's "Top Gun: Maverick," according to Comscore. That helped propelticket sales in the U.S. and Canada to a record $262 million. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox The family-friendly live-action adaptation of the 23-year-old film also delivered one of the strongest performances for a Disney remake, behind 2019 computer-animated remake of 'The Lion King,' which brought in $192 million, and the 2017 version of 'Beauty and the Beast,' with $175 million in ticket sales, according to Walt Disney Studios. Tom Cruise's reprisal of his role as the death-defying spy Ethan Hunt in 'Mission: Impossible,' rang up $190 million in global ticket sales, including $63 million in the U.S. and Canada. That tops the opening weekend performance of the series' highest-grossing film, 'Mission: Impossible − Fallout,' according to Chris Aronson, president of domestic theatrical distribution for Paramount Pictures. "The sheer spectacle of what Tom (Cruise) and McQ put in as the major ingredients of this film are truly remarkable," said Aronson, referencing Christopher McQuarrie, the film's director. The holiday haul marks an encouraging start to the summer, which typically accounts for 35% to 40% of the annual domestic box office. It also represents a shot in the arm for theater owners after a dismal March, when ticket sales were down 45% from a year earlier. Analysts predict the Memorial Day weekend box office could be a bellwether for a strong summer in movie theaters, with a number of potential blockbusters yet to come. Those include 'Ballerina,' a spinoff of the popular 'John Wick' movies, starring Ana de Armas; a live-action remake of DreamWorks' animated film 'How to Train YourDragon,' and another installment in the long-running science 'Jurassic World" series, "Rebirth.' 'From now up until mid-August, there is at least one new release coming out every weekend with the potential of making $100 million at the domestic box office,' said Daniel Loria, senior vice president of Boxoffice, which provides online ticketing services for movie theaters.
USA Today
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Tom Cruise is 'Mr. Phenom' for the 'Mission: Impossible' movies. But is he really done?
Tom Cruise is 'Mr. Phenom' for the 'Mission: Impossible' movies. But is he really done? Show Caption Hide Caption 'Mission: Impossible 8': Tom Cruise saves day at sea and in skies Superspy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) needs to stop a rogue AI from taking over the world in "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning." Henry Czerny calls his old 'Mission: Impossible' pal and co-star Tom Cruise 'Tom Phenom.' If you've ever watched a 'Mission' movie, it's easy to tell why. Cruise hanging off the side of an Airbus military plane. Cruise scaling the Burj Khalifa. Cruise holding his breath for six minutes underwater. Cruise doing a cliff jump off a motorbike. Cruise performing a HALO jump from 25,000 feet. The actor 'loves' these stunts, Czerny reports. 'It's in his marrow.' And Cruise somehow ups his own death-defying game as superspy Ethan Hunt in the newest installment, 'Mission: Impossible − The Final Reckoning' (in theaters May 23). Czerny, who plays CIA director (and Ethan's former boss) Eugene Kittridge, recalls being wowed by Cruise pulling off an intense sequence where he traverses one biplane to another, in midair. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox 'There's a very visceral reaction that is, 'Oh, my God, he made it,' first of all,' Czerny says. 'It's truly not just hair-raising, but hackle-raising and heart-pumping. I'm walking that plane with that dude, who is truly a phenomenal example of a human who does what he loves and loves what he does.' The newest adventure brings closure, as well as returning characters and plot points, to a story arc that started in 1996's original 'Mission: Impossible.' 'It's the best sort of retroactive continuity you can get when it doesn't feel like it's causing time paradoxes or plot holes. It really made this film feel like a wrapping up of everything that had gone before,' says Simon Pegg, who's co-starred as tech guy-turned-field agent Benji Dunn since 2006's 'Mission: Impossible III.' Ving Rhames and Tom Cruise go back to the early days of 'Mission: Impossible' Ving Rhames has been a part of every 'Mission' movie as computer specialist Luther Stickell, going back to the 1996 original, and it wasn't Cruise's stunt work that stood out the most for him back then. 'Tom is really the first White person I've met in life who doesn't see color,' Rhames says. 'When I first got this role, my character dies in the first 10 pages, and I said to Tom and (director) Brian De Palma, 'Why does the Black man always die?' Tom said, 'Yeah, why is that?' And now this is the eighth one. I feel pretty close to him.' Czerny met Cruise in 1995 when filming that first 'Mission' and was struck by Cruise's passion for 'digging' everything he could out of a scene. 'That has not changed. He will plumb a particular situation as deeply as he can for everyone involved, and he is there for everything. He doesn't take coffee breaks,' says Czerny, who returned as Kittridge for the past two movies. 'The difference now is there's a gravitas to it. There's a beautiful weight to it. There's an intelligence to it that he didn't have.' Tom Cruise's action-loving streak is infectious among 'Mission: Impossible' cast and crew Over the years, Cruise's daredevil nature has rubbed off on his co-stars. Pegg got to do his favorite stunt alongside Cruise in 2015's "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation': a car chase in Morocco with Benji in the passenger seat and a recently resuscitated Ethan behind the wheel of a speeding BMW. 'It was so much fun. Tom had to keep telling me, 'Say more, scream more.' Because I was just stunned into silence,' Pegg says. He admits to being 'jealous' watching Hayley Atwell partner with Cruise for a similar chase through Rome in 2023's 'Dead Reckoning.' 'I got a little FOMO.' Even Christopher McQuarrie, who's directed the past four movies (including 'Final Reckoning'), is no stranger to the Cruise adrenaline rush. The filmmaker walked on the wing of the biplane and also put on a diving suit to direct Cruise in a harrowing underwater submarine sequence. 'I never want the Tom Cruise experience. Tom Cruise wants the Tom Cruise experience,' says McQuarrie, whose wife has dubbed him 'the great indoorsman.' 'This franchise just pushes you to do things you never thought you were going to do.' Is 'The Final Reckoning' Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' swan song? There is a question, though, about the franchise's future. Cruise has been cryptic about whether 'Final Reckoning' is the last outing, saying recently on the red carpet that 'it doesn't have the 'Final' in there for no reason.' (The 62-year-old icon also has warned that he's going to keep making movies into his 100s.) Asked if this is the "Impossible" conclusion, McQuarrie tells USA TODAY that 'I honestly have not given it a moment's thought. I just know that while we were making this movie, it felt like we could tie up a lot of loose ends in the franchise.' Rhames doesn't think this is Cruise's final 'Mission': 'I don't know until he's 90, but he will continue, I feel.' Czerny agrees, though 'if I had to put money on it, there won't be one for a little bit." He guesses that Cruise and McQuarrie will 'take a little break, do a couple of other things. But I don't think Mr. Phenom is done with the franchise. Not completely. Maybe like the Rolling Stones, there might be another tour in there.' How to watch 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' The newest "Mission: Impossible" movie is in theaters nationwide May 23. (Read our ★★★½ "Final Reckoning" review.) You can stream the previous seven "Mission" installments on Paramount+.
