Long expected, now official: “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” will play at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition in May, the festival announced on Tuesday. Tom Cruise, director/co-writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie and the film’s cast will walk the steps of the Palais des Festivals on May 14, a week and a half before the movie hits theaters on May 23.

This is Cruise’s third time at Cannes after Ron Howard’s 1992 immigrant saga “Far and Away” premiered at the festival and 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick” had an explosive debut. No doubt Paramount is hoping for a similar result with the screening of “The Final Reckoning.”

The star-studded cast for “Mission: Impossible 8” includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon,...