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2025 is shaping up to be a year of emotional goodbyes with major character deaths. This year the stakes are higher than ever for some iconic characters. As major film franchises prepare to conclude their stories, several beloved movie characters are expected to meet their untimely end.

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character will likely die in the next installment. Credit: Paramount Pictures and Skydance.

Social media is buzzing with predictions about the impending deaths of major movie characters in 2025. Whether it’s a heroic sacrifice, a tragic demise, or a bittersweet farewell the beloved character’s death will surely leave a void among fans. From Pandora’s Jungle to the streets of London, here are the characters who are most likely to die in 2025.

1. Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | image: Paramount Pictures

Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise‘s iconic spy character,...

Tom Cruise is one of the most influential actors in recent times. Obviously, his Mission: Impossible movies are a big reason behind his fame. Since the first movie released in 1996, Ethan Hunt’s spy saga has become one of the longest running franchises in Hollywood.

Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Credits: Paramount Pictures

In fact, Mission: Impossible 8 is queued for release in May this year. Incidentally, it is also one of the most successful franchises and Cruise’s hard work in the films shines through the screens.

He has broken many records with the movies, be it the crazy stunts that can turn fatalistic with the slightest misstep, or in the box office. However, there might be more to the franchise’s success story than that, and an old interview with Mission: Impossible 3’s co-producer gives an insight into that.

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It has only been a few weeks since Amazon announced it had acquired full creative control of the James Bond franchise, but the rumor mill has been running nonstop ever since. The internet has been alight with speculation about which actor will take over for Daniel Craig as 007. While Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is fielding suggestions for the next Bond, though, the franchise’s future star is not the only role that needs to be filled for it to officially move forward.

Amazon also has to choose a director to helm its next Bond movie. The franchise’s previous directors include Sam Mendes, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Martin Campbell, Terence Young and Lewis Gilbert. Here are five filmmakers who could potentially join that list, and sooner rather than later.

Christopher Nolan speaks onstage during the 77th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton on February 08, 2025. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images...

Harlan Coben has made an enemy of me. I’ll admit that this enmity is in its nascent phase (it started in 2024), and there’s a good chance that, in the future, maybe my mind will change and I’ll become a fan of his work. But, for now, seeing his name gets my blood boiling. This whole affair began with Fool Me Once, which was released on New Year’s Day 2024. I mean, it’s one thing to release anything at that time of the year and a whole other thing to release something as boring, convoluted, and infuriating as that miniseries on the first day of a new year. Netflix and Coben recreated the magic on New Year’s Day 2025 with Missing You. That show was technically as mind-numbing as the last one. But given how the narrative had a subplot about a dog lover scamming rich people,...

The "Mission: Impossible" movie franchise has been going on for close to 30 years now, and with the seven films in the property soon to become eight at the time of writing (with the release of this summer's "The Final Reckoning"), there's more than enough to catch up on prior to May. When it comes to "Mission: Impossible" rankings and recaps, you hardly ever see a key entry being included at all: the original TV series that kicked off the entire thing (in its normal episodic or even movie-length form). That series ran for a whopping seven seasons and 171 episodes from 1966-1973, and that's not even counting the revival series from 1988, which lasted 2 seasons on its own. Clearly, there are a ton of impossible missions that precede the film series, so why aren't they discussed very often?

The uninformed answer is that the films have no connection to the TV series,...

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This March, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much anticipated true crime drama series Happy Face and also the streaming release of the horror comedy film Rumours. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Up In The Air (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn, the 2009 film follows Ryan Bingham, a man whose job is to travel places and fire people from their jobs.

The process of adapting a popular novel into a film or streaming series is fraught with potential peril. Readers who love the source material will likely have very specific thoughts about how the narrative should play out in a visual medium, and, most importantly, which actors should portray their favorite characters. Any deviation from what worked on the page will be viewed with tremendous skepticism, if not outright rage. Take, for instance, the case of Daniel Craig getting cast as James Bond. Though even most die-hard fans now agree that he was an ideal 007 (Craig even had doubts himself), the fact that he did not conform completely to Ian Fleming's description of the character in the books (Craig's blonde hair was a major bone of contention) led some to loudly declare he was all wrong for the role.

As a grown-up who can accept that directors and writers are...

Tom Cruise will be returning for Top Gun 3 still, but development continues, a year after the new sequel was first confirmed.

We’re coming up to the third birthday of Top Gun: Maverick, a blockbuster that’s unlikely to ever be dislodged as the most successful of Tom Cruise’s career. In those three years since, director Joseph Kosinski has directed F1, which is finally set to arrive this summer. As for Cruise, he’s been working with writer and director Christopher McQuarrie on a pair of Mission: Impossible movies.

For the last year though, it’s been known that Paramount Pictures has a Top Gun 3 in development, and that Tom Cruise is set to play Maverick for a third time.

We’re some way away from James Bond development time territory here, but what’s interesting is there’s been no immediate rush to get Top Gun 3 before cameras.

When the first season of Reacher was released, I wasn’t impressed, mostly because I was miffed about the fact that after an amazing cinematic adaptation, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, one bad sequel ruined the chances of future installments. I understood the complaints from fans of the books, and Lee Child himself, that Cruise just wasn’t fit for the role because of his physique and stature. Yet, I couldn’t bring myself to agree with them because I thought Cruise’s take on the character had potential. That all changed when the second season of the show dropped and I witnessed Nick Santora and his crew absolutely hitting it out of the park, while Alan Ritchson proved that he was born to play the nomadic titan. Given how 2025 was turning out to be quite the bad year for a lot of returning TV series, I...

Tom Cruise’s upcoming film sees the actor risk a life-threatening stunt in what may be his final performance as Ethan Hunt. The latest installment, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” will hit theaters on May 23, offering audiences a chance to see Cruise take on one of his most hazardous challenges yet.

During production, Cruise performed a difficult underwater stunt in an 8.5 million-liter tank, spending ten minutes submerged at a time. The actor described the experience as “breathing in my own carbon dioxide,” a risky feat that required careful monitoring of his oxygen levels. Director Christopher McQuarrie detailed the complexities of the scene, noting that the environment was filled with rotating debris meant to mimic a state of chaos, all while ensuring the safety of its star.

The film has generated considerable interest not only because of its breathtaking action scenes but also because it might mark the end of...

If “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” ends up being Tom Cruise’s last chance to save the world as Ethan Hunt, he’s leaving it all on the court.

In a recent interview with Empire, Cruise and “The Final Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie detailed a previously secret death-defying stunt that Cruise performed in a movie that is filled with them. At one point in “The Final Reckoning,” there is an underwater sequence that required Cruise to be submerged in an 8.5 million liter water tank for ten minutes at a time — forcing the crew to closely monitor his time underwater to ensure he didn’t suffer from hypoxia, a condition that arises from a lack of oxygen in body tissue.

“I’m breathing in my own carbon dioxide,” Cruise said. “It builds up in the body and affects the muscles. You have to overcome all of that while you’re doing it,...

Exclusive: Tom Cruise was smack in the middle of a 360-degree crush at the annual Charles Finch and Chanel pre-bafta party on Saturday night and Sunday morning at the swanky 5 Hertford Street private member’s club Mayfair.

One moment he’s having an earnest conversation with The Wild Robot’s Lupita Nyong’o. “Come to the set, come visit us,” he’s telling her about the time he’s having working on director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s movie shooting at Pinewood Studios.

The Mission Impossible superstar moves to his right to welcome an incoming Demi Moore. They’re soon locked in a hug for the ages as they natter about her awards season success in filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (a big hit for Mubi and Working Title) as onlookers quickly calculate that Cruise and Moore worked together on Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men 33 years ago.

Lupita Nyong’o and Brady Corbet.

The director of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie, has opened up about the film’s underwhelming box office results. Despite strong reviews from critics, the seventh installment in the popular action franchise did not perform as well as expected.

Released in the summer of 2023, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning saw Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt, facing off against a powerful AI called the Entity and its human ally, Gabriel (played by Esai Morales). Although the movie received praise for its intense action and gripping story, it struggled financially.

With an estimated budget of $291 million—partly inflated due to Covid-related costs—the film managed to earn $571 million worldwide. While this may seem like a big number, it fell short of expectations, especially given the franchise’s history of success.

In a recent interview with Empire, McQuarrie did not shy away from the film’s mixed audience reception. He...

Few actors’ screen presence reverberates with such genuine intensity as Benicio del Toro. Like Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington, Toshiro Mifune, Mads Mikkelsen, and so on. I feel Benecio del Toro is almost always good, irrespective of the quality of the film built around his character. Born in Puerto Rico on February 19, 1967, to lawyer parents, Benicio del Toro was a basketball player in school. Benicio del Toro was studying business at the University of California, but his interest in acting soon made him drop out and study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory with Arthur Mendoza. In the late 1980s, Benicio del Toro started appearing in TV shows like Miami Vice and Private Eye.

Benecio del Toro was recognized as a promising performer in his second movie role, where he played Dario, a vicious enforcer of a drug kingpin in Timothy Dalton’s James Bond movie License to Kill (1989). Though the...

The fuse is lit, and the countdown is on – Ethan Hunt is about to burst back onto screens in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, sending Tom Cruise to even greater lengths in the name of our entertainment. But before we do, the new issue of Empire is coming to newsstands, delivered via exploding rocket from Thursday 13 February. You can, for your own safety, order a copy online here too.

Before it lands, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages:

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie are back with a new (final?) Mission, taking Ethan Hunt to even dizzier heights, and deeper depths – in every sense. Empire goes on set to witness the madness, speaking to the director and star – plus the likes of Pom Klementieff, Hayley Atwell and Simon Pegg – about pulling off the most dangerous Mission ever.

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Tom Cruise is known for pushing the limits of action filmmaking, and his latest stunt in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is no exception. The actor has built a reputation for performing his own stunts, from scaling skyscrapers to clinging onto airplanes mid-flight. But this time, he took things even further by filming an intense underwater sequence that came with real physical risks.

One of the major set pieces in Christopher McQuarrie’s upcoming film takes Ethan Hunt deep beneath the surface, inside the wreckage of the Sevastopol submarine. To bring this scene to life, the production team built an 8.5 million-liter water tank mounted on a gimbal that could rotate on command. This setup allowed them to simulate the chaos of an underwater disaster while keeping the sequence repeatable for filming purposes.

Cruise wore a specially-designed suit and mask, featuring an illuminated helmet to make sure audiences could clearly see his face.

Tom Cruise has reached heights that no other action star has ever before. With every film that comes out, the actor surprises us by testing the limits through the insane stunts he insists on doing on his own. Breaking barriers, literally and figuratively, Tom Cruise has proven that 60 is the new 30 and we are here for it! This year, he will come out with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the film which is being hailed as his last run as the iconic Ethan Hunt.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2024) | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Needless to say, Tom Cruise is all set to go all out for the film. While he has pulled off some insane stunts in the past, even he believes his latest stunt for the upcoming film pushed the limits a bit too much.

Tom Cruise’s latest stunt will leave you stunned A still from...

Tom Cruise told Empire magazine that he breathed in his own carbon dioxide while filming a grueling action set piece for the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” The sequence finds Cruise’s Ethan Hunt underwater exploring the wreckage of a submarine. The action scene was filmed in a an “8.5 million liter water tank on a gimbal that can rotate on command,” Empire reports. “Cruise dons a specially-designed suit and mask” but “he can only wear the gear for 10 minutes at a time, before suffering from hypoxia (an absence of oxygen in body tissue).”

“I’m breathing in my own carbon dioxide,” Cruise said. “It builds up in the body and affects the muscles. You have to overcome all of that while you’re doing it, and be present.”

Cruise’s longtime collaborator and “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie said shooting the underwater set piece...

For a long time, we’ve suspected that Tom Cruise is – as they say – ‘built different’. The man can simply do things that the rest of us can’t, a talent he uses to astonishing blockbuster effect. Whether that’s clinging to a biplane in mid-air, or biking off cliffs into a parachute drop, or climbing the world’s tallest buildings, Cruise can do it all. But for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning he pushed himself even further. While the film’s aforementioned biplane sequence has him flying high, another set piece in Christopher McQuarrie’s Dead Reckoning sequel takes him deep down – into the wreckage of the Sevastopol submarine, as seen in the previous movie. Once he’s inside, everything goes to hell.

The result is a breathless water-churning subaquatic sequence that has Ethan Hunt caught in the undertow – shot in an 8.5 million litre water tank on a gimbal that can rotate on command.

Another big drop from last night’s big game comes in the form of Tom Cruise and the trailer for the highly anticipated ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.’

Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.’

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt.

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The movie hits cinemas on May 21st.

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Tom Cruise passed out from a lack of oxygen when filming aeroplane stunts for 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'.The 62-year-old actor reprises his role as Ethan Hunt in the latest movie in the action franchise and pushed himself to physical extremes for the death-defying sequences that have defined the film series.Cruise told Empire magazine: "When you stick your face out (of an aeroplane), going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you're not getting oxygen."So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit."Previous 'Mission: Impossible' movies have seen Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and cling to the roof of a moving train but director Christopher McQuarrie explained that a scene in the latest flick – which is set for release in May – made him "want to puke" from...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Teaser Review ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Tom Cruise gave a huge treat to his fans at the Super Bowl by unveiling the teaser for his upcoming 2025 action spy flick Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The film marks the sequel to the 2023 film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1. The 30 seconds teaser sees Cruise as Hunt performing some high-octane stunts which will leave you wanting for more.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Teaser Review

Talking about the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning teaser, it shows Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt sprinting through a forest against the backdrop of a sunrise. We soon witness him navigating an underwater mission, in a spacecraft like setting which defies gravity and the most deadliest of them all – dangling in a fast-flying aircraft. We see the teaser ending on an emotional note as Hunt’s voiceover says how...

“Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” is the new live-action spy feature, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring actor/stuntman Tom Cruise as ‘Ethan Hunt’, releasing May 23, 2025 in theaters:

Cast also includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales…

…Pom Klementieff, Angela Bassett and Henry Czerny reprising their roles from the previous films in the movie franchise.

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Paramount Pictures has released the "Big Game" TV spot Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and, after celebrating the franchise's past, we see more of what appears to be Tom Cruise's last mission as the iconic Ethan Hunt.

If so, the actor will go out on a high, especially if the stunts teased here are any indication of what to expect from the movie. We also see the returning characters who will be at Hunt's side, with Pom Klementieff's fan-favourite assassin, Paris, among them.

Despite reports that, like its predecessor, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning's budget has spiralled out of control, all signs point to it being money well spent.

Whether it will be a bigger draw than 2023's Dead Reckoning - Part One ("Part Two" was dropped from this movie's title before it was renamed The Final Reckoning) remains to be seen.

During a recent interview,...

Paramount Pictures dropped a new teaser for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning during the 2025 Super Bowl. The short but action-packed Big Game spot shows lots of clips of Tom Cruise running and hanging from planes, and ends with Cruise as Ethan Hunt asking to be trusted “one last time.”

In addition to franchise star Tom Cruise, the eighth film of the series stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, and Pom Klementieff. Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, and Nick Offerman also star.

Rounding out the cast are Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, and Frederick Schmidt.

Mi – The Final Reckoning picks up after the events of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Paramount’s simple synopsis reads: “Our lives are the sum of our choices.”

Christopher McQuarrie directs and co-wrote the screenplay with Erik Jendresen. Cruise and McQuarrie serve as producers,...

A new trailer for the eighth Mission Impossible movie just debuted during the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday (February 9)!

Tom Cruise is back in action in the upcoming Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which will be released later this year.

Here’s the short and sweet logline: “Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”

Keep reading to find out more…The cast also includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, and Frederick Schmidt.

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will be released in theaters on May 23.

It’s been a turbulent flight getting here, but we’ve finally got the trailer for “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” (fka “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two” and colloquially known as “Mission: Impossible 8”). Thank goodness Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) can still sprint.

In “M:i 8,” Hunt needs his team to trust him “one last time.“

In the trailer, which is shown in ultra wide format, we see Hunt — as one has come to expect — running very fast. It also features footage of the sunken submarine that kicks off the events of “Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning,” as well as a callback to the first film that even many who haven’t seen it are more than likely familiar with. As previously teased, the big stunt for this entry will involve Cruise hanging outside of a functioning 1930s biplane, shots of which are also seen in the teaser.

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Paramount Pictures has released the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Super Bowl spot. The eighth installment opens in theaters, Dolby Cinema, 4Dx, ScreenX, premium large formats, and IMAX on May 23, 2025.

The film is officially described as follows: “Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” All the previous Mission: Impossible movies are currently streaming on Paramount+.

Directed again by Christopher McQuarrie, the new movie stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, and Henry Czerny.

Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, and Frederick Schmidt round out the cast.

Based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is produced by Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. McQuarrie wrote the script with Erik Jendresen.

Even without seeing a frame, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning would have ranked high on our list of most anticipated movies of 2025. And now that Paramount has released a new Big Game spot (to go along with the teaser released in November), that has only skyrocketed – although not nearly as high as Tom Cruise has been.

We’ve already gotten looks at some of The Final Reckoning’s stunts in both air and water, but this trailer is promising so much more – which shouldn’t really surprise us as the franchise has continuously dazzled us with its action set pieces, each subsequent installment blowing our minds more than the last. And with everything we’ve seen so far, no doubt The Final Reckoning will be one hell of a way to conclude the series.

As for if The Final Reckoning will truly be Cruise’s last outing as Ethan Hunt is anybody’s guess,...

Tom Cruise has lit the fuse at the Super Bowl with a new look at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

The feature is the eighth (and possibly final?) installment for Cruise in the long-running franchise, which dates back to 1996’s Mission: Impossible and which has become known for an increasingly ambitious series of stunts.

For almost a decade, the signature stunt of a Mission movie has been teased for upwards of a year in advance, such as Cruise hanging off the side of a plane for Rogue Nation, performing a Halo skydive for Fallout or jumping a motorbike off a cliff for Dead Reckoning. This time, the stunt has been kept under wraps until much closer to the release of the film, with Cruise revealing on Feb. 7 that one stunt involved him hanging off of an upside down propeller plane.

Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise’s right-hand man since 2015’s Rogue Nation,...

There was a teaser for “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” at the big game in 2018. And in the lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl Lix game, there were several sizzles and behind-the-scenes clips from the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”

All of that led to the big game spot, which you can watch below:

Christopher McQuarrie, who has directed every “Mission” movie since “Rogue Nation,” is back in the director’s chair this time around for a sequel that went through a bit of an evolution.

Initially, “Mission: Impossible 7” and “Mission: Impossible 8” were shot back-to-back and titled “Dead Reckoning – Part One” and “Dead Reckoning – Part Two.” But after the disappointing box office performance of the seventh film, it was retitled for home release to just “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” and “M:i 8” got a new title. Thus, “The Final Reckoning” was born.

Cruise is, of course, back...

Leave it to Tom Cruise to commit to the bit.

The veteran movie star and action hero, famously known for his dedication to leading his own stunts, told Empire in a recent interview previewing the forthcoming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning that one action sequence in particular led him to pass out on a number of occasions.

In one (ahem) breathless stunt, previewed in the teaser trailer released two months ago, Cruise’s spy Ethan Hunt can be seen dangling precariously off of the wing of a 1930s Boeing Stearman biplane, hurtling across the air space in South Africa, where the sequence was shot, at 10,000 feet.

“When you stick your face out, going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen,” Cruise explained. “So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.

Tom Cruise said there were times when he passed out from a lack of oxygen while filming airplane stunts for “Mission: Impossible.”

“When you stick your face out [of an airplane], going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen,” Cruise said in an interview with Empire. “So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.”

The “Mission: Impossible” films have seen Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa, jump a motorcycle off a cliff and cling to the roof of a moving train. Director Christopher McQuarrie says in the franchise’s latest installment, “Final Reckoning,” the stunts get even crazier, with one undisclosed moment making him “want to puke” from “the stress.”

“There are stunts in this movie that will melt your brain,” McQuarrie said. “There would be a day in Africa — any day in...

Tom Cruise is returning to the theaters with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in just a couple of months. One of the most successful franchises in Hollywood, the story of Cruise’s movie has spanned almost 30 years now.

Tom Cruise in Rain Man | Credits: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The first movie came out in 1996 to grand commercial success, and as such fans have been elated at the franchise’s continuation so far. For that matter, many have predicted that Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt’s story will go on till his ripe old age.

Interestingly, though, that might not be the case after all. In a recent interview, Tom Cruise as well as the movie’s director Christopher McQuarrie talked about their plans for the future of the franchise. From the sounds of it, this might truly be The Final Reckoning for it at last.

Tom Cruise seemingly hinted at Mission: Impossible – The...

Ben Stiller just took a trip down memory lane, and he brought Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible madness with him. The comedy icon cracked a joke about Cruise’s death-defying stunt, and it had serious Tropic Thunder energy. Fans instantly remembered Stiller’s legendary MTV Movie Awards skit, where he played Cruise’s “stunt double” with zero actual skills.

Ben Stiller in Zoolander | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Now, with Cruise once again risking life and limb for Mission: Impossible 8, Stiller couldn’t resist poking fun. Because really, what’s a Tom Cruise stunt without a little comedy on the side? It’s mission… hilariously possible.

Ben Stiller revives ‘Tom Crooze’ as Tom Cruise defies gravity — again Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission- Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Credits: Skydance

Ben Stiller couldn’t resist. The moment Tom Cruise unveiled his latest Mission: Impossible 8 stunt — dangling from a biplane...

Does Tom Cruise make his Mission: Impossible crew overwork? (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Case in point? The Halo jump in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Most actors would call it a day after one successful freefall from 25,000 feet. Cruise? He demanded 100 takes to get it just right.

The man is allergic to green screens. He won’t fake it when he can throw himself into thin air instead. This time, it was a high-altitude, low-opening jump that required months of prep. Custom helmets. Specialized lighting. A crew that probably wondered if they should’ve taken a Fast & Furious gig instead. Even Henry Cavill—Superman himself—was not allowed to try it. That’s how risky it was.

Director Christopher McQuarrie summed it up best: “This is, far and away, the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted.” And still, Tom Cruise kept jumping. If the wind was off? Jump again. Helmet light flickered?...

Ethan Hunt has been saving the world for nearly thirty years, but will Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning be his last mission? There have been rumblings that Tom Cruise may call it quits with The Final Reckoning, but if that’s the case, neither he nor director Christopher McQuarrie are prepared to confirm it… yet.

“You gotta see the movie,” Cruise told Empire when they tried to get an answer out of him. “It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment, because it really is something that you have to experience.” The actor added that The Final Reckoning will be “an epic, emotional journey of the entire franchise.“

McQuarrie also wasn’t willing to confirm anything but did say that the film will be “the satisfying conclusion to a 30-year story arc. I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate.

Tom Cruise once again showed off his impressive stunt skills in some newly released behind-the-scenes footage of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”

In the clip he shared to X on Friday, the 62-year-old actor can be seen hanging from a plane that’s flying upside-down.

“Jesus Christ,” “M:I8” director Christopher McQuarrie says as he watches. Cruise posted the video with the caption, “Hang on…”

In the 13-second clip, Cruise is seen holding on tight to a narrow bar that’s attached to the top of a yellow plane.

Hang on… pic.twitter.com/aA5pC1YdfY

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) February 7, 2025

The video moves from a close up to a full view of Cruise, who appears to be at least 4,o00 to 8,000 feet in the air.

It’s shocking and heart-racing, but Cruise isn’t new to this. The veteran actor has become known for doing his own daring stunts...

Though he recently shot Bugonia and has long been attached to adapt perpetual subway read My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Yorgos Lanthimos has kept at least one other project deep in the background: from trusted sources we’ve confirmed he’ll write and direct Fatale, an adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s short and severe assassin thriller with James Schamus aboard as producer.

Fatale is no small property, and those who’ve had the fortune of reading Manchette’s novel can imagine how and why its design so appeals to Lanthimos. It opens on Aimée, an assassin introduced handily dispatching armed hunters and deliriously, near-orgasmically showering in the money awarded for such while traveling to a port town where she engineers, Red Harvest-style, resentments among its ruling class, culminating in a savage showdown. Social satire, unflinching violence, sexual mania––all familiar tenets of Lanthimos’ cinema, with a role one needn...

For whatever reason, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One wasn't the hit we expected in 2023. The movie grossed $570.6 million worldwide on a reported $291 million budget, meaning it was considered a financial disappointment by Paramount Pictures.

Tom Cruise reportedly clashed with studio executives while shooting that and the upcoming Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. The movie is being marketed as the actor's final turn as Ethan Hunt (which seems likely now the actor has signed a deal with Warner Bros.). However, Cruise is said to be unhappy about that as he wants to at least keep the door open to returning.

If James Bond can die (which he did in No Time to Die), is the clock counting down on Hunt?

Talking to Empire Online (via ActioNewz.com), Cruise said, "You gotta see the movie [Laughs]. It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment, because it...

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Kim Kardashian isn’t just co-parenting; she’s steering through an emotional minefield. In one episode of The Kardashians, she admitted that hearing her kids play Kanye West’s music left her “dying inside.” It wasn’t about the music itself. It was about the man behind it – the same man who had publicly attacked her for months.

Kim didn’t hold back during the show’s season three premiere. She confided in Kris Jenner, revealing how her ex’s behavior had taken a toll. “I spent my whole morning having an anxiety attack,” she said. I felt like I just couldn’t breathe all day. You know when you’re just on the verge of tears… that’s how I felt all day.” The tension between her and Ye wasn’t just...

All You Need To Know About Critics Choice Awards 2025 (Photo Credit – Instagram)

After the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and the Grammy Awards, the next annual ceremony all set to be hosted is the Critics Choice Awards event. The awards are finally happening despite being postponed twice due to the California wildfires. Fans are excited to witness the special night.

Several of the top stars will descend on the red carpet to celebrate last year’s wins in film and television. Here’s what we know about the upcoming awards ceremony, including the date, the streaming details, who will be hosting the event, and more.

Critics Choice Awards 2025: Date & Streaming Details

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Tom Cruise & Christopher McQuarrie Sheds Light On Mission Impossible’s Future After The Final Reckoning ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Tom Cruise is one of the biggest superstars Hollywood has ever seen. He has proven his stardom through many decades and continues to be on the top of his game. While many of his movies have gone on to be blockbusters, Cruise is most known for the Mission Impossible franchise, where he plays the role of Ethan Hunt. Every few years, a new Mission Impossible movie is dropped, where he raises the stakes even higher, and a few fans believe that it is the final movie of the series.

However, the series has not yet ended and is currently gearing up for the release of its eighth installment, The Final Reckoning. The movie’s name has led many fans to believe that this might be the end of Ethan Hunt’s story.

Tom Cruise has risked life and limb to entertain us for decades. He has scrambled up the side of the Burj Khalifa, driven a motorcycle off a cliff, and flown fighter jets. However, the upcoming Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning sounds like it will feature stunts that even put Cruise to the test.

One of the stunts in The Final Reckoning finds Cruise clinging to the wing of a biplane as it zips through the air at 10,000 feet, and the actor told Empire that it actually caused him to pass out on several occasions. “When you stick your face out, going over 120 to 130 miles an hour, you’re not getting oxygen,” Cruise said. “So I had to train myself how to breathe. There were times I would pass out physically; I was unable to get back into the cockpit.” That sounds terrifying.

Director Christopher McQuarrie added, “There are stunts in...

At long last “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” hits theaters this Memorial Day weekend. But will the film be, as its subtitle suggests, the swan song for the storied action franchise? Star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie played coy about the possibility to Empire in a new interview. And their responses to that question?

Read More: ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Teaser: Tom Cruise Returns For Newest Spy Thriller Installment In May

Well, Cruise’s was barely definitive.

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When Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened in 2023, it was widely considered a financial disappointment, even with a worldwide box office haul of $570.6 million (the biggest issue was that it greatly underperformed domestically).

Not helping matters, of course, was the fact its budget ballooned to a reported $291 million, a staggering sum thought to have done irreparable damage to Tom Cruise's relationship with Paramount Pictures.

The studio dropped the "Dead Reckoning Part Two" subtitle from the sequel a while ago and has instead decided to market the movie as Ethan Hunt's final adventure. Hence, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

Rumour has it Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning's budget has rocketed to $400 million amid various production delays, largely caused by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Thanks to Empire (via ActioNewz.com), we know where at least some of that money went: more insane stunts!

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There’s an air of finality circling Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. And not just because the eighth film in the Imf franchise is set to conclude the events that began in 2023’s Dead Reckoning. For one, it has the word ‘final’ in the title; the official synopsis simply (and ominously) reads, “Our lives are the sum of our choices”; plus, the trailer features Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt asking someone to trust him “one last time”. Could it really be time to say goodbye to cinema’s other greatest secret agent?

Rumour is rife, then, that The Final Reckoning will in fact be the final Mission: Impossible – but for now, Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are playing their cards close to their chests. “You gotta see the movie,” laughs Cruise, when Empire tries to get an answer out of him. “It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment,...

There is nothing Tom Cruise won’t do for your big-screen entertainment. Over the last decade-plus, he’s cemented his reputation as the most daring man in Hollywood, not just a proper movie star, but a stunt powerhouse, a walking special effect. He’s biked off cliffs, flown fighter jets, climbed the Burj Khalifa, dangled from helicopters, base-jumped on loop, all in the name of our entertainment. And by the sounds of things, we ain’t seen nothing yet. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is mere months away, the concluding chapter to 2023’s Dead Reckoning that we’re assured will see Cruise and regular director Christopher McQuarrie go to even dizzier heights of daredevilry.

Take, for instance, the scene – as seen on Empire’s world-exclusive The Final Reckoning cover – in which Cruise clings to the wing of a 1930s Boeing Stearman biplane, careening through the air at 10,000 feet. The sequence was shot in South Africa,...

When it comes to Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise doesn’t compromise. The death-defying adventures of Ethan Hunt have, in tandem, given us the death-defying adventures of Cruise himself – and with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, he’s raising the stakes even more impossibly high than ever before. Just see the cover of Empire’s world-exclusive The Final Reckoning issue, which finds Cruise at a… well, cruising altitude, clinging to the wing of a yellow Boeing Stearman biplane at 10,000 feet in one of the new film’s most breathtaking stunt-fuelled sequences. Hold on tight; the fuse is lit.

This month, Empire goes on set of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, getting up close and personal with Cruise and his director Christopher McQuarrie as they attempt to pull off their most dangerous Mission yet. Inside, Empire speaks to Cruise and McQuarrie – plus Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and more...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 30, 2025 Marianne Faithfull, Grammy-nominated singer, actress, and muse of Mick Jagger, dies at 78

Marianne Faithfull, the British performer who traveled a bumpy road from fresh-voiced pop star (as well as muse and girlfriend of Rolling Stones‘ frontman Mick Jagger) in the 1960s to homeless heroin addict and ultimately a musical comeback in the late 1970s, died on Thursday in London. She was 78. No cause of death was cited.

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter, and actress Marianne Faithfull,” read a statement from her publicist. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.”

Faithfull emerged in the Swinging ’60s, plucked from obscurity by the Stones manager at 16 and in 1964 recorded “As Tears Go By,” becoming an overnight sensation with the Jagger-Keith Richards tune...