Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Carrie Coon and Shea Whigham Talk Their ‘Fargo’ Reunion in ‘Lake George’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 8’
Lake George co-stars Carrie Coon and Shea Whigham are actors’ actors. They’re highly regarded by their peers, and they elevate every project they’re a part of, whether it’s an indie, a blockbuster or a prestigious cable series. And as soon as the audience sees them on the big or small screen, they immediately know they’re […]
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Anime and ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Push Japan’s Box Office Higher in 2023
Japan’s box office climbed 4 percent to a post-pandemic high of $1.5 billion (221.5 billion yen) in 2023, driven again by a strong slate of anime and a steady return to theaters. Hollywood films maintained the same market share of around 31 percent as the previous year, though a very weak yen reduced earnings in […]
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Oscars: Special Effects Supervisor Neil Corbould Among Crafts Vets With Multiple Nominations
Special effects supervisor Neil Corbould scored a rare hat trick on Tuesday, grabbing three VFX Oscar nominations, for his work on Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi thriller The Creator, Ridley Scott’s period epic Napoleon and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The veteran SFX supervisor previously won Academy Awards for Gravity and Scott’s Gladiator. […]
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Oscars: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Earns Rare VFX Shortlist Spot for an Animated Feature
Ten films representing a broad range of visual effects work made the VFX category shortlist for the 96th Academy Awards, among them Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a rare animated feature selection. Also advancing in the VFX Oscar race are The Creator, Godzilla Minus One, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial […]
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Hollywood Has Reached Peak Two-Part Movies
Hollywood moviemaking has always been a numbers game, and right now the winning number appears to be two. Zack Snyder is locking picture on part one of December’s Rebel Moon, his two-part space opera for Netflix. Christopher McQuarrie, the filmmaker behind Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One, retreated to a house in […]
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Tom Cruise’s Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movie Delayed a Year to 2025
Tom Cruise’s next Mission: Impossible movie is departing the 2024 box office calendar. The eighth installment in the action spy franchise appears to be dropping the second half of its previous title, Dead Reckoning, Part Two, with a new title expected to be announced at a later date. Paramount and Skydance have pushed back the […]
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VFX Pros Expose The Hidden Costs of Selling a Movie as “Real”
“Everything that we shot is completely practical” said Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie in a behind-the-scenes video about the film’s high-octane Rome-set car chase. Added star and producer Tom Cruise, “we’re doing it right.” The comments continue the trend of filmmakers and studio marketing departments emphasizing how productions do things for […]
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Down-to-the-Wire: Summer Box Office Revenue Could Hit $4B in North America After All
What a difference a month can make. The mood across Hollywood was glum in mid-July after a number of high-profile tentpoles underperformed at the domestic box office, led by Warner Bros. and DC flameout The Flash. Overall ticket sales for the season were running 7 percent behind summer 2022 by July 20, dashing hopes that […]
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Tarak Ben Ammar on His Big Italian Job(s) and Why He Owes His Career to Roberto Rossellini
Tarak Ben Ammar has big plans for Italy. The Franco-Tunisian film and TV mogul is already a major player in the Italian industry thanks to Eagle Pictures, the production and distribution group he acquired in 2007 that is now Italy’s largest independent distributor due to exclusive distribution deals with Paramount and Sony Pictures for the […]
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Box Office Stunner: ‘Barbie’ Opens to Staggering $162M, ‘Oppenheimer’ Snags $82.4M
The summer box office just went nuclear. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie opened to a historic $162 million domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven superhero fare or marquee IP, such as the final Harry Potter movie. It came in well ahead of an expected $90 million to $110 million and helped fuel one of […]
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‘Mission: Impossible’ Box Office: Can ‘Dead Reckoning’ Rebound From Barbenheimer?
Tom Cruise, the star who is credited with saving the box office after Top Gun: Maverick flew to $1.5 billion in global ticket sales, is now facing another kind of reckoning — surviving the Barbenheimer effect. His Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One tumbled a franchise-worst 64 percent to $19.5 million in its second […]
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12 of Tom Cruise’s Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
Tom Cruise has never steered away from challenging himself in his roles for projects. Especially since 1986’s Top Gun, he has continued to push the limits of his body and acting, taking on his own stunts in most of his top films, including Mission: Impossible, The Last Samurai and Jack Reacher. Most recently, Cruise took on several death-defying stunts […]
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