Refresh for latest…: The wait just got a little shorter for audiences to see Tom Cruise back in action as Ethan Hunt with Paramount/Skydance’s highly-anticipated Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One now set for domestic release on July 12 rather than July 14. That puts it in step with the start of international rollout and is a move designed to take advantage of early summer play.
Paramount boss Brian Robbins made the announcement while closing out Par’s CinemaCon slate presentation, and President of Domestic Distribution Chris Aronson then gave the audience an epic treat with a look at a 20-minute extended sequence from the seventh installment in the franchise.
Christopher McQuarrie returns to direct and wrote the script. Returning cast members include Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny. Newcomers to the franchise include Hayley Atwell as Grace and Esai Morales as the new chapter’s bad guy. Also featuring are Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma and Mark Gatiss.
The CinemaCon audience was the first to see Top Gun: Maverick last year as it all but blew the roof off of the Colosseum. And as someone said to me the other day, Dead Reckoning may just act like a spiritual successor to that movie — in other words, it’s going to be huge.
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Producers are Cruise and McQuarrie. Executive producers areDavid Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Tommy Gormley.
CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners from around the world, runs through Thursday at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.