Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Delayed A Year As Actors Strike Drags On

NEW YORK – As the actor’s strike enters its third month, Hollywood studios will now have to juggle a new release schedule for the eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.

The next “Mission: Impossible” film will be released on May 23, 2025, rather than June 28, as previously announced by Paramount Pictures. The sequel to Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” was put on hold in July as Tom Cruise and the team went on an international promotion tour for “Dead Reckoning.” (The sequel was previously titled “Mission:

Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part Two,” but is now titled “Mission: Impossible.”

Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Delayed A Year As Actors Strike Drags On”Dead Reckoning” eventually grossed $567.5 million worldwide, trailing both the 2018 sequel “Fallout” ($791.7 million globally) and Cruise’s summer 2022 blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.5 billion). The 163-minute action thriller received some of the greatest reviews of the 27-year-old film franchise, but it was swiftly overshadowed by the box-office juggernauts “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”

As Hollywood’s labor unrest has persisted, it has progressively disrupted release plans not only for films this autumn that want to wait until their stars can market them (such as “Dune: Part Two,” which has been pushed back to March) but also for some of next year’s biggest big-screen attractions.

Several Marvel films have moved back, including the third “Venom” feature. “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” scheduled to be released in March 2024, has been postponed indefinitely.

The studio also revealed Monday that “A Quiet Place: Day One,” a prequel to the post-apocalyptic horror series starring Lupita Nyong’o, will be delayed from March to June 28, when “Dead Reckoning” was set to debut.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the studios are set to restart negotiations on Tuesday.

SOURCE – AP