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Jack Dunn 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.

Katcy Stephan UTA has signed acclaimed stage and screen actor Tramell Tillman for representation in all areas. Tillman has earned SAG and Independent Spirit Award nominations for his fan-favorite performance as Mr. Milchick on the hit Apple TV+ series “Severance” – which has broken records as the platform’s most watched series – starring Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette and John Turturro.

Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has been revealed – check it out below.Today (February 10), during the 2025 Super Bowl a new TV spot for The Final Reckoning was screened, sharing a look at new footage from the forthcoming film.The spot – which you can see below – depicts Cruise’s Ethan Hunt perform several death-defying stunts and includes quick blink-and-you’ll-miss-it throwbacks to iconic scenes from previous entries in the franchise, all building to Hunt asking for trust “one last time”Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is being billed as the final entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise. The film is due to hit cinemas on May 23 and will star Tom Cruise along with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby and more.Prior to the new trailer’s reveal, Tom Cruise kicked off the 2025 Super Bowl by narrating the sporting event’s cold open for Fox, looking back at the rivalry between the Kansas City Chiefs and the winning Philadelphia Eagles, complete with Mission: Impossible-themed references.Cruise narrates: “The mission is clear – win here and be remembered forever.” Check out his cold open below.The new trailer and Cruise’s cold open comes after The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie hosted a small screening, where he revealed that he overheard an audience member saying they nearly suffered a heart attack while watching a high-octane action scene.In a three-star review of Dead Reckoning, NME wrote: “The problems come when Dead Reckoning tries to be too clever.

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

Leave it to Tom Cruise to commit to the bit.

Alex Ritman Anyone planning to watch “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” may want to have a health checkup beforehand. According to director Christopher McQuarrie, the final instalment of the Tom Cruise‘s hit spy franchise — films that have become known for upping the crazy with each title when it comes to stunts — has a sequence that gave at least one early audience member more than just a shock.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning “almost had a heart attack” while watching an action scene from the upcoming film, it has been revealed.Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is being billed as the final entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise. The film is due to hit cinemas on May 23 and will star Tom Cruise along with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby and more.In the build-up to its release, director Christopher McQuarrie has hosted a small screening, where he revealed to Empire, per GamesRadar, that he overheard an audience member saying they nearly suffered a heart attack while watching a high-octane action scene.“We had a small screening, and someone said, ‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence.

Christopher McQuarrie, director of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is teasing the Tom Cruise movie, and audiences are seemingly in for a thrilling film.

The U.S. Navy today gave Tom Cruise its highest civilian honor for “his outstanding contributions to the Navy and Marine Corps.”

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning sees Tom Cruise out to save the world one final time – watch it below.The eighth film in the franchise will be the direct sequel to last year’s Dead Reckoning Part One, and based on the glimpses in the trailer, it appears that it may be the final outing for Cruise’s IMG agent Ethan Hunt.The clip shows new footage alongside images from the previous films, while a voiceover says, “Our lives are not defined by any one action, our lives are the sum of our choices. Everything you were, everything you’ve done, has come to this.”See the trailer, complete with the requisite footage of Cruise running at top speed, hanging off airplanes and fighting in underwater combat, here:A post shared by Tom Cruise (@tomcruise)The trailer and the film’s title were confirmed in a post on Cruise’s Instagram on Monday (November 11), in which he wrote: “Our lives are the sum of our choices.

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett is ready for another Mission, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

Naman Ramachandran The BFI Southbank is teaming with the London Action Festival for a series of events this fall as part of the org’s “Art of Action” season, running Oct. 21 to Nov. 30.

Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer best known for his decades-long collaboration with legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh has died. He was 77. 

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Oyoung (Twisters) is the newest addition to the cast of the eighth Mission: Impossible film from Paramount Pictures and Skydance, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg were filmed at Glastonbury 2024 joining a crowd in singing Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ ahead of Coldplay’s headlining set.Cruise and Pegg were photographed alongside fellow actor Gillian Anderson and Mission Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie standing on a platform at the Pyramid Stage, waiting to watch Coldplay’s set on Saturday (June 29).In video shared by BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt, Cruise and Pegg are seen joining the crowd below them in singing the chorus of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, Pegg dramatically waving his arms like a conductor.Erm, that’s @TomCruise, Simon Pegg and @GillianA singing Don’t Look Back In Anger by @oasis just before @coldplay come onstage at @glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/vner2CP6c1— Matt Everitt (@matteveritt) June 29, 2024Pegg was present at Glastonbury to introduce Shaun of the Dead for a 20th anniversary screening alongside director Edgar Wright that same day as part of the festival’s Pilton Palais Cinema programming.

EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Levy (Watchmen, Law & Order) has signed with Joshua Sassanella at Ann Steele Agency in New York, which represents artists on Broadway, Television, and Film. Amongst their clients is renowned character actor Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men, Killers of the Flower Moon).In his career, Levy has worked with filmmakers such as Ron Howard (Hillbilly Elegy), Steven Soderbergh (Full Circle), and Danny McBride (The Righteous Gemstones). His other television credits include Monarch, Queens, To Catch A Killer and Lodge 49.Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in New Jersey, he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. Alumni include Christopher McQuarrie (Mission Impossible), and Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Dead Poets Society). He later attended Montclair State University’s Filmmaking program, as well as Rider University’s Theatre program. Upon graduating, he continued his training with Penny Templeton and Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. 

Jeremy Renner has opened up about his reasons for refusing to return to the Mission: Impossible film series.The Hawkeye star featured in two of the Tom Cruise-led action blockbusters: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011, and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015.However, Renner did not return for the two films that followed in 2018 (Fallout) and 2023 (Dead Reckoning – Part One), with his character William Brandt having retired from the spy force at the end of Rogue Nation.And now, in an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor has revealed that he was in fact invited by the films’ producers to reprise the Brandt character in Fallout, but he was told it would be to shoot for one week, during which Brandt would be killed off.“I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that. You’re not going to drag me over there and just kill my character,’ like get out of here!” Renner said (via Variety). “If you’re going to do this and you’re going to use my character, you’re going to do it right.”“I yelled at [director Christopher McQuarrie],” he joked.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jeremy Renner‘s history with the “Mission: Impossible” franchise spans two films, 2011’s “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” and 2015’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” During an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the actor revealed that he was actually asked to reprise the character of IMF agent William Brandt in the 2018 sequel “Fallout.” However, the offer was apparently for Renner to shoot one week so that Brandt could be killed off. Renner refused. “I remember they tried to bring me over[seas] for a week so they could kill my character, and I was like, ‘No, you don’t get to do that.

After starring in two Mission: Impossible films — 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Jeremy Renner is speaking out about his refusal to return for the third installment.

Ellise Shafer Could Jeremy Renner‘s “Mission: Impossible” character William Brandt be back in action? In a new interview with Collider, Renner — who starred in 2011’s “Ghost Protocol” and 2015’s “Rogue Nation” alongside franchise star Tom Cruise — reflected on his decision to leave the franchise and hinted that he would be open to returning. “I was supposed to do more with them,” Renner said of the “Mission: Impossible” cast. “I love those guys.

EXCLUSIVE: After wowing with her muscular turn in A24’s Love Lies Bleeding, Katy O’Brian has joined the cast of the eighth Mission: Impossible for Paramount Pictures and Skydance, sources tell Deadline.