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Mission: Impossible 7 resumes production with crazy motorcycle stunt

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Having been put on hold – like pretty much the rest of the world – due to the global health crisis, Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have resumed principal photography on next year’s Mission: Impossible 7, with director Christopher McQuarrie posting on Instagram that filming is now underway on location in Norway. SEE ALSO: Hayley […]

Tom Cruise says he “loved” Tenet as he shares trip to London screening

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Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet has gotten a thumbs up from Hollywood icon Tom Cruise with the actor saying he “loved” the movie. Tenet is first major release since cinemas have reopened with many film fans and admirers of Christopher Nolan looking to make the movie their first since lockdown. Hollywood star Tom Cruise seems […]

Paramount delays A Quiet Place Part II and Top Gun: Maverick to 2021

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Paramount Pictures has become the latest studio to reschedule their upcoming slate of theatrical releases by delaying Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick and John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II to 2021. According to Variety, Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1986 classic, will now release on July 2nd, 2021, nearly six months after its initial […]

Hayley Atwell shows off her Mission: Impossible 7 physique with workout photo

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With Mission: Impossible 7 set to resume production in September, franchise newcomer Hayley Atwell has shared a photo of her physique on Instagram as she works out for her mysterious role.   While details on her character are being kept mum, Atwell recently said of her: “There’s ambiguity… the interesting thing we’re exploring is her […]

Tom Cruise’s Maverick will have to confront his past in Top Gun 2

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Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, says that Tom Cruise’s character will have to confront his past during the movie. Top Gun is one of Tom Cruise’s most iconic films and more than three decades after its release, fans will be getting a full-fledged sequel, catching up with the like of Cruise’s Maverick. […]

Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie discussed an R-rated Jack Reacher movie

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As production gears up to get back underway on Mission: Impossible 7, Christopher McQuarrie has been chatting to Empire about his other Tom Cruise action franchise, the filmmaker revealing that discussions had taken place about taking the Jack Reacher series into R-rated territory for a now-abandoned third instalment. “Tom and I were talking about, had […]

Henry Cavill did his own Witcher stunts thanks to Tom Cruise

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Thanks to inspiration from Tom Cruise on Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Henry Cavill did his own stunts on The Witcher. Tom Cruise is well known for doing his own stunts, many of them crazy feats of bravery. It turns out that working with Cruise on Mission: Impossible – Fallout rubbed off on Henry Cavill when […]

The Dark Universe That Never Was: A Short History of Universal’s Failed Monster Franchise

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EJ Moreno on the short history of Universal’s Dark Universe… Join our host EJ Moreno as he ventures back to 2017 to figure out what happened to the Dark Universe. Universal Pictures had a short-lived plan to create a cinematic universe, a la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it didn’t last more than a year. […]