Mission Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part Two Update: Tom Cruise Starrer Pushed To 2025 Amid Actors Strike

On Monday, Paramount Pictures changed the release date of the upcoming Mission: Impossible film from June 28 to May 23, 2025.

Tom Cruise in a still from 'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.' ( Image Source :IMDb )

New Delhi: The eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise has been postponed a year, signaling a new wave of release schedule juggling for Hollywood studios as the actors strike surpasses three months of work strike.

On Monday, Paramount Pictures changed the release date of the upcoming Mission: Impossible film from June 28 to May 23, 2025. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie is now working on the sequel. Part One was put on hold in July while Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast began an extensive international promotion campaign for Dead Reckoning.

The final global box office total for Dead Reckoning was $567.5 million, falling short of the previous year's Fallout ($791.7 million) and the exhilarating heights of Tom Cruise's summer 2022 smash Top Gun: Maverick ($1.5 billion). The 163-minute action thriller received some of the greatest reviews of the 27-year-old film series, but it was shortly surpassed by Margot Robbie's 'Barbie' and Cilian Murphy's 'Oppenheimer' at the box office.

As Hollywood's labour unrest has persisted, it has increasingly disrupted release plans for several of next year's top blockbusters, as well as films this autumn that wish to wait until their stars can market them (like Dune: Part Two, which is postponed until March).

A string of Marvel movies have previously shifted back, as did the third Venom film. After being scheduled for March 2024, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has been postponed indefinitely.

A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the post-apocalyptic horror series starring Lupita Nyong'o, will now be released on June 28 instead of March as originally planned by Paramount, which also revealed this on Monday.

On Tuesday, talks between the studios and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are expected to restart.