Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Skydance
Tom Cruise‘s next Mission: Impossible movie is departing the 2024 box office calendar. The eighth installment in the action spy franchise appears to be dropping the second half of its previous title, Dead Reckoning Part Two, with a new title expected to be announced at a later date.
Paramount and Skydance have pushed back the film back to May 23, 2025, off its previous date of June 28, 2024. The feature shut down production to allow for star Tom Cruise and the cast to promote Dead Reckoning Part 1. Then the SAG-AFTRA strike hit in mid-July, which meant the cast could not return to work on the film, which hails from director Christopher McQuarrie.
More tentpoles are likely to flee next year if the strike isn’t resolved in the next few weeks.
M:I 8 follows a bumpy box office ride for Dead Reckoning, Part 1, which bowed in July and grossed $567.5 million globally.
The movie stars Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, with Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Kirby among those expected to return. The Mission franchise dates back to 1996’s original film, based on the 1960s TV show. It is known for filming in locales across the globe and for at least one signature Cruise stunt that often becomes the centerpiece of its marketing campaign.
The eighth Mission is being shot with Imax cameras and will be carried in Imax theaters for a full three weeks. This comes after M:I 7 lost its Imax screens quickly because of Oppenheimer.
Paramount also made a flurry of changes. A Quiet Place: Day One moved from March 8, 2024 to Dead Reckoning‘s old date of June 28, 2024. The Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski starrer If moved up a week to May 17, 2024. Meanwhile, an untitled Spongebob Squarepants movie departed its May 23, 2025 date for Dec. 19, 2025
