“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is weighing a Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise injecting some serious star power into the event.
Paramount will be releasing the movie in theaters on May 21, which falls during the second week of the festival. The latest entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise is intended to be Cruise’s last outing as the IMF spy Ethan Hunt.
Paramount has a rich history with the festival and so does Cruise whose last trip to Cannes for “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022 was a triumph.
The movie went on to gross $1.45 billion at the worldwide box office and even garnered six Oscar nominations, winning a statuette for Best Sound.
Several American filmmakers are set to bring their latest movies to the glamorous festival including Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague”, and Jim Jarmusch‘s “Father Mother Sister Brother”.
The Cannes Film Festival, with a selection curated by longtime chief Thierry Fremaux, has been thriving with back-to-back milestone editions.
The latest one world premiered three of the awards season’s buzziest films, including a trio of best picture contenders: Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning “Anora,” Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” and Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.”
However, more commercial movies don’t always benefit from a Cannes launch. “Top Gun” got a boost from its festival debut, but “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” suffered from a lackluster reception ahead of its premiere in 2023.
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