The eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has been postponed a yr, signaling a brand new wave of launch schedule juggling for Hollywood studios because the actors strike surpasses three months of labor stoppage.
Paramount Pictures on Monday shifted the discharge date of “Dead Reckoning — Part Two” from June 28 to May 23, 2025. Production on the second a part of Christopher McQuarrie’s “Dead Reckoning” was paused in July whereas Tom Cruise and firm launched into a world promotion blitz for “Part One.”
That movie in the end grossed $567.5 million worldwide, falling shy of 2018 installment “Fallout” ($791.7 million globally) and the heady highs of Cruise’s summer season 2022 blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.5 billion). The 163-minute-long motion thriller, drew among the greatest opinions of the 27-year-old film franchise, however was shortly eclipsed by the box-office juggernauts of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
As Hollywood’s labor turmoil has continued, it is more and more upended launch plans not only for films this fall that wish to wait till their stars can promote them ( like “Dune: Part Two,” postponed to March), however a few of subsequent yr’s high big-screen sights.
A string of Marvel films have beforehand shifted again, as did the third “Venom” movie. “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” has been delayed indefinitely after being dated for March 2024.
Paramount additionally introduced Monday that “A Quiet Place: Day One,” a prequel to the post-apocalyptic horror series starring Lupita Nyong’o, will have its release pushed from March to when “Dead Reckoning” had been scheduled to open, on June 28.
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the studios are scheduled to renew Tuesday.
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