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Showtime no longer will be making its drama pilot The President Is Missing, an adaptation of the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham. The network had ordered the project to pilot, which was fully cast and ready to go when the coronavirus pandemic halted…

Tom Cruise on Tuesday posted a video on social media showing him and his Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie attending a London screening of Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s new film from Warner Bros that opens overseas this weekend and over the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. The film’s release date has been pu…

EXCLUSIVE: What did Universal Pictures execs require to commit to liftoff of the first ever narrative feature film to shoot in outer space? According to sources, all it took was an exuberant Zoom call with Tom Cruise, director Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie and PJ van Sandwijk. They pitched the picture with no…

EXCLUSIVE: When Mission: Impossible 7 starts production in late summer or early fall, I expect that you will see that Esai Morales has joined the cast. In place of Nicholas Hoult, who was cast in a villain role earlier this year. The Paramount and Skydance co-production was close to starting production in Italy when…

Director Christopher McQuarrie has tweeted that Nicholas Hoult will join Tom Cruise in the next installment of Mission: Impossible, through Paramount and Skydance. Hoult has been close on a lot of things recently, getting down to the wire with Robert Pattinson before the latter got the Batman role in Matt Reeves’ The…

Hayley Atwell is joining another high-octane team. The Marvel veteran has been cast alongside Tom Cruise in the new Mission: Impossible movie, the seventh in the franchise and the first of two being directed back-to-back by Christopher McQuarrie. The helmer and the actor traded the news on their Instagram accounts…

Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Anthony Peckham (Invictus) have boarded The President Is Missing, the drama series adaptation of the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson. McQuarrie will executive produce the project, currently in development, with Heather McQuarrie and the…

Christopher McQuarrie has been set to return to Paramount’s Mission: Impossible franchise, recently signing a deal to write and direct the next two films. He confirmed the pact today on Twitter. The news comes after McQuarrie piloted Mission: Impossible – Fallout to the franchise’s top total box office; the pic…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…

Tom Cruise has a right to gloat this week. I will grant him that because, precisely ten years ago, all he wanted to do was hide. Cruise once confided to me that one of his abiding rules was to "stay resilient," and he's proved his point.. The mega success of his sixth Mission: Impossible elevates Cruise to the status…

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Paramount/Skydance's Mission: Impossible – Fallout continued overseas rollout on Friday, raising the cume through yesterday to $38.3M including previews. That sets the sixquel on track for a muscular $80M+ opening weekend across 36 markets at the international box office. Should that hold, along…

He broke his ankle making Mission: Impossible – Fallout, but it was all worth it. Tom Cruise’s sixth go-round as IMF leader Ethan Hunt is an unqualified corker of a summer action film, the best in the series that has been going since 1996. As I say in my video review above, the M:I franchise just keeps topping itself…