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Mission: Impossible

May 2024

  • A composite of five images: a young white couple canoodling on a park bench, a scary white mask in a black hood, a white man holding up a young white woman's arm on a stage as if she's just won something, a white man on a motorcycle speeding on a road, and a cartoon cowboy.

    Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?

    With new chapters in the worlds of Mad Max and Planet of the Apes out now, Guardian writers have picked their favourite big screen franchises to date

April 2024

  • Images of film stars and sets superimposed on an English landscape with a road sign for Dagenham in the centre

    Barbie, Bridgerton and billions of pounds: how streaming – and tax breaks – fuelled the UK’s ‘Brollywood’ screen boom

    Great locations, experienced crews and juicy incentives have made UK studios increasingly attractive. But with budgets falling, could the bubble be about to burst?

October 2023

  • Tom Cruise

    Can Tom Cruise get audiences to care about Mission: Impossible 8?

  • Composite of Cruise fleeing an exploding car and Astley head shot

    Mission: impossible? Tom Cruise’s film crew are lined up to make Rick Astley look cool

July 2023

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise in a scene from "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    The Guardian view on film stunts: impossible missions have been undervalued for too long

  • ‘He knows how to entertain’: Tom Cruise dangles from a train in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.

    ‘He is taking it to the next level’: the expert verdict on Tom Cruise’s epic Mission: Impossible stunts

  • This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Tom Cruise in a scene from "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

    Why Mission: Impossible is the best franchise in Hollywood

  • Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    I did my PhD in Hollywood action films – here’s why Mission: Impossible is the best

    Clem Bastow

  • Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise is still taking our breath away

  • Week in geek
    Is Tom Cruise’s plan to keep making action films into his 80s a Mission Impossible?

June 2023

  • Mission impossible Fallout 2018 Real Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise. Collection Christophel © Paramount pictures / Skydance<br>PCPM60 Mission impossible Fallout 2018 Real Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise. Collection Christophel © Paramount pictures / Skydance

    A sunset, a helicopter and Hayley Atwell’s nan: how Tom Cruise ruined romance

    The age-defying, stunt-performing, cake-disseminating superstar has raised the bar once again when it comes to grand gestures. It’s time for the rest of us to step up – or give up

May 2023

  • Simon Pegg

    ‘I kept my alcoholism secret on Mission: Impossible set,’ Simon Pegg reveals

    The actor, now recovered, tells BBC’s Desert Island Discs he became ‘very sneaky’ about his drinking in the early 2000s

March 2023

  • A polar bear in south Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    Mission: Impossible for Tom Cruise as Svalbard blocks helicopter landings

    Film producers drop attempt to obtain permission for dozens of flights on Norwegian archipelago

June 2022

  • Dougray Scott arriving at the celebrity screening of Phantom of the Open at Ham Yard Hotel, London 10 March, 2022

    Post your questions for Dougray Scott

  • Jurassic World Dominion.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Jurassic World Dominion review – prehistory repeats itself

February 2022

  • Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible 7. On paper, the film is sailing into a perfect storm.

    How did Mission: Impossible 7 become one of the most expensive films ever?

    Tom Cruise led the way for tentpole movie production during Covid but recent reports suggest his latest action-packed instalment has ballooned to a $290m budget

January 2022

  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links HBO’s Euphoria, an ‘affable arms dealer’ and the 1996 Perrier prize?

    From Zendaya’s Spider romance to Dylan Moran via 90210, we dive down the teen show’s deep, dark rabbit hole

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top: Lingui, Top Gun: Maverick, Ali &amp; Ava, The Batman.

    2022 culture preview
    Chaplin, Elvis and Batman return: 25 films to look out for in 2022

    Baz Luhrmann takes on the King with Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent steals a masterpiece and Jessica Chastain plays an eccentric televangelist … all in 2022’s must-see movies

June 2021

  • Actors Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell during the filming of the movie Mission: Impossible 7

    Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 production temporarily shut down due to coronavirus case

    Paramount Pictures pauses filming after a routine test confirms positive Covid case on set

December 2020

  • Film and telivision show recording resumes in Los Angeles<br>epa08803834 A film crew works on a set amid the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California, USA, 06 November 2020. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

    When every set looks like Contagion: inside Hollywood's pandemic year

    Actors are slowly returning to work after a long shutdown caused vast economic damage: ‘How many people gave up their dreams?’
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