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  • Next 2 ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Will Be So Huge, They’ll ‘Swallow’ the Last 3

    Next 2 ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Will Be So Huge, They’ll ‘Swallow’ the Last 3

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    The “Mission: Impossible” movies are redefining what “impossible” really means.

    Director Christopher McQuarrie is talking a big game about “Mission: Impossible 7” and its follow-up, which he is shooting back-to-back. The next new movies are going to be huge, he says — really huge.

    “I pitched the idea of making two movies, and now I have to justify why it’s two movies,” he told Empire. “You’ve got to earn that. You’ve got to make something that swallows the last three movies whole.

    McQuarrie, who directed “Fallout” and “Rogue Nation,” added, “I’m freaked out now. We’ve talked ourselves into something. Holy shit.”

    The “Mission: Impossible” movies have been attempting to top each previous one with eye-popping setpieces featuring star Tom Cruise (who is notorious for doing his own stunts, even if it means injuring himself in the process).

    “Fallout” featured a high-speed motorcycle chase, a foot race across rooftops (in which Cruise broke his ankle), a HALO skydiving jump, and an insane helicopter chase/crash.

    What could Cruise possibly do next? Even McQuarrie isn’t sure.

    “Here’s the problem with going to the moon: How do you fall from the moon?” he pondered.

    “Mission: Impossible 7′ and ‘8’ are slated for release in summer 2021 and 2022.

  • Highest Star Salaries Revealed: Where Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Blunt Rank

    Highest Star Salaries Revealed: Where Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Blunt Rank

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    Which stars are getting paid the most in 2019?

    While Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are definitely on the list, neither is number one, according to Variety’s “Money Issue.” Both apparently took a pay cut (earning a mere $10 million each) to make “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” for Quentin Tarantino.

    Who is number one? A sweet $27 million for Michael Bay‘s “6 Underground” makes Ryan Reynolds the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. Thanks, Netflix! (And this list doesn’t seem to include his paycheck for “Detective Pikachu!”)

    And at $12-13 million, Emily Blunt‘s fee for “A Quiet Place 2” means she’s the highest-paid actress in Hollywood right now.

    Robert Downey Jr., who is getting a bundle for “Avengers: Endgame,” is branching out to a possible new franchise with Dr. Dolittle. His paycheck? $20 million.

    Also fascinating, see who earns the most on “Hobbs & Shaw” and “Bad Boys for Life.”

    Here’s the whole list:

    1. Ryan Reynolds: $27 million for “6 Underground” (Netflix)

    2. Dwayne Johnson: $20 million “Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw” (Universal)

    Robert Downey Jr.: $20 million, “The Voyage of Dr. Dolittle” (Universal)

    3. Will Smith: $17 million, “Bad Boys for Life” (Sony)

    4. Jason Statham: $13 million, “Hobbs & Shaw” (Universal)

    5. Tom Cruise:  $12-14 million, “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)

    6. Emily Blunt, $12-13 million, “A Quiet Place” (Paramount)

    7. Leonardo DiCaprio: $10 million, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Sony)

    Gal Gadot: $10 million, “Wonder Woman 1984” (Warner Bros.)

    Brad Pitt, $10 million, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Sony)

    8. Margot Robbie: $9-10 million, “Birds of Prey” (Warner Bros.)

    9. Ben Affleck: $8 million, “Triple Frontier” (Netflix)

    Idris Elba: $8 million, “Hobbs & Shaw” (Universal)

    10. Kristen Stewart: $7 million, “Charlie’s Angels” (Sony)

    11. Martin Lawrence: $6 million, “Bad Boys for Life” (Sony)

    12. Joaquin Phoenix: $4.5 million, “Joker” (Warner Bros.)

    13. Jessica Chastain, $2.5 million, “It: Chapter 2” (Warner Bros.)

    [Via Variety]

  • ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel in the Works With Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

    ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel in the Works With Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

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    Another “Tomorrow” is on the horizon.

    Warner Bros. is developing a sequel to “Edge of Tomorrow,” the 2014 sci-fi hit starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

    Cruise and Blunt are expected to return, as is director Doug Liman. Their participation is dependent on the outcome of a script to be written by Matthew Robinson (“The Invention of Lying”).

    The first movie centered on a military public relations officer (Cruise) who gets stuck in a time loop during an alien invasion. Every time he dies, he starts the day over. He enlists the help of a war hero (Blunt) who trains him until he’s able to win against the aliens.

    “Edge of Tomorrow” grossed over $370 million worldwide, but wasn’t considered a huge hit at the box office.  It did receive rave reviews and eventually found a following on home video, when it was rebranded “Live. Die. Repeat.”

  • Christopher McQuarrie Signs on for Back-to-Back ‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels

    Christopher McQuarrie Signs on for Back-to-Back ‘Mission: Impossible’ Sequels

    He has chosen to accept it.

    Christopher McQuarrie, the super genius writer-director of “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” (and an uncredited screenwriter on “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”) announced today that he would be returning to the world of espionage and utterly convincing rubber masks with not one but two more movies. “Missions: accepted,” he wrote on Twitter earlier today.

    Variety has additional details: apparently McQuarrie, while flirting with other projects (including the Michael B. Jordan-led Tom Clancy adaptation “Without Remorse”), he is fully on board two more entries in the popular franchise. While he and “Mission: Impossible” star Tom Cruise continue to work on “Top Gun: Maverick” (set for release summer 2020), there have been tentative dates set for these “Mission: Impossible” sequels — Summer 2021 and Summer 2022, respectively.

    “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” the sixth film in the franchise, opened this summer to unanimous critical acclaim and the highest box office returns of any entry in the franchise. So it makes sense that he would want to return; he and Cruise have made 10 movies together in the past 9 years, so clearly they have a great working relationship.

    Update: Tom Cruise has confirmed the 2021 and 2022 release dates on his Twitter account.

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  • ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Director Reveals How They Pulled Off Those Amazing Opening Titles

    ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Director Reveals How They Pulled Off Those Amazing Opening Titles

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    Judging by the box office success of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” and fans’ near-obsessive behavior when it comes to consuming all things about this movie, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie is scary-good at what he does.

    He is a character-first, detail-oriented filmmaker — even when it comes to putting together the opening titles to his “Mission” films. In advance of the film’s release on Blu-ray this week, we talked to McQuarrie about how he and his team crafted “Fallout’s” titles and the one thing about the titles for the first “Mission” movie that you probably never noticed.

    Moviefone: What I love about your “Mission” movies, is that — like the original series — your opening titles contain little shots and snippets of the events we are about to see. Now, this may be a nerdy question, but — how do you go about selecting the clips for those? 

    Christopher McQuarrie: That’s a really good question. If you look at the first “Mission: Impossible” — Brian De Palma’s — he shows you everyone of the characters that dies in the movie, in the order in which they die.

    Wow. Never picked up on that.

    Yeah, if you watch it you’ll see there’s actually a storytelling motif going through it. I only noticed it around the time I was making “Rogue” and we were rewatching it and looking through those credits.

    I remember when, on “Ghost Protocol,” [director] Brad Bird… he had a whole idea of shooting misdirections within his titles. Getting shots specifically for the opening titles that were slightly different — from a different angle of a piece of action. And you learn very quickly you don’t have time to get those. You’re racing very quickly, always trying to beat the clock, and you run out of time. And what I did when I came to it was — we found these guys called Filmograph — an amazing video effects house in Los Angeles — and they came and sent us two concepts for the titles [for “Rogue”]. And I liked both concepts so much, I said: “You know what? We’re gonna use both concepts. One at the beginning, and one at the end.” And they absolutely nailed it. They did it so well, they got two jobs out of it. And out of that, that’s where we developed the “curtain call.” The idea of seeing the characters come back at the end of the movie. And that was something unique to “Rogue” and then Fallout. In fact, it’s the only connection — stylistically — that “Fallout” has in common with “Rogue.”

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    So what we do — [Editor] Eddie Hamilton and I — we say to Filmograph: “You tell the story back to us [in the opening titles].” And we give them the whole movie. And they take little clips and they throw things at us and we throw things back at them. And we more or less feel our way through it by the energy the images are giving off. And how they are juxtaposed. And we like to do at least one giveaway in the credits. We like to do one thing where we are tipping our hand a bit. If you’re paying attention, there’s a little bit of a spoiler in there.

    You can check for that spoiler on the “Fallout” Blu-ray, which is available now. 

  • ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Director Chris McQuarrie Wishes You Could See the One Script He Can’t Get Made

    ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Director Chris McQuarrie Wishes You Could See the One Script He Can’t Get Made

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    You’d think after two huge box office hits — the last two “Mission: Impossible” movies — writer-director Christopher McQuarrie could get anything made. Anything. Even his passion project — the script he told me was his “favorite.”

    Well, you’d be sorely disappointed.

    In a recent interview promoting the release of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” on Blu-ray Dec. 4 (the disc is AMAZING – buy ALL the copies), McQuarrie revealed that there’s one “mission” he wishes he could put on the big screen: His exceptional script for “The Last Mission.”

    “That is my absolute favorite script, out of any of the scripts I’ve ever worked on,” McQuarrie said. And for those lucky few to have read it, it is easy to see why. “Last Mission” tells the harrowing and emotionally-taut real-life tale of the last night of WWII in the Pacific. So why can’t the director of “Fallout,” which grossed $791 million — the series’ highest grossing movie (not adjusting for inflation) — get this movie made?

    “You know, the lesson I have learned is — the magic number is a billion [dollars]. If you make a billion dollars doing something, or $800 million doing something original, you may get more leverage to do something. And the truth of the matter is, I don’t have more leverage now than when I did when I wrote that screenplay for ‘The Last Mission.’ It is the quintessential dream movie of mine and no one will make it.”

    Despite that harsh truth, there’s some light at the end of “Last Mission’s” tunnel — at least for the director who wants to make it.

    “Look, the time will come,” McQuarrie said. “What I’ve learned is — look at “Valkyrie.” “Valkyire” and “The Last Mission” were written as sister projects at the same time. Nathan Alexander and I wrote those scripts together, and neither one of those movies should have ever seen the light of day. And we were very fortunate that Tom Cruise, you know, found “Valkyrie” and decided he wanted to do it. And someday, someone is gonna be looking for a kind of movie and — “The Last Mission,” in whatever form that is — it’s gonna fill that need.”

    Until that time, “Fallout” will just have to tie fans over.

    “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” is available now on Digital HD and arrives on Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD Dec. 4.

  • Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie Reveal How They Pulled Off That Crazy Rooftop Run In Exclusive ‘Fallout’ Clip

    Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie Reveal How They Pulled Off That Crazy Rooftop Run In Exclusive ‘Fallout’ Clip

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    “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” doesn’t disappoint when it comes to giving fans what they want to see: Tom Cruise running.

    The highest-grossing “Mission” yet, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie delivered one of year’s best movies, which finds the spy equivalent of Jackie Chan, Ethan Hunt (Cruise), jumping out of planes, falling from helicopters, punching dudes in bathrooms, and, of course, sprinting. Lots of sprinting.

    In this exclusive clip from the home video release (you can see this if you download the digital HD copy right now), featuring audio commentary from McQuarrie and Cruise, the two reveal how a key sequence on the streets (and over the rooftops) in Paris came together — especially when part of the chase features the take where Cruise infamously broke his ankle.

    Which, obviously, didn’t derail him. Because Cruise. Watch for yourself:

    “Fallout” is available now on Digital. It hits Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 4.

  • ‘Jack Reacher’ Getting TV Reboot Because Author Thinks Tom Cruise Is ‘Too Short’

    ‘Jack Reacher’ Getting TV Reboot Because Author Thinks Tom Cruise Is ‘Too Short’

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    “Jack Reacher” is getting a screen reboot — because Tom Cruise is considered “too short.”

    Cruise starred in two “Jack Reacher” movies, which performed decently at the box office. At the time, many fans of the books by author Lee Child complained that the actor was not tall enough to play the main character, who is described as a hulking figure.

    Now, Child is saying he agrees with them. And so, he’s working on turning his books into a television series — starring someone who isn’t Cruise.

    “I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He’s a really, really nice guy. We had a lot of fun,” Child told BBC Radio. “But ultimately the readers are right. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it’s a big component of who he is. The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you’re all a little nervous just for that first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn’t have that physicality.”

    Child explained he wants to take his work “to Netflix or something like that. Long form streaming television, with a completely new actor.”

    He added that he wants fans to participate in casting the part. “We’re rebooting and starting over and we’re going to try and find the perfect guy.”

  • ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Reportedly Pushed Back to 2020

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Reportedly Pushed Back to 2020

    Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise in Top Gun
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    “Top Gun” fans have already been waiting for more than 30 years for a sequel, and now they’re going to have to add another one.

    The release date for “Top Gun: Maverick” has been pushed back, Deadline reports. The Tom Cruise-starring film was scheduled to open on July 12, 2019, but now it is reportedly moving to June 26, 2020. And so the waiting continues.

    It’s not all bad news, though. The extra time is to ensure the movie’s in-air action scenes will be excellent, according to Deadline’s sources. We suspect fans will agree that’s not a part of the film that should be rushed. Maverick’s return to the skies has to be spectacular.

    The aerial stunts were among the best parts of “Top Gun.” They helped make it a big commercial success when it was released in 1986, not to mention earn the film a lasting place in fans’ hearts. As much as another year’s wait might be frustrating, we expect we’ll be grateful in the long run.

    Make sure you mark your calendar with the new date for “Top Gun: Marverick.”

    [via: Deadline]