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  • Paramount delays release of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Mission: Impossible 7’

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Paramount made a number of changes to its release date calendar recently by delaying the opening of several major films. Actor Tom Cruise’s highly-anticipated movies ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 7′, among many other tentpoles will not be making it to theatres this summer.

    As per Variety, in total, 10 films’ release dates were shuffled, with three of them starring Cruise.

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is flying to November 19, 2021, from its previous date of July 2, 2021. ‘Mission: Impossible 7,’ which had its spot taken by ‘Top Gun,’ is getting pushed to next year, from November 19, 2021, to May 27, 2022. Its sequel ‘Mission: Impossible 8,’ originally dated for November 4, 2022, is moving to July 7, 2023.

    The upcoming outing ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ starring Chris Pine, Hugh Grant and Rege-Jean Page has moved from May 27, 2022, to March 3, 2023.

    The fourth installment in the ‘Jackass’ franchise has been delayed from September 3, 2021, to October 22, 2021.

    The ‘G.I. Joe’ spinoff ‘Snake Eyes’ starring Henry Golding is the only movie to jump forward. It will release three months earlier on July 23, 2021, instead of October 22, 2021.

    Four previously undated movies were added to the release calendar. An untitled movie about the Bee Gees will bow on November 4, 2022, the next ‘Star Trek’ film will release on June 9, 2023, ‘The Shrinking of Treehorn’ will open on November 10, 2023, and an untitled film starring Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski will hit the big screen on November 17, 2023.

    Amid Paramount’s release date shake-up, Universal and Blumhouse moved up ‘The Forever Purge’, the latest in the horror franchise, one week from July 9, 2021, to July 2, 2021.

  • Actor Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ shoot gets delayed

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible 7” and “Mission: Impossible 8” will not be shot back-to-back as per Paramount Pictures’ original plan.

    Cruise recently wrapped up the seventh installment in the long-running action franchise, after resuming the filming last September amid the coronavirus-pandemic.

    The action star was supposed to start the eighth film soon after, but the production had to be postponed due to the change in the release calendar of his other films.

    According to Deadline, Cruise will be promoting “Top Gun: Maverick” ahead of the film’s planned release on July 2.

    The sequel to the actor’s 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun”, “Maverick” will see Cruise reprise his role of US Naval aviator Pete Mitchell, whose call sign is ‘Maverick’, along with returning star Val Kilmer, and new entrants Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, and Jon Hamm.

    After “Maverick” promotions, the actor will then return to the sets of “Mission: Impossible 8”.

    Over the weekend, Christopher McQuarrie, director of both the “Mission: Impossible” movies, debunked the reports claiming that the seventh film in the franchise had been disrupted by pandemic-related travel issues.

    In an Instagram post, the filmmaker revealed the team has successfully completed the Middle East schedule and will be returning to London to make a few “finishing touches” to the film.

    “Mission: Impossible 7” is scheduled to bow out on November 19 this year, while the sequel is slated for a November 4, 2022 release.