In what’s expected to be just the first of many delays coming to the 2024 film release calendar, Paramount Pictures has pushed back the eighth “Mission: Impossible” film from its planned Summer 2024 release.
In fact Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” is exiting the year altogether, with Paramount opting to delay the film by a full eleven months.
The movie was originally targeting a June 28th 2024 release, but now open on May 23rd 2025 – taking the Memorial Day weekend slot that Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” had such success in, and this time likely getting in early with reserving IMAX screens.
In addition, THR film editor Aaron Couch says on Twitter that the film is likely to undergo a title change as well.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two” shut down amid the SAG-AFTRA strike in mid-July and had completed a good chunk of its filming including at least two major location shoots in Africa and the Arctic and a bunch of dialogue scenes.
That said, at least half the feature had yet to film, including the film’s “biggest & most complicated” sequence. Whilst many of the characters from the first part return, the second part will introduce some other faces, including Holt McCallany, Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer and Lucy Tulugarjuk.
As a result of the shift, the horror film “A Quiet Place: Day One” has been delayed three months from March 2024 to take over M:I-8’s abandoned June 28th 2024 slot. Paramount also pushed back is the new animated film “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Search for SquarePants” from May 2025 to December 19th 2025.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” premiered in July and ultimately grossed $567.5 million globally.
Source: THR
