- Tom Cruise is heading to Cannes to premiere Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- The actor most recently appeared at CinemaCon 2025 to promote the eighth Mission: Impossible
- The Cannes Film Festival will unveil its full 2025 lineup on Thursday, April 10
Tom Cruise is taking the next — and potentially final — Mission: Impossible entry to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
The festival announced on Tuesday, April 8, that Cruise, 62, and his Mission: Impossible collaborator and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie are set to attend the annual French event to premiere Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning out of competition on May 14, the festival’s second night.
The movie has been rumored to be weighing a Cannes debut since February, as Variety noted at the time. Cruise’s attendance at the festival will mark his second time appearing in Cannes; he first attended the festival in 1992 to promote his movie with Ron Howard, Far and Away, and in 2022, he returned with the cast of Top Gun: Maverick to premiere the long-hyped sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. Cruise also received an honorary Palme d’Or at that year’s ceremony.
The festival is expected to reveal its full 2025 lineup on Thursday, April 10. Juliette Binoche willl preside over this year’s jury, as the festival announced on Tuesday, April 2.
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Cruise most recently appeared at CinemaCon 2025 to present filmmaker McQuarrie, 56, with an award as they ramp up their promotional efforts for The Final Reckoning, which just unveiled a new trailer on April 7. The preview featured a first look at new characters portrayed by Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman and Severance‘s Tramell Tillman, while Cruise could be seen hanging off the side of an airplane and diving into the ocean from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg reprise their long-held Mission: Impossible roles as Ethan’s IMF team members Luther Tickell and technical field agent Benji Dunn, respectively. Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny, who each appeared in 2023’s Dead Reckoning, will star in The Final Reckoning as well.
The upcoming Mission: Impossible movie picks up where Dead Reckoning ended, with Ethan and the IMF working to stop the villain Gabriel (Esai Morales) and a mysterious artificial intelligence entity. Few details have been released about what’s at stake, but according to the trailer, “the fate of every living soul” is at risk.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hits theaters May 23. The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 13 to May 24.
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