Paramount Photos and Skydance’s Mission: Unattainable 7 — Useless Reckoning: Half One, that includes Tom Cruise’s subsequent action-packed dash as Ethan Hunt, has landed a high-value launch date in China on July 14. That’s the identical day the movie launches in North America, which creates advertising synergies and financial savings for the movie and its studio.

Lately, Hollywood tentpoles have been incomes much less in China, nonetheless the world’s second-biggest theatrical box-office territory — but when there’s anybody who can break the development, maybe it’s Tom Cruise. His international smash hit Prime Gun: Maverick wasn’t launched in China due to political causes. However the final movie within the M:I franchise, Mission: Unattainable – Fallout earned $181 million in China.

Useless Reckoning: Half One is the seventh installment in Cruise’s franchise, which stretches again to 1996. The eighth and presumably last Cruise-led Mission is due out June 28, 2024.

The logline for Half One reads: “Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF workforce embark on their most harmful mission but: To trace down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity earlier than it falls into the incorrect arms. With management of the longer term and the destiny of the world at stake, and darkish forces from Ethan’s previous closing in, a lethal race across the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, omnipotent enemy, Ethan is pressured to think about that nothing can matter greater than his mission — not even the lives of these he cares about most.”

The solid for the brand new movie consists of Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Rob Delaney and Charles Parnell.

Christopher McQuarrie, who has directed, written or produced quite a lot of Cruise movies, directed and co-wrote the script with Erik Jendresen; he additionally produces with Cruise. Govt producers are David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Tommy Gormley, Chris Brock and Susan E. Novick.