Mission: Impossible 5 Changes to a More Favourable Summer Release Date
Paramount Pictures have been re-arranging their upcoming slate of movies to help what they feel would maximise their chances at box office, as well as covering their backs.
Originally, Mission: Impossible 5 was slated for a Christmas Day release this year, but has now been bumped up five months and will become a summer blockbuster release. This results in Paramount's other release, Monster Trucks, being delayed by seven months so it can take Mission: Impossible 5's old Christmas 2015 berth.
Paramount announced Mission: Impossible 5 will now open on the 31st July 2015 opposite Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama Southpaw, Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi thriller Selfless, and the Point Break remake. This new release date will mean the filmmakers will have to move quickly in the editing room if they are to make the July release.
It may end up being a smart move from Paramount. That slate of July movies isn't particularly strong compared to November and December's line-up. Mission: Impossible 5 should be able to maximise it box office potential amongst that company, rather than attempt to break-out against the likes of Spectre and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. It is also being rumoured that Paramount have made the switch in case their other big summer release, Terminator: Genisys, is a flop.
Mission: Impossible 5 once again stars Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Ving Rhames return from previous instalments, and Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, and Simon McBurney join the cast. Christopher McQuarrie directs.
