Mission: Impossible
U.S. television series
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| 2025 | Ethan Hunt and the IMF team embark on a mission to find and destroy the Entity to prevent a potential nuclear apocalypse, involving new allies in their efforts. |
| May 23 2025 | Final scheduled release date due to 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| May 2025 | During the New York premiere of The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise confirmed this would be his final Mission: Impossible film, explicitly stating 'The film is the final! It's not called 'final' for nothing.' |
| May 5 2025 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the latest film in the franchise, premiered in Tokyo. |
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is set to be released. |
| 2024 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One receives its first Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony. |
| 2024 | An Indianized cover version of the theme was created by Yuvan Shankar Raja for the Tamil film The Greatest of All Time, used in a skyscraper scene. |
| 2024 | An arrangement of the theme was played during the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics when Tom Cruise retrieved the Olympic Flag. |
| November 2024 | New subtitle 'The Final Reckoning' announced for the film. |
| June 28 2024 | Rescheduled release date before final delay. |
| 2023 | The film 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One' explores a plot centered around a rogue AI called the Entity, which was responsible for sinking the next-generation Russian submarine Sevastopol. Ethan Hunt and the IMF are tasked with tracking down a key that could control or stop the Entity, while various world powers and antagonists compete to obtain it. |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was released. |
| December 2023 | The theme was used in a series of Etsy Christmas season commercials. |
| October 2023 | Dead Reckoning Part Two subtitle removed from the film. |
| July 2023 | Tom Cruise expressed continued interest in playing Ethan Hunt, drawing inspiration from Harrison Ford's longevity in the Indiana Jones franchise, suggesting he wants to continue making Mission: Impossible films into his eighties. |
| July 7 2023 | Another rescheduled release date for the film. |
| June 2023 | Christopher McQuarrie announced that Dead Reckoning Part One and The Final Reckoning would not end the Mission: Impossible film series, indicating potential future installments. |
| November 4 2022 | Rescheduled release date after initial COVID-19 delay. |
| August 5 2022 | Original scheduled release date, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| February 2021 | Deadline Hollywood reports that Part Two would no longer be filmed back-to-back with Part One, with filming beginning shortly after production wrapped on Part One. |
| December 1 2020 | CBS Home Entertainment released a Blu-ray Disc version of the complete Mission: Impossible series set. |
| February 2020 | Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby confirmed to return as Eugene Kittridge and Alanna Mitsopolis, respectively. |
| January 2020 | Nicholas Hoult and Simon Pegg initially announced to appear in the film, with Hoult later being replaced by Esai Morales due to scheduling conflicts. |
| September 2019 | Hayley Atwell joins the cast of the Mission: Impossible film. |
| January 2019 | Eighth Mission: Impossible film announced to be in development, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, originally planned to be filmed back-to-back with the seventh film. |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible – Fallout was released. |
| 2017 | The 1967 recording of the Mission: Impossible theme by Lalo Schifrin on Dot Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was released. |
| 2015 | Japanese guitarist Miyavi covered the theme for the promotion of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. |
| October 6 2015 | CBS Home Entertainment released a repackaged version of the complete series set at a lower price. |
| January 2013 | Lindsey Stirling and The Piano Guys released their interpretation of the theme, featuring a music video with a comedic cloak and dagger theme. |
| December 11 2012 | Paramount released Mission: Impossible – The Complete Television Collection on DVD in Region 1, featuring all 171 episodes and bonus features. |
| October 15 2012 | Revelation Films released Mission: Impossible – The '89 TV Season DVD in Region 2 |
| July 23 2012 | Revelation Films released Mission: Impossible – The '88 TV Season DVD in Region 2 |
| February 28 2012 | CBS DVD released Mission: Impossible ('89 TV Season) DVD in Region 1 |
| 2011 | Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was released. |
| 2011 | Tiësto created a dance remix version of the theme to promote Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. |
| 2011 | Mission: Impossible franchise reaches over $4 billion in revenue, becoming one of the highest-grossing media franchises. |
| November 29 2011 | CBS DVD released Mission: Impossible ('88 TV Season) DVD in Region 1 |
| 2010 | Houston rapper Chamillionaire remixed the theme song for his cancelled third album Venom. |
| January 2010 | A Lipton TV commercial featuring a fictionalized account of Lalo Schifrin's creation of the Mission: Impossible theme was aired in multiple countries. |
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