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Tom Cruise Shows Up To Celebrate ‘Mission: Impossible’ Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie At Cannes Masterclass


Refresh for more…This afternoon at Cannes, Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance at a masterclass event celebrating his longtime collaborator, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie. Why does it click well with Tom Cruise. “A love of cinema,” said McQuarrie about their shorthand. “When I met him, I was going to quit the business,” said the Mission: Impossible […]

He sees the film industry, particularly when it’s at a crossroads with streaming as one of “deposits and withdrawals.” Read, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick brings people into cinemas, so smaller auteur movies like Anora will find a following. “I worry for the fate and survival of cinema,” said The Usual Suspects scribe turned filmmaker. McQuarrie is a five-time director of five films in the Mission: Impossible franchise, which stars Cruise as undercover agent Ethan Hunt, and he directed Cruise-starrer Jack Reacher.

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