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The Real Mission Impossible: Saying "No" to Tom Cruise

• Hollywood Reporter

Investors who heard Tom Cruise speak via video at Paramount's Feb. 15 investors' event must have come away thinking his relationship with the company was all harmony. Calling Shari Redstone his "dear friend," he lavished praise on the studio and noted his "over 37-year relationship with Paramount that I'm very proud of and very grateful for."

The audience would never suspect that the infuriated star had lawyered up a year earlier when the studio notified him that Mission: Impossible 7 would have a 45-day theatrical window — far shorter than his usual three-month run — before streaming on Paramount+. It's a fight that remains unresolved as the parties agreed to postpone the battle until the film is finished, which it isn't. Cruise has balked at getting it done until he's put a great deal of M:I 8 in the can.


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