Since the first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has either gone solo or kept a very close circle of friends as his team. Following the events of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Ethan’s team lost one member and gained another. And in the newly released Super Bowl trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Ethan’s team is adding two more unexpected members.
Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) have been around for multiple movies, while Dead Reckoning introduced a thief named Grace (Hayley Atwell) and gave her a redemption arc that ended with her joining the IMF. The new additions are more surprising, including Paris (Pom Klementieff), an assassin who appeared to be mortally wounded at the end of the last film. Apparently Paris is going to get some redemption of her own after working for Gabriel (Esai Morales) in the previous film.
The other new team member is Degas (Greg Tarzan Davis), a character who will be introduced in The Final Reckoning. Degas has his own reasons for aligning himself with Ethan even though it may leave him branded as a traitor to the United States.
Several other characters from the previous films are also making their return in The Final Reckoning, including the White Widow, Alanna Mitsopolis (The Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ Vanessa Kirby), CIA director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), CIA analyst William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), and President Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett).
The Super Bowl trailer doesn’t offer many story hints about the film aside from Ethan’s attempt to enter a sunken submarine for a weapon to use against the A.I. being known as The Entity. There’s also a glimpse of the biplane stunt at 10,000 feet in the air that caused Cruise to “pass out physically” while filming.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will hit theaters on May 23.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.