It’s not clear when it happened — sometime in the past 30 years — but the Mission: Impossible movies gradually evolved into Hollywood’s most dependable modern action franchise. Figuring out how this happened is far easier: Star Tom Cruise ‘s legendary willingness to do anything and everything to make each film a blockbuster while — as the franchise’s most powerful producer — savvily finding creative partners that bring out his best.

Tom Cruise has been leading the Impossible Mission Force, but that chapter is coming to a close this week with Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. There may be Mission: Impossible movies in the future,

Final Reckoning' (hereinafter 'Mission Impossible 8', directed by Christopher Macquarie) has been on the top of the box office for nine consecutive days. According to the Korea Film Council's integrated computer network for movie theater tickets on the 26th,

Don't worry, it's not an off-screen character that was suddenly introduced. Phineas Phreak is the hacking code name for Luther and is first mentioned during 1996's Mission: Impossible while Ethan is hunting for fellow disavowed IMF agents to break into the CIA Black Vault in Langley.

Former CIA chief of disguise Jonna Mendez says the iconic mask tech from "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" isn't just Hollywood fiction.