Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has crossed a major milestone at the worldwide box office ahead of its opening weekend. Tom Cruise’s film collected a strong $24.8 million on its release day, setting a new franchise record. Keep scrolling for the deets.

Hayley Atwell had an unseen costar during a fight scene in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show,” Atwell revealed she was more than eight months pregnant while filming reshoots of a fight scene in “Final Reckoning,

The movie could be the end of a franchise 30 years in the making. Here's the ending to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.

"I got a big hug and a cheer as soon as I walked on the set," Rolf Saxon tells PEOPLE of returning to 'Mission: Impossible'

The two films are fueling the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history, while 'Lilo & Stitch' will supplant Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' as the holiday's top opener of all time (he's also the mainstay star of the 'M:I' series).

The Final Reckoning, fans of the Tom Cruise-led franchise will delight in the parade of callbacks and references that date all the way back to 1996. But, there's actually a much deeper cut embedded in The Final Reckoning that predates