His longtime stunt coordinator and second unit director Wade Eastwood told The Times of London newspaper how drained the actor was by one particular stunt in the eighth (and apparently final) instalment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – one which involved him walking on the wing of a small biplane mid-air.

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).

"This is a big journalism show, so I got to get to the bottom of it, because there are questions," Butler began on Wednesday's edition of "The Pat McAfee Show." "Now, you're Tom Cruise and you do everything a little different.

The mega Memorial Day weekend at the box office is off to a great start with 'Lilo & Stitch' eyeing a Disney preview best for holiday at $14M and 'Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning' Looking at $8M Franchise record.

It didn’t have Tom Cruise dangling from an airplane — it didn’t even have Peter Graves thumbing through IMF dossiers in his apartment — but the Mission: Impossible TV pilot still managed to light the fuse on one of Hollywood’s biggest action franchises.

Tom Cruise explained that a stunt that entailed holding onto an airplane while it was in motion took 'decades' to perfect before he could perform it in 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.' He made the revelation and shared specifics during a May 19 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.