Shooting on an Arctic set and in South Africa proved challenging for different reasons on the wildlife spectrum.

Meanwhile, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is hoping to establish a new opening weekend record for the 29-year-old franchise — a distinction that belongs to 2018’s “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” with $61 million. Overseas, “The Final Reckoning” should bring in $125 million to $130 million for a worldwide start above $200 million.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a spectacularly silly tribute to the franchise’s explosive past.

The actor behind Benji Dunn sums up two decades' worth of challenges making these movies: "Every 'Mission: Impossible' I've ever done has had a parallel 'Mission: Impossible' running alongside it, which is making 'Mission: Impossible.

It’s considered one of the biggest film franchises in history, and for “Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning,” Academy Award-nominated actor Angela Bassett returns to the film series, but this time as President of the United States.

Cruise has been a box office superstar for more than four decades, starring in classic movies such as 1983’s Risky Business, 1986’s Top Gun and 1988’s Rain Man. Cruise has a