Tom Cruise among those planning Barbie-Oppenheimer double feature

It’s lower than a month till two of the largest films of the yr are launched on the identical day – and Tom Cruise is worked up.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie – starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling – and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – starring Cillian Murphy – are each due for launch on 12 July.

Consequently, cinemagoers have been planning on watching the 2 blockbusters as a double feature and at the moment are debating in what order to look at them.

Cruise, whose personal summer season motion movie Mission: Inconceivable – Useless Reckoning Half One is out on 10 July, has expressed his want to see the flicks back-to-back.

In a tweet shared on Wednesday (28 June), the 60-year-old Prime Gun star additionally praised Harrison Ford on his fifth and last Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, which is launched in cinemas as we speak (28 June).

“This summer season is stuffed with wonderful films to see in theatres,” Cruise wrote.

“Congratulations, Harrison Ford, on 40 years of Indy and one of the iconic characters in historical past. I really like a double feature, and it doesn’t get extra explosive (or extra pink) than one with Oppenheimer and Barbie.”

Cruise is thought for passionately selling the cinema trade. Earlier this yr, Steven Spielberg was filmed telling the actor he’d “saved Hollywood’s ass” because of his $1.5bn-grossing Prime Gun revival, Maverick.

On the Useless Reckoning UK premiere final week, Cruise advised Insider: “I’m all the time pushing. I simply keep in mind, each time they are saying, ‘Are you able to prime it? Are you able to not prime it?’, we’re all the time pushing.

“Each movie I do, no matter style it’s in, I wish to make it as entertaining as attainable for that viewers. I do know I can do issues higher.”

Within the seventh movie within the Mission: Inconceivable franchise, Cruise be part of forces with Avengers star Hayley Atwell to trace down a terrifying new weapon that threatens humanity.

For probably the most half, reviewers have fawned over Cruise and the movie’s breathtaking motion sequences. Again in April, the star handled Cinemacon attendees to an “epic” 20-minute motorbike chase sequence from the film, which noticed the 60-year-old motion star bombing across the Italian capital.

Mission: Inconceivable – Useless Reckoning Half One is out in cinemas 10 July.