Published Oct 23, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.
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2026 has been a busy year for Henry Cavill so far after starring in two movies, but fans were only able to catch one of them on the big screen. Cavill returned to theaters back in May with the long-awaited premiere of In The Grey, the action thriller co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Guy Ritchie. Budget information for In The Grey was never disclosed, but the film only managed to scrape together $28 million at the global box office before going on to become a massive hit on Starz. It’s a candidate to blow up on streaming when it’s added to a larger platform like Netflix. Cavill also found success on Netflix with the release of the third and likely final installment of Enola Holmes, where he plays Sherlock Holmes opposite Millie Bobby Brown.
While Henry Cavill is best known for his role as Superman in the DCEU under Zack Snyder, he’s also widely famous for some other big blockbuster roles. One of which is his role opposite Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible - Fallout, which is well-regarded by fans as one of the best movies in the entire franchise. It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been almost 10 years since Mission: Impossible - Fallout first hit theaters, and the movie was a massive hit, grossing over $800 million at the global box office against a $178 million budget. All these years later, the only way to watch the film is by purchasing a standard Paramount Plus subscription, but there’s been a renewed interest in the franchise of late, which has pushed it back into the global top 10 in several countries.
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
While not officially confirmed, all signs point to the 2025 blockbuster, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning being the last movie in the franchise. While the title certainly makes it seem obvious, most fans thought that the only way for Ethan Hunt to go out would have been in a blaze of glory, but he ultimately survives the events of the film, even if all of his confidantes didn’t. This leaves room for him to return in the future, possibly even as a mentor to another young agent, if Cruise is willing to hand off control of the franchise to a young star like Michael B. Jordan.
Check out Mission: Impossible - Fallout on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Henry Cavill’s future projects.
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