Can Cruise complete mission impossible to revive Hollywood's slump?

Tom Cruise with Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Ving Rhames will return in the latest instalment of the Mission: Impossible series.

Tom Cruise takes on what may be his final "Mission: Impossible," a new Superman will wear the red cape, and the record-setting "Avatar" sci-fi series will return to movie theatres this year as Hollywood battles to revive the industry.

Those films and more are giving cinema operators hope that the long recovery from the covid pandemic will continue in 2025. Five years after the start of the health crisis, moviegoing has not fully rebounded.