Paramount Home Entertainment Looks To Oct. 14 As The Release Date For Physical Media Editions Of Director Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Paramount Home Entertainment has made it official, Oct. 14 will be the physical media launch date for director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring the seemingly ageless Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.

The ARR comes in at 144 days, with the domestic box office take currently standing at a toasty $195.8 million.

Planned for distribution in the physical media marketplace are two 4K Ultra HD combo packs (with Blu-ray) — SteelBook and standard packaging — plus a stand-alone DVD edition.

The only negative in the perfect theatrical and physical media distribution of this franchise finale is the insertion of a premium VOD window (which is common these days) on Aug. 19, which gives the “Helper” community (our term for pirates, bootleggers, etc.) an eight-week window to distribution Blu-rays of their own to eager fans who want to add a physical media edition to their home entertainment collections.

With that said, the extensive array of bonus features kickoff with not one, but three commentary options.  The first teams Tom Cruise with McQuarrie (his fourth Mission: Impossible film with Cruise); the second has McQuarrie with film editor Eddie Hamilton (also his fourth Mission: Impossible assignment, plus he did the cutting for Top Gun: Maverick — which earned him an Oscar nomination) and the third commentary teams composers Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey, who are joined by score producer Cécile Tournesac.

There are five “Behind the Scenes” featurettes — “Taking Flight,” “To the Depths,” “To the North,” “Through the Mine” and “The Score” — deleted footage (with commentary) and two production featurettes — “Olifants River Canyon” (with optional commentary by McQuarrie) and “Biplane Transfer” (with optional commentary by Cruise and McQuarrie).  

Also included are several still galleries and a collection of promo spots.