Paramounts Free Mission: Impossible 8 Livestream Turns Out to Be a Marketing Gimmick

The studio Paramount Pictures initiated a live broadcast, promising to showcase the film «Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.» The screening was set to begin on YouTube at 9:00 PM Moscow time on August 20.

Fans were eagerly awaiting the film, but when the time came, they were greeted with radio equipment transmitting information in Morse code. The studio explained that the entire film was being streamed via an encrypted signal, and it could only be viewed in the online cinema Prime Video. Judging by the comments in the chat, viewers hoping to see the film were quite disappointed.

The eighth installment of «Mission: Impossible» follows the story of special agent Ethan Hunt, who must put a stop to an artificial intelligence known as «The Entity.» The iconic actor Tom Cruise reprised his leading role. The eighth film in this legendary spy action series did not perform as well as expected at the box office, earning $596 million against a budget of around $400 million, despite being marketed as a significant conclusion to the beloved franchise.