Fans will find out if this really is the end of the road for secret agent Ethan Hunt when “The Final Reckoning” is released in Europe and the Middle East from May 21. The US and several other countries will have to wait two or three days longer.
However, Indian, Australian and Korean cinemagoers will be able to see it from this weekend.
Director McQuarrie, who wrote the 1995 classic “The Usual Suspects”, will also be giving a masterclass earlier in the day at the world’s biggest film festival.
Veteran US star Robert De Niro will be talking about his long, illustrious career after being awarded a lifetime achievement at Tuesday’s often highly-charged opening ceremony.
The outspoken Trump critic took the chance to blast the US leader as “America’s philistine president”.
He slammed Trump’s film tariff proposal — which few experts think can be carried through without creating havoc — as he picked up an honorary Palme d’Or from his friend and sometime co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“You can’t put a price on creativity. But apparently, you can put a tariff on it,” De Niro said in a fiery speech in which he urged “everyone who cares about liberty to organise, to protest.
“In my country we are fighting like hell for democracy,” he said, adding that “art embraces diversity. That’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.”
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