It’s very rare for a celebrity to light up fireworks on Sydney Harbour and there have been a few – Kylie Minogue, Reg Mombassa & Kermit The Frog come to mind – but on July 3rd 2023, American acting icon, Tom Cruise, joined that very exclusive list & on his birthday too!
Part of the red-carpet lead-up to the Australian premiere of the latest film of his beloved Mission: Impossible franchise, it was a short 1-minute display set to the theme of the franchise with fireworks firing from Cockle Bay and near the International Convention Centre, where the latest film of the franchise was premiered in Australia in its theatre shortly after the fireworks.
Photograph: International Convention Centre
Actors of the film, Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg & Pom Klementieff as well as the film’s director, Christopher McQuarrie, walked the red carpet along with 2,500 other people.
Photograph: International Convention Centre
The Australian Premiere itself was sold out
Photograph: International Convention Centre
The fireworks display is the 1st time a fireworks display on Sydney Harbour has been done in coordination with a film premiere. Wonder how big the fireworks would have been if it was the world premiere?!
During Sydney New Year’s Eve 1996 – Mask A Sydney Face 9pm Family Fireworks, the theme to the original 1996 film of the franchise, Mission: Impossible, featured in the fireworks soundtrack. Richard Wilkins, co-host of that edition’s television broadcast, also co-hosted the Australian Premiere of the latest Mission: Impossible film.
The latest & penultimate film of the franchise, Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning: Part 1, is now on in cinemas around the world.
Happy Birthday Tom Cruise, from Sydney!
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