Three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise has returned to the Croisette with Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning.
Christopher McQuarrie's latest Mission: Impossible instalment is the biggest Hollywood tentpole wading ashore at Cannes in 2025.
Before the premiere on Wednesday evening, Cruise, McQuarrie and the cast posed for photographers while much of the activity at the Palais was brought to a standstill by onlookers hoping to get a glimpse of Cruise.
McQuarrie will sit for an onstage interview, but there was no media conference for the film, which meant Cruise and company faced no questions from reporters.
In 2022, Cruise received an honorary Palme d'Or from the festival and the Top Gun: Maverick premiere included an impressively timed jet flyover.
Whether the 62-year-old Cruise has anything up his sleeve this time was much anticipated at Cannes.
On Sunday, Cruise climbed atop the roof of the British Film Institute in London.
The Final Reckoning, which launched in Tokyo last week, has its theatrical release on May 23.