Tom Cruise Is Confident Paramount-Warner Bros. Will Release 30 Films a Year After Merger: ‘They’re Going to Deliver’

Tom Cruise is confident David Ellison will deliver on his promise of 30 films a year from a combined Paramount and Warner Bros.

“I think it’s awesome,” Cruise told “ The Pat McAfee Show .” “You know, here’s the thing. They’re going to deliver 30 movies. It’s a community to me. It’s not an industry. The people in these studios are not just people in the studios. They’re my family. I know we’re going to get those 30 movies. I want us all to come together as a community to help make those 30 movies. It’s not just going to be, you know, Paramount doing it. Everyone’s going to need all the help of every artist to be able to do it.”

Cruise has long made a home at Paramount, which released all eight films in his marquee “Mission: Impossible” franchise, starting with the 1996 original. His other collaborations with Paramount include the “Top Gun” movies, “The Firm,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Collateral,” “War of the Worlds,” “Jack Reacher,” and “Days of Thunder,” which is getting a sequel in 2028. Cruise, never shy about the affiliation, went as far as climbing the Paramount water tower for the studio’s CinemaCon 2025 presentation featurette. Popular on Variety