Since Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was released in theaters nearly two months ago, how soon will it be available on digital streaming?

Starring Cruise as Impossible Mission Force Agent Ethan Hunt for the eighth and possibly final time, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opened in theaters on May 23.

The film picks up after the events of 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, where Ethan and his fellow IMF agents including Grace (Hayley Atwell), Benji (Simon Pegg), Luther (Ving Rhames) and new allies Paris (Pom Klementieff) and Degas (Greg Tarzan Davis) attempt to thwart the self-aware AI program The Entity from taking over the world’s nuclear stockpile.

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning also stars Esai Morales, the main villain who is trying to gain possession of The Entity and Angela Bassett as U.S. President Erika Sloane.

Generally, the Mission: Impossible franchise’s studio, Paramount Pictures, releases its films on digital streaming via premium video on demand about a month after they open in theaters, no matter the size of the release. For example, Ridley Scott’s big-budget spectacle Gladiator II was released in theaters on Nov. 22, 2024, and arrived on PVOD just over a month later, on Dec. 24.

After that, the studio’s live-action and animated hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog 3 opened in theaters on Dec. 20, 2024, and arrived on PVOD on Jan. 21. In the lower-budgeted realm, Paramount released Jack Quaid’s action comedy Novocaine in theaters on March 14 and it debuted on PVOD about three and a half weeks later, on April 8.

Since Cruise is without question one of the industry’s biggest proponents of the theatrical experience (which he speaks about in a May interview with BFI), it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that he wants moviegoers to see Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on the big screen without any quick home entertainment options.

However, since the film’s theater count is down to 705 venues this weekend (it debuted in 3,857 theaters on May 23) and looks to be dropping out of the domestic top 10 this weekend (on Friday it earned $230,000 for a No. 11 finish, per The Numbers), a transition to PVOD would seem to be imminent. However, the pattern for Cruise’s last M:I film suggests otherwise.

Released in theaters on July 12, 2023, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1 —the film was later rebranded and dropped the Part 1 from the tite — it took nearly three months for the film to arrive on PVOD on Oct. 10.

If Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning were to follow the same release pattern of its predecessor, that would put the digital release’s debut sometime between Aug. 19 and Aug. 26, since new films generally arrive on PVOD on Tuesdays.

When to Stream, however, believes that Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning will arrive a bit quicker on PVOD. In the site’s latest Streaming Tracking Report, When to Stream — which is typically accurate with its PVOD reporting — is estimating an early to mid-August digital release for the film.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to date has earned nearly $195.2 million domestically and $389.7 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $584.9 million.

The film had a production budget of $400 million before prints and advertising, according to The Numbers.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning had an 80% “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 408 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus reads, “Gargantuan in action, runtime, and scope, The Final Reckoning is a sentimental sendoff for Ethan Hunt that accomplishes its mission with a characteristic flair for the impossible.”

The film also earned an 88% “fresh” audience score based on 10,000-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning simply reads, “Mission: Accomplished.”

The official PVOD release date for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will be reported on as soon as the information becomes available.