Tom Cruise will be back in theaters as Ethan Hunt sooner than expected. Paramount and Skydance Productions have moved up the release of Mission Impossible 5 from Christmas Day of this year to July 31, 2015, the same weekend used to launch Guardians of the Galaxy, proving that August can be a lucrative corridor for event films. Since MI5 will be completed earlier than expected, the studio decided to distance the film from J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which rolls out in theaters Dec. 18. According to insiders, MI5 also gets out of the way of MGM and Sony’s James Bond sequel Spectre, which opens Nov. 6.