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Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
CNN –
Tom Cruise was on one mission to encourage fans to go to the cinema to see not only his latest movie Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, but all the movies coming out this summer.
His efforts may have helped with the seventh installment in the Mission Impossible series, which premiered Wednesday and went to #1 on the box office.
While the thriller was the weekend’s box office event and has been well received by viewers so far, the $56.2 million it grossed in its three-day domestic opening weekend fell short of expectations.
The film grossed up to $80 million after a five-day premiere and has grossed $235 million worldwide.
Mission Impossible 6 grossed $61 million in its three-day opening weekend of 2018, meaning Dead Reckoning’s three-day gross fell just short of its predecessor.
Cruise, who has starred in the Mission Impossible franchise since it premiered in 1996, enjoyed huge success last summer when Top Gun: Maverick became his first film to break the $1 billion mark at the global box office exceeded.
But even Cruise isn’t immune to the box office slump this summer.
Dead Reckoning joins other summer blockbusters such as The Flash, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Disney’s latest animated feature, Elemental, to have disappointing box office earnings on their respective opening weekends.
With ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ hitting theaters on the same day next week – with an impressive buzz for the double program dubbed ‘Barbenheimer’ – there is hope this miserable summer will turn around at the box office.