Following a global promotional campaign by Star Tom Cruise, the film “Mission: Impossible – Reckoning Part One” made the best start of the series with $80 million in its first five days, but fell short of industry expectations with a gross of 56 $.2 million over the three-day weekend.
Paramount Pictures’ release was propelled by strong overseas earnings of $155 million from 70 markets. And while the $235 million international release marked one of the best world premieres of the year, Dead Reckoning didn’t come close to matching the blistering pace of last summer’s hit film Top Gun: Maverick.
“Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film in the 27-year-old series, was set to surpass the best-selling franchise opening success of the previous installment, “Fallout,” which opened 2018 domestically at $61 million, up from the $57.8 million , which debuted Mission: Impossible II in 2000, fell short.
That puts the film’s opening number for the weekend very close to the muted premiere of Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which grossed $82 million over five days and $60 million over three days in the US and Canada -dollar started up -day weekend. Paramount and Skydance had higher hopes for the $290 million action spectacle Dead Reckoning, not counting marketing costs.
The 10 highest-grossing films this weekend in the US and Canada, according to Comscore:
1. “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”, $56.2 million.
2. “Sound of Freedom”, $27 million.
3. “Insidious: The Red Door”, $13 million.
4. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, $12 million.
5. “Basic level”, 8.7 million.
6. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”, $6.1 million.
7. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”, $3.4 million.
8. “No Hard Feelings”, $3.3 million.
9. “Joy Ride”, $2.6 million.
10. “The Little Mermaid,” $2.4 million.