Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Soars High With Absolute Global Box Office Domination
Ethan Hunt finds himself against an unlikely antagonist – The Entity in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. An artificial intelligence gone rogue threatens to take control of and hack into everything and anything that operates on computer intelligence. Ethan’s search for a key to control and stop the AI sets the tone for both the current movie and its sequel.
Whether Ethan manages to control the rogue AI in the quest that is bound to impact his loved ones remains up for question. But as far as controlling the box office is concerned, Tom Cruise is in the driving seat and has got the grips over his fans. The 61-year-old continues to defy logic (and gravity) and manages to stun his viewers in the Theatres. This time the audience left with a permanent itched memory of him jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle.
But his impact isn’t just limited to his fans’ hearts and memories, he’s also shaking the box office with the collection of the seventh installment of his iconic franchise.
Tom Cruise Led Dead Reckoning Part One Dominating Box Office Collection
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One has made waves with its early performance. According to Deadline, Tom Cruise starrer movie launched to a five-day start of $78 million in North America. Globally, Ethan Hunt and his IMF crew have managed to collect over $122.2 million so far and are moving as fast as the train which Grace (Hayley Atwell) gets on to meet her buyer for the all-important key.
The seventh movie of the series has cemented itself as the biggest earner of all, taking over the previous leading movie Mission: Impossible – Fallout which collected $61 million on its opening weekend.
That’s not it though. Dead Reckoning Part One has also earned plenty of praise from critics – rated 96% on Rotten Tomatoes – a record rating among all the franchise movies. And this is no doubt going to impact this MI’s future earnings, as not only Cruise’ die-hard fans but even neutral moviegoers would want to give their money to an acclaimed story.
Barbie and Oppenheimer to Challenge Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible
The only thing that might put brakes on the Cruise-led IMF train and force its grosses to go down is the scheduled releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer next weekend.
Both movies include some of the biggest faces in the industry, including Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Cillian Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr, and are likely to attract some viewers to their screens. Although, Cruise’s comments in June suggested he’s not worried that much about Barbenheimmer.
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On his Instagram, he shared a post with the director of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Christopher McQuarrie, with the caption: “I love a double feature, and it doesn’t get more explosive (or more pink) than one with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.”
For the next few days though, there’s only one big star with keys to the box office. Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is currently in cinemas, having had its first release on July 12 in the US.
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Source: Deadline
