Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 7 Sets a Record for $4.1B Franchise
Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One was supposed to be the biggest blockbuster of the 2023 summer. After scaling Top Gun: Maverick to the billion-dollar club, it was expected that the seventh installment of the Super Spy franchise would be a critical and commercial success worldwide.
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However, Mission Impossible 7 was unable to come close to the financial success of Top Gun: Maverick. The sequel to the Dead Reckoning is in progress and will see Tom Cruise return as the celebrated duper spy Ethan Hunt.
Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One Sets A Record
As Tom Cruise‘s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One’s theatrical run gradually inches toward its end, the movie has structured new records for the billion-dollar super spy franchise. Despite having one of the best and most breathtaking stunts and action sequences of all time, the movie couldn’t rule at the box office. With a worldwide collection of $493 million, Mission Impossible 7 marks the lowest performance commercially since the release of Mission Impossible 3 back in 2006.
According to the statistics, it is quite evident that Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is the first installment from the billion-dollar spy franchise to end its theatrical journey without generating a good profit for Paramount.
With the grand theatrical opening of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Mission Impossible was totally overshadowed by the juggernauts. The Barbenheimer became an overnight sensation and the movies that were released in July fell flat at the box office. According to the rumors, IMAX had requested Paramount to reshuffle the release dates, but things did not transform according to the discussion and the rest is history.
Why Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 7 Bombed At The Box Office?
Hollywood and the cinema fraternity saw one of the days post-COVID-19 pandemic. The theatres were packed up, the shifts were houseful and the ticket sales were soaring high with the release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic Oppenheimer. Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One was released on July 12, almost 9 days before the release of the two biggest blockbusters of 2023.
The anticipation of both Barbie and Oppenheimer overshadowed Mission Impossible 7 at the box office. However, it was unexpected as the humongous fan following and the death-defying stunts executed by Tom Cruise had already created waves on the internet, which clearly indicated that Mission Impossible 7 was supposed to be a 2023 blockbuster.
However, the phenomenal critical and commercial success of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick could also be a reason for the box office failure of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. The expectations from Mission Impossible 7 were high and the entire world was excited to witness the nail-biting stunts and action sequences of Ethan Hunt.
As the sequel of Dead Reckoning is in development, there is a possibility of reviving the box office calculations for the billion-dollar super spy franchise.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is currently running in the theaters.
Source: The Numbers
