“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” topped domestic box office charts while falling short of initial expectations.
Tom Cruise’s latest blockbuster collected $56.2 million between Friday and Sunday, a lackluster start for a movie that cost nearly $300 million before marketing.Heading into the weekend, Paramount and Skydance’s action-adventure was hoping to establish a new franchise record with $60 million or more.
Instead, ticket sales landed behind 2018’s “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” ($61 million) and 2000’s “Mission: Impossible II” ($57.8 million), which remain as the top openings in the 27-year-old series.Comparisons aren’t exact because “Dead Reckoning Part One” opened on Wednesday rather than Friday.
The seventh installment has generated an estimated $80 million in its first five days of release, which is more than “Fallout” ($77.5 million) and “Mission: Impossible II” ($78.8 million) earned in their first five days in theaters.
With a stellar 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and a glowing “A” CinemaScore, though,…
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