Last weekend, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” was creeping up on the half-billion mark at the worldwide box office with a running total of $493 million.
Now, the latest installment in the Tom Cruise-led franchise has passed that milestone, but the fact that it took a week to do it is not a great sign.
Per Deadline, the global total will be $522.4 million through Sunday, with $159.55 million of that from domestic ticket sales.”Dead Reckoning” is on its fifth weekend, whereas the previous entry in the series, “Fallout-2018-movie-posters/”>Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” crossed $500 million on its fourth weekend — crucially, before it had even released in China.
The Chinese box office ultimately added another $181 million to the global total for “Fallout,” which rounded out at $791.1 million by the time it left theaters.
Meanwhile, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” has been in theaters across all major markets worldwide for weeks,…
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