‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One’ sets franchise record $80m five-day US bow, ‘Sound Of Freedom’ nears $100m

Searchlight’s Sundance acquisition Theater Camp opens on $45,000 per-site average.Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One claimed top spot in the North American charts with a franchise-best estimated $80m five-day launch despite falling short of expectations.The spy thriller, which dominated the global chart on an estimated $235m global bow, had been forecast to open in North American on around $90m.

Nonetheless it is a strong start as Tom Cruise returns to action following last summer’s box office sensation Top Gun: Maverick.Steven Spielberg famously told Cruise earlier this year that he had “saved Hollywood’s…

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