Maybe Tom Cruise won’t be playing Ethan Hunt at 80.“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount) grossed $80 million in five days in the U.S./Canada, with a worldwide total of $235 million.
That’s needed money for theaters and stronger than expected Thursday-to-Sunday results elevated the gross from what some thought might be as low as $70 million.With its A Cinemascore, this seems like a film that might not suffer the falloff experienced this summer by several other multi-hundred million dollar productions.
Less clear is whether it can maintain the stellar longer run of “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” in 2018.“Barbie”Warner Bros./screenshotHowever, “Fallout” was released in late July with minor August competition.
Next weekend, “Dead Reckoning” faces “Barbie” (Warner Bros.
Discovery), which is expected to open way over $100 million, and “Oppenheimer,” which will gross less while absorbing almost all of the premium screens currently occupied by Tom Cruise.
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