Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Offers $7 Million Box Office Previews

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, starring Tom Cruise, kicked off its North American box office run with a hearty $7 million in previews on Tuesday. The latest installment of the series, Mission: Impossible – Falloutit earned $6 million in previews.

Hopes are high The showdown starts first will reverse a summer slump at the box office, with Paramount and Skydance’s tentpole tracking opening to $90 million or more franchises in North America alone. The movie, which has every chance of scoring a best franchise arc, will be out midweek to get a jump on the competition.

The showdown starts first is directed by Christopher McQuarrie. The cast also includes Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Rob Delaney and Charles Parnell.

Cruise is a favorite with theater owners. He resisted putting 2022 Top Gun: nonconformist streamed, and ended up being the highest-grossing domestic feature film released in 2022 with $774.7 million domestic, for a total of $1.49 billion globally.

The actor has become something of an ambassador of cinema. In recent days he has urged his fans to support all summer films, including that of Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig Barbieboth open in theaters July 21.

The new Mission Impossible the film has faced multiple setbacks caused by COVID-19. Filming was halted at least five times due to the pandemic, with Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie eventually contracting the disease, and audio of Cruise insisting the crew abide by COVID restrictions went viral .

Earlier this week, Cruise said The Hollywood Reporter how “incredible” it was to overcome those challenges and open the tentpole on the big screen. “We talked about it. We dreamed it. It’s very, very special,” Cruise said at the film’s New York City premiere. “ON Best Gun: Maverick, they kept pushing the movie and pushing the movie, and for (McQuarrie) and I, this is such an ambitious film. And it was a very challenging film to produce, and then it all happened, and it was even more challenging. So to have that answer… it’s very, very special.”

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