Mission: Accomplished. 'Dead Reckoning' Sets M:I 5-Day Opening Record: Weekend Box Office Results (Jul. 14-16)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is here and it's somewhat of a pyrrhic victory. With $56.2 million and it's opening weekend it's obviously number one at the box office. That was never in question. That number is a definite 'disappointment,' though. It's 8.2% off of
Fallout's $61.2 million and 2.8% off of
M:I2's $57.8 million openings. It did open 1.3% ahead of
Rogue Nation's $55.5 million opening. But it was bested by the recently released
Indy 5's $60.3 million.
How about the good news?
Dead Reckoning set a franchise 5-day opening record with $80 million, besting
Mission: Impossible 2's $78.2 million. It's also grossed $235 million globally. It took
Dial of Destiny multiple weeks to do that. So maybe it makes closer to the $195 million that
Rogue Nation did instead of the $220 that
Fallout did. Like I showed on Thursday, the
Mission: Impossible movies are notoriously backloaded and don't rely solely on the domestic take.
I was on IMDb looking at the most popular movie trends and tell me what you see here:
Do you see
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One?
Indy 5 is number one.
Sound of Freedom is number two.
Let's look a little further down the list.
Oh s*** there it is coming in at number eight, up 14 spots, but still behind
Across the Spider-Verse. It's inexplicably behind
No Hard Feelings and
Asteroid City?
Maybe the hype isn't quite there.
Nah. I expect Ethan Hunt to leg it out like always.
Sound of Freedom moved up a spot to take second place with an unbelievable $27 million. It's unbelievable because it's in its second weekend and
Mission: Impossible came out but it didn't matter as it jumped up an incredible 37.2% from last weekend. It's made $85.4 million. It could be on its way to $150 million.
Insidious: The Red Door held on strong with $13 million. That's a 60.6% honorable horror hold. It's made $58 million which passes
Insidious's $54 million total run. Next to fall is
The Last Key's $67.7 million. Its $122.5 million global running total just passed
Chapter 3's $120.4 million total.
The Red Door putting work in like
Dial of Destiny took a little tumble down to fourth place with a $12 million third weekend. It's made $145.3 million domestically and $302.3 million globally.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had made $253 million in the same time period. So that puts
The Dial of Destiny 42.5% off of the pace.
Elemental rounds out the top five and continues to hold on strong with another $8.7 million. It's $125.2 million running running total passes
Lightyear's $118.3 million total. It's also crossed $300 million globally with $311.6 million.
Notables
Across the Spider-Verse has made $368.7 million. It's on the verge of passing
Spider-Man 2's $373.5 million total. It just passed
The Secret Life of Pets's $368.3 million to become the 11th highest grossing digital animated movie of all time. It should move past
Minions: The Rise of Gru and it's $369.6 million tomorrow, to take 10th place.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has crossed the $150 million mark with $152.7 million.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
| 1 | N | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | $56,200,000 | | 4,327 | $80,004,000 | 1 | Paramount |
| 2 | 3 | Sound of Freedom | $27,000,000 | +37.2% | 3,265 | $85,498,581 | 2 | Angel Studios |
| 3 | 1 | Insidious: The Red Door | $13,000,000 | -60.6% | 3,188 | $58,086,000 | 2 | Sony |
| 4 | 2 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | $12,000,000 | -56.2% | 3,865 | $145,359,865 | 3 | Disney |
| 5 | 4 | Elemental | $8,700,000 | -13.3% | 3,235 | $125,289,287 | 5 | Disney |
| 6 | 5 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | $6,050,000 | -24.7% | 2,577 | $368,798,000 | 7 | Sony |
| 7 | 8 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | $3,420,000 | -33% | 2,041 | $152,765,000 | 6 | Paramount |
| 8 | 7 | No Hard Feelings | $3,300,000 | -38.9% | 2,053 | $46,590,000 | 4 | Sony |
| 9 | 6 | Joy Ride | $2,575,000 | -55.7% | 2,820 | $10,616,997 | 2 | Lionsgate |
| 10 | 9 | The Little Mermaid | $2,350,000 | -36.3% | 1,615 | $293,916,557 | 8 | Disney |
I'm trying to go and see this at the IMAX theater at Jordan's Furniture. A place I haven't seen a movie since I saw Avengers: End Game in 2019. 
Indy 5 played at 4,500 theaters on a Thursday. M:I7 played at 3,300 theaters on a discount Tuesday. As such, M:I7 averaged $2,121 per theater to Indy 5's $1,600. 
