Paramount is expecting a similar opening weekend for “Fallout,” with studio projections in the $50 million range against a budget of $178 million. The last film in the “M:I” franchise - 2015’s “Rogue Nation” - grossed $682 million worldwide with $195 million domestic and an opening weekend of $55.5 million. While the Melrose studio only has a five percent market share so far this year with $346.5 million grossed domestically, “Fallout” and other major releases like “Bumblebee” and “Overlord” should push annual totals past the mere $534 million Paramount made last year, by far its worst performance since the turn of the century.Īlso Read: Watch Tom Cruise Break His Ankle in Slo-Mo Doing 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' Stunt (Video) Even though we’ve had male-oriented action films come out the last two weeks with ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Equalizer 2’ in the last couple weeks, that shouldn’t get in the way of this film considering that, if the reviews are any indication, ‘Fallout’ has the goods.”Īnd it couldn’t come at a better time for Paramount, as this is the first “M:I” film released under CEO Jim Gianopulos as he works to recover the studio’s plummeting box office numbers. “But ‘Mission: Impossible’ has brought out the best in him and fans have responded. “Tom Cruise hasn’t always had the box office success in recent years as he had in the ’80s and ’90s,” said comScore’s Paul Dergarabedian. Other long-running franchises such as “Pirates of the Caribbean” have seen the law of diminishing returns set in, but “M:I” seems to be getting stronger as it and its lead star age, with “Fallout” holding a 97 percent “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes as critics call it the best action film since “Mad Max: Fury Road.”Īlso Read: 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' Trailer Goes to New Heights With Tom Cruise (Video)
But now the studio will send in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” as its big tentpole release for the year this weekend, and it does so on a wave of rave reviews for Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise’s latest action film. This year has already seen a marked improvement for Paramount over 2017, with “A Quiet Place” becoming the studio’s biggest hit in nearly two years.
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