Underperforming at the box office
Another example of an over crowded summer. Everyone is seeing Sound of Freedom or waiting next weekend for Barbie and Oppenheimer
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MovieChat Forums > Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Discussion > Underperforming at the box office
Still going. Now 522, can it get past MI2's 550?
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shareIt's supposed to hit 600 million by it's end which isn't any to sniff at either, remember none of the films in franchise have been billion dollar box office hits. But when you look at Fallout 791 million and Rogue Nation 682 million. It's definitely slightly down from the last two films.
I think Paramount and Tom Cruise got a little cocky, after the success of Top Gun Maverick and the other MI films doing well at the box office. That they felt were going to go toe to toe with Barbie and Oppenheimer. And that Dead Reckoning Part One was going to do biggest business of any of the films of the franchise. Even with all it's critical acclaim and many reckon it's best of the franchise, it just didn't have the pull of Barbie and New Nolan film. Plus been Part One of a two part film I'm sure didn't help as many feel that second part usually is left with the best stuff.
Releasing it in May or waiting until August would have been smarter business.
Collider reported a $600 million worldwide box office take to be the breakeven point for this film — so a disappointment but not a bomb. Had the studio kept to its original plan of shooting parts 1 and 2 back-to-back, they presumably would have realized some efficiencies and a lower per-film cost.
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shareOnly one week in Imax theaters hurt the numbers as well.
I'm curious though: whose bright idea was it to release the movie A WEEK BEFORE a blockbuster Nolan movie???
B/c you only know it's a blockbuster in retrospect. Easy for us to say what should've been happened only after "Barbenheimer". Oppenheimer could easily have been a critically acclaimed film but with much more modest box office success. A 3hr, talky, historical movie with Cillian Murphy as the lead wouldn't suggest a worldwide haul that'll push 1bil.
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