Photo credit: Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise will likely take another lap as Ethan Hunt in a sixth “Mission: Impossible” movie.
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“Tom Cruise was on a marketing mission over the past couple of weeks and was truly a tireless advocate for the movie, showing up virtually everywhere to get the word out, and the results are impressive”, Rentrak analyst Paul Dergarabedian said in a statement.
They have also been stingy with the output, so while Cruise has been playing secret agent Ethan Hunt for 19 years, he has only made five films.
The fifth movie in the highly-successful “Mission Impossible” franchise, “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” rocketed to an estimated million this weekend at the US box office. Yet, with its $121 million worldwide gross this weekend alone, it’s looking like there’s still money-drawing power in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation wasn’t projected to have one of the biggest openings of the summer.
Rounding out the top ten was the number one film of the year.
However, others will soon be trying to launch a movie based on a 1960s TV series – the movie “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, is set to be released later this month.
The debut came in far behind the top flick with $14.9 million.
Reviews of the $30m comedy have not been particularly kind and, according to exit polls, audiences gave the film a B Cinema Score.
Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann, and Chris Hemsworth star in the picture, which generated an A- Cinemascore among audiences under 35.
All the moviegoers who turned out for “Mission: Impossible” didn’t show up to “Vacation”.
If all that overtime by Christopher McQuarrie and co paid off, it was a different tale for Warner Bros. and its half-baked Vacation retread.
The action-thriller raked in $56 million in its inaugural weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
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Not far behind was fellow animated film “Pixels”, about aliens who attack Earth after intercepting video games, earning US$10.4 million. The fourth installment, “Ghost Protocol“, was the biggest among the four with around $465 million in earnings, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
