“Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation” was originally set to be released in December, but Paramount decided that July is a lot better to avoid the premieres of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “James Bond: Spectre“. In seventh was boxing flick Southpaw with US$7.5 million.
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Mumbai: Anil Kapoor, who was the part the fourth installment of Mission Impossible franchise, has showered praises over Tom Cruise’s latest outing Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
It is the third biggest outing in the franchise’s history while the film received an epic 93% on Rotten Tomatoes with near universal praise from critics across the blogosphere.
Opening in over 3,900 theater locations, the movie grossed $20.3 million when it opened on Friday.
Paramount Pictures Vice Chairman Rob Moore confirmed the news to the news outlet.
Amy Schumer’s comedy Trainwreck, directed by Judd Apatow, about a boozy commitment-phobe who’s finally pinned down by a smitten doctor, fell to sixth place with $9.6 million.
“Rogue Nation“, which carries a $150 million pricetag, is one of the rare studio tentpoles with a release date that was moved forward rather than backward.
Co-produced by Cruise and J J Abrams, the fifth “Mission Impossible” also starred Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames and Alec Baldwin.
The action-thriller raked in US$56 million (RM214.2 million) in its inaugural weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. But showing its unique opportunity to bring in females of all ages into theaters, the three “Hunger Games” movies averaged $390 million in U.S. revenue per film.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros.’ “Vacation” has gone off track. Ant-Man narrowly secured the No. 3 spot with $12.6 million, just barely outgrossing No. 4 placeholder Minions, which earned $12.1 million. Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann and Chris Hemsworth star. Let’s examine how this impossible task has been accomplished and break down 10 ways Mission: Impossible has managed to improve over time.
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Word-of-mouth on Adam Sandler’s video game/alien invasion comedy Pixels was terrible, though, and it made just $10.4 million this weekend, a nearly 60% drop from its already-mediocre opening.
