This week on The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Russ Fischer look back on the box office history of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Daniel and Russ discuss the legacy of the franchise after nearly thirty years of entries reaching cinema screens around the world, leading up to the release of this summer’s Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part I.  

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Episode Resources:

• Santikos Entertainment
• Santikos Theaters to Become 8th Largest Circuit in North America
• Boxoffice Rewind: Tom Cruise at the Box Office

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:02 Santikos Entertainment expands
• 03:21 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny underperforms during its opening weekend
• 06:42 New movies opening next weekend
• 09:28 Mission Impossible, May 1996
• 36:29 Mission: Impossible 2, May 2000
• 46:02 Mission: Impossible III, May 2006
• 52:22 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, December 2011
• 01:00:44 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, July 2015
• 01:09:29 Mission: Impossible – Fallout, July 2018