Behind the Screens

Mission: Impossible, production costs, and actors join the strike

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Tom Cruise sprinted onto the big screen again this past weekend with Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, which had the biggest global opening of the Mission: Impossible franchise to date. Take a Behind the Screens look at the box office and audience analysis for Cruise's latest blockbuster, Matthew's preview of Barbie, and a discussion on the writers & actors' strikes in Hollywood.


Topics and times:

  • Mission: Impossible box office overview - 1:19
  • Mission: Impossible audience analysis - 4:07
  • Rising production costs and the SAG & WGA strikes - 8:20
  • Box office top 5 roundup - 11:06
  • Next Week - 14:40


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    Box Office Overview:

    • Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One opened to a 5-day weekend total of $80M domestically and $155M internationally, for a worldwide total of $235M — the biggest global opening for the Mission: Impossible franchise.
    • Sound of Freedom earned $27M, up 37% from the previous weekend’s box office for a domestic cumulative total of $85M.
    • Insidious: The Red Door took an additional $13M domestically, a drop of 66%, for a domestic total of $58M and world-wide total of $122M.
    • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny passed the $300M mark globally this weekend.
    • Elemental, in its fifth week of release only dropped 13% to $8.7M, bringing its worldwide cumulative total to $312M.
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