First, there was Barbenheimer. Then, a month ago, there was Revenge Of The Sinners (as approximately nobody ever called it.) Now, as the summer box
First, there was Barbenheimer. Then, a month ago, there was Revenge Of The Sinners (as approximately nobody ever called it.) Now, as the summer box office hots up, a modern clash of the cinematic titans has arrived — Mission: Stitchpossible! Yes, this past weekend saw both Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch remake and Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie’s hotly anticipated Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrive in cinemas, smashing Memorial weekend cinemagoing records as Experiment 626 took a $341.7 million bite out of the box office and Ethan Hunt’s latest outing lit the fuse to the tune of $204 million.
While Marcel The Shell With Shoes On director Dean Fleischer Camp’s retooling of Disney’s 2002 Hawaiian rollercoaster ride of a movie may have toppled Cruise’s death-defying action hero across both movies’ four-day opening weekend, the team behind The Final Reckoning won’t be feeling too sore. As per Deadline‘s reporting, Ethan Hunt and the IMF’s latest outing enjoyed a franchise best opening domestically, internationally, and globally, which ain’t too shabby given the fact that this is the eighth — yes, eighth! — movie in the sprawling action saga. That being said, with The Final Reckoning having a reported production budget of $400 million, placing it as the fourth most high-priced movie ever made, distributors Paramount will be hoping that the film’s extended IMAX run and largely positive word-of-mouth response from moviegoers will act as a cruciform key to further box office joy in the weeks ahead.
Elsewhere, the bigger box office picture continues to be a robust one, with Final Destination: Bloodlines sitting at a robust global cume of $186.7 million on a modest $50 million budget, and Sinners still sinking its teeth into cinemagoers as it crosses the $341 million mark. All of which is to say that, despite reports to the contrary in recent times (mostly from streaming service execs), the bricks and mortar cinema experience is alive and kicking — as well it should be. Now, let’s lock in the double-feature name: is it Mission: Stitchpossible? Or Mission: Impos-Stitch-ble? Or Mission: ImpossibLilo — The Final Stitchening? Answers on a postcard please…
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