Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has pᴀssed a major box office milestone. The new movie is the eighth installment in the espionage action franchise and features the return of Tom Cruise as superspy Ethan Hunt. The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning release kicked off over Memorial Day weekend with a $64 million domestic debut that was the best in the franchise. However, it had a 57.5% sophomore weekend drop, at which point it began trailing significantly behind the highest-grossing installment, 2018’s Fallout.
Per ᴅᴇᴀᴅline, as of Saturday morning, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is projected to earn a 3-day total of $9.3 million at the domestic box office by the end of its fourth weekend. In addition to seeing it land at No. 4 on the chart for the weekend, this gross also pushes its cumulative domestic total to $165.3 million, making it only the eighth 2025 movie to pᴀss the $165 million domestic milestone so far. It is also closing the gap between itself and ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning Part One, which grossed $172.6 million in North America.
What This Means For Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
It Still Has A Way To Climb
While The Final Reckoning seems set to surpᴀss ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning Part One, which is its immediate predecessor, doing so would only make it the third lowest-grossing of the Mission: Impossible movies at the domestic box office rather than the second. Although ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning is the fourth highest-grossing installment worldwide, it performed significantly worse than most of the preceding installments in its home territory. Below, see a breakdown of the domestic and worldwide performance of all seven previous installments in the franchise:
|
тιтle |
Domestic B.O. |
Worldwide B.O. |
|---|---|---|
|
Mission: Impossible (1996) |
$180.9 million |
$457.7 million |
|
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) |
$215.4 million |
$549.6 million |
|
Mission: Impossible III (2006) |
$133.5 million |
$399.4 million |
|
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) |
$209.4 million |
$694.7 million |
|
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) |
$195 million |
$688.8 million |
|
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) |
$220.1 million |
$786.6 million |
|
Mission: Impossible – ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning Part One (2023) |
$172.6 million |
$565.7 million |
If The Final Reckoning does earn the $7.3 million needed in order to clear the domestic total earned by ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning Part One, which seems entirely within its power, it will only have to climb an additional $8.3 million in order to surpᴀss the original 1996 installment and become the fifth highest-grossing installment overall. Doing that is also a possibility, though it is unclear if it will be able to climb any higher than that so late into its run, as the gap between that and the next highest-grossing installment, Rogue Nation, is $14.1 million.
Our Take On The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Milestone
Its Budget Is Still A Huge Road Block
While the Tom Cruise movie is still hitting major milestones and climbing the franchise chart four weekends into its run, it seems unlikely that it will be able to perform at the level required. The enormous reported budget of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is roughly $400 million, making it one of the most expensive movies of all time and potentially placing its estimated break-even point somewhere between $800 million and $1 billion. Given its current trajectory, it seems unlikely to hit even the lower end of that range worldwide.
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Source: ᴅᴇᴀᴅline
