Almost as crucial as reviews are box office projections, and whether or not a movie can match them.
Mission: Impossible is undeniably as commercially successful of a franchise as it is culturally popular with action-movie lovers.
How much money will Mission: Impossible – Fallout make in its North American opening?
Projections are high, with the Tom Cruise produced flick set to debut between $ 50 and $ 65 million for the North American opening.
This level of box office takings would set the sixth instalment in the Mission: Impossible series as the winner for the opening weekend.
For the franchise itself, the current highest grossing opening weekend (domestic) goes to Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).
As far as highest grossing is concerned, 2011’s Ghost Protocol takes the lead.
Overall, the Mission: Impossible series has earned more than $ 2.7 billion globally.
Fallout’s box office takings could help to offset the massive cost the sixth movie incurred during shooting.
During production, Cruise broke his foot while performing one of his own stunts, leading to production delays.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the most expensive film in the series so far, having cost $ 178 million to make.
Perhaps by luck, or by design, the Tom Cruise sequel debuts in North America without any real competition, and is the final franchise release of the summer.
The director of Rogue Nation, Christopher McQuarrie, returned to direct and write Fallout, which made him the first person to direct more than one Mission Impossible movie.
A moustachioed Henry Cavill joined the cast as August Walker.
Working for the Special Activities Division, Walker is a CIA assassin whose job is to monitor Ethan and his team.
His team is once again made up of Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benjamin “Benji” Dunn, and Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust who joined the team during 2015’s Rogue Nation.
Cavill isn’t the only new face to the franchise.
Angela Bassett joined as the new Director of the CIA Erica Sloane.
Alec Baldwin and Vanessa Kirby also join the cast as Alan Huntley (a former CIA Director) and a black market arms dealer named White Widow respectively.
The sequel, which promised to delve into Ethan Hunt’s personal life, also stars Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade-Hunt, Ethan’s wife.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is in UK cinemas now, in US cinemas July 27.
