How the wave of 'Oppenheimer' and 'Barbie' impacted Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible 7' at the box-office | Explained
FirstpostMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened worldwide on July 12 and Oppenheimer and Barbie came out merely nine days later, thus denting the commercial prospects of Cruise’s juggernaut July was a chaotic and crazy month for fans at the movies. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened worldwide on July 12 and Oppenheimer and Barbie came out on 21. After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates. But while a $235 million worldwide launch marked one of the best global openings of the year, “Dead Reckoning” couldn’t approach the high-speed velocity of last summer’s top film, “Top Gun: Maverick.” “Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film in the 27-year-old series, had been forecast to better the franchise high of the previous installment, “Fallout,” which opened with $61 million domestically in 2018.