Following Top Gun: Maverick's dominating run last year, the king of the summer box office is gearing up for an epic encore, as The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning is currently tracking for an estimated $90 million opening domestically over its first five days, starting July 12, which would be a franchise-best!
For the actual weekend, Dead Reckoning Part One is expected to pull in $65 million or more, a slight uptick from the previous installment, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, which opened with $61.2 million in late July 2018, before ultimately grossing $220.1 million in the United States and a stellar $791.6 million globally.
With early reactions dubbing the Chris McQuarrie-directed blockbuster as "the best film of the year," many box office analysts believe that the seventh chapter in Ethan Hunt's epic action saga will likely end up shattering these early projections, and it seems possible that a final finish in the $800 million range or higher is certainly not out of the realm of possibility, despite stiff competition from Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer in its second week of release.
In addition to Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), the cast features Hayley Atwell (Grace), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust), Vanessa Kirby (Alanna Mitsopolis/White Widow), Esai Morales (Gabriel), Pom Klementieff (Paris), Mariela Garriga (Marie), Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge), Shea Whigham (Jasper Briggs), Greg Tarzan Davis (Degas), Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt (Zola Mitsopolis), Cary Elwes (Denlinger), Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, and Rob Delaney.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One lights the fuse in theaters on July 12, 2023; with the follow-up, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, set to arrive the following year on June 28, 2024.