@Triksy said:

McQ on the 200th episode of Light The Fuse podcast: There is a returning character from ‘Fallout’ and returning in a delightfully unexpected way… Kind of an Easter egg in ‘Part One’ and then in full force in ‘Part Two.'

Who’s coming back? August Walker? Solomon Lane? Julia? Erik? Nils Debruuk? Erika Sloan? Alan Hunley?

AW is the only exciting return, because nobody expects him. He died in MI6. Maybe he has an identical twin brother or he’s in a flashback.

Muhammad Butt

@chrismcquarrie did you tell Cavill to do this, or did he come up with it himself? because it remains one of the coolest moments in cinema this century. twitter.com/cjwardart/stat…

McQ

That moment is pure Henry. It’s also what comes of casting well and getting out of the way.

https://twitter.com/chrismcquarrie/status/1595145103571812354

@Triksy said:

Muhammad Butt

@chrismcquarrie did you tell Cavill to do this, or did he come up with it himself? because it remains one of the coolest moments in cinema this century. twitter.com/cjwardart/stat…

McQ

That moment is pure Henry. It’s also what comes of casting well and getting out of the way.

https://twitter.com/chrismcquarrie/status/1595145103571812354

If WBD makes a MOS2, McQ is the director that geeks want to direct it.

Paramount Pictures

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Official [2nd] Trailer (2023 Movie)

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avz06PDqDbM

I can’t wait.

New poster https://twitter.com/MissionFilm/status/1658819253053853697

Older poster https://twitter.com/MissionFilm/status/1635626896749920261

BOPro predicted

• 3-Day (FSS) Opening Weekend Range: $61M-$75M
  
• 5-Day (WTFSS) Opening Weekend Range: $91M-$110M
  

TN (predicted a $42.4M 3-day OW): Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning—Part One will need to pick up its pace over the weekend to come in close to pre-release expectations. Its Wednesday and Thursday numbers ($15.5 million and $8.3 million, respectively) are perfectly respectable, but they point to a five-day opening under $70 million, and a Friday–Sunday weekend well behind Mission: Impossible—Fallout’s $61.2 million back in 2018.
The performance of The Super Mario Bros. Movie earlier this year gives some cause for hope, in that it earned 2.5 times its Wednesday-Thursday total over the weekend. Mission: Impossible would bring in close to $60 million from Friday to Sunday if it matched that performance. Mario was already showing incredible momentum on Thursday though, and Dead Reckoning is performing almost identically to Transformers: The Last Knight so far. Last Knight made $44.7 million over its first weekend, and $68.5 million over five days.
Based on how it’s doing so far, Mission: Impossible looks like it will fall short of $70 million over its first five days, far behind the $100 million or so that was generally expected. Maybe its appeal to an older demographic will give it unusually long legs through the rest of the weekend, but even that would get it closer to $80 million than much beyond.

The actual BO numbers.

• $54,688,347 – 3-Day OW (Range: $61M-$075M)
• $78,491,897 – 5-Day OW (Range: $91M-$110M)

Comparison with inflation (3-day OW).

$54,688,347 – 2023 MI7
$61,236,534 (+$74,405,802) – 2018 MI6
$55,520,089 (+$71,470,312) – 2015 MI5

Some dramatic headlines.

Finance: 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' falters in summer box office debut, Paramount stock dips
Shares of Paramount Global are trading lower after disappointing box office results from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One starring Tom Cruise. The film was forecasted to draw $90 million domestically but earned only $80 million. Yahoo Finance senior reporter Alexandra Canal explains why Paramount faces "clear headwinds" amid merger and acquisition rumors.

NY Times: ‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations
The seventh film in the 27-year-old movie franchise was No. 1 at the box office, taking in $80 million over its first five days. But the movie industry was hoping for more.
Tom Cruise’s seventh “Mission: Impossible” spectacle, which arrived in theaters on Wednesday and cost at least $400 million to make and market, was supposed to mark a turning point at the troubled summer box office. Death-defying stunts! A new love interest! That thrilling theme song!
Ticket sales were solid. But the spectacular (and perhaps unrealistic) result that Hollywood expected did not materialize, extending concern about the movie capital’s overreliance on aging franchises — and adding to studio dread about what kind of damage the actors’ strike might have on the rest of the high-stakes summer slate.

@Triksy said:

The actual BO numbers.

• $54,688,347 – 3-Day OW (Range: $61M-$075M)
• $78,491,897 – 5-Day OW (Range: $91M-$110M)

I think audiences are experiencing sequel fatigue. Some say they were excited until TC and McQ implied that MI8 won’t be the last one.

TRH: Recently, Cruise did mention that he hopes to keep making Mission Impossible films when he is Harrison Ford’s age, which is now 81. One of the writers and the director of the last few installments, Christopher McQuarrie, has also said that he and the team “already have ideas for what comes next.”

VD partly ruined Fast X when he said it’ll be a trilogy. Audiences want to see the end?

@Sue-Yin said:

@Triksy said:

The actual BO numbers.

• $54,688,347 – 3-Day OW (Range: $61M-$075M)
• $78,491,897 – 5-Day OW (Range: $91M-$110M)

I think audiences are experiencing sequel fatigue. Some say they were excited until TC and McQ implied that MI8 won’t be the last one.

On the other thread, I wrote a few days ago: BTW, geeks aren’t talking about MI7. Weird. Five/four weeks before MI6, SHM was red hot. Geeks were talking about the bathroom fight, HC loading his arms and the HALO jump ad nauseam.

Still… not much talk. The little talk is about a stunt that MI7 supposedly stole from the game Uncharted.

Anyway… MI7 was awesome, but I didn’t like what happened to my favorite character. I’m really pissed. So… no repeat viewing from me. I’m not even sure I’ll watch MI8.

@Sue-Yin said:

@Triksy said:

The actual BO numbers.

• $54,688,347 – 3-Day OW (Range: $61M-$075M)
• $78,491,897 – 5-Day OW (Range: $91M-$110M)

I think audiences are experiencing sequel fatigue.

And they could be upset bc TC let WBD use his name to promote TF. A weirdo praising a film with weirdo lead. TC is still a Scientology. Many don’t like that religion. TC reminded people they used to think he’s a weirdo too..

I'm seeing MI7 Saturday.

Collider.com

IMAX Tried to Help 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning,' But Paramount Wouldn't Budge

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One came into theaters with stunning word of mouth, the highest-rated reviews of any Mission film to date, and a star in Tom Cruise who'd hit nothing but home runs for a decade and who was just coming off the biggest film of his career. However, the movie bombed under the dual weight of Oppenheimer and Barbie, and may yet end up losing money for Paramount in the process.

Part of the takings of Cruise's last movie, Top Gun: Maverick, and the previous Mission film, Fallout, came from extended runs playing on premium large format screens, IMAX in particular. However, due to an exclusive deal with Christopher Nolan, Mission was only allotted one week on IMAX screens before the release of Oppenheimer, to the dismay of Cruise. It's now been revealed that IMAX earlier went to Paramount and begged them to change the release date of Dead Reckoning Part One, because they could see this happening, explaining a later date would offer better IMAX.

Bruce Markoe, the head of IMAX post-production, revealed to Forbes that IMAX had asked if Paramount would consider shifting the release date of Dead Reckoning Part One in order to allow it a clear, uninterrupted run on IMAX screens which would give it a bigger slice of the action when it came to takings.

Sadly, and very much to their cost, Paramount stuck to their guns and the release date for Dead Reckoning Part One may go down as one of the most expensive mistakes in recent film history.

Oppenheimer has since broken IMAX records after taking over from Dead Reckoning Part One and has secured an extended run through at least the next two weeks, with scope for further screenings into the fall due to the consistent sell-outs being seen for the film worldwide. Needless to say, underestimating Nolan and Oppenheimer was a costly mistake.

https://collider.com/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-imax-run-bruce-markoe-comments/

Variety

‘Oppenheimer’ Extends Imax 70mm Run Due to Popular Demand (EXCLUSIVE)

The previous end date, which was already an extension of the film’s original run in Imax 70mm format, was Aug. 17. Tickets for Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb drama are already on sale through Aug. 31 at some Imax theaters, as exhibitors will make them available on a rolling basis.

Nolan, a longtime vocal champion of the premium format, touted Imax 70mm as the “best possible experience” to see “Oppenheimer” because “the sharpness and the clarity and the depth of the image is unparalleled.” Only 19 theaters in the U.S. (and 30 worldwide) have the capability to play films in Imax 70mm, including the AMC Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles and the AMC Lincoln Square in New York — making those screens some of the hottest tickets in town.

A lot of work goes into the 70mm experience, he adds. It takes three days to make an Imax film print, and each one is crafted directly from Nolan’s film negative. In the case of “Oppenheimer,” which clocks in at three hours, physical reels are 11 miles long and weigh 600 pounds.

The process is “time consuming and expensive,” Gelfond admits. But ultimately, it’s “worth it.”

Imax has accounted for a remarkable $114.2 million (22%) of the film’s worldwide total.

“Oppenheimer” will control the Imax footprint until Denzel Washington’s “The Equalizer 3” takes its spot on Sept. 1. Later in the year, Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Part II,” also filmed with Imax cameras, is getting an exclusive Imax run starting on Nov. 3.

“Imax 70mm film lasts, on average, 10 times longer than regular 70mm or 35mm film. Those prints are assets that we’ll be using for the next 20 years,” says Mark Jafar, global head of corporate communications for Imax.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/oppenheimer-imax-70mm-extended-tickets-1235689899/

@Cashmere said:

Anyway… MI7 was awesome, but I didn’t like what happened to my favorite character. I’m really pissed.

The MI franchise doesn’t know how to handle female characters.

@Triksy said:

Collider.com

IMAX Tried to Help 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning,' But Paramount Wouldn't Budge

Oppenheimer has since broken IMAX records after taking over from Dead Reckoning Part One and has secured an extended run through at least the next two weeks, with scope for further screenings into the fall due to the consistent sell-outs being seen for the film worldwide. Needless to say, underestimating Nolan and Oppenheimer was a costly mistake.

TC kind of created the mega Box Office monster that killed MI7’s BO. He and McQ did the double feature first. They took a pic with movie tix in front of the posters of Indiana Jones, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig saw TC’s tweet, accepted the mission and took a pic with movie tix in front of the posters of Indiana Jones, Oppenheimer and MI7. That’s how the Barbenheimer double feature thing went viral.

@Sue-Yin said:

I think audiences are experiencing sequel fatigue. Some say they were excited until TC and McQ implied that MI8 won’t be the last one.

MI7 flopped, because it doesn’t have a young eye candy for the ladies. Remind me to make a Twitter account to give McQ a piece of my mind.

@AnnaB said:

TC kind of created the mega Box Office monster that killed MI7’s BO. He and McQ did the double feature first. They took a pic with movie tix in front of the posters of Indiana Jones, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig saw TC’s tweet, accepted the mission and took a pic with movie tix in front of the posters of Indiana Jones, Oppenheimer and MI7. That’s how the Barbenheimer double feature thing went viral.

Yeah, weird stunt to pull and weird title to give the film. TC and McQ got cocky since TG2 was a billion $ success. Now I read that McQ will change the title of MI8. Smart decision. If you didn’t watch part 1, why would you bother watch part 2.

McQ shouldn’t have included part 1 in the title at all. That was a very cocky thing to do. You’ll get another installment, if the current one is a success. Past BO hits don’t matter. And since you can’t be sure that the current installment will be a BO hit, don’t get cocky and include part 1 in the title.

@Blue-Rose said:

MI7 flopped, because it doesn’t have a young eye candy for the ladies. Remind me to make a Twitter account to give McQ a piece of my mind.

McQ doesn't need your nonsense, Blue.

McQ doesn't need your nonsense, Blue.

McQ needs someone to tell him how to deal with female characters properly.