MOVIE NEWS – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s high cost means it must meet a specific and crucial score to qualify as a blockbuster.

The production budget for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One represents a starting point that will be surpassed by the long-awaited blockbuster in the summer of 2023. Early reviews for the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise have it as the critical best of all time, which only adds to the high expectations for box office attendance following the film’s worldwide release on July 12, 2023.

All Mission: Impossible films have been successful at the box office, with the lowest performing installment being 2006’s Mission: Impossible III. With Mission: Impossible 8 already set to release in June 2024, all indications are that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will be the most critically and commercially successful film of the entire franchise.

The budget for Mission: Impossible 7 was reportedly $290 million

Mission: Impossible 7’s staggering budget of $290 million is more than double the average budget of the previous six films. The production cost of 2018’s Fallout was previously the highest at $178 million, which was roughly $210 million adjusted for inflation. It’s possible that part of Mission: Impossible 7’s budget will be earmarked for part of the cost of the upcoming Mission: Impossible 8, as both films will be the first two-parter in the franchise. However, in order for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to perform on par with its predecessors, it will need to collect a significant total at the box office.

Mission: Impossible 7 needs at least $800 million at the box office to succeed

Mission: Impossible 7 needs to earn at least $800 million at the global box office to avoid being the worst-performing entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible III was a modest winner at the box office, grossing roughly $400 million on a $150 million budget. In order for Mission: Impossible 7 to top Mission: Impossible III, which grossed 2.7 times its budget, it would need to top roughly $785 million at the global box office.

For Dead Reckoning Part One to reach the median box office performance that its other four installments have achieved, its total revenue would need to be roughly 4.5 times its production cost. That means Mission: Impossible 7 would need to earn roughly $1.3 billion to match the average box office of the previous M:I films, which would put it in the top 20 highest-grossing films of all time. The production budget of the Mission: Impossible films increased by nearly 63% between Fallout and Dead Reckoning – Part 1. Given that Fallout nearly crossed the $800 million global box office mark in 2018, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One needs to surpass that number to confidently call it a blockbuster.

Source: ScreenRant