Yahoo Movies Mission: Impossible 7 sets new record with box office debut
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One has set a record for the franchise following its box office debut.
The seventh film in the action series was released to great acclaim last week, with Variety reporting that the film has grossed $253 million worldwide in its first six days of release.
Domestically, M:I 7 made $56.2 million across its opening weekend, which is slightly less than Fallout ($61 million) and 2000’s M:I 2 ($57.8 million). The five-day domestic gross did, however, set a record for the franchise, with its $80 million beating the $78.5 million set by M:I 2.
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M:I 7 sees Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt take on AI in the shape of The Entity, with the film leading into 2024’s Dead Reckoning Part Two. Ahead of the film’s release, the cast sat down with Digital Spy to reveal that the seventh film was the most demanding to film.
“It's the biggest and we made it in the midst of what was happening at the time,” said Simon Pegg, who plays Benji Dunn. “[Director] Chris [McQuarrie] always likes us to be living a parallel life of high adventure.
“When we were defusing the bomb in Fallout, it was 1.15 in the morning, everyone was tired, it was the pressure to defuse this bomb. It was as much [to film] as the pressure in the scene,” he added.
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“It was challenging in the sense that we never knew when the film would go back up,” said Vanessa Kirby, who reprised her role as the White Widow. “If there was going to be anybody that would be able to do it, it was Tom and it was only the second movie in the world that did.
“Even though it was so difficult as we had masks and it was socially distanced, and this film is so huge, it's got so many crew members and the locations are massive, and the travel, that was challenging,” she added.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is in cinemas now.
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