The latest installment of the Mission: Impossible series, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, will soon be available on digital platforms. The movie earned $589 million worldwide but did not achieve the high box office success some anticipated. It benefited from an extended run in theaters and is now moving toward home release. Paramount has scheduled its digital and premium video-on-demand launch for August 19. The timing for its appearance on streaming services like Paramount+ has not been announced yet. A Blu-ray version will be released on October 14.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opened in theaters on May 23, nearly three months before its digital release. This release pattern is a bit longer than usual. Tom Cruise, a strong advocate for seeing films in theaters, appeared to support this strategy. The film’s production cost reportedly reached $400 million, one of the most expensive action movies ever made. It has yet to turn a profit, but its home release may improve its financial performance.
Unlike some final films in long-running franchises, this movie does not end with Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, dying. Instead, he survives after defeating the main threat. Director Christopher McQuarrie explained that ending Ethan Hunt’s story with death would have closed the character’s story entirely. McQuarrie said, “The idea of a conclusion of a story being the death of that character… they are not one and the same. When you fully tie off the story, the story ceases to be. And that’s not life. Stories go on, whether or not the movies do.” While no sequel is currently planned, this leaves open the possibility that the story could continue in some form.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning set a franchise record for its opening day, earning $24.8 million. It made $64 million in its first three-day weekend and $79 million over four days. The film finished second at the box office behind the animated movie Lilo & Stitch during its opening weekend. Internationally, it earned $127 million in 64 markets. Its biggest international openings came from South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China. The film grabbed the highest IMAX opening weekend numbers in franchise history.
Despite the global box office take, the film reportedly needed around $1 billion to break even on its large budget. It is the sixth highest-grossing film in the series but remains behind Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which earned $786 million worldwide. The performance led some to question whether the franchise should continue after this installment. However, the movie’s results still place it among the more successful entries in the franchise.
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