Box Office Possible - Fallout
Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 7:00PM by Nathaniel R
The Mission Impossible franchise (in movie form at least) is 22 years old and just won't quit (and neither will Tom Cruise) having its best opening weekend yet with film #6, Fallout. It's also Cruise's second biggest opening weekend ever after only War of the Worlds (2005). My personal favorite of the M:I franchise is Ghost Protocol from 2011. Yours?
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (July 27th-29th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Mission: Impossible - Fallout |
 Blindspotting |
| 1.🔺 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT $61.5 *NEW* REVIEW |
1. 🔺 BLINDSPOTTING $1.3 on 523 screens (cum. $1.7) |
| 2. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $15 (cum. $70.4) REVIEW | 2. 🔺 EIGHTH GRADE $1.3 on 158 screens (cum. $2.9) CAPSULE REVIEW |
| 3. THE EQUALIZER 2 $14 (cum. $64.2) |
3. 🔺THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1.2 on 433 screens (cum. $6.7) REVIEW |
| 4. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 $12.3 (cum. $119.2) |
4. LEAVE NO TRACE $499k on 289 screens (cum. $4.6) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
| 5. 🔺 TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES $10.5 *NEW* |
5. 🔺 DON'T WORRY HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT $351k on 266 screens (cum. $860k) |
Ant Man and the Wasp gets good news this weekend. Sort of. That extra eight million pushed it over the original Thor and Ant Man films in Marvel's 20 film "universe" so it's now in 16th place instead of 18th. It probably won't climb higher than that since it would need another 23 million to beat Thor: The Dark World. (Dead last in the Cinematic Universe is still The Incredible Hulk (2008) which will likely remain so since they've perfected their formula now.)
On the other hand if you adjust for inflation Ant Man and the Wasp is second to last, still, ahead of only The Incredible Hulk.
 Ant-Man and the Wasp |
 Detective Dee 3 |
| 6. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP $8.4 (cum. $183.1) CAPSULE REVIEW | 6. 🔺DETECTIVE DEE: THE FOUR HEAVENLY KINGS $132k on 31 screens *NEW* |
| 7. INCREDIBLES 2 $7.1 (cum. $572.7) CAPSULE REVIEW | 7. MCQUEEN $84k on 5 screens (cum. $247k) REVIEW |
| 8. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM $6.7 (cum. $397.5) REVIEW |
8. SANJU $79k on 44 screens (cum. $7.8) |
| 9. SKYSCRAPER $5.4 (cum. $59.1) | 9. 🔺PUZZLE $63k on 5 screens *NEW* |
| 10. THE FIRST PURGE $2.2 (cum. $65.4) | 10. YELLOW SUBMARINE (rerelease) $38k on 40 screens (cum. $776K) |
| 🔺 = new or expanding its theater count numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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In other box office news that's not reflected on these charts...
The Mr Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? crossed the $20 million mark. It's now the 6th highest grossing documentary of this entire decade. It's the type of documentary gross that's usually reserved for Disney nature spectacles and pop concerts on film.
Finally, Oceans 8 pushed past Ready Player One this weekend to become the 9th biggest hit of 2018 (thus far).
Reader Comments (27)
Looks like Mamma Mia 2 is looking good still
I liked "Fallout" a lot, but agree that "Ghost Protocol" is still best in the franchise. Kind of a weirdly pure action movie - there's no real context, no subtext. It's not about anything other than whatever is happening on screen at any given moment.
And the producers were right about making Cavill keep the mustache.
That Mission: Impossible opening is actually the second lowest of the franchise if you adjust for inflation (ahead of Ghost Protocol, which had a weird IMAX-only opening). The top spot adjusted is still M:I-2, which had the craziest of hype behind it and is actually still the highest overall grossing of the six even without adjusting for inflation despite being very very bad. The highest grossing one adjusted is actually the first one. That's all domestic, worldwide Ghost Protocol is the highest grossing pretty much any way you cut it.
At this point the lack of a Neighbor review just feels like you're trolling me. :P
My best is Rogue Nation and Rebecca Ferguson is a great addition to the franchise. In Fallout the director uses all the Superman's limitations in his favor. Tom Cruise is generous with the cast and allows the other actors to have their moments. Maybe Guy Ritchie should have made The Man From UNCLE like Mission Impossible, bringing the characters to our time.
I saw Leave No Trace and Three Identical Strangers. Both are absolutely extraordinary, the latter for reasons I didn't expect. Let's just say the last two-thirds are as shocking as anything that will come along this year.
Blindspotting set in Oakland, California is excellent. I did not know how they were going to pull off all the storylines but they did. It's so timely for this period of U.S. history. Daveed Diggs is excellent and it has a performance by Rafael Casal that is stunning and perfect. Highly recommend.
My favorite Mission Impossible is probably Ghost Protocol but I loved Rogue Nation and Rebecca Ferguson's performance.
Is Ghost Protocol the one with Léa Seydoux and the Burj Khalifa? Because that’s the film which, after her Midnight in Paris cameo, made me sit up and take notice of a major new talent on our hands. (Brad Bird is an excellent action director, by the way.)
I *finally* saw Ocean’s 8 and agree, with film Twitter, that “darling Annie Hathaway” (to quote Streep’s immortal 2006 Globes speech) is definitely MVP. I also wanted Blanchett and Bullock to have an 8-is-the-warmest-number sapphic sex scene because...what exactly were they emitting there? #hot
I finally saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It was better than I thought although expectations were set at a low bar. But it still didn't feel like a Jurassic Park movie. It was surprisingly dark, and there was no sense of wonder or grandeur that even the worst sequels had moments of.
My favorite is III. The only MI film to flesh out Ethan's personal life/baggage/etc. Forget the mystery box thing, everything else about that movie is impeccable, particularly Phillip Hoffman, the best villain in the series. Fallout is a close second though. Best set pieces in the series.
I adored Fallout and I have no clue how the cameraman survived that movie, let alone Tom Cruise. I was literally hysterically laughing for half the credits with my friend because it was such a blast.
Rogue Nation is probably still my number one. Rebecca Ferguson is an incredible find and deserves more roles to showcase her talents. The Opera setpiece is the best of the series. And I say this as a huge huge huge fan of Hitchcock, but I think the opera scene is actually kinda an improvement on both versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
MoviePass was acting up all weekend so I ended up watching Antonio Banderas’ “Security” on Netflix after a recommendation. That was quite a fun concise film which would if like “Die Hard” and “Home Alone” had a baby.
"M:I" was sold out, so saw "Sorry to Bother You", and.... I just don't know what I just saw.
It was funny, and visually inventive, but.... I don't know what I just saw.
I watched Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot. It was an ok movie. It lacked something though, maybe not enough suspense. But the acting was really good. Another great performance by Phoenix and I thought Jonah Hill was almost the best I've seen. He was unrecognizable.
MoviePass was acting up for me too so I rented BEACH RATS from Redbox.
Beautiful cinematography and wow what a stunning, brave performance from the young male lead!
I caught up on both Leave No Trace and Three Identical Strangers. Both very good. I'm so glad to see Debra Granik back to directing narrative films, and I really loved how Leave No Trace focuses on the comfort animals can bring at times. I hope we don't have to wait 8 years for her next narrative feature.
It was for the best that I didn't know much about Three Identical Strangers before seeing it. It made me think a lot about my relationships with my brother and my parents.
I also caught up with I Feel Pretty and You Were Never Really Here. I Feel Pretty was funny (you all were right about Michelle Williams - she was brilliant), but I do think that Amy Schumer seems overly focused on her physical appearance in her work and it's become rather tiresome.
You Were Never Really Here was incredibly strong at points and well-filmed, but some of the song choices (particularly the final song in the diner) really dragged it down for me.
Saw MAMMA MIA 2. So delightful.
I feel the litmus test for people I'd like to be friends with would be to show them this movie and ask if they enjoyed it. Because whatever you can say about the movie's quality... if you didn't enjoy it then... wow, what's your damage?
I saw "Where is Kyra?" and enjoyed it. The film itself was solid but unspectacular. It was really nice to see Pfeiffer take on and excel in a substantial leading role, though. It's been way too long!
I hope Henry Cavill be the sex man alive this year because no one could be so good looking with everything (shaved in Sand Castle, thin in Woody Allen movie, shape in Imortals, God in Superman, mustache in M:I 6 and style in Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
@Jon - but has Cavill ever been full on sexualized in a major film? I mean like not just barechested for half a second, or climbing in/out of a tub, but has a full-on sexy, romantic relationship with someone including a sex scene or something like that? He's so gorgeous but he's always in these action movies that barely objectify him.
I saw Come Back, Little Sheba which definitely feels like a filmed play but I liked Booth quite a bit. But she and Lancaster had an...odd...chemistry and Terry Moore was just not good for the first half.
Saw Eighth Grade - ugh, so good! Elsie Fisher is such a find. And Josh Hamilton was great (the whole cast was, really). Some of the bombastic music cues work but some were just too much.
Saw Postcards from the Edge since I hadn't seen it for a really long time. MacLaine is great (and clearly supporting - you dropped the ball, Academy!) but Meryl felt miscast. She of course nails the drama and her two songs are great but she didn't get the droll delivery required of Carrie Fisher's great punchlines.
DJDeeJay
Try the Tudors. You get Henry Cavill totally naked (filmed from behind)
I saw "Mamma Mia 2" and enjoyed more than the first film-it's a very gay film bright colors, the young male eye candy and of course the eternal Cher. But curiously the gay Dad character is not given a romantic partner at fade out.
RIP moviepass. You were great while you lasted
Henry Cavill needs to make a film with a gay director who can exploit his masculine beauty
@jaragon - exactly
MoviePass is DOA. Talk about a con. I am enjoying Safe with Michael C. Hall. It’s morbid and campy, oddly engaging. If you like Dexter, mysteries and being stoned, this is your show.