Tom Cruise has a huge fan following in India. The first day collection of his new film ‘Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is proof of this.
As per reports, Mission: Impossible 7, the seventh part of this action-packed drama has collected over Rs 12 crore on the first day across all languages in India. Christopher McQuarrie directed the spy action film, which also stars Hayley Atwell.
The film follows 60-year-old Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team, who work to eliminate a mysterious, all-powerful artificial intelligence force known as “The Entity”.
Variety reported that MI7 is expected to gross approximately US$85 million to US$95 million in North America and US$160 million internationally in its first five days of release. This would result in a global opening of US$250 million.
Variety reported that ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ currently holds the record with US$61 million, followed by 2000’s ‘Mission: Impossible II’ with US$57.8 million.
” Mission Impossible 7 ” suffered several setbacks due to COVID-19 during its multi-year shoot. The pandemic forced filming to be halted at least five times, with Cruise and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie eventually succumbing to the disease. arrived, and Cruise’s request to the audio crew to follow Covid restrictions went viral.The film finally released in theaters on Wednesday.
On returning to the ‘Mission Impossible’ franchise, Cruise told The Hollywood Reporter, “We talked about it. We dreamed about it. It’s very, very special.
On Top Gun: Maverick, they kept pushing the film and kept pushing the film, and for [McQuarrie] and me, it’s such an ambitious film. And it was a very challenging film to make, and then everything happened, and it was even more challenging. So getting this response…is very, very special.”
When asked if he is feeling the pressure of his latest film doing well at the box office. Cruise said. “I’m just trying to make the best movies I can make, and | I want them all to do well, and I want all the other films to do well too.”
He further added, “I invest everything I think about a film in terms of quality and longevity. So, really, my job is just to make the best film to entertain the audience of that particular genre. Have to try
Hollywood lovers have high hopes from the film as it hits the theaters at a time when several summer tentpoles including ‘The Flash’ underperformed at the box office! ‘Elemental’ and ‘Indiana Jones’.
source – HT