As expected, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is at the top of the weekend box office chart, but its five-day $80 million domestic gross is a bit below industry expectations, according to estimates released Sunday.
The latest installment of Tom Cruise’s action franchise, which launched in 1996, opened Wednesday to get a head start on the weekend competition, and will be looking to foreign markets to help recoup its sizeable budget, which multiple reports have estimated at about $290 million.
It was off to a good start in that regard, with an estimated gross of $155 million internationally Friday through Sunday, topping all films.
Domestically, the film earned $56.2 million Friday through Sunday, according to Comscore.
Second place went to the faith-based drama “Sound of Freedom,” which grossed $27 million Friday through Sunday in its second week in theaters, Comscore reported.
“Insidious: The Red Door” was third with $13 million in its second week.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” was fourth with $12 million – – a steep fall from its $60 million opening-weekend gross of just two weeks ago.
Fifth place went to Pixar’s “Elemental” with $8.7 million in its fifth week in North American theaters.
Rounding out the top 10 domestic releases, as estimated by Comscore, were “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($6 million), “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” ($3.4 million), “No Hard Feelings” ($3.3 million), “Joy Ride” ($2.5 million) and “The Little Mermaid” ($2.3 million).
This weekend’s overall three-day box office haul was estimated at $141 million. The year-to-date total is $5.018 billion — an increase of 13% over the figure at this time last year, according to Comscore.
