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Not only has the stunt-filled fourquel freshened the 15 1/2-year-old spy franchise, but saved Tom Cruise’s career from freefall and spurred Jeremy Renner into a higher profile worldwide. Paramount tells me that director Brad Bird’s first live-action film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, has passed $200 million in North America and, combined with its strong performance internationally of $369M through Sunday, has outgrossed Mission: Impossible 2‘s $546.4M globally and now becomes the highest-grossing film in the franchise with $571M worldwide to date. Co-financed by Skydance Productions, M:I4 with its continuing story about IMF operative Ethan Hunt reclaimed the overseas #1 position this weekend from 7,837 locations across 63 markets. The largest of the latest five openings was China. The actioner was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams (director of the third installment) and Bryan Burk, co-founder of Abrams banner Bad Robot Productions. M:I4 is the first Mission: Impossible movie to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film opened exclusively in IMAX on December 16th, aided by a pairing with Warner Bros’ highly anticipated Batman threequel footage for The Dark Knight Rises, and everywhere on December 21st. “Brad Bird, Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and the entire team who worked on M:I4 created an incredibly entertaining film, one that fans worldwide embraced in record numbers,” Paramount’s Vice Chairman Rob Moore said in a statement from the studio.
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And still I can wait for video….
Waiting to see this movie at home is a mistake: it’s very good and it needs to be seen in IMAX. Go!
Was so, so over Tom Cruise, but then everybody kept saying this thing was great. Saw it on IMAX and it just blew me away. LOVED the film, LOVED Cruise, LOVED the ending-ending. When was the last time you really, really enjoyed one of the mega-blockbusters? Just entertaining as hell and just had enough of a sense of itself (that dialogue scene between Renner and Cruise talking about whether the flare on the body would work was such a meta-discussion on stupid shit in blockbusters) that I’m looking forward to a fifth one.
Never doubt Cruise….an actor that consisting pulls in over 200m worldwide per pic…is hardly an actor in free fall…just make MI5 Cruises last mission
To all you “Cruise’s career is dead” well wishers: nice try.
Congrats to Brad, this film was a lot of fun. Now get to work on Incredibles 2! (Pixars best film)
A return to number one overseas and continuing strong, weekly holds in North America, $3.6 million this week, should help MI4 get really close to MI2′s $215 million dollar gross, if not exceed it.
Is that adjusted for inflation?
I AM STILL NOT A FAN OF T.C. AND NEVER WILL BE.
Same here. I can’t stand Toni Collette.
Then why did you bother to comment?
While I am not the biggest fan of this particular film franchise, I must say this last sequel was the best and most entertaining. Cruise’s face is getting more interesting as it ages. Simon Pegg provided the laughs, Jeremy Renner is a great new addition, fantastic action scenes, and especially kudos for casting an actress of color in the lead w/Paula Patton instead of the latest Caucasian flavor of the month It Girl. How about adding a Hispanic male or female character next sequel, Hollywood, we exist and like to see faces of people that look like us up on the big screen!
While I enjoyed MI4, I can’t wait for One Shot.
Cruise’s career was in “freefall”? Really?
And then you’ll wish you would’ve seen it in IMAX. Not too late.
When I go to the movies I want entertainment and Mission Impossible 4 delivers big time – I had a blast! It’s a very long time I didn’t have so much fun at the movies. I give it 10 out of 10 and if there happens to be Mission Impossible 5 you can count me in!
Good for Cruise.
Always been a fan.
I could care less if he is or isn’t bat shit crazy. It makes no difference when I’m watching him give a good performance in a good/entertaining film.
Personal life-personal beliefs…his business. It’s a free country and you only go around once. If you are not harming others then to each his own.
So is Warners going to be smart (for once) and offer Brad Bird the director’s chair on the next Batman film? Because he really is EXACTLY what they’re looking for: a top-notch director who WON’T be intimitated by following Nolan’s trilogy. (He’d also be the first director on a Batman film who’s actually a comic book fan- although Warners probably considers that a reason NOT to hire him).
Good movie still like the first one best just watched it on cable. It still holds up pretty well.
Word is, they were going to give the franchise to Renner, but now that MI:GP has pulled in insane B.O. NOBODY saw coming, Paramount’s prepared to back a Brinks truck to Cruise’s driveway.
Good for him. He deserves it for weathering an unwarranted storm.
Fantastic movie its great to see cruise is back where he belongs top of the box office ,never doubted Tom would show all you who is king of the box office welcome back Tom we missed you long live the king
Good for Tom. I don’t see any other A-listers (or B listers either for that matter) running around outside the tallest buildings in the world. The man lives to make movies.
Fantastic movie it’s great to see Tom back where he belongs top of the box office ,I never doubted Tom would show you who’s the king at the box office welcome back Tom
And suddenly Skydance investing so much in Tom Cruise is looking prescient and canny instead of foolish and desperate.
If you are lucky enough to see it in IMAX, don’t hesitate. Just don’t wait for video– just an oustanding and exciting movie from start to finish
Yeah, and the Transformers make truckloads of money too but it doesn’t mean they’re good movies.
LOL at all the studio plants in the comments
Not a studio plant at all, me. I’d suggest that the enthusiasm, at least of some, is legit partially because expectations were so, so low and then Brad Bird really knocked this one out of the park. I saw so many mediocre awards season movies in December that to leave a movie satisfied with my experience may say more about “Ghost Protocol’s” competition than the film itself!
Yes, his career was in a freefall. The couch-jumping, shrink-bashing, glib-calling damaged him immeasurably. Lions for Lambs, Valkyrie, and Knight and Day are the proof. The success of M:I4 was an unexpected return to form.
Here’s what’s funny about real movie stars… even when we perceive that they’ve had a bad year they still win. “Knight & Day” was actually FOX’s #1 film of 2010. Did really well internationally.
Go figure.
«Valkyrie» and «Knight and Day» were also hits. Smaller hits than «MI: 4», sure, but hits.
Transformers? One of the few things bashed more than Tom Cruise. This is entertainment, perhaps not for everyone, but for a lot of people. I am always entertained by Tom Cruise, at least in part because he knocks himself out to entertain. Transformers is good, mindless fun. As a friend of Mine is at pains to remind the hypercritical about his own work, E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T. If I had twenty minutes to kill and had the remote in my hand, some days I would hope for a bit of high art, other days I would watch a hunk of Resident Evil and smile and allow myself to be entertained.