There’s no stopping Ethan Hunt!
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth movie in the Mission Impossible franchise (which was produced by Tom Cruise) is expected to make just over $50 million for Paramount this weekend alone, with Friday’s opening mark of $20 million, the biggest in franchise history.
In the latest installment of the action-thriller, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team, Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) take on their most impossible mission yet: eradicating a highly skilled, international rogue organization known as the Syndicate.
The first four films in the franchise banked more than $2 billion combined. The last release, Ghost Protocol, earned nearly $700 million. Cruise who has earned more than $100 million in 17 of his 35 movies recently revealed the secret to his box office success to ETOnline.
“Everyday on a movie set you learn. I feel myself to be really a student,” Cruise said. “Just when you think you’ve climbed the mountain, you realize there’s another mountain to climb and it never gets boring. I feel very privileged to do what I do.”
Contending for second place in the box office this weekend is the comedy Vacation, starring daily show alum Ed Helms. It brought in $4 million on Friday with estimates of just under $20 million by next week. Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated comedy, Minions, are competing for third place — both expected to gross $12 million this weekend.
