#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering 5M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes M

#Box Office Fusion: ‘Barbie’ Heads for Staggering $155M-Plus Opening, ‘Oppenheimer’ Eyes $77M

The summer box office just went nuclear. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie started off with a stupendous $70.5 million on Friday, including $22.3 million in previews. If early modeling is correct, the Warner Bros. movie is headed for a historic $155 million-plus opening domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven superhero fare or marquee IP…

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#‘Mission: Impossible’ Stars, Director on Latest Film’s “Very Timely” Villain: “People Are Scared”

#‘Mission: Impossible’ Stars, Director on Latest Film’s “Very Timely” Villain: “People Are Scared”

[The following story contains spoilers from Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. The below interviews were all conducted at the Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One U.S. premiere in New York on Monday, July 10, prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.] In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Tom Cruise and his…

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#‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Director Says He Considered De-Aging Tom Cruise for Scene in Film

#‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Director Says He Considered De-Aging Tom Cruise for Scene in Film

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One nearly followed in the footsteps of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in de-aging its iconic lead actor. During a recent interview with GamesRadar+ and Total Film, director Christopher McQuarrie revealed that the Mission: Impossible 7 creative team looked into using the technology on Tom Cruise for one…

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#‘Mission: Impossible’ Box Office: Can ‘Dead Reckoning’ Rebound From Barbenheimer?

#‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Tom Cruise Amps Up the Electrifying Action but Story Is Strictly Secondary

It says a lot about Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, the first chapter in the $3.5 billion franchise’s two-part seventh installment, that detailed footage of one of the film’s most spectacular stunts was released in full online last December. The extended clip showcased the meticulous planning and execution of a sequence in which…

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