Although Tom Cruise’s recently released movie ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1’ received great reviews from critics at the premiere, the movie could not perform well at the box office. The movie received great competition from Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ and Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’. And this caused the movie to dip at the box office.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the Tom Cruise-starrer could only make $376.26 million at the box office. Given the movie’s budget is a staggering $290 million, this amount is not much. This shows that the movie was not successful at the box office. And now Paramount is aiming its gun at Cruise and McQuarrie. Let’s see what they have to say and why they blame the movie’s star.
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Can Tom Cruise Be Blamed For Underwhelming Response To ‘Mission: Impossible 7’?
Paramount Studios CEO is absolutely sure that Tom Cruise and McQuarrie are to be blamed for the overblown budget and troubled production. ‘Mission Impossible 7’ was stuck in production because of the pandemic for a long time. And there are several other reasons for the failure of the movie apart from the involvement of Cruise and McQuarrie.
It takes double the budget for a movie to break even. In the case of ‘Mission Impossible 7,’ that would amount to about $600 million. One reason for such an increased budget is definitely the pandemic. Another reason is Tom Cruise and McQuarrie’s decision to include some very expensive scenes from part 2 into the first part. Despite the positive reviews, because of the cutthroat competition from ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’, the movie failed at the box office. Also because of the ongoing Hollywood strike, the movie could not be promoted properly.
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Paramount CEO Blames Cruise For The Failure Of The Movie
Although there are other reasons, Paramount CEO is only looking at Cruise and McQuarrie for the movie going over budget. With the inclusion of the submarine scene, the co-financing limit set by Skydance Media was crossed. And Paramount Studios had to bear the cost alone from there on.
“Let’s just say that the studio and the production and Tom were in a disagreement over direction, and there was a stalemate going on. We had to hit the pause button,” Paramount CEO Brian Robbins said, “It was a production issue, and it was about the scope of what was being asked for. And the question we needed to ask was do we need this and why?”
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