Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 Has A Solid Opening Weekend At The Box Office, But Will Barbie And Oppenheimer Stand In The Way Of Real Success?

Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1

The Mission: Impossible movies have been consistently successful big screen blockbusters for nearly 30 years now, but that success has never really included huge opening weekend numbers. The best performer in the franchise, Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - Fallout, only brought in $61.2 million during its first three days on the big screen in 2018. Acknowledging this, expectations have been tempered for McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1, which hit theaters this past Wednesday, and it has met said expectations... but he stakes are different this time, and there is some reason to be concerned.

Check out the full Top 10 for the weekend below, and join me after for analysis.