Mission: Impossible 8’s Tom Cruise Celebrates Historic Box Office With Heartfelt Thank You
The numbers are in, and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is a box office winner. Mission: Impossible 8 opened to a franchise-best $63 million domestic from Friday to Sunday and a $77 million haul over the four-day Memorial Day weekend. Overall, the latest Mission: Impossible pulled in an impressive $190 million worldwide.
Mission: Impossible 8’s gross combined with Lilo & Stitch‘s opening haul and the other holdovers, including Final Destination Bloodline, set the new Memorial Day weekend box office. Tom Cruise, the star of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, posted a heartfelt thank you on his social media.
What did Tom Cruise say in his statement about Mission: Impossible 8’s historic box office weekend?
As a champion of the theatrical experience, Cruise thanked the audience and every creative member for making this past weekend a giant success.
“This weekend was one for the history books!” Cruise wrote on social media. “Congratulations and thank you to every filmmaker, every artist, every crew member, and every single person who works at the studios. To every theater and every employee who helps bring these stories to audiences, thank you.
“To everyone that works at Paramount Pictures and Skydance, thank you for your many years of partnership and unwavering support. And most of all, THANK YOU to audiences everywhere for whom we all serve and for whom we all LOVE to entertain.”
In Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in what could be his final appearance as the iconic IMF agent. With the cruciform key in his possession, Ethan and his team must find the sunken Russian submarine Sevastopol, which will lead them to the rogue AI known as the Entity. Ethan must destroy the Entity before it leads to nuclear war.
Christopher McQuarrie directs Mission: Impossible 8 from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is now in theaters.
Source: Comingsoon.net