The production budget of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One sets an initial mark that the highly-anticipated blockbuster will hope to sur at the summer 2023 box office. Early reviews for the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise places it at an all-time critical best, which only increases the lofty expectations for box-office turnout after the film's worldwide release on July 12, 2023.
Each Mission: Impossible movie has been considered a success at the box office, with the weakest-performing installment being 2006's Mission: Impossible III. With Mission: Impossible 8 already set for a June 2024 release, all signs currently point to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One becoming the most critically and commercially successful movie of the entire franchise.
Mission: Impossible 7's Budget Was Reportedly $290M
The staggering $290 million budget for Mission: Impossible 7 was more than double the average budget of the previous six films combined. 2018's Fallout previously had the highest cost of production at $178 million, or roughly $210 million considering inflation. It's possible that a part of Mission: Impossible 7's budget allocates for some of the costs for its subsequent Mission: Impossible 8 since both films will combine to be the first two-part installment of the franchise. However, in order for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to perform on par with its predecessors, it will have to rake in a significant total revenue at the box office.
Mission: Impossible 7 Needs At Least $800M At The Box Office To Succeed
Mission: Impossible 7 needs to make at least $800 million at the global box office to ensure that it won't be the lowest-performing installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible III was a modest winner at the box office, accumulating roughly $400 million in revenue from a $150 million budget. In order for Mission: Impossible 7 to outperform Mission: Impossible III, which generated a revenue of 2.7 times its budget, it would need to sur roughly $785 million at the global box office.
In order for Dead Reckoning Part One to hit the median box office performance that four of its other installments have achieved, its total revenue will have to equal roughly 4.5 times the cost of production. This means that Mission: Impossible 7 would need to make roughly $1.3 billion just to hit the average box office mark of previous M: I films, which would place it in the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time. The production budget of Mission: Impossible films increased by nearly 63% between Fallout and Dead Reckoning – Part One. Considering Fallout nearly ed the $800 million global box office mark in 2018, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One will have to sur that number in order to confidently call it a box-office success.
