Boxoffice Rewind: Mission Impossible Franchise
07/06/23 • 81 min
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This week on The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Russ Fischer look back on the box office history of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Daniel and Russ discuss the legacy of the franchise after nearly thirty years of entries reaching cinema screens around the world, leading up to the release of this summer’s Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part I.
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Episode Resources:
- Santikos Entertainment
- Santikos Theaters to Become 8th Largest Circuit in North America
- Boxoffice Rewind: Tom Cruise at the Box Office
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:02 Santikos Entertainment expands
- 03:21 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny underperforms during its opening weekend
- 06:42 New movies opening next weekend
- 09:28 Mission Impossible, May 1996
- 36:29 Mission: Impossible 2, May 2000
- 46:02 Mission: Impossible III, May 2006
- 52:22 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, December 2011
- 01:00:44 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, July 2015
- 01:09:29 Mission: Impossible – Fallout, July 2018
This week on The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Russ Fischer look back on the box office history of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Daniel and Russ discuss the legacy of the franchise after nearly thirty years of entries reaching cinema screens around the world, leading up to the release of this summer’s Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part I.
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Episode Resources:
- Santikos Entertainment
- Santikos Theaters to Become 8th Largest Circuit in North America
- Boxoffice Rewind: Tom Cruise at the Box Office
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:02 Santikos Entertainment expands
- 03:21 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny underperforms during its opening weekend
- 06:42 New movies opening next weekend
- 09:28 Mission Impossible, May 1996
- 36:29 Mission: Impossible 2, May 2000
- 46:02 Mission: Impossible III, May 2006
- 52:22 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, December 2011
- 01:00:44 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, July 2015
- 01:09:29 Mission: Impossible – Fallout, July 2018
Previous Episode
CineEurope 2023 Recap | Showcase UK Managing Director Crispin Lilly [Sponsored by ICE Theaters & Christie]
In our final episode of our CineEurope 2023 series, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle check in with Russ Fischer to get his parting thoughts from UNIC’s annual convention for the European exhibition industry. In the sponsored segment, Christie’s VP of Engineering David Kiers joins Rebecca Pahle in a conversation covering the cinema tech leader’s latest plans and priorities. And in our feature segment, Rebecca is joined by Crispin Lilly, the exhibition veteran who was recently named as Showcase Cinemas’ UK Managing Director.
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Episode Resources:
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 03:08 The Flash didn’t work?
- 04:34 Latest box office numbers
- 07:16 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to face challenges
- 15:25 CineEurope 2023 recap
- 18:18 Piracy problems in Europe
- 26:06 Christie products and solutions
- 31:54 What is an integrated media block?
- 33:47 High frame rate movies evolution
- 35:56 Lessening the carbon footprint
- 37:48 Early years in the cinema industry
- 41:28 Reopening after the pandemic lookdown
- 45:53 What was your cinema growing up?
- 49:00 Why customer service is fundamental
- 51:49 Slow but steady market recovery
Next Episode
Mid-Year Recap and an Interview with Insidious: The Red Door Star/Director Patrick Wilson
This week on The Boxoffice Podcast: Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins provide an update on the box office forecast for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I’s opening weekend and go over the mid-year report on the domestic market. In the feature segment, Rebecca Pahle interviews Insidious: The Red Door star/director Patrick Wilson on the latest entry of the horror franchise—and his career as an exhibitor through Cinema Lab.
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Episode Resources:
- Cinema Lab
- Weekend Box Office: INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR Surprises at #1, Beating INDIANA JONES
- Boxoffice Rewind: The Box Office History of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Franchise
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:21 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One debuts
- 06:27 What worked in the first half of the year?
- 12:36 Movies that performed but were never expected to hit $200M plus
- 18:15 What hasn’t worked in the first half of the year?
- 22:48 End of the year forecast
- 26:07 Transitioning into film directing
- 30:15 What was your hometown theater growing up?
- 32:00 Seeing the film as the actor and as the director
- 34:05 Reframing the film for the big screen release
- 36:03 What other genres would you direct?
- 37:55 Joining the exhibition industry
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