This October, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One will be released digitally

To fight The Entity, Ethan Hunt and the IMF will appear on television. In 566 theaters nationwide, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is still showing. And it earned just over $560,000 domestically on the previous weekend, placing it at No. 16. Mission: Impossible 7 won’t be available for home viewing for much longer, though, for Tom Cruise fans. Yes, the movie from filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie will soon be available online.

According to DVDs Release Dates, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will be available digitally on Tuesday, October 10. Fans of the espionage franchise can preorder the movie for as little as $19.99 in UHD on all of the usual suspects (Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube). Both the Mission: Impossible 7 Blu-ray ($24.96 via Amazon and Walmart) and the slightly more costly 4K steelbook ($34.99 via Amazon and Walmart) are already available for preorder. The release of both tangible forms is anticipated for October as well.

In the extremely unsettling summer of 2023, the seventh Mission: Impossible movie arrived in theaters. While other movies, like The Flash, were just a train catastrophe, others, including Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, prospered throughout the turbulent period. Clearly underperforming at the box office, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will have a difficult time turning a profit based only on its theatrical performance.

The Box Office Performance of Mission Impossible 7

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One dragged its way through the summer box office with a $78.5 million opening-weekend haul throughout its five-day debut in July 2023. Unfortunately, despite a current global take of $563.7 million, director Christopher McQuarrie’s film will struggle to earn money merely on its theater statistics.

Due to a variety of causes, including the COVID-19 epidemic, Tom Cruise’s newest adventure as IMF agent Ethan Hunt cost approximately $300 million to produce. Then there’s the expense of advertising and marketing the film, which is estimated to be in the vicinity of $100 million (according to Variety). Following that, it boils down to the percentage of revenues kept by Paramount Pictures and the amount divided among cinemas throughout the world. Depending on the agreements and contracts in existence, studios in the United States may only retain 60% of the box office take, with the remaining 40% going to exhibitors.

Therefore, if Paramount retains 60% of Dead Reckoning – Part One’s $171.4 million domestic box office, the studio will only get $102.9 million. It is considerably more challenging for Mission: Impossible 7 to turn a profit internationally, since Paramount retains a percentage that is in the 20% to 40% range (according to Investopedia).

Analyzing the statistics reveals that Paramount will only keep $156.9 million of its $392.3 million in worldwide revenue, even if it maintains the top end of the international proportion (40%). As a result, Mission: Impossible 7 only made $259.8 million globally. Dead Reckoning Part One is potentially $140 million in the red with a $400 million overall budget that hasn’t even taken those annoying taxes into consideration.

Sadly, it is more probable that Dead Reckoning will incur losses than profits. Nevertheless, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two will still open in cinemas on June 28, 2024, despite the disappointing box office results.