(Los Angeles) The seventh Mission: Impossible, where Tom Cruise struggles against an artificial intelligence out of control, dominates the North American box office, according to provisional estimates Sunday from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations.
Paramount’s opus earned $52.6 million for its first weekend of release.
Some 27 years after the first film, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning was filmed around the world and is planned in two parts. Waterfall fans will be delighted.
In second place, Sound of Freedoma thriller acclaimed by American conservative circles and which tells the fight of a resigned agent against the sex trafficking of children in Colombia, has garnered 27 million dollars in revenue.
Its detractors accuse this film of echoing conspiracy theories conveyed by the QAnon nebula denouncing a supposed international pedophile cabal.
If the studio behind the feature film, Angel Studios, assured to stick to the truth, the main actor Jim Caviezel and the agent who inspired the story of the film Tim Ballard, both relayed certain of these theories.
The final installment of the horror saga Insidious: The Red Door, in which a father and son battle demons, was demoted from first to third place, with $13 million in revenue.
It’s more than blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinywhich collects for its third weekend of release only 12 million dollars and is in fourth position.
The animated feature film elementala fantastic tale from the Pixar (Disney) studio which places immigration in the background, closes the ban on top 5 at 8.7 million.
The rest of the top 10
- 6- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($6 million)
- 7. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (3.4 million)
- 8. No Hard Feelings (3.3 million)
- 9. JoyRide (2.6 million)
- 10. The Little Mermaid (2.4 million)