This year, the spy and action film genre - or the suity shooty, if you will - hit the jackpot with John Wick: Chapter 4 and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. Both films currently occupy the eighth and ninth positions, respectively, in the worldwide box office charts, but the latter could have certainly been much higher on the list.
Mission: Impossible 7 made its debut in theaters on July 12, grossing $56.2 million domestically in its three-day weekend and $80 million over five days in its opening weekend. Despite the critical rave it received, the film's second weekend showed a significant decline, earning just $19.5 million domestically, an incredible 64% drop from its first weekend.
This drop sets a new record low for the franchise, surpassing Mission: Impossible 2's 53.3% decline in 2000. Here is a complete list of all Mission: Impossible films and their box-office drops in the second weekend: Mission: Impossible (1996) - [-52.4%] Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - [-53.3%] Mission: Impossible 3 (2006) - [-47.6%] Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - [+131.2%] (This was a result of a limited theatrical showing in its opening weekend.) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) - [-48.7%] Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - [-42.3%] Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 (2023) - [-64%] Looking at the list above, the most recent installments in the franchise had an impressive second weekend at the box office, with a drop no greater than 49%. To put this into perspective, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 had a 49% drop, making it one of the best second-weekend holds in the MCU's history.
