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"M:I-2" Cruises Toward $100 Million
Tom Cruise's action-packed spy sequel, which has been packing 'em in since opening on Wednesday, earned an estimated $71.8 million from Friday to Monday. That pushed its six-day total to $92.8 million--assuring that it will surpass $100 million in seven or eight days, on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Cruise, who produced the movie as well as starred in it, can certainly afford to smile even wider. It was his biggest opener ever. His previous best was the 1996 original Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma, which reached $100 million in 11 days, went on to earn $465 million worldwide and gave the star himself a $70 million payday.
But director John Woo's skill with the stunts in the sequel has brought in audiences at an even faster pace, with a whopping per-screen average of $19,655 at a record 3,653 sites in the U.S and Canada.
Stressing that "it's a better movie than the first one," Paramount's president of distribution, Wayne Lewellen, said he estimates that M:I-2, which is playing across all demographics, will gross more than $200 million domestically.
But M:I-2 wasn't the only success story. Almost everyone could afford to smile, as the top 12 movies combined grossed a Memorial Day weekend record: $174.7 million, surpassing the $137.7 million mark set in 1997. That was when The Lost World: Jurassic Park earned $90.2 million in four days. While the dino flick still holds the record, M:I-2 is now in second place.
Disney benefited from the gabby giant beasts of their computer-animated Dinosaur, which took in another $33.5 million in second place, and from Jackie Chan, whose wild wild western, Shanghai Noon, kicked its way to a third-place debut with $19.5 million.
DreamWorks benefited in the next three spots from Russell Crowe's Roman games in Gladiator, the Tom (Green) foolery of Road Trip and Woody Allen's capers in Small Time Crooks--all of which continued to draw in audiences.
About the only ones not smiling must be John Travolta and Warner Bros. Their Battlefield Earth dropped another 79 percent from its previous week, earning a pitiful $387 average at each of the 2,587 screens where, for some reason, it's still playing. It cost more than $70 million to make and has earned just $20.3 million in 18 days.
According to Exhibitor Relations, which estimates the grosses, here are the top 10 movies from Friday through Monday:
1. Mission: Impossible 2, $71.8 million
2. Dinosaur, $33.5 million
3. Shanghai Noon, $19.5 million
4. Gladiator, $17.3 million
5. Road Trip, $14 million
6. Small Time Crooks, $3.9 million
7. Frequency, $3.8 million
8. U-571, $3.2 million
9. Center Stage, $2.8 million
10. Where the Heart Is, $2 million
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