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Tom Cruise has made it his life’s work to save the theatrical movie. He has faced down the pandemic, thrown himself off a cliff, and materialized from on high to show us that the righteous path leads to the multiplex.

With “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” we have reached the apotheosis of Cruise’s Christ-like journey; nearly three hours of mythmaking and self-aggrandizement make abundantly clear that Ethan Hunt is no longer just a hypercompetent spy — he is literally Cinema Jesus.

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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (2025)

Production Budget: $400,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.0 times production budget)

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. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.

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. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.

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Paramount and Skydance (its logo is on Mission Impossible) are play toys for the multi-billionaire family of Larry Ellison. If it shrivels up and dies, that is good.

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling the end of the Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the rise of a new power - July 8, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/paramount-skydance-redstone-entertainment-m
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.

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Paramount and Skydance (its logo is on Mission Impossible) are play toys for the multi-billionaire family of Larry Ellison. If it shrivels up and dies, that is good.

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling the end of the Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the rise of a new power - July 8, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/paramount-skydance-redstone-entertainment-m
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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You won't ever see me shedding any tears when billionaires lose money.

On this one thing I think we can find common ground.

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What is the word for "The Powers That Be decide that now is the time to let all of us know that 25% of us are no longer necessary and that we're no longer necessary?"

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What is the word for "The Powers That Be decide that now is the time to let all of us know that 25% of us are no longer necessary and that we're no longer necessary?"

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In the latest Mission: Impossible, The Powers That Be was called "The Entity" and the mission was to kill it before it killed 25% or more of America's population. America has had a mission like that in the past. The Japs and Germans were killing 25% or more of the population of countries they invaded and Americans took on the mission to kill Japs and Germans. The result was an economic boom to replace the lingering Great Depression. 6ix, there are numerous real-life Missions: Impossible, if you choose to accept them. Besides saving a billion lives, there would be an economic boom in America from the work needed to save those lives. Here is one mission from today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-mig
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Thunderbolts still strong but the movie business aint what it used to be, Final Destination Bloodlines expected to have a big weeked

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Made it's production budget back from the US Box office alone on opening weekend.

Easily makes money, but we already knew that it was going to despite the high budget.

Although, it wasn't a Bloomhouse or A24 joint and this may have gotten some real heavy marketing compared to what they would have gotten. Still have to give this one the 2.5x treatment because it's WB.

$125 Million to break even.

Internationally it did just a little better so we're already at $105 Million worldwide. Easy peasy.

Still though. $50 Million is a big gamble on a horror flick in 2025. I'm glad it worked out for them this time, but it might not next time.

Anybody remember 2023's The Last Voyage of the Demeter? No?

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Last-Voyage-of-the-Demeter-The#tab=s
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$45 Million budget in 2023 adjusted for inflation at $47,376,700 today.

Grossed $13.6 Million in the US and bowed out with a worldwide total of $20.4 Million, with a little over $2 Million in DVD/BluRay sales since then.

Glad to see physical media making a small comeback, btw...

Demeter's budget was nearly $3 Million less than Final Destination Bloodlines', but it lost Universal somewhere in the area of $100 Million and ended up one of their rare flops in an otherwise stellar year.

Though the loss here was probably quite a bit less than that because I think Universal knew they had a big flop on their hands and didn't put any marketing budget into Demeter.

... Plus, when a movie makes that little, it ends up being the movie theaters themselves that end up eating a lot of that pain too. They'd be splitting that $20 Million roughly 50/50, so if Universal didn't dump any money into marketing, their actual losses on this were probably only around $30 Million. And with how much money Universal raked in during 2023 while just destroying everyone else that year, that $30 Million loss probably ended up becoming a wash somewhere with tax write-offs or whatever tricks their accountant teams use to maximize profits.

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Final Destination is highly unlikely to have a second weekend anything like Sinners did, but our model is predicting its final box office at a little over $150 million right now. With another $51 million from international territories this weekend, the film should end with something around $300 million in total worldwide, making it highly profitable, based on an estimated $50-million production budget (and maybe the same again to market).

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Bloodlines’ opening is the third hit in a row for Warner Bros., following A Minecraft Movie and Sinners, and the studio now leads Disney by over $100 million in what is essentially a two-horse race (so far) for top-earning studio in 2025.

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Okay. I see you're not interested in an actual conversation.

That's not a mission.

That's just a future problem that nobody in the Democratic Party has ever offered any legitimate and cost-effective means of combating.

And it's one of the reasons that the Democratic Party is dead and they will never make a comeback. They can't lie about fixing the environment anymore either because nobody is buying it anymore when they say they will.

Everything your party relied on to win votes doesn't work anymore.


If you have something serious to propose, I'd suggest you write to your congressman and give them the ideas because your dead party can't come up with shit on their own.



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