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Boxoffice Rewind: The Box Office History of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Franchise

Boxoffice Staff • Jul 9th

After 27 years and counting, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible action franchise has far surpassed CBS’s original 1966-73 television show in public fame. The stunts rank among the most iconic in modern movie history: Tom Cruise’s protagonist Ethan Hunt dangling by wires...

Box Office Archives

This Weekend in Box Office History: Spider-Man Heralds the Superhero Summer Lead-Off, Avengers Assemble, & Gladiator Turns 20

• Apr 30th

In a continuing look back at benchmark box office runs, our attention turns to the eighteenth weekend of the year -- which has typically represented the first weekend of May, and the official start to summer movie season.