Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning—Part One is enjoying a strong hold through the weekend after starting out with a disappointing Wednesday and Thursday. So much so that it’ll hit $80 million by close of business on Sunday, according to Paramount’s projection this morning. With Sound of Freedom having a fantastic second weekend—up a projected 37% from its opening—the weekend box office will come in well ahead of Friday’s prediction.

Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning—Part One will need to pick up its pace over the weekend to come in close to pre-release expectations. Its Wednesday and Thursday numbers ($15.5 million and $8.3 million, respectively) are perfectly respectable, but they point to a five-day opening under $70 million, and a Friday–Sunday weekend well behind Mission: Impossible—Fallout’s $61.2 million back in 2018.

In a rare mid-week opening, the top movie in the land is another blockbuster from legendary actor Tom Cruise. The latest Mission: Impossible feature, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One scored $15.52 million on Wednesday (inclusive of $7 million in Tuesday previews — $1 million more from previews than its predecessor, Mission: Impossible — Fallout). The Christopher McQuarrie directed movie will add 278 theaters starting Friday, making itself available in 4,327 locations which includes standard and IMAX screens.

Poor performances by The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, plus, to a lesser extent, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken were all bad news for the market during June and the beginning of July. Between them, those three films dragged our market prediction down by almost $230 million. They were also a factor in convincing me to adjust our underlying assumption about the overall strength of the theatrical market. That change, even though it’s small in percentage terms, further pulls down the prediction for 2023, and makes a $10-billion year a much more distant prospect than it looked

Review-2023 market prediction: predicted box office for the year down to $9.2 billion after a shaky June

Poor performances by The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, plus, to a lesser extent, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken were all bad news for the market during June and the beginning of July. Between them, those three films dragged our market prediction down by almost $230 million. They were also a factor in convincing me to adjust our underlying assumption about the overall strength of the theatrical market. That change, even though it’s small in percentage terms, further pulls down the prediction for 2023, and makes a $10-billion year a much more distant prospect than it looked

Review-2023 market prediction: expected box office for the year down to $9.2 billion after a shaky June

Musical starring Timothée Chalamet opens in theaters on December 15 … Full Movie Details. A young Willy Wonka’s adventures, as he dreams of creating the world’s greatest chocolate factory.

Science-fiction comedy drama starring Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers opens in theaters on August 18 … Full Movie Details. When an occupying alien species’ bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families’ futures.

Insidious: The Red Door will top the box office chart this weekend with a robust $32.65-million opening, according to Sony’s Sunday-morning projection. That’s the second-best opening for a film in the franchise, behind only Insidious Chapter 2, which opened with $40.3 million back in 2013.

Insidious: The Red Door looks likely to pull off a surprise win at the box office this weekend, pushing Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny into second place in its second weekend in theaters. With Sound of Freedom and Joy Ride also set for places in the top four, this will be a weekend where new releases at least partly make up for the poor performance of some recent box office misses.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will continue into into its sophomore frame with its opening count of 4,600 theaters, once again easily making it the widest release of the week. The latest installment of the beloved adventure franchise turned up $60.37 million in its opening weekend, and currently holds a six-day total of $89.4 million, while bumping the franchise’s worldwide box office to over $2.1 billion. This week it will try to fend off the arrival of two new wide releases, as well as a surprise hit that arrived on the Fourth of July.