"Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning" With $400M Budget Needs $1B To Break Even

When Mission: Impossible 4 filmed in Vancouver I had a part as a businessman in the Dubai hotel Burj Khalifa riding an elevator for the scene where Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner are watching the elevator monitors. Unfortunately a year later I was gutted when my scene was cut and I didn't enter the MI-VERSE.

Paramount’s upcoming blockbuster Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is making headlines for its jaw-dropping budget. According to entertainment insider Matt Belloni on The Town podcast, the film has reportedly cost an eye-watering $400 million to produce — more than Avatar, and close to the budget of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Rumors of the film’s ballooning costs have swirled since mid-2023.

After delays caused by the SAG-AFTRA strike, filming resumed in March 2024 and has faced challenges ranging from rewrites and reshoots to technical malfunctions — including a $25 million submarine set piece gone wrong. These issues have only added to the film’s escalating production costs.

With this kind of investment, industry insiders estimate Final Reckoning would need to gross $1 billion globally just to break even. That’s a tall order, considering the franchise’s top earner, Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), brought in $791 million. Its direct predecessor, Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), underperformed and lost over $200 million despite ending on a dramatic cliffhanger.

Originally envisioned as a two-part finale, the title has since dropped its “Part Two” label, positioning Final Reckoning as a standalone grand finale for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. A recent 3-hour test screening has sparked conversation, and a Cannes world premiere may be on the horizon ahead of the film's theatrical release on May 23, 2025.

If this is Ethan Hunt’s last mission, how do you want him to end up?

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