Tom Cruise sprinted onto the big screen again this past weekend with Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, which had the biggest global opening of the Mission: Impossible franchise to date. Take a Behind the Screens look at the box office and audience analysis for Cruise's latest blockbuster, Matthew's preview of Barbie, and a discussion on the writers & actors' strikes in Hollywood.

Topics and times:

• Mission: Impossible box office overview - 1:19
• Mission: Impossible audience analysis - 4:07
• Rising production costs and the SAG & WGA strikes - 8:20
• Box office top 5 roundup - 11:06
• Next Week - 14:40

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Box Office Overview:

• Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One opened to a 5-day weekend total of $80M domestically and $155M internationally, for a worldwide total of $235M — the biggest global opening for the Mission: Impossible franchise.
• Sound of Freedom earned $27M, up 37% from the previous weekend’s box office for a domestic cumulative total of $85M.
• Insidious: The Red Door took an additional $13M domestically, a drop of 66%, for a domestic total of $58M and world-wide total of $122M.
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny passed the $300M mark globally this weekend.
• Elemental, in its fifth week of release only dropped 13% to $8.7M, bringing its worldwide cumulative total to $312M.