Special agent Ethan Hunt returns to big cinema five years after the release of the third part of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Film number four, according to the latest fashion, does not have a number in the title, but has a subtitle that is equal parts mysterious and espionage.

VLADIMIR BOROVOY

The production was entrusted to director Brad Bird, who had not worked with real actors before - Bird directed feature-length cartoons at Pixar. He wrote and directed The Incredibles and Ratatouille, two mega-hits that won Oscars for Best Animated Picture. In a good way, "Ghost Protocol" was not supposed to be Bird's first work in a big movie; At first he was going to make a film about the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, but he needed $200 million to shoot. The studios to which the project was offered, Disney/Pixar and Warner Bros., became nervous at such a sum, and negotiations on the film stopped. Bird was brought into the Hunt spy series largely to keep things busy, but it should be noted that his presence greatly invigorated the film's screenwriters, Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum. Thanks to their combined bursts of creativity, reinforced by the participation of producer J. J. Abrams, the striking idea came at the beginning of the film to completely destroy the Moscow Kremlin with a powerful explosion. Due to the peculiarities of the current political life in Russia, this circumstance alone will attract increased audience interest in the production. The scene where the protagonist, thrown by force of circumstances to the very top of the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is forced to climb out and climb the building, is also a great find. She proved herself well even at the filming stage: Cruise, as usual, wanted to film the scene without a stunt double, this was spotted by the paparazzi, and photographs of the fearless actor sitting on a ledge, dangling his legs, at an altitude of more than half a kilometer, appeared in almost all publications about celebrities and went viral on the Internet. The decision to once again invite British actor Simon Pegg to the position of “Comic Companion to the Main Character” deserves special gratitude. His character, technical specialist Benji Dunn, fit perfectly into Hunt's spy team; his loss would make the viewer suspect something bad about the picture.

Well, we should not forget that all creative ideas were born with the full connivance of the main producer Tom Cruise, who has been leading the production of the franchise films from the very beginning. By the fourth part, he had clearly matured in order to introduce some novelty into the series, however, without fanaticism, and he also definitely made a number of financial conclusions after observing the moderate success of Mission 3. It grossed $397.8 million worldwide and cost $150 million to produce, of which $75 million was Tom Cruise’s personal fee. The box office success rate (BSU) of the third "Mission" was not bad - 2.65, but seriously lagged behind the indicators of the previous parts, which is why the film did not make it into the top five of Cruise's highest-grossing films. Therefore, the budget for the fourth series decreased by $10 million, despite inflation, and the actor’s fee was only $12.5 million. However, this time he did not forget to demand a percentage of the profits.

Tom Cruise is generally known as a film industry worker who always tries to get some part of the earnings of the films in which he stars. He started doing this with the painting "Rain Man". On it, he earned a $3 million fixed fee, paid out of a $25 million budget, and a remaining unknown percentage of its $354.8 million gross. The production was also noted for reaching the last place in the top five highest-grossing films of Cruise, and if you rank it filmography according to the CCU, then it would have taken second position with 14.19 points.

When discussing his participation in the first part of the Mission: Impossible film with the studio, Cruise refused the fee altogether, and instead again asked for a percentage. An advanced and very expensive spy thriller for its time (1996), it cost $80 million and brought in $457.6 million in receipts (GCU 5.72, third place in the list of the actor’s box office successes). Of this, $70 million went to Cruz. With the second part, the actor performed exactly the same operation, and he succeeded even better than with the first. The film, directed by John Woo, is considered the most unsuccessful of the “Missions”, he even won the Golden Raspberry in 2001 for the worst sequel, but this did not stop him from collecting $546.3 million worldwide with a budget of $125 million (KKU 4, 37) and climb to second place in the top 5 highest-grossing films by Cruise. The actor himself earned $75 million from it.

Cruise’s technique with percentages worked best in the production of “War of the Worlds.” Steven Spielberg's reimagining of the classic fantasy film had a production budget of $132 million, but the actor didn't get a penny of it. But Cruise agreed in advance with Spielberg to pay 20% of the fees. “War of the Worlds,” despite mixed critical reviews, grossed $591.7 million worldwide (GCU 4.48 and first place in the top 5); With the help of a simple calculation, you can find out that the enterprising Tom Cruise accounted for at least $118.34 million, and this is noticeably more than his highest fee rates. However, the habit of making money from the films in which he participates did not stop Cruise from asking only $100 thousand for his role in the film Magnolia.

In the actor's top five highest-grossing films, there is only one film for which Cruise did not ask for a percentage. This is the fourth place winner, a production novel about the life of military pilots, “Top Gun.” The 1986 production, produced for $15 million, earned $353.8 million and posted an eye-popping GRR of 23.58, earned Cruise $2 million in fees and made him a screen star.

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