Mission Impossible 8 India box office: Tom Cruise to give Hollywood's biggest opening of 2025, beat Bollywood biggies

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning box office prediction: Tom Cruise's final MI film is set for a grand opening in India.

Updated on: May 16, 2025, 17:33:08 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning India box office prediction: Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is coming to the big screen one final time. The franchise, which has been captivating audiences for three decades, comes to a grand close with the eighth instalment. And India sees the film's release six days before the international market. Naturally, the anticipation is high. The advance booking sales and trade murmurs say that Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning will not only break Hollywood films' collection records in India, but even surpass Bollywood biggies. (Also read: Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 8 scores lowest in franchise history since 2006 on Rotten Tomatoes)

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning India box office prediction: Tom Cruise's film releases in India on May 17.

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning India advance booking

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning is releasing in India on May 17, six days before its US release on May 23. While the advance booking in the US is not even on in full flow, in India, the film's pre-sales are breaking records. On the first day itself, the film sold 12,000 tickets in the big cinema chains and this was with three days to go for release. As per insiders, the number has crossed 60,000 now and is hurtling towards one lakh. The advance booking numbers for the Hindi version alone is better than many mid-sized Hindi films. If the English-language and regional numbers are also added, trade experts say that Mission Impossible 8 is tracking better than all Indian films released this year, except the bigg mass events like Chhaava, Sikandar, Game Changer, L2: Empuraan, and Good Bad Ugly.

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning India box office

The previous MI film - Dead Reckoning - opened at ₹15 crore net in India, and ended up netting ₹110 crore in India in its lifetime, a decent number even for Bollywood films. The Final Reckoning is expected to outdo part 7 by a substantial number. Conservative estimates say that the film should open at ₹20 crore net in India, while more optimistic estimates put the number at above ₹25 crore. This is way higher than all Hollywood releases in 2025. For comparison, A Minecraft Movie, the highest-grossing Hollywood film of the year, opened at ₹2 crore in India. Disney's Snow White fared even worse at ₹65 lakh. Marvel movies tend to do better in India, but even Captain America Brave New World ( ₹4.3 crore) and Thunderbolts ( ₹3.85 crore) are far behind the expected numbers of Mission Impossible 8.

However, MI 8 is a little way off the all-time record for Hollywood opening in India. Avengers: Endgame collected ₹53 crore net in India on its opening day in 2019, a mark that the Tom Cruise film will not reach.

How Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning fares against Bollywood films

The expected ₹20-25 crore opening for Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning is higher than some of the biggest Indian films released this year, including Akshay Kumar's Kesari Chapter 2 ( ₹13 crore), Ajay Devgn's Raid 2 ( ₹19 crore), and Sunny Deol's Jaat ( ₹9 crore). Only Chhaava and Sikandar had higher numbers.

All about Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise is reprising his iconic role as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, with Christopher McQuarrie returning to direct. Christopher has directed every movie in the series since Rogue Nation. Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 were initially shot as Dead Reckoning—Part One and Two, but after the seventh film, it was retitled.

Apart from Tom, the film stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klemetieff, Shea Whigham, Angela Bassett, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman and Greg Tarzan Davis. Presented by Paramount Pictures and Skydance, the film will be released in Indian cinemas on May 17 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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