Show Me The Money: The Highest-Grossing Tom Cruise Films

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• The Mummy (2017)

• The Last Samurai (2003)

• Mission: Impossible (1996)

• Mission: Impossible II (2000)

• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

• War Of The Worlds (2005)

• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

• Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

• Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Highlights

• Tom Cruise has established himself as one of the highest-grossing box office stars of all time, with over $12 billion grossed worldwide across 47 films.
• Cruise's star power remains strong, with his last eight consecutive movies grossing over $100 million and one film crossing the $1 billion mark.
• Despite some financial losses for certain films, Cruise's Mission: Impossible franchise has been highly successful, earning over $4.14 billion in total and becoming the 17th-highest-grossing film series of all time.

For over four decades, Tom Cruise has been tearing up the silver screen, leaving trails of box office records and action-packed memories in his wake.

With over $12 billion grossed worldwide across 47 top-billed films, the Hollywood action superstar has established himself as one of the highest-grossing box office stars of all time.

Cruise's impressive career has seen him headline up to 39 films that have collectively earned over $10.5 billion at the box office, with up to 32 of them surpassing the $100 million milestone individually.

Cruise's star power has shown no signs of waning in recent years, with his last eight consecutive movies grossing over $100 million and one even crossing the coveted $1 billion mark.

The Golden Globe Award winner made his breakthrough with the 1986 action-drama film Top Gun. Remarkably, its 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, grossed over $1 billion worldwide.

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Cruise rose to global prominence with the Mission: Impossible film series, which he also produces. It is the 17th-highest-grossing film series of all time, earning over $4.14 billion in total.

The latest entry, Dead Reckoning Part One, is the first of a two-parter, with the sequel slated for release in 2025.

10 The Mummy (2017)

Global Box Office, The Mummy: $409,231,607

Despite receiving negative reviews from critics and fans of the original franchise, Tom Cruise's foray into Ancient Egypt with 2017's The Mummy wasn't a complete box office tomb.

The film, where Cruise plays Nick Morton, an accidentally cursed soldier entangled with a resurrected princess-turned-monstrosity, unearthed a respectable $409 million globally.

While domestic audiences only coughed up a modest $80 million, international helped with $329 million, hinting at a global fascination with the macabre:

Due to a combined production and marketing cost of $345 million, it was estimated that the film needed to gross $450 million to break-even, but it came up $41 million short at the box office.

Deadline Hollywood reported that The Mummy lost Universal Pictures between $60 million and $100 million.

9 The Last Samurai (2003)

Global Box Office, The Last Samurai: $454,627,263

In 2003, Tom Cruise traded fighter jets for katanas in The Last Samurai, a sweeping epic that transported audiences to 19th-century Japan.

Cruise plays Nathan Algren, a disillusioned American war veteran hired to modernize the Emperor's army. But amid clashing cultures and samurai traditions, Algren finds himself drawn to the doomed warriors' way of life.

The Last Samurai received praise for the acting, visuals, cinematography, and Hans Zimmer's score, but was criticized for some of its portrayals of Japanese culture.

The film grossed $454.6 million against a production budget of $140 million, with $111,127,263 coming from North America and $343,500,000 from overseas markets.

8 Mission: Impossible (1996)

Global Box Office, Mission: Impossible: $457,696,391

Tom Cruise donned the IMF mask for the first time in Mission: Impossible, igniting a franchise that would become synonymous with white-knuckle thrills and mind-bending espionage.

Mission: Impossible launched Ethan Hunt's whirlwind journey with a bang. Cruise plays Ethan, a framed IMF agent racing to clear his name and prevent a devastating attack.

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While domestic audiences weren't entirely sold, they coughed up a remarkable $181 million, and international fans elevated the film's global total to $458 million with $277 million, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 1996.

This impressive debut led to a long-running and highly successful film franchise that has earned over $4.14 billion worldwide.

7 Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Global Box Office, Mission: Impossible II: $546,388,108

Four years after igniting the fuse of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise was back in 2000 with Mission: Impossible II, upping the ante on both action and intrigue.

This time, Ethan Hunt faces a double-edged sword: a rogue IMF agent gone rogue, and a deadly virus poised to unleash global chaos. While critics were divided, audiences couldn't resist the amped-up action, and Cruise's undeniable charisma.

The film earned $215,409,889 in its North American release and $330,978,216 in other territories for a total worldwide gross of $546,388,108, making this the highest-grossing movie of 2000.

Boasting a $125 million budget, this sequel more than doubled its predecessor's gross; it was the highest-grossing film in the Mission: Impossible series until the release of the fourth film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, in 2011.

6 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Global Box Office, Dead Reckoning Part One: $567,535,383

Tom Cruise again defies age and gravity in 2023's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One:

The IMF's most daring (and slightly reckless) agent, Ethan Hunt, faces his most explosive mission yet, racing against time to prevent a global catastrophe. Cruise, as always, throws himself into the action, swinging fists and dangling from a moving train.

While critics lauded the film's thrilling stunts and Cruise's dedication to adrenaline, the box office performance proved more turbulent. With an estimated budget of $291 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.

Variety reported that given the film's massive budget, it would lose the studio over $100 million if it did not earn at least $600 million.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One grossed $172.1 million domestically and $395.4 million coming from overseas, for a worldwide total of $567.5 million, making it a box office bomb.

5 War Of The Worlds (2005)

Global Box Office, War Of The Worlds: $603,873,119

H.G. Wells' Martian menace received a 21st-century makeover in Steven Spielberg's thrilling re-imagining of War Of The Worlds.

Tom Cruise steps into the shoes of Ray Ferrier, an ordinary dockworker thrust into extraordinary circumstances as devastating alien attacks plunge the world into chaos.

It was praised for effectively capturing the thrilling and suspenseful elements of Wells' novel while modernizing the action and effects to resonate with contemporary audiences.

On its first weekend, it grossed $64.9 million and gave Tom Cruise his biggest opening weekend until the release of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.

War Of The Worlds went on to conquer a total gross of $603.9 million worldwide.

4 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Global Box Office, Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation - $682,716,636

With the IMF disbanded and branded outlaws, Ethan Hunt faces his most personal enemy yet in 2015's Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

He takes on a rogue Syndicate agent, a recurring villain, while dangling from an Airbus mid-air. Critics raved about the stunts, the plot twists, and the chemistry between Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust, a resourceful agent who becomes invaluable to Hunt's mission.

The fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible series came close to surpassing Cruise's top-grossing release, narrowly missing the mark by a slim margin.

Rogue Nation grossed $195 million in North America and $487.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $682.7 million.

Given the film's global total and production budget of $150 million, Deadline Hollywood calculated that the film made $109 million in profit for the studio.

3 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Global Box Office, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol: $694,713,380

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol marked a turning point, transforming from a typical action flick to a global phenomenon.

Under the adept direction of Brad Bird, the film emerged as one of Tom Cruise's most acclaimed performances. The IMF gets disavowed in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, leaving Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team branded as international fugitives.

Framed for a deadly attack on the Kremlin, they must operate in the shadows to clear their names and stop a global disaster. Cruise, as always, throws himself into action with death-defying stunts, including scaling the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Ghost Protocol grossed $209.4 million in North America and $485.3 million in other countries for a total of $694.7 million worldwide.

The film was a resounding success, becoming the highest-grossing Mission: Impossible movie at the time (a title it held until Fallout premiered in 2018) and the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2011.

2 Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Global Box Office, Mission: Impossible - Fallout - $791,657,398

Tom Cruise's sixth outing as Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise takes the top spot at the global box office.

Fallout, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, pits Hunt and his IMF team against a ticking clock as they race to thwart a series of coordinated nuclear attacks orchestrated by the nefarious Solomon Lane (Sean Harris).

Fallout received critical acclaim, with reviews focusing on its fun and extravagant set pieces and Cruise's signature commitment to his own stunts.

With a reported production budget of $178 million, Fallout grossed $791.1 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the franchise, as well as the highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie.

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1 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Global Box Office, Top Gun: Maverick - $1,495,696,292

Top Gun: Maverick, the 2022 sequel to the 1986 classic, sees Tom Cruise reprising his iconic role as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell:

Set 30 years after the original, the film follows Maverick's return to the US Navy Fighter Weapons School, where he confronts his past while training a group of younger pilots.

The film was a box office sensation, grossing $718,732,821 domestically and $776,963,471 internationally, for a worldwide total of $1,495,696,292 – making it the highest-grossing film of Cruise's career, and the second film to cross the $1 billion mark during the pandemic era.

Top Gun: Maverick proved to be massively successful for Paramount Pictures. With a production budget set around $177 million, Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $391.1 million.

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