DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: When Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions were making the green light decision on the $150 million budget Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol following the lackluster $76 million domestic gross on Knight & Day, some wondered if Tom Cruise was still in the conversation as one of Hollywood’s most bankable male stars. The answer is yes. Today, the film will reach a global gross of $603 million, making Ghost Protocol the highest-grossing film of Cruise’s long career. It surpassed any film that Cruise made during his long relationship with Paramount, beating the $591.7 million gross turned in by War Of The Worlds.

Cruise has starred in five of Paramount’s top 10 grossing films in the last 15 years, with M:I4 falling in behind Titanic‘s $1.8 billion, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull‘s $786.6 million, Forrest Gump‘s $677.4 million, and Iron Man 2‘s $623 million. The film has a strong chance to pass the Iron Man sequel. Studio insiders tell me that the film crosses the $400 million mark internationally today, and has already grossed $36 million in China after being released six days ago. We’ve seen how much Cruise put into the film as an actor — running up and down the Dubai skyscraper was something no star outside of Jackie Chan would do. Beyond, that, he spent 16 days promoting the film, covering nine countries on six continents. Cruise, who fought for JJ Abrams to make his feature directing debut on Mission: Impossible 3 (they produced Ghost Protocol together) also embraced Brad Bird to make his live-action directing debut this time around.

There will obviously be another Mission: Impossible, but those talks haven’t really gotten underway yet. Cruise, who opens in June in Rock Of Ages for Warner Bros, is shooting the Christopher McQuarrie-directed One Shot for Paramount (releasing February 2013), then goes right into the Joseph Kosinski-directed Oblivion for Universal in March (releasing July 2013), followed by the Doug Liman-directed All You Need Is Kill for Warner Bros. Sequels often make it bigger to draw bigger numbers, and Jeremy Renner and the supporting cast helped, but with Ghost Protocol, Cruise has certainly answered questions about his place in the movie star food chain.

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The Paramount tentpole, directed by Brad Bird, simultaneously crosses $200 million domestically.

Paramount’s Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol has become the top grossing film in the Tom Cruise franchise, zooming past the $546 million earned by Mission: Impossible II to hit $571 million at the worldwide box office.

The film–restoring Cruise’s star status in the U.S.–secured the record over the weekend as it earned $25 million internationally for a foreign cume of $369 million and $3.6 million domestically for a North American total of $202.6 million.

Brad Bird, in his live-action feature debut, directed Ghost Protocol from a script by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec. Cruise and J.J. Abrams produced with Bryan Burk.

“Brad Bird, Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and the entire team who worked on Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol created an incredibly entertaining film, one that fans worldwide embraced in record numbers,” Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said.

Ghost Protocol opened exclusively in IMAX theaters on Dec. 16 before expanding nationwide on Dec. 21.

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Hey guys! Yesterday was the premiere of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in New York. Tom also attended the Late Show with David Letterman.
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This friday 23rd, there’ll be an interview with Tom at “The Jonathan Ross Show”. More information about the show over here.

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The livestream is available!

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Today’s premiere was in London! Tomorrow I believe that Tom will be in Rio de Janeiro! And you’ll be watch the Livestream at the TomCruise.com Website.

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Tom Cruise is back again on the Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol promotion tour! This Monday Tom visited Madrid. Huge thanks to Roberta from Jim Parsons Web for the pictures:

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Joblo.com has posted the Rock of Ages trailer! I can’t wait for this movie!

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And the last stop on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol promotion tour for now is Munich, Germany! My friend Janine from black-inside.org went to the premiere and sent some pictures!

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Huge thanks to Roberta from Jim-Parsons.com and Mariana from Gemma-Arterton.netfor the pics!

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One more day, one more city in the Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Promotion tour. This time Tom Cruise is visiting Moscow, Russia. They looks cold!

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Huge thanks to Roberta from Jim-Parsons.com and Mariana from Gemma-Arterton.netfor the pics!

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Tom visited Dubai, United Arab Emirates where he attended the Dubai International Film Festival!

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Huge thanks to Roberta from Jim-Parsons.com and Mariana from Gemma-Arterton.netfor the pics!

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