Tom Cruise shoots himself in the foot by opening Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One on a Wednesday

It has been a bad box office summer so far (lots of pressure on Barbie and Oppenheimer to turn things around!). Sure, a couple big movies are doing well—Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is sitting at $842 million, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is at $663 million—but after suffering through t...