The Mission: Impossible franchise is pulling off a near-impossible mission powered by terrific reviews, strong word-of-mouth, and a high energy action-heavy script. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth film of the franchise, pulled in $56 million domestically over its first three days in release. That box office gross puts it in second place overall for a Mission Impossible opening weekend, behind only Mission Impossible II released back in May 2000. Tom Cruise has been all over the globe promoting the film and talking about the incredible stunts (including holding onto the side of a plane as it takes off), and all of those promotional appearances combined with impressive trailers led to MI5 handing Cruise the third best opening weekend of his career.
The latest addition to another film franchise, Vacation, didn’t fare as well. Vacation with Ed Helms as a grown-up Rusty Griswold managed a $21 million opening across its first five days in theaters. Fortunately for Warner Bros and New Line, the R-rated sequel’s budget was only in the $30 million range.
Box Office Top 10 – July 31 – August 2, 2015
1. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $56,000,000
2. Vacation – $14,850,000
3. Ant-Man – $12,619,000
4. Minions – $12,200,000
5. Pixels – $10,400,000
6. Trainwreck – $9,700,000
7. Southpaw – $7,519,000
8. Paper Towns – $4,600,000
9. Inside Out – $4,517,000
10. Jurassic World – $3,800,000
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