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New Mission: Impossible – Fallout film tops weekend box office with $6m in earnings

Tom Cruise’s latest film, Mission: Impossible – Fallout made $6.2m over the weekend, making it the highest grossing film at the box office.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout made more money than Cruise’s previous instalment, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which made $5.019m.

The new film, which ran across 616 screens, is the sixth in the series, and follows Ethan Hunt and his allies as they race against time to prevent the world from catastrophe. It premiered on August 2.

Universal’s Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, added $2.480m to earnings, across 397 screens. Since launch, the film has made $16.584m.

Mamma Mia and Mission: Impossible – Fallout were the only films to earn more than $1m over the weekend, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia report.

The Equalizer 2 only made $854,697 this weekend at box office, compared to $1.868m the weekend prior.

Ant-man and The Wasp, which last weekend made $1.056m, made a further $579,804 across 235 screens.

Just behind the Marvel film was The Wife which stars Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. It made $531,361 over the weekend.

Title (Distributor) Weekend B/O Screens Total B/O
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Paramount) $6,214,801 616 $6,685,370
Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again (Universal) $2,480,675 397 $16,584,413
The Equalizer 2 (Sony) $854,697 270 $7,180,198
Ant-man And The Wasp (Disney) $579,804 235 $18,783,954
The Wife (Icon) $531,361 158 $599,706
The Breaker Upperers (Madman) $442,042 227 $1,559,404
Incredibles 2 (Disney) $410,697 294 $44,608,516
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal) $344,019 183 $35,004,203
Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (Sony) $302,722 218 $18,045,054
Skyscraper (Universal) $302,335 202 $7,114,238
Along With The God: The Last 49 Days (Tangren) $209,230 35 $227,230
Ashkey (Mindblowing Films) $102,621 28 $420,594
Summer 1993 (Palace) $63,867 14 $137,400
Beirut (Roadshow) $63,230 85 $317,420
Maya The Bee: The Honey Games (Studiocanal) $60,411 243 $160,464
Ocean's 8 (Roadshow) $57,508 60 $18,026,617
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie (Indies) $55,914 113 $55,914
Rbg (Icon) $43,895 35 $162,327
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (Chinalion Film) $37,382 17 $242,516
Whitney (Transmission) $36,406 51 $144,348
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