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 |