Mission Impossible: Fallout Scores Franchise-Best Opening Weekend At US Box Office

Six movie and 22 years in, the Mission Impossible series keeps getting bigger. Mission Impossible: Fallout opened this weekend to huge box office success, giving it the highest opening weekend of the franchise so far, as well as the second-biggest opening of Tom Cruise's career.

Fallout made an estimated $61.6 million in its first three days in the US, to take the No.1 slot on the box office chart. This beats Mission Impossible 2's $57.8 million opening in 2000, and is second only to War of the Worlds' 2005 take of $64.8 million in terms of Cruise's weekend debuts. The last Mission Impossible movie, 2015's Rogue Nation, took $55.5 million in its first three days.

Fallout's success had an inevitable impact on last week's No.1, the Denzel Washington-starring The Equalizer 2, which is also an action sequel with a popular veteran actor in the lead role. That movie made an estimated $14 million and slipped to third place, while the musical comedy Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again held on at No.2 with an estimated $15 million weekend take.

The week's only other new release was the animated Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, which debuted at No.5. Box Office Mojo notes that although its $10.5 million take was below expectations, the movie only had a production budget of $10 million.

Elsewhere, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation dropped one place to No.4 and Marvel's Ant-man and the Wasp fell to No.6. Two of the year's biggest movies--Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Incredibles 2--continue to do solid business in their sixth and seventh weeks on the chart, while the disappointing Dwayne Johnson vehicle Skyscraper fell to No.9 in only its third week on release.

You can see the full Top 10 list for the July 27-29 US box office below, as compiled by Box Office Mojo.

US/Canada Box Office For July 27-29:

1. Mission Impossible: Fallout – $61.6 million
2. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again – $15.0 million
3. The Equalizer 2 – $14.0 million
4. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – $12.3 million
5. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies – $10.5 million
6. Ant-Man and the Wasp – $8.4 million
7. Incredibles 2 – $7.1 million
8. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – $6.7 million
9. Skyscraper – $5.4 million
10. The First Purge – $2.2 million