Mission Impossible 6 box office SMASH: How much money has Mission Impossible Fallout made?
MISSION not so Impossible for Tom Cruise's sixth instalment as Ethan Hunt doing death-defying stunts. The Mission Impossible sequel has been a box office SMASH: How much money has Mission: Impossible - Fallout made?
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With its opening weekend now firmly in the rear-view mirror, Mission: Impossible - Fallout can start to count its pennies.
How much money has Mission: Impossible - Fallout made at the box office?
Mission: Impossible - Fallout remains at the top of the box office, surpassing Disney's Christopher Robin.
So far, the sixth instalment of the spy action thriller has made a whopping £95.56million ($124 million) in North America to date.
The movie's screenings in Imax cinemas contributed £8.79m ($11.4m) of Fallout’s opening weekend total.
Where the movie opened later overseas, Fallout has made another £58.57m ($76m).
This addition has brought Mission Impossible 6's international earnings to more than £157.98m ($205m).
Fallout opens in China on August 31, which will undoubtedly add another hefty chunk of change to its profits.
Box Office Mojo lists Mission: Impossible - Fallout's worldwide box office takings as £253.92 ($329.5m).
Ethan Hunt easily overtook his competitors at the box office, including Christopher Robin, which opened in second place with $25 million.
The other movies opening on the same weekend were the Mila Kunis comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me and The Darkest Minds, a dystopian thriller based on a YA novel.
Viacom Inc. and its Paramount Pictures division took Mission Impossible's box office smash as a good omen, as they had struggled this year.
According to Box Office Mojo, Viacom/Paramount Pictures came in sixth in domestic (North American) sales.
The sixth Mission Impossible instalment is Paramount's largest opening since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2014 which took £50.48 ($65.5m).
Mission: Impossible - Fallout should be pleased with its profits, considering its budget of £137.17m ($178m).
The sixth sequel is the franchise's best three-day-opening to date, besting the £44.54m ($57.8m) opening for 2000's Mission: Impossible II.
Mission Impossible 6's opening is also Tom Cruise's second-largest debut weekend, behind 2005's War of the Worlds.
The 2006 alien invasion movie garnered £49.94m ($64.8m) for its opening weekend.
Having performed all his own stunts, Tom Cruise must be pleased his sixth sequel as Ethan Hunt has flown as well as he did.
Mission - Impossible: Fallout is in cinemas now.