"Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation" tops North American box office

Paramount's "Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation" debuted this weekend, snatching the first place in North American box office with 56 million U.S. dollars.

Opening at 3,956 locations, the Tom Cruise-led action film pulled in 20.3 million dollars Friday, marking the best opening day in the history of the series.

Without adjusting for ticket price inflation, the 56-million- dollar opening weekend ticket sale is the second largest opening weekend take of the five "Mission: Impossible" series, which kicked off with "Mission: Impossible" in 1996.

The film earned an "A-" grade from audience polling firm CinemaScore and a 93 percent positive rating from critics on RottenTomatoes. The audience breakdown for the film skewed towards male moviegoers (62 percent) and towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (81 percent).

Warner's R-rated comedy "Vacation" debuted in a distant second place this weekend with 14.8 million dollars. Opening at 3,411 locations, the film got a modest "B" rating from first-night moviegoers on CinemaScore, but it received a poor 23 percent of approval rating from critics on RottenTomatoes. About 53 percent of the audience was female, and 52 percent younger than 35.

Marvel's "Ant-Man" finished third in its third weekend, adding 12.6 million dollars to its total gross. In the first 17 days since it was released, "Ant-Man" has made about 132 million dollars in the U.S. and Canada. The overseas market contributed another 159 million dollars to its total revenue.

Rounding out the rest 10 top movies this weekend in the United States and Canada were "Minions" (12.2 million dollars), "Pixels" (10.4 million), "Trainwreck" (9.7 million), "Southpaw" (7.5 million), "Paper Towns" (4.6 million), "Inside Out" (4.5 million) and "Jurassic World" (3.8 million). Endite