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"Mission Impossible" takes over box office in its second weekend

Xinhua, August 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Paramount's action film " Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" beat new released "Fantastic Four" this weekend to remain in first place at North American box office.

"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" led the box office with 29. 4 million U.S. dollars this weekend, according to studio estimates from Rentrak. It witnessed a 47 percent decline from last weekend' s debut. This fifth installment of the Tom Cruise led action franchise surpassed the 100 million ticket sales mark this weekend, which has grossed 108.6 million dollars in ten days of released.

Opening at 3,995 locations, Fox's "Fantastic Four" took the second place with a weak start of 26.2 million dollars sales in ticket this weekend. "Fantastic Four" opened a disappointing 53.3 percent behind the first "Fantastic Four" in 2005, which debuted with 56.1 million dollars. And it opened a 55 percent behind the 58.05 million dollars debut of 2007's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."

The audience breakdown for the film skewed towards male moviegoers (60 percent) and towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (51 percent). "Fantastic Four" earned a poor "C-" rating from first-night moviegoers on CinemaScore, and it held a poor 9 percent approval rating on the review-aggregate site RottenTomatoes.

New studio STX's R-rated thriller "The Gift"", starring and directed by Australian actor Joel Edgerton, opened in third this weekend with 12 million dollars. With a budget of 5 million, "The Gift", as the first film of STX Entertainment on the big screen. is off to a good start. "The Gift" received a B rating on CinemaScore. Critics gave it a good 92 percent positive rating on RottenTomatoes. The audience breakdown for the film skewed towards female moviegoers (53 percent) and towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (73 percent).

Rounding out the rest 10 top movies this weekend in the United States and Canada were "Vacation" (9.1 million dollars), "Ant-Man" (7.8 million), "Minions" (7.4 million), "Richi and the Flash" (7 million), "Trainwreck" (6.3 million), "Pixels" (5.4 million) and " Southpaw" (4.8 million). Endite