Tom Cruise managed the 2nd largest Mission Impossible opening and the third largest of his career with Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, which showed the power of good reviews, grabbing an A- from Cinemascore and a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not bad for the fifth outing of an 18 year old franchise. Speaking of old franchises, the Vacation reboot didn’t go as planned. With under 15M opening weekend, a weak 23% on RT, and a B cinemascore, Vacation is not going to be the sleeper hit of the summer.
Holdovers continued to do well. Ant-Man was off 49%, Minions dipped 46%, Southpaw dropped 55% which was better than the 56% of Pixels or the 63% of Paper Towns. The End Of The Tour did the best of the new limited releases, with a 31K per screen average. The LEGO Brickumentary was DOA with a PSA of $452. Listen To Me Marlon did OK with a 14K per screen. Continuing to do well with slow expansions is Irrational Man, Woody Allen’s latest, which is now in over 100 screens with a PSA of 3,778.
Next week, Fantastic Four hopes to prove it’s not awful (as rumors persist, following a review embargo), Ricki and the Flash goes after mature audiences, Shaun The Sheep goes after young audiences, and The Gift has been getting surprisingly really good reviews.
1) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation- 56M Weekend, 56M Total
2) Vacation- 14.8M Weekend, 21.2M Total
3) Ant-Man- 12.6M Weekend, 136.2M Total
4) Minions- 12.2M Weekend, 287.3M Total
5) Pixels- 10.4M Weekend, 47.6M Total
6) Trainwreck- 9.7M Weekend, 79.7M Total
7) Southpaw- 7.5M Weekend, 31.9M Total
8) Paper Towns- 4.6M Weekend, 23.8M Total
9) Inside Out- 4.5M Weekend, 329.6M Total
10) Jurassic World- 3.8M Weekend, 631.5M Total
11) Mr Holmes- 2.4M Weekend, 10.4M Total
??) Terminator Genisys- 900K Weekend, 87.6M Total
??) Magic Mike XXL- 656K Weekend, 64.7M Total
??) Irrational Man- 510K Weekend, 1.1M Total
??) Amy- 414K Weekend, 6.4M Total
??) The Vatican Tapes- 310K Weekend, 1.5M Total
??) The End Of The Tour- 128K Weekend, 128K Total
??) Infinitely Polar Bear- 113K Weekend, 1.1M Total
??) The Stanford Prison Experiment- 112K Weekend, 244K Total
??) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl- 45K Weekend, 6.5M Total
??) A LEGO Brickumentary- 42K Weekend, 42K Total
??) Listen To Me Marlon- 29K Weekend, 29K Total
