Mission: Impossible soars away

Action-thriller Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation raked in $56 million in its domestic opening weekend, taking it to the number one spot

Real stunts helped pull in cinema goers – Cruise, strapped to Airbus A400M 1,500m above RAF Wittering in UK, required eight takes to film this sequence

U.S. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (Jul 31-Aug 2)

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Vacation
Ant-Man
Minions
Pixels
Trainwreck
Southpaw
Paper Towns
Inside Out
Jurassic World
$56m
$14.9m
$12.6m
$12.2m
$10.4m
$9.7m
$7.5m
$4.6m
$4.5m
$3.8m
$21.2m
$132.1m
$287.4m
$45.6m
$79.7m
$31.6m
$23.8m
$329.6m
$631.5m
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Weekend
Gross
Weeks

Sources: Box Office Mojo, Airbus
Picture: Paramount Pictures