THE WEEKEND ACTUALS

	Film	Weekend	Opening Weekend	Current Gross
	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	$55,520,089 million	$55,520,089 million	$55,520,089 million
	Vacation	$14,681,108 million	$14,681,108 million	$21,003,442 million
	Ant-Man	$12,802,644 million	$57,225,526 million	$132,331,563 million
	Minions	$12,387,375 million	$115,718,405 million	$287,578,650 million
	Pixels	$10,503,023 million	$24,011,616 million	$45,714,520 million

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation held its breath to a $55 million opening, far better than hoped for given early projections, but right in line with our thoughts last Thursday. That puts Rogue Nation right behind Ant-Man‘s $57 million opening and a little ahead of San Andreas‘s $54.6 million. The 5th in the action spy series has been helped out by rave reviews, opening second in the M:I series only to John Woo’s Mission: Impossible 2. Tom Cruise’s willingness (or insistence) on doing his own stunts pays off, and Rogue Nation has already garnered $120+ million worldwide.

We may have spoken entirely too soon regarding Vacation, which managed to embarrass itself on a Pixels-esque level… and then some. Opening $10 million shy of Pixels, Vacation barely scraped by Hot Pursuit‘s $13.9 million but didn’t manage to scare up Unfriended‘s $15.8 million opening. It did beat out fellow July R-Rated comedy Magic Mike XXL‘s opening of $12.8 million, and it’ll be interesting to see if Vacation will have the same longevity as Magic Mike, which sits at a $64.8 million 4 weeks later.

As predicted, Ant-Man, Minions, and Pixels held on to the bottom 3 slots, with Ant-Man and Minions separated by a scant $420 thousand. Ant-Man has passed $132 million domestically, and Minions is nearing $288 million. Meanwhile, Pixels dropped 56%, dropping a lackluster $10.5 million in its second weekend, leaving it at $45.7 million.

Trainwreck was in 6th at $9.6 million, meaning its grossed $79.6 in 3 weeks, still gaining on Terminator: Genisys‘s current $87.7 million gross. Southpaw came in 7th with $7.6 million, followed by Paper Towns at $4.6 million. Inside Out with $4.5 million and Jurassic World with $3.9 million rounded out the top 10.

A new generation of Fantastic Four hits this Friday. Fox’s reboot has been getting some flack already for its review embargo, and early estimates have projected it to open under $50 million. By comparison, Fox’s recent Marvel superhero team projects, X-Men: First Class and its sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past opened at $55.1 million and $90.8 million, respectively. Even the original 2005 Fantastic Four opened at $56 million. If this rebranding can’t garner Reed Richards’ famous team big box office numbers, it can at least hope for better than a 26% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

(Sources: boxoffice.com, rottentomatoes.com. Starred figures are estimates. Tweets represent figures for this week only. Figures represent numbers at time of writing, and may have changed.)

Parker Mills | Contributor