Los Angeles: Paramount's 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' debuted this weekend, snatching the first place in North American box office with $56 million.
Opening at 3,956 locations, the Tom Cruise-led action film pulled in $20.3 million on Friday, marking the best opening day in the history of the series.
Without adjusting for ticket price inflation, the $56 million opening weekend ticket sale is the second largest opening weekend take of the fifth in the "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. 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.
Marvel's 'Ant-Man' finished third in its third weekend, adding $12.6 million to its total gross. In the first 17 days since it was released, 'Ant-Man' has made about $132 million in the US and Canada. The overseas market contributed another $159 million to its total revenue.
The other movies which made the top 10 list this weekend in the US and Canada were 'Minions' ($12.2 million), '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).
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