Mission: Impossible 5 soars high for second consecutive week in US

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

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation led the box office with $29.4 million this weekend, according to studio estimates from Rentrak.

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It witnessed a 47 per cent 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 in ten days of its release.

Opening at 3,995 locations, Fox's Fantastic Four took the second place with a weak start of $26.2 million sales in ticket sales this weekend, Xinhua reported.

Fantastic Four opened a disappointing 53.3 per cent behind 2005's Fantastic Four, which debuted with $56.1 million. And it opened 55 per cent behind the $58.05 million debut of 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

The audience breakdown for the film skewed towards male moviegoers (60 per cent) and towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (51 per cent).

Fantastic Four earned a poor "C-" rating from first-night moviegoers on CinemaScore, and it held a poor 9 per cent approval rating on the review-aggregate site RottenTomatoes.

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Rounding out the rest of the 10 top movies this weekend in the US and Canada were Vacation ($9.1 million), 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).