Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible 6' Tops $200M

In holdover news for Friday that isn’t Crazy Rich Asians ($5.9 million on Friday, a drop of just 16%), Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.’s The Meg continued to make waves (pun… intended!) over the last weekend of the summer. The Jason Statham shark tale earned $2.285m (-30%) to bring its domestic cume up to $112m. The global blockbuster is holding on quite well over its run, to the point where I was wrong about whether it would sail past Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again! (an equally impressive $118m by Monday) over Labor Day. Anyway, we can expect a $10.115m (-21%) Fri-Sun/$13m Fri-Mon weekend for a $122.951m domestic total.
Paramount/Viacom Inc.’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout kicking mega-butt this summer. The Tom Cruise flick earned another $1.56 million (-31%) on Friday to bring its cume up to $198.9m. So, yeah, it should be passing $200m domestic by the end of this sentence. And it opened with a boffo $28m in China on Friday, so unless it dropped dead there on Saturday (not likely) it should be sailing over the $600m worldwide mark today or very early tomorrow. At a glance, it should earn $6.345m (-22%) over the Fri-Sun frame and $8.2m over the Fri-Mon frame for a new $205m domestic cume. That puts it within spitting distance of the (unadjusted) domestic total of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ($209m in 2011).