Mission Impossible: Fallout sets franchise box office record with $61.5m opening weekend

Coming on the heels of stellar reviews and great word of mouth, Mission Impossible: Fallout dominated at the weekend box office.

That domination resulted in Tom Cruise and company settting a new record for the franchise's Friday to Sunday opening by raking-in $61.5million in North America, the Daily Mail reports, citing Entertainment Weekly.

The action-thriller also posted huge numbers overseas, earning another $92million to bring the total global take to $153.5million.

Mission Impossible II had held the best opening weekend for the franchise with $57.8million back in 2000. It went on to gross  $215.4 million in North America and $546.3 million worldwide.   

Rogue Nation, which was released in 2015, had a solid $55.5million US launch and wound up with $195million domestically and $682.7million worldwide.

Fallout has the benefit of hitting theaters as the best-reviewed of the six movies with a stellar 98 percent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. 

The film also marks the first time a Mission Impossible movie has ever received an “A” CinemaScore from moviegoers.

Tom Cruise scored another victory at the box office with Fallout. 

The film opened in theaters Thursday night and made $6million, which is a new record for the 56-year-old superstar.