‘Mission: Impossible’ Tops ‘Christopher Robin’ for Weekend #1; ‘Black Panther’ Reaches $700M

August 2017 saw the worst grosses for the eighth month of the year in twenty years and the writing was on the wall very early with the disappointing debut of The Dark Tower to begin the month.

While this weekend’s crop of new releases didn’t exactly light the box office on fire, with Disney’s Christopher Robin debuting below expectations, the weekend’s top twelve titles still finished 15% ahead of the the same weekend last year and featured a strong carryover weekend from Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

With an estimated $35 million, Mission: Impossible – Fallout finished atop the weekend box office for a second weekend in a row as the film’s domestic cume now stands just shy of $125 million after ten days in release.

The film’s 42.8% second weekend drop is the second best sophomore effort in the franchise behind Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which isn’t quite an apples-to-apples comparison

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