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Tom Cruise rules the box office with Mission Impossible as Fantastic Four flops

Los Angeles - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation fought off competitors to claim the top spot on the North American box office chart for a second straight week, industry data showed on Monday.

The fifth installment of the blockbuster franchise, which stars Hollywood heavyweight Tom Cruise as a top-secret agent battling a rogue global organization, earned $28.5m

The weekend brought the film's total haul since release to $107.8m, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

Fantastic Four, a reboot of the comic book franchise about four youths transported to an alternate universe where they gain superpowers, debuted to poor reviews and a disappointing $25.7m.

Also making its North American debut was The Gift, a psychological thriller with Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall, which opened in third place with $11.9m in weekend ticket sales.

Vacation, starring Ed Helms, Christina Applegate and Chevy Chase in a remake of the comedy classic about a family holiday gone awry, dropped from second to fourth place with $9m.

Marvel action flick Ant-Man was in fifth place with an estimated weekend gross of $7.9m for a cumulative $147.5m after four weeks in theatres.

Just behind it in sixth place with $7.4m was animated comedy Minions, whose yellow mischief-making creatures have raked in nearly $302.8m since the movie's debut.

Ricki and the Flash, starring Oscar winner Meryl Streep as a rock-and-roll singer who faces a reckoning with her long-suffering family, debuted in seventh place with $6.6m in ticket sales.

Trainwreck, the Amy Schumer-Judd Apatow comedy about a boozy commitment-phobic magazine writer, slipped to eighth from sixth place at $6.1m.

Animated film Pixels, about aliens who attack Earth after intercepting video games, dropped to ninth place, taking in $5.4m.

Rounding out the top 10 with a box office take of $4.7 million was Southpaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer at the end of his bruising career.

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