Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation tops box office as Ant Man halves weekend takings

Tom Cruises’s latest Mission: Impossible film topped the box office over the weekend, bumping Ant Man into second place.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth in the series, pulled in $5.019m across 405 screens in its debut weekend.

Diminutive superhero Ant Man was the second biggest  the biggest cinema draw however interest in the Marvel comic book creation seems to be slowing however, as it collected just $1.7million over the weekend – just over half of what it took the previous weekend.

Amy Schumer and Bill Hader’s new film Trainwreck moved into third place with $1.2m collected across 211 screens.