Yet when "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" opened this weekend, it did what most "Mission" movies do — it earned a solid opening and stuck the landing.
"Seabiscuit" opened this weekend.
Boating season opened this weekend, so everyone with a rudder is out on the water.
Meanwhile, "Witless Protection" starring Larry the Cable Guy opened this weekend on 10.
Couples contending with contentious exes might appreciate the new film that opened this weekend, "The Big Wedding".
Also newly opened this weekend is Neely's Barbecue Parlor, 1125 First Avenue (62nd Street), on the Upper East Side.
Robert Redford's new movie, "The Clearing," also opened this weekend and took in $647,000 in 56 theaters.
"9 to 5," Dolly Parton's musical adaptation of the hit movie, opened this weekend at the Ahmanson Theatre, in Los Angeles, in a pre-Broadway tryout run.
Visitors to Reed Krakoff's "One Chair," which opened this weekend at Salon 94, will discover that when it comes to chairs, he definitely has a point.
Pixar's "Brave," which opened this weekend, offers a first among Disney "princess" movies: the princess who neither wants nor needs a prince.
In the film, which opened this weekend, teenagers in a dystopian society are conscripted to fight to the death in an ultra-chic enclave known as the Capitol.
