Paramount’s heavy marketing push payed off this weekend, as Mission: Impossible – Fallout scored a solid $61.5 million debut. Meanwhile, Teen Titans GO! To the Movies fell short of expectations, while both The Equalizer II and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again fell harder than anticipated.

Fallout, the sixth installment in the long running Mission: Impossible franchise, started out strong out of the gate with $6 million from Thursday night previews. This lead to a $23 million Friday, dipped only 6.5% on Saturday, and is estimated to fall 21% on Sunday. Compared to other major franchise titles, the Mission titles seem significantly less front-loaded, presumably because they don’t really as heavily on a young audience. Rogue Nation had one of the better multipliers among blockbusters during the summer of its release, making up only 28.5% of its total from its $55 million opening. While Fallout likely won’t hold that well, it should still wind up with around $180-200 million, meaning there’s an outside chance that A Quiet Place holds onto its crown of being the highest grossing Paramount title domestically for the year.

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again remained in second, but fell harder than expected, down an estimated 57%. That’s a bit surprising considering how strong its weekday numbers have been, but also isn’t shocking considering how front loaded it was during its opening. With $70 million in the bank after ten days, it’s clear now that it won’t come close to the total of its predecessor (with our without inflation), but should still manage to surpass $100 million within a few weeks.

Last weekends surprise champ The Equalizer II plummeted 61% as a result of direct competition from Mission: Impossible, down to $14 million in its second outing. Despite a higher opening, the action sequel is about $6 million behind Mamma Mia due to stronger weekday numbers for the latter. Denzel’s action title has yet to open in almost any major overseas markets.

Rounding out the top five was the weekends other new release, Teen Titans GO! To the Movies, which disappointed with just $10.5 million – a very high $4.25 million of that coming from Friday alone. While I had correctly predicted that Thursday previews were going to be unusually high based on their 4PM start time, this is still a somewhat underwhelming start. My modest $13 million prediction (compared to the $17-20 million that tracking had pegged it at) was essentially based on a lack of knowledge of how popular the show was, but it does seem as though the idea that audiences wouldn’t spend full ticket prices to watch a 90 minute episode of a show they can see at home for free was more or less accurate. Still, with a budget of just $10 million and built-in TV rights, this should still wind up fairly profitable.

The other notable release of the weekend was Blindspotting, which just barely missed the top 12 with an estimated $1.3 million from 523 theaters. That’s an okay start, but isn’t exactly significant enough to warrant any further expansion. Elsewhere in the specialty market, Eighth Grade expanded into 158 locations and was rewarded with a strong $1.3 million. A24 is pushing Bo Burnham’s comedy drama into nationwide release this coming weekend. Finally, Sony Classic’s Sundance drama Puzzle started off in 5 locations with a decent $12K per theater average.