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With no major new international releases this weekend – Straight Outta Compton, which has been the biggest story in the US, has only received a fairly small release outside of the US thus far – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation gets to reign supreme for a little while longer. The fifth film in the series earned a robust $46.1 million, which brings its new total to $235.3 million. It’s still got a way to go to match the $485.3 million that Ghost Protocol earned back in 2011, but it’s well on its way to justifying a sixth film. If nothing else, Paramount need to capitalize on the last few years of Tom Cruise being in terrifyingly good shape.

2015 is only two-thirds of the way through, but I think we can safely hand the award for best title to our number two film, the Chinese romantic comedy Go Away Mr. Tumor. It earned $21.5 million, unseating the reigning champ Monster Hunt. Go Away Mr. Tumor has so far earned $29.3 million.

Third this week is Veteran, a South Korean cop thriller which raked in $18.25 million. It has so far earned $44 million.

Usually when a film fails in the US, the international numbers are held up as a possible Hail Mary to save it. Fantastic Four, which has been an unqualified disaster domestically, seems determined to push that theory to its limits, as even overseas audiences don’t seem that interested in seeing a bad reboot to a series that many barely tolerated. It added $16.2 million (from a fairly wide 55 territories) and has a running total of $60.1 million, which only really looks good compared to the $41.9 million it has earned in the US.

Despite having earned nearly a billion dollars, Minions isn’t going away just yet. The yellow blobs added $15 million, good for fifth place, and have a new international total of $644.5 million. The spin-off has now overtaken Despicable Me 2’s international total of $602.7 million, and it should overtake its worldwide total of $970.8 million to become the highest grossing film in that franchise sometime in the next two weeks.
Sixth place belongs to Brothers: Blood Against Blood, a Bollywood remake of the MMA drama Warrior. It earned $12.7 million this weekend, which puts it well on its way to out-grossing its inspiration, which only managed to earn $23 million worldwide back in 2011.

We have a tie for seventh between Pixels and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., both of which earned $12 million. Pixels is in a much healthier position: it has so far earned $91.1 million overseas, which is actually one of Adam Sandler’s better international performances. U.N.C.L.E. is rolling out gradually over the next month, so there is plenty of time for it to build up steam and maybe recoup some of the losses from its domestic shortcomings, but it has a pretty steep climb to achieve that.

Ninth is the aforementioned Monster Hunt, which added $11.6 million. Don’t cry for the once mighty film, though; it has $349.5 million in the bank so far, making it the most successful Chinese movie of all time, and it’s second only to Furious 7 all-time at the Chinese box office.

Finally this week is Inside Out, which continues to idle along happily as it slowly adds more territories. The emotional masterpiece added $11.4 million, which brings its overseas total to $327.6 million. That’s the seventh highest international gross for a Pixar project, and it has a good chance of surpassing the $368.4 million and $370 million that Cars 2 and The Incredibles earned to break into the top five.