(Global Times) The latest film in Tom Cruise's Hollywood spy franchise, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, will debut in Chinese mainland cinemas on August 31, the film's Chinese distributors announced.
The film's Chinese trailer and a series of posters featuring Cruise and his team members taking part in thrilling car chase and fight scenes were also released that same day.
The film debuted outside of China on Friday, pulling in $61.5 million in North America and a total of $153 million worldwide over the weekend - the highest-earning opening for the franchise.
The film's performance in China, the world's second largest film market, is sure to turn investors' heads.
Rogue Nation, the previous film in the series, grabbed a total of 870 million yuan ($127 million) in the Chinese mainland in 2015 to rank at No.11 on the mainland box-office chart.
The franchise's fourth film, Ghost Protocol, was the fourth highest-earning film in the Chinese mainland in 2012 garnering more than 672 million yuan.
Source: Global Times