MUMBAI: Tom Cruise-starring Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol has earned $571 million at the box office, thereby becoming the the most successful movie franchise in the action series and also outgrossing Mission: Impossible 2‘s $546.4 million globally in the process.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has passed $200 million in North America and, combined with its strong performance internationally of $369 million through Sunday, has achieved the new feat of being the most successful in the franchise series at the box office.

On the foreign theatrical circuit, the movie had a total weekend gross of $25 million drawn from 7,837 locations in 63 markets.

The pictures‘ box office take in China from some 3,000 sites is more than five times the comparable market opening figure compiled by 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, which generated total foreign box office of $263.8 million.

Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said, "Brad Bird, Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and the entire team who worked on ‘M:I4‘ created an incredibly entertaining film, one that fans worldwide embraced in record numbers."