Tom Cruise still in top shape in fifth 'Mission'

"MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - Rogue Nation," the fifth installment in the nearly 20-year-old film series, based on the nearly 50-year-old TV show, earned $56 million in its opening weekend to top the box office, according to studio estimates yesterday.

Opening weekend audiences were 62 percent male and 81 percent over the age of 25.

It's the second-highest opening for a "Mission" film since "Mission Impossible II" took in $57.8 million over Memorial Day weekend in 2000.

The film from writer-director Christopher McQuarrie cost a reported $150 million to produce and should have no problem making up its budget, especially having already taken in more than $65 million in overseas earnings.

"Vacation," however, went a bit off track. The $30 million film earned $14.9 million over the weekend and $21.2 million since opening Wednesday. Starring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate, the R-rated film was imagined as a continuation of the 1983 road-trip comedy "National Lampoon's Vacation" when a now grown Rusty Griswold (Helms) takes his family to Wally World.

Holdovers "Ant-Man," "Minions" and "Pixels" rounded out the top five.

* Dr. Dre is going to release his first album in 15 years on Friday.

Dre said on his radio show, "Dr. Dre's The Pharmacy," that "Compton a Soundtrack by Dr. Dre" will be available Aug. 7.

He said the album was inspired by the N.W.A. biopic, "Straight Outta Compton," that details his rise in the music industry along with members of one of the genre's most well-known hardcore groups. That movie opens Aug. 14.

Dre said the album includes Ice Cube, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem and European traveler Snoop Dogg (see below).

It's Dre's first album since "2001," which was released in 1999.

He says it's going to be his grand finale, "and the record is bananas."

* Bobby Brown's sister, Leolah Brown, vowed during the memorial service for her niece, Bobbi Kristina Brown, that the family feud was "far from over" between their family and the late Whitney Houston's kin.

A frustrated Leolah walked out of the St. James United Methodist Church, in Alpharetta, Ga., on Saturday and spoke to reporters gathered outside. She was angry because of some words that were said during the funeral by Pat Houston, Whitney's sister-in-law and former manager.

"I told her that Whitney is going to haunt her from the grave," Leolah told reporters outside the church.

"Because the greatest love of all . . ."

* E! News had a story about

Drake responding to Meek Mill's diss during a kickball game with LeBron James.

We stopped reading after the word "kickball."

Grown men play kickball?

* Everybody's heard of "Driving while black."

How about "Touring while Snoop"?

Last weekend

Snoop Dogg was arrested in Sweden, which feared he might be using illegal drugs and held him until he passed a sobriety test.

On Saturday, E! Online reports, Italian finance police stopped Snoop as he prepared to board a private plane bound for England.

Inside his Louis Vuitton bags, they found $422,000 in cash and seized nearly half ($205,933), a police source told CNN.

The goal? To curb money laundering.

So, remember, if you fly to Europe, don't travel with more than $10K in undeclared cash.

"We clarified everything from a legal point of view," Snoop's lawyer,

Andrea Parisi, said. "The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction."

*

Eliza Dushku ("Buffy," "Dollhouse") has been staying in a Pittsburgh hotel for two months while shooting a movie there.

Then

One Direction came to town and booted her from her room so the band could have the entire floor.

This is disturbing on many levels:

1) What kind of hotel moves a longtime guest to accommodate a short-term guest, even if that guest is taking a whole floor?

2) This is

Eliza Dushku. Any red-blooded young man would be giddy that Eliza was on his hotel floor. The proper response is not, "She's gotta go," but "Room service, please send a bottle of your best champagne to Eliza and tell her it's from Harry down the hall."

3) Why couldn't she have

Zayn's room? He's not using it.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.