Praise God and pass the popcorn.

Sound of Freedom actually beat Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One at the movie box office this weekend. Sure, the true-to-life story of child sex trafficking came in a distant third behind the hyper-hyped Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, but it topped Tom Cruise's latest. Nobody would expect the well-reviewed Mission Impossible to be taken its second week out by Sound of Freedom.

Sound of Freedom banked $20,140,000 million, compared to MI's $19,500,000.

What's more, Sound of Freedom had a much higher per screen average. Plus, in a very strong sign the film is gaining strength, it played in 20 more theaters than it did last weekend. And business dropped off only 26.2% from the previous week. The rest of the movies in the top 10 dropped between 36% and 71%.

So far, Sound of Freedom has earned almost $125 million … and has opened the eyes of millions.

Meanwhile, the movie based on the Barbie doll made an whopping $155 million. Oppenheimer, about the man who built the American atomic bomb, rang up an impressive $66 million.