Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows doubles down on the fan elements with the introduction of a number of villains from the 80s cartoon.
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While nowhere near as hot as 2014’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, new release “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows” still comfortably won the USA weekend box office race. The movie opened to $35.3 million according to comScore estimates Sunday, June 5, 2016, close to half of what the first film opened to in 2014.
Out of the Shadows is expected to take home the weekend box office crown – and it got off to a roaring start on that front yesterday.
Considering the film cost Paramount $135 million to make, those numbers can’t be encouraging.
X-Men: Apocalypse – the ninth installment in the series – fell to number two after making US$22.3 million, in a troubling second weekend considering its blockbuster cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence. Its domestic total now hovers around $116.5 million, just above the $110 million X-Men: Days of Future Past pulled in over its 4-day opening weekend in 2014.
Romantic drama Me Before You, which topbills Emilia Clarke of Game of Thrones and Sam Claflin The Hunger Games debuts at number 3 with $18.3 million.
Be here next week as we see another pair of sequels hit the cineplex with Now You See Me 2 and The Conjuring 2 in addition to the film adaption of the video game Warcraft. Alice Through the Look Glass, however, continued to fall, grossing only $10.7 million in its second week.
Popstar: Never Stop Stopping landed out of the top five in its opening weekend with $4.6 million for the pop music mockumentary by the comedy trio known as Lonely Island – Adam Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer.
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Final industry weekend figures will be released Monday.
