'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2' Tops Box Office With $35.3M

Paramount's Ninja Turtles 2 brought in an estimated $35.25 million, which puts the film on the average for so many of today's sequels based on the original film's performance. In the case of Ninja Turtles, this is a 46% drop from the 2014 film's $65.5 million opening. Considering the $135 million budget for Turtles 2 is $10 million more than was spent on the original, that's not exactly what the studio was hoping.

X-Men: Apocalypse finished in second with an estimated $22.3 million, a 66% drop from its opening weekend, much steeper than expected and is now likely to find the film finishing somewhere in the range of $160-165 million domestically. X-Men: Apocalypse is delivering. The film brought in an estimated $84.4 million this weekend, which includes an estimated $59 million in China, the second largest Fox opening in China behind only the Titanic re-release and $20 million more than Days of Future Past opened with. The film's international total is now up to $286 million, bringing its global cume to just over $400 million, currently placing it within the top ten for 2016.

Meanwhile, Me Before You, starring Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke, nabbed third with $18.3 million. Alice Through The Looking Glass, which continued to disappoint with just $10.7 million, secured fourth place, while ticket sales of $9.8 million put The Angry Birds Movie at number five.

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