{"id":46925,"date":"2016-06-05T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=46925"},"modified":"2016-06-05T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T19:35:03","slug":"box-office-mutant-turtles-and-superheroes-lead-a-weak-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/06\/box-office-mutant-turtles-and-superheroes-lead-a-weak-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Mutant turtles and superheroes lead a weak week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Out with the old mutants, in with the new.<\/p>\n

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows<\/b><\/i> topped the box office this weekend<\/a> with an estimated $35.3 million between Thursday and Saturday nights \u2014 barely half of the $65.6 million that the last Turtles<\/i> opened to in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, last week\u2019s box-office champ \u2014 X-Men: Apocalypse<\/b><\/i>, which is based on a very different sort of comic book about mutants \u2014 earned $22.3 million, which represents a drop of 66.1% since the film\u2019s already-soft opening last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the notable exception of Captain America: Civil War<\/a><\/i> \u2014 and possibly Deadpool<\/a><\/i>, which doesn\u2019t really count \u2014 sequels have not been doing very well this year.<\/p>\n

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising<\/a><\/i>, The Huntsman: Winter\u2019s War<\/a><\/i>, God\u2019s Not Dead 2<\/a><\/i>, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2<\/a><\/i> and The Divergent Series: Allegiant<\/a><\/i> have all grossed only a fraction of what their predecessors made, while Kung Fu Panda 3<\/a><\/i>, Ride Along 2<\/i>, London Has Fallen<\/a><\/i>, Barbershop: The Next Cut<\/a><\/i> and Zoolander 2<\/i> have also made less money than the films that preceded them within their respective franchises.<\/p>\n

And then there is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/a><\/i>, which admittedly did do a bit better than Man of Steel<\/a><\/i> \u2014 the film it is a direct sequel to \u2014 but it was also the first Batman movie in a decade that failed to gross a billion dollars worldwide.<\/p>\n

So the newest Turtles<\/i> and X-Men<\/i> films may be part of that general downward trend.<\/p>\n

Turtles<\/i> has earned another $34 million overseas for a global total of $69.3 million.<\/p>\n

And Apocalypse<\/i> has grossed $116.5 million to date in North America and $286 million overseas, for a global total of $402.5 million. Overseas, the film has outgrossed every other X-Men<\/i> movie<\/a> except for Deadpool<\/i> and Days of Future Past<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Third place this week went to the right-to-die romance Me Before You<\/b><\/i>, which earned $18.3 million in its first weekend. The film stars Emilia Clarke as a woman who befriends a wealthy, disabled man (Sam Claflin) who plans to end his life.<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s other big new film was the pop-music parody Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping<\/b><\/i>, which earned $4.6 million and landed in eighth place.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s slightly less than the $5.3 million that Hot Rod<\/i> \u2014 the first film produced by Andy Samberg\u2019s The Lonely Island comedy troupe \u2014 opened to in 2007.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in other box-office news\u2026<\/p>\n

Zootopia<\/b><\/i> finally fell out of the weekly top ten in North America, but it also became the second movie of the year to gross a billion dollars worldwide.<\/p>\n

The film grossed $790,000 in its fourteenth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $337.2 million. The film has earned another $662.8 million overseas.<\/p>\n

Alice through the Looking Glass<\/b><\/i> earned $10.7 million and ranked fourth in its second week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $50.8 million. The film has earned another $125.5 million overseas for a global total of $176.3 million.<\/p>\n

The Angry Birds Movie<\/b><\/i> earned $9.8 million and ranked fifth in its third week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $86.7 million. The film has earned another $196.8 million overseas for a global total of $283.5 million.<\/p>\n

Captain America: Civil War<\/b><\/i> earned $7.6 million and ranked sixth in its fifth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $388.9 million. The film has earned another $742.6 million overseas for a global total of $1,131.5 million \u2014 which currently makes it the 12th-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jungle Book<\/b><\/i> grossed $4.2 million and ranked ninth in its eighth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $347.5 million. The film has earned another $547.6 million overseas for a global total of $895.1 million.<\/p>\n

Love & Friendship<\/b><\/i> grossed $2.2 million and ranked 11th in its fourth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $7 million. The film has earned another $493,283 overseas<\/a> for a global total of $7.5 million.<\/p>\n

Now for a bit of extra data on Zootopia<\/i>\u2019s ranking among animated films<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In North America, the film now ranks eighth:<\/p>\n