It’s no surprise thatTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowswould hop atop the box office for Friday, but there’s more to the story than just that. It’s Friday numbers ($12.5 million) suggest a moderate opening weekend around $36 million that will have it making a little more than half of Paramount’s payday with the original. 2014’s film garnered an eventual $195 million domestic gross, and $493.2 million globally. It looks like to recoup its $125 million budget,Turtles 2is going to need to perform very well internationally in the coming weeks.
As for Fox’sX-Men Apocalypse, it has suffered a sharp 66% decline for its second weekend, falling to $6.5 million on Friday and looking to head into a $22 million weekend. ThoughApocalypseis not the first X-Men film to fall sharply in its second week, its $100 million revenue so far is nothing to shake a stick at.
Elsewhere on the charts, Warner Bros.’sMe Before Youis charming its way into exceeding box office expectations, taking the #2 spot ahead ofApocalypsewith only half of the screens. It brought in almost $8 million Friday night, with predictions putting near an eventual $20 million. Lonely Island’sPopster: Never Stop Never Stoppingfrom Universal is also appearing as a mild but steady performer, bringing in nearly $2 million for its Friday.
Alice in WonderlandsequelThrough the Looking Glass, directed byJames Bobbin, has garnered a domestic total so far of $43 million, a far cry from the (surprising) $1 billion worldwide that its original took in 2010. Still, it continues to perform modestly, alongsideThe Angry Birds MovieandCaptain America: Civil War, the latter of which seems to have claimed the throne of the highest grossing movie this year, domestically.
Check out the full Friday Top 10 below, and check back tomorrow for weekend estimates:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Shadows
$12,500,000
Me Before You
$7,750,000
X-Men: Apocalypse
$6,550,000
$100,723,232
Alice Through the Looking Glass
$3,155,000
$43,236,597
The Angry Birds Movie
$2,600,000
$79,502,726
Captain America: Civil War
$2,089,000
$383,438,157
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
$1,770,000
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
$1,480,000
$45,340,225
The Jungle Book
$1,136,000
$344,358,661
The Nice Guys
$26,565,850
