It’s Turtle Power once again as the Heroes in a Half-Shell have topped the US box office, but it’s not pizzas all round.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows [read our reviews here, here and here] opened against romance flick Me Before You and comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping to earn an estimated $35 million, knocking X-Men: Apocalypse from the top spot. The bad news however is that this is a 46% drop-off from 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which opened to $65.5 million. Worse still, the sequel’s budget had been increased by $10 million, so this is not the news Paramount would have hoped for. In terms of domestic totals, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is looking to make $90-$100 million, a huge drop off from its predecessor.
Worldwide, the movie opened in 40 markets and earned around $34 million with the UK delivering the highest revenue. That brings the Turtles total to $69 million.
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Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to cinemas this summer to battle bigger, badder villains, alongside April O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
SEE ALSO: Read all our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coverage here
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is once again produced by Michael Bay, with David Green (Earth to Echo) directing. Megan Fox (April O’Neill), Will Arnett (Vernon Fenwick), William Fichtner (Eric Sacks), Alan Ritchson (Raphael), Jeremy Howard (Donatello), Pete Ploszek (Leonardo) and Noel Fisher (Michelangelo) all return to the cast, while new additions include Stephen Amell (Arrow) as Casey Jones, Tyler Perry (Gone Girl) as Baxter Stockman, Brian Tee (The Wolverine) as The Shredder, Gary Anthony Williams (Boston Legal) as Bebop, WWE’s Sheamus as Rocksteady and Brad Garrett (Finding Nemo) as Kraang with Alessandra Ambrosio (Casino Royale) as herself and Laura Linney (The Fifth Estate) as Chief Vincent.
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