Ninja Turtles bring box-office power
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sliced off $65 million at the weekend box office.
Paramount Pictures' comic-book adaptation featuring Megan Fox alongside computer-generated renditions of the pizza-eating, sewer-dwelling superheroes lunged into first place in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The action film's tally prompted the studio to announce plans on Sunday for a sequel set for June 2016.
Megan Colligan, Paramount's head of domestic marketing and distribution, says the success of the Ninja Turtles reboot was mostly derived from a pair of distinctly different audiences: men who fondly remembered the 1980s and '90s franchise that spawned a cartoon series, toy line and a live-action film trilogy, and youngsters familiar with a newer Nickelodeon animated TV series.
