While the
Conjuring 2 and
Warcraft topped the box office this weekend (
read more about that here), some other comic book related properties continued an uphill battle against waning interest.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows earned $14.8 million in its second weekend, for a total drop of 58% from its opening weekend. The first installment of the rebooted series experienced a very similar drop (56%) when it was released in 2014, so it doesn't seem like the sequel is playing very well with audiences, despite being touted as an improvement over the original. The film is expected to finish with close to $100 million, if not a little over that, so the possibility of a sequel seems slim unless the movie does incredibly well overseas.
X-Men: Apocalypse also continued to underperform, earning $10 million in its third weekend (a 56% drop) for a domestic total of $136.3 million over 17 days. Apocalypse did make a stride, however, as it is no longer the lowest-grossing
X-Men movie, passing the $132 million domestic gross of
The Wolverine. That being said, the film is still dropping faster on its third weekend in comparison to its predecessors,
X-Men: The Last Stand (52%) and
X-Men: Days of Future Past (53%) and will still struggle to top the $157 million gross of the original
X-Men. The sequel earned an additional $25 million overseas (taking a big hit from China due to the release of
Warcraft) and has now earned $478m globally. If all goes well, the film will likely finish with a total of $550m globally, still the third biggest
X-Men movie behind
Deadpool and
Days of Future Past. It's not a flop by any means, but failing to outgross even
Days Of Future Past is not a good sign for the Fox franchise.
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