'NINJA TURTLES' Beats 'GUARDIANS' at Weekend Box Office with $65 Million Opening

Rentrak Corporation (RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of August 10, 2014 as compiled by the company's Box Office Essentials and International Box Office Essentials theatrical measurement services.

As the trusted standard for all studio box office reporting, Rentrak provides intelligence into overnight theatre-level reporting across the global theatrical market. Coupled with the official reported data, studios are able to analyze admissions and gross results in over 50 territories using Rentrak's suite of products.

The film stars Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher, Will Arnett, Danny Woodburn and William Fichtner.

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil (Fox) and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick (A

1	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Paramount	$65,000,000	3,845	16,905	$65,000,000
2	Guardians Of The Galaxy	Disney	$41,531,000	4,088	10,159	$175,922,000
3	Into The Storm	Warner Bros.	$18,015,000	3,434	5,246	$18,015,000
4	Hundred-Foot Journey, The	Disney	$11,123,000	2,023	5,498	$11,123,000
5	Lucy	Universal	$9,330,855	3,147	2,965	$97,353,660
6	Step Up All In	Lionsgate	$6,575,000	2,072	3,173	$6,575,000
7	Hercules	Paramount	$5,700,000	2,896	1,968	$63,461,247
8	Get On Up	Universal	$5,012,070	2,469	2,030	$22,926,680
9	Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes	20th Century Fox	$4,400,000	2,306	1,908	$197,833,624
10	Planes: Fire and Rescue	Disney	$2,419,000	2,280	1,060	$52,950,000

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