The summer movie season isn’t over yet, and we’ve got some heroes in a half-shell coming our way to try and make a splash late in the game.
Paramount Pictures is gearing up to release “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” next week, giving the animated take on Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s beloved comic book creations a mid-week release to get a jump on the competition.
That competition, in this case, is “Meg 2: The Trench,” an R-rated shark flick seemingly going for a very different crowd.
The question is, can this “Tmnt” reboot do for the turtles what “Into the Spider-Verse” did for Spider-Man?Box Office Pro currently has director Jeff Rowe’s “Mutant Mayhem” taking in anywhere between $27 and $36 million over the weekend, with a take of $37 to $49 million in the cards for the five-day, Wednesday to Sunday stretch.
Meanwhile, “Meg 2” is eyeing a similar $26 to $35 million take.
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