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Paramount’s ‘Ninja Turtles’ Opens to Slow Sales Over Weekend
- Movie is one of three major summer releases for the studio
- New ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Ben-Hur’ remake are next for Paramount
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“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” opened to disappointing weekend sales in North American theaters, a setback for beleaguered Viacom Inc. and its struggling Paramount Pictures film division.
The live-action film featuring four masked, crime-fighting turtles produced weekend sales of $35.3 million in U.S. and Canadian cinemas, researcher ComScore Inc. said Sunday in an e-mailed statement. That was less than estimates of as much as $41 million, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.