The film’s star is a genius talking dog who cares for a human boy. Peabody is based on the characters from Peabody’s Improbable History, a segment airing on the hit 1960s television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Internationally, where it began rolling out several weeks ago, Peabody took in another $21 million from 52 markets for a foreign total of $66 million and worldwide cume of $98.5 million. 4 in its fifth weekend with $11 million ( Lego has now grossed $225 million domestically). The time-travel adventure, scoring a pleasing A CinemaScore, was hampered by the ongoing strength of The Lego Movie, which placed No. Stapleton, who plays a Greek general, hasn’t been available to do prerelease press for Rise of an Empire because of an accident in which he suffered a concussion, forcing his new Cinemax primetime drama Strike Back to go on hiatus.įrom DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox, Mr. This is a different property, with a different cast and a different director.”ĭirected by Noam Murro, Rise of an Empire stars Sullivan Stapleton and Eva Green and is set during the second Persian invasion of Greece. In terms of the difference between the opening of 300 and the sequel, Goldstein said, “ 300 was lightning in a bottle. Warners executive vice president of distribution Jeff Goldstein said the action audience turned out in a big way for Rise of an Empire.

Warners and Legendary co-financed the $110 million sequel. Producers Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton reteamed to make the R-rated ancient epic alongside Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Bernie Goldmann.

STORY: The Making of an Impossible ‘300’ Sequel Overall, the movie received a B CinemaScore. And in a big win for 3D, 63 percent of the box office came from 3D screens.

A large chunk of the audience was between the ages of 25 and 34 (30 percent). In North America, Rise of an Empire appealed far more to females than the first film (38 percent versus 29 percent). Russia led overseas with $9.2 million, followed by France with $7.2 million, South Korea with $6.5 million and Brazil with $5.8 million (the biggest March opening of all time). While it is trailing 300 domestically, Rise of an Empire is pacing ahead of the original film overseas, where it opened to a massive $87.8 million internationally from 58 markets for a worldwide total of $132.9 million.

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