--- description: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' surpassed August's other big hit, 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' at the box office this weekend title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tops Box Office With $65m Debut image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba8fc7b08fc8e76f/69869ef5810bbb02b9c92f28/4s-vfx-060-lc1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # America Still Loves _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2014 4:53 PM CUT  Left to right: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello in TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. Left to right: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello in TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies.Paramount by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 10, 2014 4:53 PM CUT The _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ reboot took the box office by storm this weekend with a $65 million North American debut, prompting the studio to immediately announce a sequel scheduled for June 2016. _Turtles_ easily took the top domestic spot over the weekend, besting another surprise August hit, _Guardians of the Galaxy,_ the _Hollywood Reporter_ reports. The Jonathan Liebesman–directed hit stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett and William Fichtner, and sees the four heroes in a half-shell emerging from the New York City sewers to save the metropolis from Shredder and his evil Foot Clan. Nearly half of the audience was under 25 on Friday, and 61% of the attendees were male. “To know moviegoers are embracing the Turtles with such enthusiasm is everything that we and all our filmmakers have been hoping for,” Paramount chief Brad Grey said in a statement. Overall, however, revenue is down at the box office 17% this summer, even with _Guardians_ and _Turtles_ shoring up sales. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-teenage-mutant-ninja-724400 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/"},"headline":"America Still Loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles","datePublished":"2014-08-10T16:53:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:35:16.206Z","description":"Paramount immediately orders a sequel after \"turtle power\" sets the domestic box office alight","url":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba8fc7b08fc8e76f/69869ef5810bbb02b9c92f28/4s-vfx-060-lc1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba8fc7b08fc8e76f/69869ef5810bbb02b9c92f28/4s-vfx-060-lc1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES","caption":"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES","creditText":"Paramount","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/","name":"America Still Loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Behind the Scenes of TMNT","description":"Behind the Scenes of TMNT","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/AEIBxqtS/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-08T22:39:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AEIBxqtS.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/","duration":"PT1M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3098727/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-box-office/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```