‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Conquers China, Tops $400 Million Globally

Paramount’ s heroes on the half-shell debut behind Great Wall with $26 million

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” passed $400 million at the worldwide box office this weekend, paced by a $26 million No. 1 opening in China.

The Michael Bay-produced reboot took in $34.7 million from 31 markets to push its international total to $244 million, and its global haul to more than $434 million.

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In addition to China, “Ninja Turtles” held strongly and brought in $2.3 million from the U.K. in its third weekend. It took in the same amount in France, where it’s also in its third weekend, and another $1.6 million from Germany.

The lone remaining major territory is Japan, where it will debut in February 2015.

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