It’s no surprise that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows would hop atop the box office for Friday, but there’s more to the story than just that. It’s Friday numbers ($12.5 million) suggest a moderate opening weekend around $36 million that will have it making a little more than half of Paramount’s payday with the original. 2014’s film garnered an eventual $195 million domestic gross, and $493.2 million globally. It looks like to recoup its $125 million budget, Turtles 2 is going to need to perform very well internationally in the coming weeks.

As for Fox’s X-Men Apocalypse, it has suffered a sharp 66% decline for its second weekend, falling to $6.5 million on Friday and looking to head into a $22 million weekend. Though Apocalypse is not the first X-Men film to fall sharply in its second week, its $100 million revenue so far is nothing to shake a stick at.

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Elsewhere on the charts, Warner Bros.’s Me Before You is charming its way into exceeding box office expectations, taking the #2 spot ahead of Apocalypse with only half of the screens. It brought in almost $8 million Friday night, with predictions putting near an eventual $20 million. Lonely Island’s Popster: Never Stop Never Stopping from Universal is also appearing as a mild but steady performer, bringing in nearly $2 million for its Friday.

Alice in Wonderland sequel Through the Looking Glass, directed by James Bobbin, has garnered a domestic total so far of $43 million, a far cry from the (surprising) $1 billion worldwide that its original took in 2010. Still, it continues to perform modestly, alongside The Angry Birds Movie and Captain America: Civil War, the latter of which seems to have claimed the throne of the highest grossing movie this year, domestically.

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Check out the full Friday Top 10 below, and check back tomorrow for weekend estimates:

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