Fox Gets Box-Office Win from Burton’s ‘Peculiar Children’

Bloomberg: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” director Tim Burton’s film based on a popular children’s book, led the North American box office in its weekend debut. The 20th Century Fox film opened with weekend sales of $28.5 million in the U.S. and Canada. Burton’s creepy take on the novel by Ransom Riggs gives the film division of 21st Century Fox its first win in about four months after three summer sequels films fell short of the company’s expectations.