Fantasy prevails: ‘Miss Peregrine’ bests 'Deepwater Horizon’ at box office

Tim Burton’s latest fantastical oddity, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” bested fellow debut “Deepwater Horizon” at the North American box office over the weekend, industry estimates showed on Sunday. Burton’s latest movie, from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment, adapted from Ransom Riggs’s best-selling novel, earned an estimated $28.5 million, beating out Mark Wahlberg’s newest vehicle “Deepwater Horizon,” from Lionsgate, which follows BP’s notorious 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. It raked in $20.6 million.

There’s some fatigue with the same old, same old. And if there’s anything this movie isn’t, it’s that.

Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution at Fox, on “Miss Peregrine’s” popularity

Sony and MGM’s “The Magnificent Seven,” a remake of the classic 1960 Western starring Denzel Washington, came third during its second week in theaters with $15.7 million. Fourth place with $13.8 million went to “Storks,” an animated film from Warner Bros also in its second week. It is about baby-delivering birds that now handle retail packages and find themselves ruffled when they actually have to find the home of an infant girl.