"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" ranked first at the US box office earning $28.8 million in its first weekend on release. The film was directed by Tim Burton.
The fantasy adventure film is based on the young adult novel of the same title by Ransom Riggs. The Guardian reported that Tim Burton's film costs $110 million, in which it will need a strong performance abroad.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children started gaining $36.5 million in 59 markets, making it Burton's best opening since Dark Shadows in 2012.
Chris Aronson, President of Domestic Distribution at Fox said "It validates the whole notion of why we made this film, which is something that's very original and creative."
"At least I feel that that's what audiences are looking for. There's some fatigue with the same old, same old. And if there's anything this movie isn't, it's that," he added.
However, the legendary director was blasted as racist for casting of predominately white actors.
Burton explained his side to Bustle. Mirror.co.uk wrote:
"Things either call for things, or they don't. I remember back when I was a child watching 'The Brady Bunch' and they started to get all politically correct. Like, OK, let's have an Asian child and a black. I used to get more offended by that than just ... I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that's great."
He added, "I didn't go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies."
Despite the backlash that Burton is receiving, one of the casts from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children defended him.
Actor Samuel Jackson said "I had to go back in my head and go, how many black characters have been in Tim Burton movies?
"And I may have been the first, I don't know, or the most prominent in that particular way, but it happens the way it happens. I don't think it's any fault of his or his method of storytelling, it's just how it's played out."
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