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Cowabunga! ‘Ninja Turtles’ top box office

LOS ANGELES

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” sliced off $65 million at the weekend box office.

Paramount Pictures’ comic-book adaptation featuring Megan Fox alongside computer-generated renditions of the pizza-eating, sewer-dwelling superheroes lunged into first place in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The action film’s totally tubular result prompted the studio to announce plans Sunday for a sequel set for June 3, 2016.

Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy” slid into second place in its second weekend with $41.5 million, bringing its total domestic haul to $175.9 million.

In third place was “Into the Storm” with $18 million; in fourth place was “The Hundred-Foot Journey” with $11.1 million; and in fifth place was “Lucy” with $9.3 million.

Report: Steven Seagal performs in Crimea

MOSCOW

The Russian news agency RIA Novosti says American actor and musician Steven Seagal has performed at a concert in the breakaway region of Crimea on a stage decorated with the flag of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Seagal, who knows Russian President Vladimir Putin, performed with his blues band Saturday night in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol at a concert organized by a motorcycle gang of Russian nationalists known as the Night Wolves. Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March.

RIA Novosti reported that Seagal was then handed a shirt with Putin’s face on it, which he held aloft as he thanked the crowd.

Associated Press