Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend
box - office
record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.