Peabody & Sherman will win the weekend, but 300: Rise of an Empire will take second place with a healthy $40+ million domestic opening. That's a comedown from the first film's big $70.8 million ...

A sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, went on to release in 2014. Snyder reclaimed the rights to his lost sequel script, Blood and Ashes, late last year. The action film director called the script ...