Russia Box Office: 'Independence Day: Resurgence' Bows at No. 1 With $3.5M

However, the pic's performance was lackluster compared with similar movies and previous weekend champions.

Independence Day: Resurgence debuted atop the Russian box office over the weekend, but its performance was lackluster.

The Fox sequel, directed by Roland Emmerich, grossed $3.5 million, which was less than the opening-weekend figures for similar movies, such as San Andreas or Edge of Tomorrow.

International Weekend 6/26/16

Comscore for Weekend of 6/26/16 Weekend Cume 1. Independence Day: Resurgence $102.1M $102.1M 2. Now You See Me 2 $50.9M $107.7M 3. Finding Dory $37.0M $110.3M 4. The Conjuring 2 $21.0M $156.0M 5. Me Before You $17.5M $60.1M 6. The Secret Life of Pets $15.2M $15.2M 7. Three (2016) $9.5M $9.5M 8. Warcraft $9.4M $368.3M 9. Central Intelligence $4.7M $14.3M 10. X-Men: Apocalypse $3.6M $374.6M

The figure was just slightly better than the debut weekend gross of the previous frame's champion, Disney's Finding Dory, which scored the lowest-opening gross for a film placing No. 1 in 10 weeks.

Andrew Stanton's sequel to the 2003 Pixar hit Finding Nemo, Finding Dory slipped to No. 2, taking in $1.7 million in its second session for a cume of $6.4 million.

Lionsgate's Now You See Me 2 fell to third place, collecting $969,000 in its third outing for a cume of $14.1 million.

James Wan's The Conjuring 2 dipped to No. 4, as the Warner Bros. follow-up to the original 2013 horror hit took in $750,000 in its second frame for a cume of $3.2 million.

The local comedy Zavtrak u papy (Breakfast at Dad's), directed by Maria Kravchenko, opened in fifth place with $481,000.