The North American box office over Memorial Day Weekend might be described as a wasteland, with “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “The Garfield Movie” pulling in disappointing holiday opening numbers, according to industry estimates.

“Furiosa” brought in an estimated $32 million Friday through Monday, with $25.5 million of that generated Friday through Sunday, representing the lowest total for a top-grossing film on Memorial Day weekend since 1995.

  • @Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    197 months ago

    Oh no. A shitty prequel didn’t convince people to spend money during a cost of living crisis. Boo-hoo for the poor actors and crew.

  • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    187 months ago

    Because the article doesn’t say, the American box office numbers for the week of Memorial Day 1995 (unadjusted):

    1. Casper - $25,511,615 (opening week)
    2. Die Hard with a Vengeance - $22,492,166 (-24.7% week over week)
    3. Braveheart - $15,571,948 (+489.3% week over week)
    4. Crimson Tide - $15,116,928 (-3.1% week over week)
    5. Forget Paris - $8,974,170 - (+13.9 week over week)

    (Sixth place was the premier of Johnny Mnemonic at only 8.9 million.)

    Keanu Reeve, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, and Mel Gibson all got beat by Bill Pullman!

    I remember seeing Casper in the theaters with my family, and it’s entirely possible it was over Memorial Day weekend. Which means I might be partially responsible for this. 🙃

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    137 months ago

    This is sad to see. It’s a great movie except for the inherent spoilers due to it being a prequel (instead of going “oh shit” you go “ah, this is where she loses her arm”), and it deserves better than bombing. I hope it recovers in the next couple of weeks, but at this rate they’ll probably cancel The Wasteland.

  • don
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    77 months ago

    They just let that one right in the front door, didn’t they

  • Davel23
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    77 months ago

    Really? There wasn’t a Memorial Day during COVID that was worse?

  • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Damn. I saw Garfield. It wasn’t good. Doing worse at the box office is quite a feat to achieve with cool car special effects, in play.

    Admittedly, I didn’t previously believe that Bill Murray could talk for two hours without saying a single funny thing.

    (Edit: What. The fuck. They made another Garfield movie. This year. Society is truly doomed to repeat it’s worst mistakes. I haven’t seen that one. I will take no part in this depravity.)

    I guess there’s still new horizons out there…

  • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    37 months ago

    I though Furiosa was good, not as amazing as the first one but not bad either. It felt a bit unnecessarily stretched though. Sad to see it bomb, it definitely wasn’t a bad movie.