Furiosa will be fighting Garfield to be one of the most shaky Memorial Day box offices in many

Furiosa will be fighting Garfield to be one of the most shaky Memorial Day box offices in many

Despite a soaring reception, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is poised to be the most disappointing Memorial Day opening since the 1980s.

By William Hughes

May 25, 2024 02:22 PM

 

It’s a tough old world out there and we hope that you’re able to take pleasure in a mental picture which has helped us through cold and wet mornings of recent times Imperator Furiosa the battle queen of the abyss, battling it out with the obese lasagna-loving cats Garfield in a fight for the ultimate victory. Oh, how fur will fly. Oh how the days of Monday will mourn.

Sure, the hypothetical grudge match will be more fun than what’s actually taking place at the box office over this Memorial Day weekend, as our two top-rated films — George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Chris Pratt’s TheGarfield Movie fight to win the most sluggish holiday weekend in nearly four years.

In actual fact, Memorial Day looks all likely to follow 2024’s slow-moving trend at the box office with Furiosa, despite lots of buzz from Fury Road fans of the world, expected to make between $31 to $33 million this weekend. This puts it onlyahead ahead of Garfield which is also targeting the $31 million mark, but is close to being the lowest Memorial Day opener in ( according to Deadline) 41 years. (Just just barely over Return Of The Jedi which was out to an iffy beginning in 1983.) This is despite opening much lower then Fury Road, that hit theaters the week before Memorial Day in 2015 to the sum to $45.4 million (and yet got its bum beat by the much more popular Pitch Perfect 2..)

From what we’re aware the world does not want to see shocking shit happen in cars like we normal people do. And that’s why they’re so critical of Furiosa–which received a favourable review and not even the lavish praises Fury Roadreceived–with a lacking in “four-quadrant appeal.” (I.e. boring people don’t like to see it.) The movie was initially expected to earn an extremely low amount of $40 million on the weekend, but is projected to come in even less of that. This isn’t a good result for a film that took $168 million to get the stunning car chase on the screen. Garfield is a film that only cost about $60 million to create, will be the more lucrative of the two regardless of which one wins the weekend.

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