The Memorial Day box office is cruising for a two-decade low. “Furiosa,” the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, claimed the first place spot for Friday-Saturday-Sunday with $25.6 million.
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Furiosa's $25 million opening was lower than the expected $40 million that its predecessor Fury Road opened with. Could lose money on its $168 million budget.
Lower budgeted family friendly Garfield well on its way to profit on its reported $60 million budget.
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” $25.6 million.
“The Garfield Movie,” $24.8 million.
“IF,” $16.1 million.
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” $13.4 million.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was pretty good. The CGI was hard to watch though. 35 minutes of ads, made me regret going to the movies and paying $65 for two people. That includes 2 "IMAX" tickets, a water, and some shit pretzel bits. Love some AMC.
So in the era of assigned seats, i wonder if maybe there somewhere I could go to find out each theater’s expected time from nominal start to actual start.
I only see a couple of movies in cinemas per year, but I still have that instinct that I need to be there on time, even though logically I know I have a ton of wiggle room. I think if I knew more going in, I’d be more sanguine about strolling in late like some sort of savvy YOLO Zoomer.
It would be great to know in advance. However, ours was delayed due to the tight run times. The movie let out 5 mins before ours started. They still had to clean the room. At this point I say, watch them at home.
I'm not sure you can call Furiosa franchise milking.
Apart from sharing a name the 2015 film came out 30 years after the previous film and has little to actually connect them apart from the main characters name and the general theme. If it wasn't the same director it would be just a love letter to those films instead of a reboot.
Furiosa is a prequel that came out 9 years later.
Making a film and then a follow up 9 years later is FAR from milking a franchise.
Additionally both stories are completely new and not remakes.
Furiosa was great though. George Miller is actually making original scripts and doing a great job of it. You should support this if you don't want more Marvel and Star Wars focus group fluff.
I saw it Saturday and there were maybe 8 others in the theater at a 6pm showing.
Movie was mediocre at best. I hated that so much green screen and CGI was used for the car battles. Story was lacking as well. Characters went nowhere.