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  • 'Furiosa,' 'Garfield' lead slowest Memorial Day box office in decades

    From Woke & Broke@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 27 08:34:07 2024
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    Movie theaters are looking more and more like a wasteland this summer.
    Neither � Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga � nor � The Garfield Movie � could save Memorial Day weekend, which is cruising towards a two-decade low.

    � Furiosa,� the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris
    Hemsworth, claimed the first place spot for the Friday-Saturday-Sunday
    weekend with $25.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
    Warner Bros. is waiting until Monday to release its four-day estimates.

    �The Garfield Movie,� animated and family-friendly, was the other big new offering this weekend from Sony�s Columbia Pictures and Alcon
    Entertainment. It is claiming No. 1 for the four-day holiday weekend with
    an estimated $31.9 million in ticket sales through Memorial Day. Sony
    estimates its three-day earnings to be $24.8 million.

    Aside from Memorial Day in 2020 when theaters were closed due to COVID-19, these are the lowest earning No. 1 movies in 29 years, since �Casper�
    earned $22.5 million (not adjusted for inflation) in its first four days
    in 1995. Big earners are more typical for the holiday weekend, which has
    had ten movies crack $100 million, led by �Top Gun: Maverick�s� record-
    setting $160 million launch in 2022. Last year, the live-action �The
    Little Mermaid� joined the group with a $118 million debut. Audiences even turned out in greater numbers over the pandemic-addled weekend in 2021 for
    �A Quiet Place Part II,� which made over $57 million.

    �This was a rather slow Memorial weekend,� said Paul Dergarabedian, the
    senior media analyst for Comscore. �A few things didn�t happen that
    created this situation: We didn�t have a tailwind heading into the summer.
    We kicked off the summer minus a Marvel movie. In a way, we�ve been
    playing catch up all year long.�

    Go woke, go broke.

    https://apnews.com/article/furiosa-box-office-
    1b2a9c0aefec99b5105a09bfaf15679b

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  • From dolf@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 28 10:47:29 2024
    XPost: aus.politics, talk.politics.guns, sac.politics
    XPost: alt.society.liberalism

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    On 27/5/2024 18:34, Woke & Broke wrote:
    Movie theaters are looking more and more like a wasteland this summer. Neither “ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ” nor “ The Garfield Movie ” could save
    Memorial Day weekend, which is cruising towards a two-decade low.

    “ Furiosa,” the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, claimed the first place spot for the Friday-Saturday-Sunday weekend with $25.6 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
    Warner Bros. is waiting until Monday to release its four-day estimates.

    “The Garfield Movie,” animated and family-friendly, was the other big new offering this weekend from Sony’s Columbia Pictures and Alcon Entertainment. It is claiming No. 1 for the four-day holiday weekend with
    an estimated $31.9 million in ticket sales through Memorial Day. Sony estimates its three-day earnings to be $24.8 million.

    Aside from Memorial Day in 2020 when theaters were closed due to COVID-19, these are the lowest earning No. 1 movies in 29 years, since “Casper” earned $22.5 million (not adjusted for inflation) in its first four days
    in 1995. Big earners are more typical for the holiday weekend, which has
    had ten movies crack $100 million, led by “Top Gun: Maverick’s” record- setting $160 million launch in 2022. Last year, the live-action “The
    Little Mermaid” joined the group with a $118 million debut. Audiences even turned out in greater numbers over the pandemic-addled weekend in 2021 for “A Quiet Place Part II,” which made over $57 million.

    “This was a rather slow Memorial weekend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “A few things didn’t happen that created this situation: We didn’t have a tailwind heading into the summer. We kicked off the summer minus a Marvel movie. In a way, we’ve been
    playing catch up all year long.”

    Go woke, go broke.

    https://apnews.com/article/furiosa-box-office- 1b2a9c0aefec99b5105a09bfaf15679b

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