Weekend Box-Office 6/2 - FURIOSA Free Falls To 3rd Place

[AndyDursin]

FURIOSA is possibly on its way to becoming one of the all-time summer box-office bombs.

FSATURDAY AM WRITETHRU: After a poor Memorial Day weekend, we have a poor post-holiday period, with all titles grossing an estimated $68.6M, -66% from a year ago, when Sony proved superhero movies weren’t dead with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse contributing to a marketplace that grossed $205.1M.

Alcon/Sony’s The Garfield Movie, as expected, is showing his teeth against Warner Bros’ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in a second-weekend faceoff between the two, $13M to $11.5M.

Garfield took in $3.7M at 4,018 theaters yesterday, while Furiosa made $3.05M at 3,864. Garfield‘s Weekend 2 hold is a great -45% off the 3-day, while Furiosa isn’t shabby at -56%. By Sunday, Garfield‘s running total will stand at $50.5M, while Furiosa will be at $50.4M.

[AndyDursin]

3rd place for FURIOSA in its 2nd weekend, an embarrassment, beaten by 2 kids movies (including week 3 of IF) -- oh wow....

1 2 The Garfield Movie $14,000,000 -41.7% 4,108 +73 $3,407 $51,572,331 2 Sony Pictures Releasing
2 3 IF $10,801,000 -33.1% 3,783 -285 $2,855 $80,429,950 3 Paramount Pictures
3 1 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga $10,750,000 -59.2% 3,864 +60 $2,782 $49,667,619 2 Warner Bros.

4 4 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $8,800,000 -34.3% 3,450 -100 $2,550 $139,996,059 4 20th Century Studios
5 5 The Fall Guy $4,200,000 -29.7% 2,826 -129 $1,486 $80,285,405 5 Universal Pictures
6 6 The Strangers: Chapter 1 $3,600,000 -35.5% 2,527 -329 $1,424 $28,365,840 3 Lionsgate Films

[jkholm]

Speaking of box office failures...all five Dallas area locations of the Alamo Drafthouse have closed as of this morning. As in, customers and even some employees showed up to find the doors locked and a sign on the door. The franchisee declared bankruptcy. And just a few days ago I watched a video from Red Letter Media on the death of theaters.

[AndyDursin]

Incredibly bad news John.

Obviously we're going to have a rough summer ahead for theaters -- it's hard enough to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle to get people to go back to the movies, and stop staying home as they've grown accustomed. But you add in the strikes and lack of content and it's just a stronger gut punch than it would've been otherwise.

[Paul MacLean]

Speaking of box office failures...all five Dallas area locations of the Alamo Drafthouse have closed as of this morning.

That's a shame. I'd become jaded about multiplexes, but I'd hoped a venue by like Alamo Drafthouse (created by and for film lovers) might catch on.

Of course it would help if Hollywood catered to a wider demographic than teenagers and 50-something geeks.

[AndyDursin]

Exactly Paul. It's not the audience's responsibility -- mine, or yours -- to bail Hollywood out when they continue to produce mostly garbage.

[Monterey Jack]

Pity Furiosa's doing so poorly, as it's one of the rare movies (especially post-2020) I've rolled out for a second viewing of less than two weeks after it opened.

[jkholm]

And another one bites the dust...The Angelika Film Center, a chain that specializes in indie and foreign films, just closed its location in Plano (suburb just north of Dallas). I never went to this theater all that often, mostly due to its distance from my house. When my wife and I first moved to Dallas, we frequently saw movies at the Angelika's Dallas location, which is still there although I can't remember the last time we went. The Plano location was in a ritzy shopping center so even the wealthy suburbanites didn't go often enough to save it.

[AndyDursin]

Another bust to add to the pile...