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.
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Windex007@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 2y
There is no fucking way that's an actual headline, right?
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
Quite a choice of words, ain't it?
Hashtag They Definitely Knew (dot com)
Emperor@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 2y
!theyknew@lemmy.world
MBM@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 2y
I also saw one that talks about Garfield topping Furiosa
Emperor@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
It fucking is!
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
The crossover event of the decade!
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
😸✊👈🙀
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
I completely misread it at first lmao!
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Because the article doesn't say, the American box office numbers for the week of Memorial Day 1995 (unadjusted):
(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. 🙃
metaStatic@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
I watched Casper in theatres more times than is reasonable
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The wake up scene?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Young me had such a crush on him...
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 2y
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.
DaBabyAteMaDingo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
You good?
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y
Been better, been worse friend.
Did you ever find that dingo?
DaBabyAteMaDingo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No and that rapper is still at large
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
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.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Well that headline sure put some weird images in my head.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 12 pts · 2y
She's just mashing it.
criitz@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 2y
Phrasing
don@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
They just let that one right in the front door, didn’t they
Davel23@fedia.io · 7 pts · 2y
Really? There wasn't a Memorial Day during COVID that was worse?
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
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...
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2y
I didn't know about either of them, so there you go.
downpunxx@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2y
bow chicka bow bow