Furiosa, Garfield top disappointing Memorial Day weekend
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the latest installment of the dystopian action films, took in $25.6 million in the United States in the first three days of the Memorial Day weekend.
The Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. picture had been projected to generate between $30 million and $40 million, according to estimates from the Boxoffice Pro.
Meanwhile, The Garfield Movie, about the comic strip cat, came in second at $24.8 million, according to data from Comscore, Inc. Its distributor, Sony Group Corp. projected that Garfield would lead the weekend over four days through the Monday holiday.
Either way, the results could be the for a No. 1 film released on Memorial Day weekend in decades. The industry has been struggling to bounce back from the twin strikes by writers and actors last year and a consumer shift to watching films at home.
The opening of Furiosa was accompanied by a good deal of publicity, including a Cannes Film Festival premiere and much media attention to returning director George Miller and new star Anya Taylor-Joy. 鈥 Bloomberg
