With just over $25 million in revenue for its first weekend, “Furiosa” takes the lead at the American box office, just ahead of “Garfield.” But it does less well than “Mad Max Fury Road” in 2015.
US box office from May 24 to 26, 2024
1 – Furiosa: $25,500,000 (New)
2 – Garfield – Hero in spite of himself: $24,775,000 (New)
3 – Blue & Company: $16,100,000 (cumulative: 58,666,792)
4 – Planet of the Apes – The New Kingdom: $13,356,000 (cumulative: 122,805,252)
5 – The Fall Guy: $5,920,000 (cumulative: 72,211,385)
6 – The Intruders: $5,610,000 (cumulative: 21,343,988)
7 – Sight: $2,695,930 (New)
8 – Challengers: $1,380,000 (cumulative: 46,474,760)
9 – Back to Black: $1,100,000 (cumulative: 4,999,020)
10 – Babes: $1,060,000 (cumulative: 1,287,799)
To remember
A road warrior who gets off to a worse start than a lazy lasagna-loving cat? This may be what the American box office has in store for us this week. According to estimates published on Sunday, Furiosa is in the lead in front of the new adaptation of Garfieldthis time in the form of an animated film.
But there’s less than a million dollars between George Miller and Mark Dindal’s films, so the trend may reverse once the numbers are adjusted. And this Memorial Day Monday, a holiday in the United States, can benefit the second. Even if, for the moment, the best average per screen is for the Mad Max prequel Fury Road. Who had collected more than 45 million greenbacks for his debut in 2015.
Whether first or second, Furiosa will therefore have had a disappointing start given the expectations it aroused. And, unless it reaches and maintains a good cruising speed in the weeks to come, it could be difficult for it to do better than Fury Road, then considered a semi-disappointment, with 154.3 million dollars in box office receipts. United States and 380.4 worldwide.
Conversely, the new Garfield led by the voice of Chris Pratt (partner of Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of Furiosa, in Super Mario Bros. – The Movie) starts better than the two feature films of the 2000s, which mixed real shots and computer-generated images, and in which Bill Murray lent his voice to the famous cat.
Leader last week, Blue & Company falling on the third step of the podium. While it has just crossed the threshold of 800,000 admissions in France, and is heading towards a million, the feature film directed by John Krasinski should finish its run lower than Without a sound, although intended for a smaller audience. But perhaps bring in the equivalent of its production budget, which would be $110 million.
The lights are more green on the side of The Planet of the Apes : less flamboyant than its predecessors in the rest of the world, The New Kingdom is well on its way to being as well seen as better than them on American soil. Which was not necessarily won on paper, when the predictions rather gave The Fall Guy winner.
The Fall Guy in front of Bullet Train?
But its two stars, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, are particularly well placed to know thanks to the successes of Barbie and Oppenheimer last summer: the box office is no longer as easy to read as it was a few years ago. And unfortunately it is their latest film that pays the price.
If it could exceed 103 million for Bullet Train at the end of the run, it will still remain a small disappointment given what many were predicting since Steven Spielberg sang the praises of the film adaptation of The Falling Man peak. Especially since it is already available on VOD in the United States, and therefore has little chance of making a jump allowing it to save the furniture.
In the rest of the ranking, Challengers remains in the Top 10 for its fifth week of operation and could, why not, surf on the news from Roland Garros to offer itself a rebound. And Back to Black achieved the biggest drop of the weekend (- 61.2% in revenue compared to the previous weekend, and a cumulative total of… 5 million), while the indie comedy Babestaking advantage of the enormous increase in its number of copies, offers the most spectacular jump with a nice + 549.8%.
Figures: Box office Mojo
