The box office ended with a whimper this weekend.
A cat — wise guy, purring, snarky — went beyond Thunderdome and beat “Mad Max Furiosa” by several hairballs.
“Garfield” — not the biopic of either Andrew or James — made $14 million and took the number 1 spot. “Furiosa” came in THIRD with just $10.7 million, falling a whopping 59% from last week. That’s a big surprise. Not only did “Fury Road” fans not return, but Chris Hemsworth — aka Thor — wasn’t able to open a movie.
Both “Garfield” and “Furiosa” would have benefitted from “Barbenheimer” type cross promotion — “Fur-iosa”? “Furry Road”? “Beyond Litterbox”?
Three new, small films opened modestly, with Bleecker Street’s “Ezra” doing the least amount of business with $1.1 million. “Ezra” is a well meaning, well made, but preposterously written film about a damaged man trying to save his autistic son.
Two studio films that were labeled failures — “The Fall Guy” and “IF” — are each up to $80 million, which ain’t bad. The latter has a shot at $100 million. The former is already on streaming, but $4 million worth of audience went to the theaters this weekend. Not bad!
