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Box Office: ‘Furiosa’ Just Barely Beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in Disastrous Memorial Day Weekend — the Worst in Decades (variety.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Furiosa has a few major challenges up against it, really:

Its running time is longer than the average Blockbuster
it's R rated and violent
Mad Max is a fairly niche IP to begin with
It's a backstory for a secondary (albeit important) character from Fury Road
People are feeling the pinch financially right now

Having Tom Hardy playing Max as the main character might have bumped the opening weekend Box Office a bit, but not hugely IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't get the part about the economy not doing well, stock market is at all time high and houses are selling for insane prices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sure, but how many theatergoers benefit from either of those?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good joke mate. I laughed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's R rated and violent

You listed positive among the drawbacks.

And yeah, even though it wasn't constant action like Fury Road, it definitely felt gorier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

R is typically a drawback financially because it can't be marketed as a "family friendly outing". Even a PG13 movie gets mom+dad+kids ticket sales, where rated R gets Mom this week and Dad next week.