Garfield, Furiosa continue to top box office charts amid slow summer grind

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The Garfield Movie earned a chart-topping $14 million in ticket sales while Furiosa settled into third place in a close race with IF, according to studio estimates on Sunday

and a slew of holdovers. Flipping the script from their Memorial weekend openings, the animated orange cat crept ahead of the wasteland warrior in their second outing.fell only 42 per cent in its second weekend in North America. It also topped the global box office adding $27 million from international territories, bringing its running worldwide to $152.2 million.

The 2024 box office is struggling compared to both last year and pre-pandemic standards , according to data from Comscore. On this weekend last year,was still pulling in over $41.4 million in its second weekend. This year has yet to have any film open to over $100 million domestically.“It should come as no surprise given the nature of this year’s trajectory that we are running this far behind,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore.

“It’s a momentum business,” he added. “The attention right now is focused on what will be the big movie to get the summer moving in the right direction.”Dergarabedian also noted that absent a big superhero movie, it’s the family-oriented films that have been resonating recently. They might not open to the biggest numbers, but as, which Warner Bros. released in early March and has made over $711 million globally. Its domestic take of $282.1 million represents 10.

“I hope soon that there will be other successes at the box office,” Villeneuve said, as reported by Yahoo. “I hope sooner or later that this summer box office will be much better.” Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.Switch gears. Give your brain a workout and do today's Daily Cryptic Crossword.

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