{"id":2254180,"date":"2024-05-28T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-on-track-to-have-worst-memorial-day-weekend-since-1995-garfield-and-furiosa-flounder\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:59:02","slug":"box-office-on-track-to-have-worst-memorial-day-weekend-since-1995-garfield-and-furiosa-flounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-on-track-to-have-worst-memorial-day-weekend-since-1995-garfield-and-furiosa-flounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office Set for Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995, &#8216;Garfield&#8217; and &#8216;Furiosa&#8217; Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbox-office-on-track-to-have-worst-memorial-day-weekend-since-1995-garfield-and-furiosa-flounder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Memorial Day weekend box office fell short \u200cof expectations with &#8220;Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga&#8221; and &#8220;The Garfield Movie&#8221; \u2063underperforming. Total holiday sales amounted \u200bto just $128.3 million, a\u200d significant drop from \u200dprevious years. Industry\u200d experts express concern over the\u200b disappointing results and emphasize the\u2063 pivotal role of the summer season in the overall \u2062annual\u2062 revenue of the film\u200d industry. The Memorial Day weekend box office disappointed as &#8220;Furiosa: A Mad Max\u200d Saga&#8221; and &#8220;The Garfield Movie&#8221; didn&#8217;t meet expectations. Total holiday sales were only \u2062$128.3 million, a noticeable decline from previous years. Experts are worried\u2064 about these\u2064 results and highlight the crucial impact\u200b of the summer season \u200bon the film industry&#8217;s\u2062 annual revenue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expectations were high for the Memorial Day weekend <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movie-theaters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">box office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  as \u201cFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga\u201d exceeded targets for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-projected-to-have-worst-flop-of-the-year-while-faith-based-film-is-zooming-past-expectations\/\" title=\"Disney's anticipated film predicted to be biggest flop of the year, while faith-based movie exceeds all expectations.\">ticket pre-sales<\/a>. Ultimately, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">film<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  had a disappointing opening, with $32 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cherokee-nation-asks-jeep-to-drop-name-of-top-selling-vehicle-saying-it-does-not-honor-us\/\" title=\"Cherokee Nation Asks Jeep To Drop Name Of Top-Selling Vehicle, Saying It \u2018Does Not Honor Us\u2019\">total sales<\/a> for the four<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-quietly-issued-another-executive-order-this-one-concerning-the-military\/\" title=\"President Trump Quietly Issued Another Executive Order \u2013 This One Concerning the Military\">-day weekend<\/a>. \u201cThe Garfield Movie\u201d made just over $31 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Total sales for the holiday weekend topped out at just $128.3 million, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/27\/business\/summer-box-office-memorial-day\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, representing a steep decline from the same time span in 2023, which brought in just under $205 million. It\u2019s well under the top performing Memorial Day weekend in 2013 when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">moviegoers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  spent $314.3 million, driven mainly by the release of that year\u2019s mega-hit \u201cFast &#038; Furious 6.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s no way to sugarcoat it, the numbers that are coming out this weekend are nothing to write home about,\u201d Paul Degarabedian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-in-2nd-weekend-dune-bests-last-night-in-soho-antlers\/\" title=\"Box Office: In 2nd weekend, \u2018Dune\u2019 Bests \u2018Last Night in Soho,\u2019 \u2018Antlers\u2019\">senior media analyst<\/a> with Comscore, told CNN about the disappointing results. The next lowest Memorial Day weekend was led by \u201cCasper\u201d in 1995, with total box office sales totaling just over $117 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSummer is the most important moviegoing season of the year, accounting on average for nearly 40% of the total domestic annual revenue, so as goes the summer so goes the year,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last summer was dominated by \u201cBarbenheimer\u201d mania, with the release of the comedy \u201cBarbie\u201d and Christopher Nolan\u2019s historical drama \u201cOppenheimer\u201d on the same weekend in late July. Combined, the films raked in close to $1 billion domestically. This summer so far doesn\u2019t have any standout contenders for similar results. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2024 season will be full of franchise follow-ups, including \u201cBad Boys: Ride or Die\u201d next week. Degarabedian mentioned a few other upcoming titles that had potential, including \u201cDespicable Me 4,\u201d \u201cInside-Out 2,\u201d and \u201cDeadpool &#038; Wolverine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSans a Marvel movie to provide a $100-million-plus opening weekend to get the momentum going, this summer will have to make up ground in June and July,\u201d he added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Entertainment industry experts also noted that Disney has yet to release a single film in 2024, which is likely contributing to the downward trend in ticket sales. They noted that $100 million-plus openings are more likely with well-known franchises like Marvel and Star Wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The analysts are still blaming post-pandemic viewing habits for the low ticket sales but insist that there\u2019s still potential for studios to make money this summer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMoviegoing habits have changed drastically since the pandemic, but we continue to see significant enthusiasm when it comes to the theatrical experience,\u201d Daniel Loria, editorial director at Box Office Pro, told CNN. \u201cThe data clearly shows that audiences can still support the studio tentpole model \u2014 but identifying the movies that will become those blockbuster hits continues to be as difficult to predict as ever before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anticipation was high for the Memorial Day box office with &#8220;Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga&#8221; surpassing pre-sale expectations. However, the film&#8217;s opening fell short, generating $32 million in sales over the four-day weekend. Meanwhile, &#8220;The Garfield Movie&#8221; earned slightly more at $31 million. Overall, holiday weekend sales reached their peak at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2254181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Movie-theater-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Movie-theater-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}