Last summer was pretty full of great movies, like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to Throughout the Spider-Verse and Barbie. The 2024 summer movie season kicked off this weekend with The scapegoat and a reissue of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. With two retro movies opening the same weekend – one based on an old ’80s TV show and the other that first premiered in ’99 – you’d think we’d be in for another big summer, but so far the Things are not so good in terms of box office.
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Individually, those two films performed pretty solidly: autumn boy (headlined by Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt) finished with $65.4 million worldwide, of which $28.5 million came from North America. fell just short of initial projections of $30-40 million domestically, still has pretty good reviews, and word of mouth can help get it over the finish line. In second place came Ghost with 8.1 million dollars for North America and 14.5 million dollars in total. prequel darling going decent, like attaching a preview of june The acolyte series for Disney+.
but in Fall Guy In this case, its initial numbers mark a sharp drop (heh) compared to those of 2023 and 2022. In both cases, Marvel started things: Guardians opened last year on May 5 to $118.4 million, and doctor strange 2 saw $187.4 million. Deadpool and Wolverine It was once meant to come out this weekend too along with Fall Guy, but production was suspended in July due to strikes and had just over a month of filming left. The Marvel film will occupy a slot in May as usual, this year’s figures have been reduced by 53% (for 2022) and 66% (2022), doing what Variety called the softest start to summer movies in about 15 years.
Looking ahead, the rest of May is well stocked with blockbusters. kingdom of the planet of the apes launches next week with a strong buzz behind it, followed by The Strangers: Chapter One and Yeah the 17th of May. furious will close all on May 24, coming right up to Memorial Day weekend. On June 7, that first weekend will be packed with three big movies: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will return with Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Shyamalan family exit The watchers, and Russell Crowe returns to horror with Exorcism.
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