Last summer was pretty full of big movies from people like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 To Across the Spider-Verse And Barbie. The 2024 summer movie season kicked off this weekend The Guy case and a re-release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. With two retro movies coming out on the same weekend – one based on an old ’80s TV show and the other first released in 1999 – you’d think we’re in for another big summer, but so far that’s not the case As far as box office receipts go, it’s just as tough.
Individually, these two films did pretty well: Fall Guy (headlined by Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt) landed at $65.4 million worldwide, of which $28.5 million came from North America. Although it fell just shy of initial projections of $30 million to $40 million domestically, it still has pretty good reviews and word of mouth could help push it over the finish line. He took second place phantom with $8.1 million for North America and $14.5 million overall. A growing one Prequel preference works quite well, as does attaching a preview for June The Acolyte Series for Disney+.
But in Fall Guys In this case, the opening numbers represent a sharp decline (heh) from those of 2023 and 2022. In both cases, Marvel came first: Guardian opened on May 5 last year for $118.4 million Doctor Strange 2 saw $187.4 million. Deadpool and Wolverine was originally supposed to be released this weekend as well autumn person, However, due to the strikes, production was halted in July of that year and filming only lasted just over a month. So since, as usual, no Marvel film takes up a May slot, the numbers this year are down 53% (for 2022) and 66% (2022), so what diversity is being described as the softest start for summer films in around 15 years.
Looking ahead, the rest of May is full of blockbusters. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Releases next week with strong buzz behind them, followed by The Strangers: Chapter One And If on May 17th. Angry will conclude on May 24th, heading straight into Memorial Day weekend. On June 7th, the first weekend is packed with three big films: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are returning Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Shyamalan family trots out The Guardians, and Russell Crowe returns to horror The exorcism.
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