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The Wrong Lessons Of 'Furiosa's Box Office Failure, The Conventional Wisdom Debunked by 'Garfield' and 'IF'

Thebox office report for June 02, 2024 as Hollywood takes the week off before the likely double whammy of Will Smith's 'Bad Boys 4' and Pixar's 'Inside Out 2'

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Scott Mendelson
Jun 02, 2024
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The weekend box office report for June 2, 2024, as Hollywood more or less skipped this post-Memorial Day frame. The good news is that meant decent holds for pretty much all of the holdovers. The bad news is that the overall weekend cume is under $70 million domestic. And no, there was no Elemental-sized miracle for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, while Sony could be this summer’s stealth winner in terms of reasonably budgeted films performing reasonably well throughout the season.

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