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Box Office: ‘Garfield’ Noodling to First as ‘Furiosa’ Fades in Dead Quiet Summer Weekend
Sony's 'The Garfield Movie' looks to overtake 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' for first place on domestic charts.
Playing in 1,086 locations (including showtimes in a few Imax auditoriums), the high school sports film earned $1.9 million across Friday and preview screenings and looks to take sixth place on domestic charts. Competitors are projecting a drop of around 59% for the dystopian epic’s sophomore outing — not all too bad, but far from the dramatic recovery that it needed to gas up its box office prospects. Its 2015 predecessor “Mad Max: Fury Road,” already considered only a modest box office winner at the time, had earned $63 million through its first seven days in North America.
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