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Furiosa and Garfield fail to save US box office from worst Memorial Day since 1995
US box office revenue is down 36% on last year’s Memorial Day weekend, as the two leading films take only around $30m each
Neither a fat cat nor a ravening pack of post-apocalyptic Australian warlords could save US cinemas from their worst performance over the Memorial Day weekend in nearly three decades. Photograph: Columbia Pictures/Sony/APFuriosa, whose budget has been estimated at $168m (£131.6m), had been expected to open with around $40-45m (£31-35m), around the same as the previous instalment Mad Max: Fury Road, which debuted on a normal weekend in the US, rather than over a holiday period, ahead of a final total of $380m (£298m) globally. Sequel fatigue has been credited for the disappointing takings, as well as the fact original stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy didn’t return.
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