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Last summer was filled with great films, like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has Through the Spider-Verse And barbie. The 2024 summer film season kicked off this weekend with The guy who falls just in time and a reissue of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. With two throwback movies coming out in 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 great summer, but so far things are not going as planned. hitting just as hard in terms of box office.
Individually, these two films were pretty solid: Scapegoat (with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt headlining) ended up grossing $65.4 million worldwide, with $28.5 million coming from North America. Even though it fell short of initial projections of $30-40 million domestically, it still received pretty good reviews, and word of mouth could help get it over the finish line. In second place came Ghost with $8.1 million for North America and $14.5 million overall. A growth leaning towards the prequel goes in the right direction, as does attaching an overview of the month of June The Acolyte series for Disney+.
But in Fall Guys In this case, its opening numbers mark a sharp drop (heh) compared to those of 2023 and 2022. In both cases, Marvel kicked things off: Guardians opened last year on May 5 to $118.4 million, and Doctor Strange 2 saw $187.4 million. Deadpool and Wolverine was once supposed to release this weekend as well alongside Scapegoat, but production was suspended in July due to strikes, and there was just over a month of filming remaining. So, without any Marvel films filling a May slot as usual, this year's numbers are down 53% (for 2022) and 66% (2022), making Variety called the softest start to summer movies in about 15 years.
Looking ahead, the rest of May will be full of blockbusters. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes comes out next week with a lot of buzz behind it, followed by The Strangers: Chapter One And If on May 17. Furiosa will wrap things up on May 24, running through Memorial Day weekend. On June 7, this first weekend will be filled with three great films: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return with Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the Shyamalan family trots out The observers, and Russell Crowe returns to horror with The exorcism.
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