Box office: Furiosa falls, Garfield rises in a week with no new major films

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga had one of the steepest second-weekend drops of director George Miller's career.

It’s raining cheese as The Garfield Movie takes the top spot at the box office from the fast-falling Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Last week was the worst Memorial Day weekend at the box office in almost 30 years. This week was even worse.

There were no new major releases this week, and the top three films were basically a reshuffled version of last week’s top three:

• The Garfield Movie, which came in second last week, won the weekend (such as it was) with $14 million, one of the smallest #1 grosses of the year.¹

• IF, which came in third last week, rose to second place with an estimated $10.8 million—and if it holds that spot, it will be largely because…

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which narrowly won the box office last week, had one of the steepest second-weekend drops of director George Miller’s career, plunging an estimated 59% and earning only $10.75 million for the weekend.

All this jockeying for position at the top of the chart amounted to little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, though, as overall revenues fell to $64 million, a worrying number at any time of year but especially disastrous during the summer.

For comparison: at this time last year, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened to a whopping $120.7 million, and all the other films that week (including newbie The Boogeyman and holdovers like The Little Mermaid) grossed an additional $84.5 million, for a weekend total of $205.2 million—more than triple this weekend’s take.

It is assumed that next week’s sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, might turn the tide—and, if not that, then perhaps the sequel the week after that, i.e. Inside Out 2.

We shall see.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title: