I’m pulling hard for George Miller’s “Furiosa” to exceed expectations at the box-office, it needs to make its money back for additional ‘Mad Max’ movies to ever get greenlit in the future — “The Wasteland” with Tom Hardy is something I’d love to see. However, based on what I’m hearing, it might be a very difficult weekend for the film.
The latest numbers. “Furiosa” grossed just $3.5M in Thursday previews. That’s the figure I got this morning. I’ll update this post if there’s any change, but it should be more or less that number. This has lowered its weekend estimates to a 3-day $30M opening, 4-day $35M.
The budget for “Furiosa” is said to be around $170M. Deadline previously reported that it needs to gross $440M worldwide to break even. Maybe word-of-mouth will spread in the coming days. Although not as acclaimed as 2015’s‘Fury Road,’ “Furiosa” is certainly well-reviewed — 79 on Metacritic and 88 on Rotten Tomatoes.
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.