MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME BOX OFFICE MOVIE
Mad Max: Fury Road also opened in 68 overseas markets where it added another $65 million to its opening weekend with a $6.8 million bow in France where the movie premiered on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. Mad Max‘s CinemaScore was “B+,” which is surprisingly lower than that of Pitch Perfect 2, so we’re not sure what that says about the people who give these grades. With the North American weekend gross, it has brought in $108.4 million, which is slightly lower than the total global take of the original Pitch Perfect with 30 more markets to come.ĭespite opening in more theaters with overwhelmingly positive reviews and a 98% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Riley Keough and Zoe Kravitz, took in $16.8 million on Friday (including Thursday previews), and it had to settle for second place with an estimated $44.4 million in 3,702 theaters, or $12,000 per theater. That’s still George Miller’s largest opening weekend ever despite being an R-rated film and it’s more than the previous installment Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome made in its theatrical life, although granted, that was 30 years ago and not adjusted for inflation. 45% of that domestic gross was earned from 3D screenings and according to exit polls, the audience was 70% male with 54% over the age of 35. Internationally, Pitch Perfect 2 grossed $27 million in 29 territories to bring its overseas total to $38.1 million, including Australia’s take from last weekend where it opened early. With an “A-” CinemaScore from its 75% female audience with 62% under the age of 25 is a good sign for the movie’s legs over the next few weeks, although young women tend to rush out to see movies they want to see opening weekend as seen by previous young adult hits like “The Twilight Saga” and “The Hunger Games” films, so we’ll have to see if this ends up over $200 million or below.
Once again starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Adam DeVine, Ester Dean and Elizabeth Banks, who made her feature film directorial debut with the sequel, Pitch Perfect 2 kicked off its weekend with $4.6 million in Thursday previews, which helped add to its opening day take of $27.8 million. While it was thought from that Friday the movie would exceed $60 million, it was reported Sunday that it had grossed an estimated $70.3 million for the weekend, which is $5 million more than the original movie grossed in its entire theatrical run. Going into the weekend, it was looking like a tight race between Universal’s comedy sequel Pitch Perfect 2and George Miller’s return to action with Mad Max: Fury Road, but once estimates came in for Friday, it was obvious that Pitch Perfect 2 was going to win the weekend by a large margin… which it did.
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