I am not sure why we cant just let this franchise die....having said that, I did not expect to like Fury Road and came away with positive thoughts. I do recall though thinking Theron was the best thing about that film, with the exception of the bad guy...art design people in this franchise seem to get the aesthetics so right.
I will likely give it a go when it is out, but from the trailers I have seen, Hemsworth's portrayal appears over the top...will have to wait and see if that is on purpose, or just badly done.
I saw the trailer last week and thought, yeah, I'll probably go see it. Saw the trailer again last night at IMAX and was blown away. Definitely need to see it there.
I doubt I will waste my money watching the new Mad Max. I watched (with regret) Fury Road - messy, chaotic and unmemorable action scenes with ugly characters with boring dialogue that I couldn't care less what happened to. But that's typical of many blockbusters today (sadly).
As long as blockbuster series continue to make money, irrespective of their quality, major studios will continue to make them. Mad Max, Planet of The Apes, King Kong, James Bond, Fast And The Furious, Jurassic Park being some of the more popular series that attract audiences..
The film is underperforming and is stalling at the Australian and the international box office. The Garfield Movie is not far behind it in box office receipts at the U.S.A. box office.
The Australian 4 day opening weekend total gross for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was $2,226,309. There were 630 screens involved averaging $3,534 per screen.
The producers, distributor and cinema owners reaction.
Furiosa A Mad Max Saga box office receipts are being called a disaster, and also a failure in the media postings.
These disappointing results are despite the mainly positive reviews the film has received from critics and audience who have actually viewed the film.
How much of the failure perhaps is because people aren't going to the cinemas in general as much these days? Perhaps it is because this particular film hasn't enthused people to go because of the trailers and publicity that has been presented to them? One has to wonder why?
It was once stated by someone that no franchise is ever ended anymore. They're just put on pause.
A major problem as far as I am concerned with all films in general is how quickly after the cinema release they are available on streaming services.
I think the quick to stream is because that is where all the money is for them. Hardly anyone goes to the cinema these days (unfortunately). Its just not a fun experience any more.
I have just finished watching on free to air television on Channel 9 Sydney's A Current Affair programme, a featured story titled The Death Of Hollywood.
Since the Pandemic and the writers and actors strike didn't help at all, it is now streaming that is causing concern in the heart of Hollywood.
After the heights of the massive two hits of last year Oppenheimer and Barbie, 2024 is turning out to be a disaster with box office receipts drastically down on previous years. 2024 has had a string of highly underperforming high cost and high profile films such as Napoeon, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, The Fall Guy, The Garfield Movie and what was the highest hope of them all Furiosa A Mad Max Saga.
Small independent cinemas are being hit hard by the small audiences with a few country venues having closed their doors, and the possibility of others having to also close in the future if the current downward thread continues.
One source suggested the death of the blockbuster is on the cards.
Another person said films should be made for the cinema, My question is what are these type of films? Most films these days are made with younger audiences in mind, with an abundance of violence included in them. If Furiosa cannot attract big audiences then good luck with future film projects of this violent style of action film.
The high tickets prices around $24 an adult in Australia were suggested don't help attracting audiences either, but by reducing the cost by half it could possibly double the future audiences
There will be high hopes for Alien: Romulus to perform well at the box office when it is released in the cinemas on August 16 of this year.
It is the seventh film in the franchise series. Interestingly according to IMDb, The film was originally scheduled to be released on Hulu, but it switched to a theatrical release in June 2023.
I have just finished watching on free to air television on Channel 9 Sydney's A Current Affair programme, a featured story titled The Death Of Hollywood.
Since the Pandemic and the writers and actors strike didn't help at all, it is now streaming that is causing concern in the heart of Hollywood.
After the heights of the massive two hits of last year Oppenheimer and Barbie, 2024 is turning out to be a disaster with box office receipts drastically down on previous years. 2024 has had a string of highly underperforming high cost and high profile films such as Napoeon, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, The Fall Guy, The Garfield Movie and what was the highest hope of them all Furiosa A Mad Max Saga.
Small independent cinemas are being hit hard by the small audiences with a few country venues having closed their doors, and the possibility of others having to also close in the future if the current downward thread continues.
One source suggested the death of the blockbuster is on the cards.
Another person said films should be made for the cinema, My question is what are these type of films? Most films these days are made with younger audiences in mind, with an abundance of violence included in them. If Furiosa cannot attract big audiences then good luck with future film projects of this violent style of action film.
The high tickets prices around $24 an adult in Australia were suggested don't help attracting audiences either, but by reducing the cost by half it could possibly double the future audiences
It will be interesting to see how Deadpool 4 goes. With all the hype, am expecting it to do well.
I feel for the small cinema chains, but you have to do something different these days to attract people in...esp at the moment with the cost of everything. Very few people are going to want to spend a couple a hundred bucks (by the time you pay for tickets and food) to take their family to see a movie.
With home cinema set ups being so fantastic these days, the experience of going to the movies has to be fun, but usually is not.
I really hope that cinemas dont die out, but not sure how well they will be able make it through the changing landscape of entertainment.
Deadpool & Wolverine coming July 26. It certainly. will be interesting as Ves has previously mentioned, to see how this one fares at the box office. All the ingredients would appear to be there to make it a huge hit, but who knows what will happeb these days.
Since the early part of last century there has always been franchise films on our screen. Tarzan, Blondie, Francis , Ma And Pa Kettle, The Saint, The Falcon, The Creature From The Black Lagoon just to name a few.
As they attracted audiences the studios continued to make money by churning them out. Eventually the quality of the series declined and audiences became tied of them and attendances decreased, so they stopped making them.
Is this something that is happening to take place today?
I think today it is all about how many $$$ the movies are pulling in. I have no idea how many of those fast/furious films there are, but they must be making money for them to keep churning them out. Not my genre so I am indeed biased, but can't imagine we are talking about high quality story telling here...
I am also seeing a significant uptick in remakes/reimaginings etc...It seems there are not many people left in the Hollywood system with original ideas, and all they can come up with is re-do something that was popular before, for the current generation.
Case in point is The Crow:
What idiot thought it was a good idea to remake this iconic film? I'm just waiting for some moron to suggest a remake of Jaws...then I know we are definately FARKED!
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Overall generally excellent early preview reviews for Furiosa A Mad Max Saga.
We will have to wait now to see how it fares at the box office.
I do recall though thinking Theron was the best thing about that film, with the exception of the bad guy...art design people in this franchise seem to get the aesthetics so right.
I will likely give it a go when it is out, but from the trailers I have seen, Hemsworth's portrayal appears over the top...will have to wait and see if that is on purpose, or just badly done.
Peter
The first box office results for Furiosa A Mad Max Saga are at hand.
Box Office, ''Furiosa' off to Slow Start (Variety).
More details later on.
The film is underperforming and is stalling at the Australian and the international box office. The Garfield Movie is not far behind it in box office receipts at the U.S.A. box office.
Has anyone seen the movie or intends to see it?
Peter
The producers, distributor and cinema owners reaction.
With all the remakes, sequels, prequels etc, no wonder cinema is dying.
It must be near impossible to get anything original over the line these days as it all seems to be about the $
Furiosa A Mad Max Saga box office receipts are being called a disaster, and also a failure in the media postings.
These disappointing results are despite the mainly positive reviews the film has received from critics and audience who have actually viewed the film.
How much of the failure perhaps is because people aren't going to the cinemas in general as much these days? Perhaps it is because this particular film hasn't enthused people to go because of the trailers and publicity that has been presented to them? One has to wonder why?
Bad Boys Ride Of Die is the next franchise film about to hit our screens on June 7. I am curious to see how this one will fare.
‘Disaster’: Screen fears grow on Furiosa flop (news.com.au)
A major problem as far as I am concerned with all films in general is how quickly after the cinema release they are available on streaming services.
Hardly anyone goes to the cinema these days (unfortunately).
Its just not a fun experience any more.
Since the Pandemic and the writers and actors strike didn't help at all, it is now streaming that is causing concern in the heart of Hollywood.
After the heights of the massive two hits of last year Oppenheimer and Barbie, 2024 is turning out to be a disaster with box office receipts drastically down on previous years. 2024 has had a string of highly underperforming high cost and high profile films such as Napoeon, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, The Fall Guy, The Garfield Movie and what was the highest hope of them all Furiosa A Mad Max Saga.
Small independent cinemas are being hit hard by the small audiences with a few country venues having closed their doors, and the possibility of others having to also close in the future if the current downward thread continues.
One source suggested the death of the blockbuster is on the cards.
Another person said films should be made for the cinema, My question is what are these type of films? Most films these days are made with younger audiences in mind, with an abundance of violence included in them. If Furiosa cannot attract big audiences then good luck with future film projects of this violent style of action film.
The high tickets prices around $24 an adult in Australia were suggested don't help attracting audiences either, but by reducing the cost by half it could possibly double the future audiences
There will be high hopes for Alien: Romulus to perform well at the box office when it is released in the cinemas on August 16 of this year.
It is the seventh film in the franchise series. Interestingly according to IMDb, The film was originally scheduled to be released on Hulu, but it switched to a theatrical release in June 2023.
With all the hype, am expecting it to do well.
I feel for the small cinema chains, but you have to do something different these days to attract people in...esp at the moment with the cost of everything. Very few people are going to want to spend a couple a hundred bucks (by the time you pay for tickets and food) to take their family to see a movie.
With home cinema set ups being so fantastic these days, the experience of going to the movies has to be fun, but usually is not.
I really hope that cinemas dont die out, but not sure how well they will be able make it through the changing landscape of entertainment.
Deadpool & Wolverine coming July 26. It certainly. will be interesting as Ves has previously mentioned, to see how this one fares at the box office. All the ingredients would appear to be there to make it a huge hit, but who knows what will happeb these days.
As they attracted audiences the studios continued to make money by churning them out. Eventually the quality of the series declined and audiences became tied of them and attendances decreased, so they stopped making them.
Is this something that is happening to take place today?
I have no idea how many of those fast/furious films there are, but they must be making money for them to keep churning them out.
Not my genre so I am indeed biased, but can't imagine we are talking about high quality story telling here...
I am also seeing a significant uptick in remakes/reimaginings etc...It seems there are not many people left in the Hollywood system with original ideas, and all they can come up with is re-do something that was popular before, for the current generation.
Case in point is The Crow:
What idiot thought it was a good idea to remake this iconic film?
I'm just waiting for some moron to suggest a remake of Jaws...then I know we are definately FARKED!
SOME DO...SOME DON'T.
Some recent World wide box office receipts for franchise films, from roughly around the same period of time.
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes total takings were $359.8 million.
Furiosa A Mad Max Saga total takings were $145 million.
A whopping 214.8 million dollars difference in takings
Just noticed the film is now available on Foxtel in Australia to hire and stream for $29.95.
Interestingly it is still currently screening in a small number of cinemas with limited sessions.
My son, who likes movies like this, thought it wonderful, the others of us, not so much.
It was non-stop action and very long.
I felt less would have been more, and they never had any introduction to the characters, and you had to infer who they were.
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