More bad news continues to roll in for far-left Hollywood and its woke movies, the latest in a long, long line of which is the female-led dystopian flick, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” In fact, that film’s performance has been so poor that it might even mean that the franchise’s time is at an end after it was rebooted from the famous originals, which were much more masculine than Furiosa. Indeed, even women haven’t shown up to watch the feminist apocalypse flick, the latest data shows.
As background, Furiosa opened on the Memorial Day long weekend and brought in a dismal amount, particularly compared to its large budget and the theoretical attention that should have been directed its way by the long weekend and beginning of summer. The American Tribune, reporting on that dismal opening, noted:
Following the box office flop of”Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” reports indicate that future cinematic installments of the “Mad Max” franchise could be put on hold. “Furiosa” was a prequel to the 2015 release of “Mad Max Fury Road.” However, the film underperformed as the box office experienced one of the worst Memorial Day weekends in nearly a quarter century.
From a financial perspective, “Furiosa” had an expensive production budget of $160 million, which only brought in around $70 million globally during the Memorial Day weekend. According to these figures, the film is far from breaking even before factoring in marketing and promotional costs.
Making those numbers all the worse for the studio is that, despite having a female action lead, a decision that shattered the gritty post-apocalypse image of the previous films for numerous viewers, as they complained about online, is that fewer women and young people are showing up to watch this iteration of the Mad Max franchise than past ones.
Such is what the Blaze reported based on its research into the film and its viewers, noting that, the 2015 Mad Max reboot film, Fury Road, opened to a 40 percent female audience. Meanwhile, despite this film in the reboot franchise having a female lead, which would theoretically bring women to the theater, Furiosa only saw 29 percent female viewership.
That’s not all. The Blaze also noted that younger viewers failed to show up to Furiosa. Only 21 percent of those who showed up for it were from the much-desired 18 to 24-year-old age demographic. Like with female viewership, that contrasts poorly with Fury Road, which saw 31 percent 18-24-year-old viewers when it came out in theaters.
Despite the dismal news, film director George Miller remained somewhat positive and forward-looking when speaking about the movie at the Cannes Film Festival, saying, “There’s certainly more stories there. Maybe because in order to tell the story of ‘Fury Road,’ we needed to know about ‘Furiosa’ and Max in the years before.”
Similarly, speaking to Blaze News, Christian Toto, an entertainment reporter, said that though Furiosa is struggling, it isn’t doing badly enough to kill the rebooted franchise. Toto said, that the dismal results “won’t kill the franchise. Hollywood clings to IPs[Intellectual Properties], even the ones that have stumbled or collapsed.”
Continuing and pointing to examples, he said, “See the ‘Terminator’ saga, which had not one but two duds before they took a knee. Still, a ‘Mad Max’ movie without Mad Max — or the actress who embodied the title character — is a tough sell.” He added, “Audiences increasingly know films are hitting video on-demand faster and faster these days. Just look at ‘The Fall Guy,’ already available for home viewing.”
Watch cast member Christ Hemsworth speak about the movie during the Cannes Film Festival here:
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