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After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
May is usually when people flock to cinemas for blockbuster season – but the likes of Furiosa and The Fall Guy are flopping. The industry needs new ideas if it's going to recover.
But the heavens really opened last weekend when Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie were serious commercial disappointments over the US Memorial Day holiday, topping the box office but making only $32m (£25m) and $31.1m (£24.3m) across the four-day period respectively. Over the next couple of months, the would-be blockbusters on offer include Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Inside Out 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Twisters, all of which have a strong whiff of "I'll wait until it comes to streaming" about them. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman may save the day in Deadpool And Wolverine in July, but otherwise this motley bunch of unnecessary, un-called-for sequels and prequels is lacking in anything you might call a must-see.
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