“Bad Boys for Life,” “Inside Out 2” and “A Quiet Place: Day One” must reverse May’s misfortune in theaters
The Hollywood strikes’ impact on the summer calendarOne month into summer, 2024’s box office is in serious need of a rebound.
at the movies in decades, per Comscore. The first summer month of 2024 was down more than 30% from May 2022, after summer 2023 as a whole beat that of 2017, thanks to the success of blockbusters like “Barbie,” “Spider-Verse 2,” “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” and “Oppenheimer.”“Bad Boys 4” from Sony is the first June tentpole out today, alongside Ishana Night Shyamalan’s horror debut “The Watchers” from Warners, which will also release “Trap” from father M. Night Shyamalan in August.
Still, “Garfield” beating “Furiosa” is a likely indication of which films will deliver on the $100 million opening threshold. “Inside Out 2,” a sequel to 2015’s hit film from Pixar, releases next weekend with virtually no competition. “Garfield” isn’t the strongest performer, but Universal’s “Kung Fu Panda 4” is finishing its spring run at just under $200 million domestically, the best such haul for the franchise since the first film in 2008.
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