UPDATE: 2025-07-02 07:57 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Garfield Takes No. 1 While Furiosa Falls Behind At No. 3

This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with altered box office projections (in bold), a full chart, and further analysis.

Summary

The Garfield Moviepulled ahead ofFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagaas their neck-and-neck box office race continued into week 2. The former’s domestic opening and the latter’s worldwide opening took place over Memorial Day, which led to a neck-and-neck race for box office dominance during the three-day holiday weekend. Eventually, theFuriosabox officetook No. 1 with a 4-day total of $32.3 million, trailed byGarfieldat $31.3 million, but it was too close to call until Monday, an unusually tight race for a modern domestic box office weekend.

PerVariety,The Garfield Movieis closing out its second weekend in domestic theaters with a 3-day total of$14 million. Although both titles are still performing with similarly middling results,Garfieldhas pulled ahead ofFuriosa, which has fallen to No. 3 with$10.7 million. This marks a roughly59%drop forFuriosa, which is reasonably solid for a major blockbuster in week 2, thoughGarfield’s much slimmer 42% dropis what has caused this discrepancy between the titles.

Underwhelming Holdovers Dominate The Top 5 With Garfield & Furiosa

IF And The Fall Guy Fill Out The Chart Despite Lukewarm Box Office

The first weekend in June featured a dearth of new wide-release movies, none of which reached the Top 5, though the new anime titleHaikyu!! The Dumpster Battlehit No. 6. As such, the domestic Top 5 contains the exact same titles as Memorial Day weekend, withthe only major change beingFuriosaandIFswapping chart positions. Overall, the domestic box office made just $67.4 million this weekend, which is down 67% from the same weekend in 2023, which saw the release ofSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. See the full domestic Top 5 below:

1

$14 million

$51.5 million (weekend 2)

2

$10.8 million

$80.4 million (weekend 3)

3

$10.7 million

$49.6 million (weekend 2)

4

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

$9.2 million

$140 million (weekend 4)

5

$4.3 million

$80.3 million (weekend 5)

On top of that overall number, the state of the Top 5 doesn’t spell particularly good news for the domestic box office. Of the other three movies filling out the chart, only one, the No. 4 title, can be considered abona fidehit. TheKingdom of the Planet of the Apesbox officemakes it one of the only proper hits of the summer so far, as it has earned $337 million worldwide and become the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year behindKung Fu Panda 4,Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, andDune: Part Two.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesis still so far the lowest-grossingPlanet of the Apesmovie since the 2001 Tim Burton remake, which earned $362.2 million worldwide, though this could change as it continues to climb the worldwide chart.

IFovertakingFuriosadoesn’t necessarily mean that it is doing wellin and of itself. The movie cost $110 million and has so far hasjust barely made its production budget back worldwide. In a similar vein,The Fall Guy, which has almost the exact same cumulative domestic gross asIF, cost an estimated $150 million and is similarly struggling to earn much higher than that number at the global box office. Both underwhelming titles remaining in the Top 5 for so long shows how weak the overall domestic box office has been in recent weeks.

Which Movie Is Doing Better, Furiosa Or Garfield?

Both Movies Have Different Box Office Targets

AlthoughThe Garfield Movieis pulling ahead of theFuriosarelease, itremains to be seen if either movie can ultimately be considered a hit by the end of their runs. This will ultimately depend on their overall worldwide totals and their production budgets. Because theaters keep half of ticket sales, generally a movie’s break-even point is at least twice its production budget, though that number doesn’t account for marketing costs. Below, see how close both movies' cumulative domestic totals (using the Saturday projections) have come to hitting that point so far:

$168 million

$336 million

$49.6 million

$60 million

$120 million

$51.5 million

Although the weekend’s full numbers for international markets won’t come in until later in the weekend, theGarfieldreleasehas been playing overseas since the beginning of May and it has already earned an estimated $152 million worldwide.Furiosa, which opened worldwide over Memorial Day weekend, only earned $32.8 million internationally in its first week. With those confirmed numbers, theMad Maxprequel has not hit its break-even point yet, though it seems more or less inevitable thatGarfield’s international weekend has easily pushed it past $120 million worldwide.

The fact that both movies had such lukewarm domestic week 2 performances in a weekend with no major competitive new wide releases likely isn’t a great sign for their continued domestic performance throughout the summer. However, ifThe Garfield Moviemaintains a consistent week-over-week hold, it will very likely zoom toward becoming a solid hit in short order.Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, on the other hand, has a much longer journey ahead of it considering its enormous budget.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Cast

A prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa is an action-adventure film that tells the origin story of the headstrong and fearless Furiosa. Set shortly after the beginning of the “end of the world,” Furiosa is kidnapped and brought before a powerful warlord, now forced to work for him. To find her way back home, Furiosa will adapt to the new harsh and arid world as she grows into the Furiosa she becomes known to be.

The Garfield Movie

The Garfield Movie, released in 2024, follows Garfield, the lasagna-loving cat, as he embarks on an outdoor adventure with his canine companion Odie. The journey begins when Garfield is unexpectedly reunited with his long-lost father, Vic, leading them to join a comedic, high-stakes heist.