UPDATED: Fury Road Box Office Watch

UPDATED 2X:  Fury Road continues to draw money.  The total draw now internationally stands at around $300,000,000.  But that is likely to rise further, since the movie has yet to open in all areas.  For example, the film is yet to debut in Japan.  Which is a fairly weighty corner of the world, especially for a movie like this, I have a feeling they’ll love it.

Then of course there is the incoming home media profits.  Two more movies are pretty much gauranteed to result from this now.

UPDATED:  Well gentlemen, here are some updated figures courtesy of Box Office Mojo for this most important of manly movies.  As of May 27th..

Domestic: $100,000,000
International: $133,000,000
Total: $233,000,000
Budget: $150,000,000

The movie is still in theaters and in some instances is yet to debut.

PREVIOUSLY:  We have the opening weekend box office numbers for Mad Max: Fury Road, a really good action movie loved by all who have seen it.

Domestic (USA): 44.4 million
International: 110 million

The budget for the movie is said to be around $150 million.  It didn’t actually top the box office, instead Pitch Perfect 2 went on a rampage and took $70 million, more than twice its budget.  I really don’t know what’s wrong with this picture, but I actually had to Google this ‘Perfect’ movie, it’s a femlae-orientated comedy, or something.  More people showed up to that than they did Fury Road, and that’s the bottom line.

I don’t know if I’d call this a bomb just yet, or a financial disappointment.  I’d wager that the movie will have long legs, especially going into memorial weekend in the USA where the older generation who will be more familiar with the movie will be more inclined to hang back a week before catching a movie.  The film is also getting extremely positive word of mouth, so that always counts as well.

Covering the $150 million should be easy enough but ‘success’ for these things is not simply a criterion of passing the original budget.  I’d say we’ll get another movie, the hugely positive feedback and the remainder of its run the world over will probably ensure that.