‘Garfield,’ ‘Furiosa’ repeat atop box office charts as slow summer grinds on

Top movies at North American box office: The Garfield Movie leads, followed by IF and Furiosa, with new releases falling short.

It was a quiet weekend at North American movie theatres, dominated once again by Sony’s The Garfield Movie, Warner Bros.’ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and a slew of holdovers. Flipping the script from their Memorial weekend openings, the animated orange cat crept ahead of the wasteland warrior in their second outing.

The Garfield Movie earned a chart-topping $14 million in ticket sales while Furiosa settled into third place in a close race with IF, according to studio estimates on Sunday. Both IF and Furiosa are estimated to have earned $10.8 million, with IF getting the slight edge.

Garfield fell only 42% in its second weekend in North America. It also topped the global box office adding $27 million from international territories, bringing its running worldwide to $152.2 million. The animated pic featuring the voice of Chris Pratt will essentially have the market to itself until Inside Out 2 arrives on June 14.

Furiosa, meanwhile, fell 59% from its first weekend, adding just under $10.8 million from 3,864 locations in the U.S. and Canada. That puts its running domestic total at $49.7 million and its global sum at $114.4 million against a $168 million production budget.

There were several new releases that opened on over 1,000 screens this weekend: Sony/Crunchyroll’s anime Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle; IFC’s horror In a Violent Nature; Roadside Attractions’ Diane Keaton-Alfre Woodard-Kathy Bates comedy Summer Camp; And Bleecker Street’s father-son drama Ezra. None managed to crack the top five, however.

Disney also released the well-reviewed Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley as the first woman to swim the English Channel, but did not report its ticket sales. Likewise, Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is currently playing in select theaters around the country before it comes to streaming next week, but Netflix does not release box office numbers.

Second place went to Paramount’s IF, with $10.8 million in its third weekend. John Krasinski’s imaginary friends fantasy starring Ryan Reynolds and Cailey Fleming has now made over $80.4 million domestically and $138 million worldwide. Disney/20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes landed in fourth place in its fourth weekend with $8.8 million. It has now made $140 million domestically and $337.1 million globally.