Retiring Guy's Digest: USA box office on 3rd weekend in May (2017-2023)

USA box office on the third weekend of May 2023 is up 37% compared to last year when "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" was the top-grossing movie.

USA box office is down 42% from the 2018 peak when "Deadpool 2" was the top-grossing movie.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Source: Variety, 5/21/2023

The drive-away win was the biggest opening for a non-Chinese film this year, the biggest non-holiday opening in China by a film of any nationality, this year and was within a whisker of the opening weekend score by “Avatar 2” in December.
Those numbers will offer encouragement to Hollywood studios, which have seen mostly unspectacular results for their titles in China over the past two years. The rest of the year holds the prospect of a further few months of outings that are largely coordinated with international release schedules.

Original 5/21/2023 post starts here

The USA box office on the Friday of the third weekend of May 2023 is up 46% compared to last year when "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" was the top-grossing movie.

This Friday's USA box office is down 44% from the 2018 peak when "Deadpool 2" was the top-grossing movie.

Source: Box Office Mojo

Variety, 5/20/2023

On Thursday, “Fast X” raked in $7.5 million in previews, setting it on track to earn more than $60 million in its first weekend of release. That puts the 10th chapter in the “Fast” saga at No. 7 in terms of highest box office debuts, between 2021’s “F9: The Fast Saga” ($70 million) and 2019’s “Hobbs and Shaw” ($60 million). Internationally, “Fast X” is looking to bring in over $250 million in its opening weekend, and it’s already the No. 2 global opening of the year behind “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” The movie cost Universal $340 million to produce and another $100 million to promote, so “Fast X” will need Fast Family members from around the world to speed to theaters in order to turn a profit.

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