This weekend will be one of the most competitive at the box office in a long time
With the much anticipated release of "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "Pitch Perfect 2," both opening on Thursday night, the projections for this weekend's domestic box office take are the most competitive in months.
The rabid fans for Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and the other "Pitch Perfect" gals are planning to come out in force this weekend with early domestic projections predicting a $50 million three-day gross.
Meanwhile, the over decade-long wait for "Fury Road," which stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, has predictions of a take around $40 million for the three days, according to Deadline.
This weekend will be especially fun for box office watchers, as this face-off is the first competitive weekend between two opening-weekend films since last year.
We have to go all the way back to the beginning of November 2014, where the kid friendly "Big Hero 6" ($56.2 million) edged out Christopher Nolan's space opus "Interstellar" ($47.5 million) on their opening weekends.
Since then the top spot has been mostly flooded with big titles facing little competition and winning the top spot over multiple weeks such as, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," "American Sniper," "Furious 7," and "Avengers: Age of Ultron."
According to Fandango this week, "Pitch Perfect 2" was voted the most anticipated comedy of the summer on a poll they conducted, and the pre-sales for "Fury Road" are stronger than previously released R-rated action movies like "Lucy" and "Kingsman: The Secret Service."