This year’s Memorial Weekend total U.S. box office take was the lowest since 1999, with new releases Baywatch and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales both falling below commercial projections, heading into the frame. May 2017 in general hasn’t been a great month for Hollywood at the domestic box office, between Warner Bros.’ costly King Arthur: Legend of the Sword bombing and 20th Century Fox’s Alien: Covenant joining Baywatch and Dead Men Tell No Tales on the list of under-performing summer tentpoles (see also, Covenant‘s huge Friday-to-Friday box office drop-off).
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