Summary
- Top anticipated movies for May 2024 include franchises, biopics, action flicks, & horror adaptations.
- The most anticipated new movies are ranked by Attention Signals, based on social metrics.
- George Miller’s Furiosa is the most-awaited movie for May 2024, followed by The Fall Guy and Tarot.
Based on real data, the most anticipated movies of May 2024 include new franchise installments, biopics, exciting action films, and horror adaptations. In partnership with predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has exclusive data revealing the new movies that have recorded the most online engagement ahead of their May premieres. These films are each given hype scores, which are measured by buzz and engagement across various online platforms.
Each new movie is ranked by Attention Signals, which are calculated using measures such as likes, shares, comments, and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These online metrics give helpful insight into the upcoming movies that have made the biggest and widest-reaching virtual impact with audiences before release – regardless of their reviews or box office performances.
10 Most Anticipated Movies Of April 2024 (According To Real Data)
With data from predictive media data analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant lists the 10 most-talked about movies releasing in April 2024.
The new movies in May 2024 with the most online hype include some long-awaited sequels, prequels, and reboots, as well as some compelling original stories. From George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga prequel movie to a new John Krasinski-directed feature, the most talked-about debuts appeal to a wide variety of audiences and demographics. Here’s Screen Rant’s list of the 10 new May 2024 movies that have the most hype before release, as measured by real data.
The attention scale metric is the percentage of attention based on the show or movie in the number one spot (which is represented as 100%)
Top 10 Most Anticipated New Movies – May 2024
The top movies with the most buzz in May 2024
|
Title |
Premiere Date |
Platform |
Genre |
Attention Scale |
Attention Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
5/24/24 |
Warner Bros. |
Action/Adventure |
100.00% |
104,772,594 |
|
|
5/10/24 |
20th Century Studios |
Sci-Fi |
65.77% |
68,908,151 |
|
|
5/3/24 |
Universal Pictures |
Action/Adventure |
58.58% |
61,373,736 |
|
|
5/3/24 |
Sony Pictures |
Horror |
22.94% |
24,036,469 |
|
|
5/17/24 |
Focus Features |
Biopic |
16.50% |
17,284,257 |
|
|
5/17/24 |
Paramount Pictures |
Comedy |
13.88% |
14,538,171 |
|
|
5/24/24 |
Sony Pictures |
Kids & Family |
9.41% |
9,859,773 |
|
|
5/17/24 |
Lionsgate |
Horror |
5.86% |
6,143,786 |
|
|
5/3/24 |
Netflix |
Comedy |
4.50% |
4,710,875 |
|
|
Katt Williams: Woke Foke |
5/3/24 |
Netflix |
Comedy |
1.64% |
1,716,300 |
Arriving nearly a decade after the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s Furiosa is the most anticipated movie of May 2024. The prequel film documents the backstory of Charlize Theron’s Furiosa, with Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the role of the titular character. Following Furiosa in anticipation is the franchise sequel Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the latest installment in the reboot series after 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes. Next up on the leaderboard of May 2024 movies with high online engagement are The Fall Guy, an original action movie starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and Tarot, a supernatural horror movie based on the 1992 book Horrorscope.
Arriving nearly a decade after the 2015 film
Mad Max: Fury Road
, George Miller’s
Furiosa
is the most anticipated movie of May 2024.
Also among May 2024’s most-talked-about movie premieres are the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, John Krasinski-directed comedy movie IF, Chris Pratt-led animated The Garfield Movie adaptation, and horror film The Strangers: Chapter 1, the first entry in the franchise’s new trilogy. May 2024 has no shortage of new movies for comedy fans, as Netflix’s most buzzed-about releases include Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy movie Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story and Katt Williams’ comedy special. As the summer blockbuster season kicks off, the most anticipated movies of May 2024 provide a plethora of entertainment in theaters and at home for streaming.
Diesel Labs is a Content Intelligence company that produces audience insights for the entire media landscape. With a sophisticated machine-learning based approach, they measure millions of audience members’ attention with content across many sources including major social and video platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (beta), and Reddit (beta). For more information, visit
www.diesellabs.com
.
