Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in the film described as a love letter to the stunt community.
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in the film described as a love letter to the stunt community.
The Fall Guy is kicking off summer movie season with a No. 1 debut at the box office, but is coming in below initial tracking. After earning $10.4 million on Friday, the feature is now projected to open to $28 million for the weekend, down from earlier tracking that had it in the $30-$35 million range.
The film earned an A- Cinemascore from audiences, so it’s possible word of mouth could help the movie make up ground coming weeks. Fall Guy is said to have a net budget of $130 million, when accounting for incentives for shooting in Australia. Oversees, it is projected to take in another $25.8 million over the weekend, which would bring its global haul to $65.4 million (it already opened in some markets last week).
David Leitch, the stuntman who over the past decade has become an in-demand director, is behind the project. It stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman who must track down the star of a movie that has gone missing. Emily Blunt plays the director of the feature, who also happens to be the ex of Gosling’s character, with the action-heavy movie also featuring romance as well. Aaron Taylor-Johnson appears as the missing movie star, with the cast also including Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu. After premiering at South by Southwest in March, the film has an 83 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Universal has marketed the feature as a love letter to Hollywood and the stunt community, staging a stunt-heavy premiere, fight-centric TV appearances and a theme park show. The feature, based on the 1980s TV show, comes at the height of Goslings popularity, following his Oscar-nominated performance as Ken in last summer’s Barbie, and breakout moments at the Oscars and on Saturday Night Live. Leitch and his 87North banner, which he runs with wife and producing partner Kelly McCormick, is known for its influential stunt work on their films, such as Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, The Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw and Bullet Train.
More to come.