Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt posing as Colt and Jody on the poster for The Fall Guy.
The Big Picture Universal’s The Fall Guy has been handed the responsibility of kicking off the Hollywood summer this year, and it’s stumbling out of the gate. The movie couldn’t crack the modest $30 million mark in its opening weekend, despite weeks of positive buzz, an all-out marketing campaign featuring stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and encouraging reviews. Directed by David Leitch, the action-comedy not only fell short of last year’s summer starter Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
Reviews and audience response are the silver lining. The Fall Guy sits at a “fresh” 83% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. It also earned an A- CinemaScore from opening day crowds and has an 87% audience approval rating on RT. In her review, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff described The Fall Guy as a moviemaking lover’s “dream come true,” and highlighted the action set pieces, the cinematography, and the editing.
Slipping to number three after topping the box office in its first weekend, Amazon MGM’s Challengers added a little under $8 million in its second weekend, representing a soft 49% decline. Interestingly, the Zendaya-starrer appears to be drawing the younger women demographic away from The Fall Guy. Challengers has now grossed approximately $30 million in 10 days, after having already emerged as director Luca Guadagnino’s biggest-ever movie at the domestic box office last week.
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