The first day’s box office collection for David Leitch’s action comedy The Fall Guy, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, is less than anticipated worldwide.
According to early estimates, the film, which opened in cinemas on Friday, made about Rs 50 lakh. This propelled it to the top of the box office charts on Friday, outperforming domestic competition.
According to Variety, $10.4 million was raised on opening day, $3 million of which came from paid previews.
Less than anticipated
Based on the present trend, The Fall Guy’s first weekend collection is projected to be $28 million, far less than the low-to-mid $30 million anticipated for this year’s first summer blockbuster.
With the exception of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), it was the director’s most costly production to date, having been made on a $130 million budget. It will probably, however, make less money than his previous film, the Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train (2022), which debuted at $30 million and was produced on a significantly smaller budget of $90 million.
Additionally, given the recent accomplishments of its starring duo, The Fall Guy’s opening isn’t very good. While Emily Blunt appeared in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning picture Oppenheimer, which opened the same week as Barbie, Ryan Gosling starred in Greta Gerwig’s $1 billion smash Barbie last year.
Plot of The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy centres on Ryan Gosling’s character, Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who left the industry a year earlier to attend to his physical and mental well-being. He is called back into service when the star of a big-budget studio picture that his ex-director, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), was directing, goes missing.
The Glen A. Larson ABC sitcom from the 1980s, which starred Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, served as the inspiration for the movie. Over 100 episodes of The Fall Guy were produced throughout its five seasons on ABC. Alongside Ted Lasso appear Hannah Waddingham and Aaron Taylor-Johnson—who is allegedly the future James Bond—in the action comedy 2024.
