Universal teed off summer last night with 87 North/David Leitch’s Ryan Gosling Emily Blunt action romance, The Fall Guy, which made $3.15M from showtimes that began at 5PM yesterday as well as Wednesday advance screenings.
The movie is only suppose to do around $35M for the weekend, maybe $40M. That’s not your typical start to summer, but we’re in this predicament due to the strikes’ delay on feature films.
That start preview wise is right near Paramount’s adventure rom com, Lost City, from 2022 which did $3.2M before a $30.4M opening and a $105.3M domestic final.
The most previous release date for The Fall Guy was March 1, but Universal pushed it to this weekend after Disney/Marvel Studios’ vacated Deadpool & Wolverine to end of July — which some now view as the true start of summer.
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