THB #551: Who Is The Fall Guy For The Fall Guy?
The Wall Street Journal’s Robbie Whelan asked a question on Saturday morning…
… which caused me to spend some Saturday time doing a little research. The question was in consideration of The Fall Guy’s failure to open to open the summer, in spite of 2 “A-list” stars, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Here are some establishing stats…
The first ever $100 million opening weekend was on “opening day” of summer with Spider-Man pulling in $115 million on May 3, 2002.
In the 20 “opening days” since (not counting 2020 or 2021 and including the week-early launches of the last Avengers films), 11 have been $100 million or better and just 3 have been under $50 million.
The Fall Guy is the 2nd lowest “summer opening weekend” grosser in these last 22 years, after 2005’s Kingdom of Heaven, and the 97th best opening in the month of May. The third under-$50m summer launch was Mission: Impossible III with $47.7 million.
The Fall Guy is only movie to put itself in that summer opening slot in these last 21 summ…
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