The Fall Guy in the debut weekend was not as successful as expected, but it still leads the box office with a weak $28.5 million after the return of "Star Wars: Episode I," UNN writes with reference to the Daily Mail.
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According to the newspaper, the summer movie season started rather disappointingly.
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's film was expected to gross between $30 and $40 million, which is quite modest for the first weekend of the summer movie season.
Sunday's estimates are in: The Fall Guy will debut with an even more modest $28.5 million, according to Deadline, easily dethroning last weekend's winner, Challengers.
Disney's re-release of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" took second place with just over $8 million.
The film was a critical success: it received a high score of 83% out of 253 Rotten Tomatoes reviews, as well as an A-Cinemascore and 90% positive reviews in PostTrak interviews after the screening.
However, these good reviews and audience ratings did not translate into a strong debut, which was much lower than the first weekend of May last year, when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 debuted with $118.4 million.
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Total box office receipts for the weekend were about $72.9 million, down 55% from $156 million in the same period in 2023.