Fall Guy lands $28.5 million, Phantom Menace returns

Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Savers in David Leitch's The Fall Guy

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It was the '80s and '90s again at the weekend box office. worldwide Scapegoat“Ryan Gosling,” starring Ryan Gosling and based on the 1980s TV series, kicked off the summer movie season in first place with $28.5 million, while the Disney re-release of the film… Star Wars: The Phantom Menace He was surprised to come in second place with $8.1 million.

despite of Autumn man The film took first place, falling short of initial expectations of $30 million to $35 million, and overall its box office was down significantly from the same frame a year earlier, when the Marvel Studios film was a hit. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 It bowed to $118.4 million domestically. Weekends are down 53 percent from last year, and more than 66 percent from 2022, when Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness It opened to $187.4 million domestically.

Scapegoat It is said to have a net budget of $130 million after tax incentives for filming in Australia. The world will now hope so victimAn A- CinemaScore from audiences will help it make up ground in the coming weeks through word of mouth. It also boasts strong reviews from South to Southwest.

Hailing from director-turned-stuntman David Leitch, this film was marketed as a love letter to the stunt community. Gosling, at the peak of his star power thanks to his Oscar-nominated turn as Kane Barbie, stars a defeated businessman who comes out of retirement to try to find a missing A-list star and salvage a movie (which happens to be directed by his ex-wife, played by Emily Blunt). This feature has a global revenue of $65.4 globally.

Imaginary dangerThe weekend is a nice turn of events for the film. It started with George Lucas a star In 1999, and for years afterward, the Wars Prequel Trilogy was the focus of fandom and fandom star Wars fans, but its appreciation has grown in the decades since, with younger fans who grew up on the film well into adulthood, and star Ewan McGregor reprising the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in his own Disney+ series in 2022, helping fuel the nostalgia. . The movie. It returned to theaters as part of the film's 25th anniversary, as well as on May 4th, the unofficial Star Wars holiday.

The imaginary threat It outperformed Amazon MGM Studios' thrilling tennis drama United For No. 2. Luca Guadagnino's film had a solid second weekend, falling just 49 percent for a weekend total of $7.6 million and a cume of $29.4 million. Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist star.

Sony and Screen Games Tarot It bowed in its first weekend to $6.5 million, a strong start considering the feature cost $8 million and didn't have a traditional marketing campaign. Sony has embarked on its first digital-only campaign for the feature, meaning no TV spots or billboards for the feature, in which seven friends accidentally unleash an evil entity trapped in a deck of cursed tarot cards. Neither critics nor audiences accepted this. It has an 8 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, while audiences gave it a low C-CinemaScore. Its global value is $10.2 million.

Elsewhere in the Sony world, Garfield It debuted to $22 million internationally. The Columbia Pictures and Alcon entertainment title arrives stateside on May 24, and stars Chris Pratt as the lasagna-loving cat.