The Fall Guy's Disappointing Opening Weekend, Plus Superman, The MCU, Paramount, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On the May 7, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.
In The News:
- The Fall Guy Matches Free Guy's Opening Weekend As The Guy Cinematic Universe Grows
- Superman First Look: David Corenswet Suits Up For Director James Gunn
- Disney Has A New Plan To Save The MCU: Quality Over Quantity
- The Next Exorcist Movie Lines Up One Of The Best Horror Directors Working Right Now
- Scrapped Netflix Live-Action Masters Of The Universe Movie Saved By Amazon For 2026 Release
- A Rival Hollywood Studio Just Offered To Buy Paramount In Major Shake-Up
- Netflix's Cobra Kai To Conclude With Extended Three-Part Final Season
- Vin Diesel Is Finally Returning To The Sci-Fi Franchise That Made His Name
- Hollywood's Weirdest Horror Director Is Making An '80s Vampire Movie
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily today's |
| 0:02.0 | Tuesday May 7th 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the |
| 0:06.1 | latest film and TV news my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film |
| 0:09.9 | com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey everyone how's it going. |
| 0:16.2 | All right Ryan you've still got that construction going on at your place so I apologize to |
| 0:20.0 | the listeners if any of that audio sort of bleeds through into our conversation here but we're |
| 0:23.8 | making do as best we can we're trying to adapt. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah also if there's some weird crinkling I have an ice pack on my shoulder for this episode |
| 0:30.6 | as well so I apologize about that. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah man you're fending off injuries you're dealing with noise this is the whole thing. |
| 0:36.7 | So let's yeah put our heads down and get through this the best we can. |
| 0:40.7 | Speaking of putting their heads down the folks at Universal I'm guessing probably have their heads in their hands |
| 0:46.3 | right now based on how the fall guy performed in theaters in its opening weekend |
| 0:51.7 | tell me about that, Ryan. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, so look, we talked about this |
| 0:54.6 | in the summer preview episode. |
| 0:55.9 | I just wasn't sure. |
| 0:57.1 | And I think, you know, at that time, |
| 0:58.3 | we were talking about, you know, |
| 1:00.0 | a possible $40 million opening, which would have been fine, you know, but it still would have required this |
| 1:06.1 | movie to leg out given its reported $130 million budget I believe is what it landed on after all tax incentives and stuff and well it was a lot worse than that. |
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