BYIt’s scenic, expansive filmmaking, and the IMAX theater helped accentuate that.Coming on the heels of the underperforming The Fall Guy last week; from a box office perspective and what it augurs for the immediate future of cinema, it’ll be interesting to watch what happens when this IP installment hits the cinema screens this week. The Fall Guy was budgeted at $130 million; it was an original concept, reviewed favorably by critics, and had Ryan Gosling as its lead star.
Hollywood is already in a safety-first mode; we have Furiosa, a Mad Max saga, up next. Then there’s Deadpool and Wolverine, Inside Out 2, Alien Romulus, and, towards the end of the year, Mufasa, a Lion King story. So, with Fall Guy having tanked, you can bet your bottom dollar that everyone in Hollywood will fall back on established IPs, and it’s only the independent production houses who’ll gamble on new concepts. Sad, but inevitable.