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Hollywood Summer Box Office Looks Bleak: Lack of Blockbusters, Disappointing ‘Fall Guy’ Opening

Facing a lack of buzzy blockbusters and a weak start with the disappointing opening of Universal’s “The Fall Guy,” starring Ryan Gosling, the summer of 2024 looks like it will be a long, difficult slog at the box office. After three years of steady gains since the pandemic — thanks to titles like “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Top Gun: Maverick” — Hollywood could experience a summer retrenchment.

Ryan Gosling in 'The Fall Guy'. Universal Pictures

Nolte: ‘Existential Crisis’ as Woke Hollywood Loses 20% of Moviegoers

Movie after movie tells us sexual deviancy, mental illness, and narcissism are virtues. Worst of all, our heroes, the very characters that made these franchises golden geese for decades, are deconstructed, portrayed as bigots, and replaced with girls and racial minorities for no good reason other than tokenism.

Indiana Jones (Disney/LucasFilm)