Universal’s “The Fall Man” will open in theaters in mainland China next month, before opening in the United States and Canada, Ryan Gosling’s home country.
The film will be officially released in China on April 30. That puts it a few days behind the film’s first commercial releases on April 25 and 26 in Europe and other parts of Asia, but a week ahead of its May 3 release in the North. America.
Directed by David Leitch (“John Wick,” “Bullet Practice”), the film co-stars Gosling and Emily Blunt, with Gosling playing a veteran stunt double for a self-obsessed movie star.
The film had its world premiere at SXSW earlier this month and received warm praise for its heart and Gosling’s return to headlining work. SelectionThe SXSW review of the picture described it as “a spectacular epic stunt,” with Gosling again at his best “radiating charisma.”
Although Hollywood films have recently struggled to match the box office performances of the 2010s in China, Gosling is a recognized figure in the Central Kingdom. The film will be the third to be released in China last year, following the huge success of the initially slow “Barbie” and the re-released “La La Land”. He previously toured China in 2017 to promote the first release of “La La Land.”
The release date puts “The Fall Man” in Chinese theaters in time for the various May Day (May 1) holidays. Both are an annual political event celebrating the team and a family-friendly movie season.
“The Fall Man” won’t have Chinese-language theaters all to itself, actually. The competition is slated to include the Japanese spy action comedy “Spy × Family Code: White”, the Japanese animated fantasy “Howl’s Shifting Fort” and the Chinese films “GG Bond: Interstellar Motion”, “Shaped Police Unit”, “The Final Frenzy,” “Nothing Can Be Undone by a Scalding Pan” and “Ocean Rescue.” But with Hollywood holdovers “Kung Fu Panda 4” and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” a few weeks ago, it could be among the most recent imported titles.
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