With a fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 81, by all accounts, “The Fall Guy” was one of the most crowd-pleasing and entertaining films of the year, a mix of comedy, action, romance, and blockbuster-sized thrills. Our review of the film described it as “exuberant and kinetic” and a “bright and energetic action movie about the joy of making action movies.”

Directed by David Leitch (“Bullet Train,” “Deadpool 2,” “Atomic Blonde”), “The Fall Guy” stars Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling (“Barbie,” “La La Land,” “Drive”) as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who is drafted back into service after a near-career ending accident when Tom Ryder (Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson; “Bullet Train”), the star of a mega-budget studio movie—being directed by Colt’s ex, Jody Moreno, played by Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer,” “A Quiet Place” films, “Sicario”)—goes missing.

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The last year has been particularly great for actress Sandra Hüller. Not only did she star in two films, “The Zone of Silence” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” that earned Best Picture Oscar nominations, but she herself earned a nomination for her performance in the latter. Now, it appears she has a wealth of producers trying to snatch her up.

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The unofficial start to Summer Box Office season kicked off with a massive action film, “The Fall Guy,” this past weekend. Unfortunately, the beginning of summer is more of a whimper than a bang, as “The Fall Guy” opened with an estimated $28.5 million over the three-day weekend. That’s not a huge number for a film that is said to have a production cost between $130 million and $150 million. Obviously, the film can’t be called a bomb yet–it could still have amazing legs and turn into a sleeper hit.

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Emily Blunt isn’t a fan of algorithm-driven cinema. Variety reports (via Vanity Fair Italy) that the actress and her “The Fall Guy” co-star Ryan Gosling are against studios letting data-crunching drive their creative choices. And Blunt thinks “Oppenheimer” is a good example of something an algorithm wouldn’t want to make, despite it being a box-office success and a huge Oscar winner.

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Back in 2016, writer/director Shane Black (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) released “The Nice Guys,” a comedic two-hander that starred Ryan Gosling (“Blade Runner 2029”) and Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”) in an unlikely team-up an odd-couple pair of private eyes investigating a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star. However, while the film was considered a solid effort, it didn’t do gangbusters at the box office, only earning $71.2 million globally against a budget of $50 million.

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It looks like Ryan Gosling is going back to space.  Deadline reports that the “Barbie” and “The Fall Guy” actor will star in Phil Lord & Christopher Miller‘s upcoming adaptation of “Project Hail Mary” at Amazon MGM. And if Lord & Miller’s film is anything like Hollywood’s last Andy Weir adaptation, 2015’s “The Martian,” then “Project Hail Mary” will be a homerun for all involved.

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Filmmaker Derek Cianfrance’s 2012 crime and family drama, “The Place Beyond The Pines,” starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, and Bradley Cooper, was one of our favorite films of 2012, but it almost didn’t happen. Or at least, it almost didn’t happen the way it was intended to.

In a recent IndieWire Screen Talk live at the New Directors/New Films festival, Cianfrance, who was there in attendance in a conversation as part of the festival, revealed that following some heavy script changes, Bradley Cooper tried to exit the ‘Pines’ movie at the last minute.

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Last year, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt were part of the theatrical juggernaut event known as Barbenheimer (the organic viral marketing push for “Barbie” and Best Picture winner “Oppenheimer” last summer). Their films opened on the same day, but instead of canceling each other out because there was a push to see the two films, they both turned both into massive box officer earners.

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While largely overlooked at the Oscars, “Barbie” was still the highest-grossing film of 2023 and credited for getting a horde of moviegoers back into theaters, leading to the phenomenon of #Barbenheimer. This obviously also helped to amplify the Christopher Nolan atomic bomb biopic “Oppenheimer” and make it a huge box office hit in its own right. Audiences have long assumed a sequel was in the works, but director/co-writer Greta Gerwig (and star Margot Robbie) had previously downplayed the desire or need to revisit Barbieland.

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Sometimes, it feels like Hollywood took the wrong lessons from the “John Wick” franchise. While many producers have tried to recreate lighting in a bottle by focusing on the aesthetics of the trade—suits and neon lighting everywhere on screen—the real lesson is the celebration of the practical and a renewed reverence for the stunt professionals who make those sequences happen on screen. That will no doubt be the legacy of David Leitch, whose evolution as a filmmaker post-”John Wick” has led him to “The Fall Guy,” a bright and energetic action movie about the joy of making action movies.

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It wasn’t just awards being handed out last night at the 96th Academy Awards. As is customary, for the Oscar ceremony, all of the Best Original Song contenders were able to perform their nominated tunes live on stage. While all were engaging, clearly Ryan Gosling blew the doors off the entire ceremony with his rendition of “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie,” which had the entire Oscar crowd on its feet and wowing.

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Oscars producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan did their best to make this the “Barbie” Oscars. And, in some ways, the participation of Ryan Gosling, Billie Eilish, and America Ferrera assisted in that effort. But considering the blockbuster won only one Academy Award (Original Song), the telecast organically shifted its focus to two other global hits, “Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things,” which won seven and four Oscars respectively.

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One of the big question marks for the 2024 Academy Awards was whether Ryan Gosling would perform “I’m Just Ken” in public for the first time. On Monday, it was reported that Gosling was in and today, the Academy made it official. And, as expected, not only is Gosling going to perform, but Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George, and the Osage Singers.

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It looks like Ryan Gosling is going to be warming up his vocal chords over the next few weeks. The “La La Land” star has reportedly agreed to belt out the Best Original Song nominee “I’m Just Ken” during the 2024 Academy Awards telecast. This would be a nice coup for the Oscars hoping to infuse the ceremony with as much “Barbie” magic as it can after the social media outcry following snubs of director Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie in the Best Actress category.

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The Oscars remain about a month away, but all eyes are on the final showdown between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.” Which movie of the “Barbenheimer” crazy will win the most awards at the ceremony?  Christopher Nolan‘s film leads Greta Gerwig‘s with 13 nominations against 8, but more crucial questions prevail: like, will Ryan Gosling perform “I’m Just Ken” live on the telecast?

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There are a million sayings that go something like this—don’t talk about shit that you know nothing about. The same can be said in terms of film critique. Don’t speak ill of a movie, or presume you know something about a film, before you spend the time to watch it. This is something Oliver Stone is learning right now, as he is forced to speak up about comments he made about “Barbie” and Ryan Gosling.

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Well, it’s that time of year again, isn’t it? The Sundance Film Festival hasn’t even happened, the Berlin Film Festival line-up is not even out or complete, and we’re already looking ahead to March and the SXSW Film & Television Festival. There’s no rest for the wicked.

READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2024

SXSW has unveiled its 2024 line-up, and the two biggest premieres in the headliner section are David Leitch’s “The Fall Guy” action comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and “Babes,” a comedy and the directorial debut of Pamela Adlon, the creator of “Better Things,” which stars Ilana Glazer from “Broad City.”

“The Fall Guy,” which is the festival’s Centerpiece Screening, is described as a “big-screen love letter to action movies and the hard-working and under-appreciated stunt performers and crew members who make them” and co-stars Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu.

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If there is one pair that dominated 2023, it has to be Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie. From the second the first images from “Barbie” started to leak online, showing their ridiculous costumes, people were excited. And when the film came out, breaking box office records and scoring rave reviews, the excitement surrounding Gosling and Robbie only grew. So, it makes complete sense that Warner Bros.

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OK, it’s that time of year, the holidays. As you generally know, we mostly avoid the scuttlebutt of daily internet rumors. They are a dime a dozen, but over the holidays, we generally allow ourselves a bit of a lenient break; plus, this one could have some truth to it, given that the actor himself has expressed interest in a role. So the rumor do jour? Ryan Gosling is in talks with Marvel over a specific role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Look, Margot Robbie is Barbie. 30 years from now, when people are talking about the mega-blockbuster “Barbie” film, they’ll remember that Margot Robbie starred in the movie. But there’s no denying Ryan Gosling stole a bit of her thunder as Ken. For many, Gosling is the major highlight of the massive hit. And if you had to encapsulate the actor’s performance in a small chunk of the film, it’s the musical number, “I’m Just Ken” that really sums it all up.

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We’ve been talking about a Blumhouse remake of “Wolfman” for years now. Way back in 2020, after the massive success of Leigh Whannell’s “Invisible Man,” he was quickly snatched up by Blumhouse to take another Universal Monster and reimagine it. Eventually, Ryan Gosling was brought in to star and things were progressing. Then Whannell dropped out and Gosling’s friend, Derek Cianfrance, was hired to direct.

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We often wax effusive about movies, their meaning, their craft, their intention, how they are sculpted and shaped, but sometimes we forget about the director’s mantra: that casting is everything and we arguably sometimes take for granted how some movies that seem so perfect, may not work at all without the actors and performers at their center.

READ MORE: The 21 Best Films Of 2023

2023 was a great year for movies, see our Best Films Of 2023 list, but let’s be real, so many of these movies were make or break based on their performances.

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Yes, SZA earned nine 2024 Grammy nominations for her seminal album “SOS” and Taylor Swift got her annual six or more nods, but a certain movie soundtrack shocked in its performance. The “Barbie” soundtrack earned 12 nominations overall including a stunning two individual noms in the Song of the Year category for “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and “Dance The Night” by Dua Lipa.

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Stuntman-turned-filmmaker David Leitch has put together quite the filmography over the past decade. His first directing gig was co-helming “John Wick” with Chad Stahelski before rattling off “Atomic Blonde, “Deadpool 2,” and “Hobbs & Shaw” in quick succession. Then came “Bullet Train” in 2022, an action romp starring Brad Pitt that, despite middling reviews, cements Leitch as one of Hollywood’s premier contemporary action directors.

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This year has maybe been the best year of Ryan Gosling’s storied Hollywood career. His scene-stealing role as Ken in “Barbie” is the biggest success he’s been part of, and he’ll likely get plenty of awards season recognition for his performance. But he’s not slowing down after 2023 wraps up, as next year sees him step into the lead role of the massive action film, “The Fall Guy.”

READ MORE: Greta Gerwig Fought To Save ‘I’m Just Ken’ Song In ‘Barbie’ But Worried The Sequence “Could Just Be Terrible”

And since we’re wrapping up 2023 soon enough and looking ahead at what’s to come, Vanity Fair is here to provide a first look at “The Fall Guy.” Directed by former stuntman himself, David Leitch, “The Fall Guy” tells the story of a veteran stuntman who is called on by a Hollywood producer to locate a missing A-lister before a film he is working on gets completely derailed.

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