The days when movie theaters were plastered with posters of a shirtless Matthew McConaughey are long gone. The romantic comedy as a genre has taken off on streaming services like Netflix in recent years. The success of Where the Lie Falls is all the more surprising. The RomCom starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) premiered last weekend Number 1 in the German cinema charts, as the industry service Blickpunkt: Film reports. That’s not all.
The comedy starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney is a phenomenon
Almost 200,000 tickets were purchased for Where the Lie Falls in Germany. In the USA, the triumphant advance has been observed for some time. The comedy started there a month ago and is still going strong Top 5 of the North American cinema charts, as Box Office Mojo confirms.
While many films get their maximum out of the opening weekend and then lose viewers, Where the Lie Falls takes the rarer, opposite path. The start was rather weak, but the weekends that followed went better. That speaks for positive word of mouth. There are also viral videos about the film on TikTok and the chemistry of the two stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell.
Rom-Com reaches milestone at box office
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Where love falls
Over the weekend, the rom-com reached another milestone. Where the lie falls grossed over $100 million worldwide, Deadline reports. It’s the first R-rated RomCom to do so since 2016’s Bridget Jones’ Baby. In Germany, the film benefits from the much lower age rating from 0 years.
Incidentally, the success is not entirely surprising, at least if you regularly comb through box office tables. Already in 2022 there was an extremely popular romantic comedy with 2 likeable stars that attracted a wide audience. Ticket to Paradise, starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, grossed $168 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo). There are still people who want to see romantic comedies in the cinema – they just need to be made for them.
This is where the lie falls down
Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) have a fantastic first date. But then their passion cools down due to adverse circumstances and they go their separate ways. Everyone blames the other for the fact that nothing ever came of them. In the end, all that seems to be left is dislike and they look elsewhere for true love. However, their good friends Halle (Hadley Robinson) and Claudia (Alexandra Shipp) are getting married and of course the two bickerers are invited to Sydney as guests. How would two sensible adults handle such a situation?