Well, it’s not like we didn’t expect this to happen.
“Moonfall,” the Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster flick, took in just $2.7 million on Friday. It’s set to make around $8 million overall this weekend. The movie cost $150 million, not including marketing costs. You do the math. This is turning into a stinker for the ages.
I wrote yesterday that I painstakingly made it through all 120 minutes of Emmerich’s latest bomb.
The reviews for “Moonfall” have been quite bad. A 38 on Metacritic and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audience scores have been horrendous as well — a 5.3 on IMDB seems to indicate that not even Joe and Jane popcorn have taken a liking to it’s silly theatrics.
Meanwhile, ”Jackass Forever,” which has 1/10 the budget of “Moonfall,” is set to open at the top of the box-office with an impressive $20 million.
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.