The film, which opened Thursday in some 2,300 venues in the United States, managed to gross $700,000, far behind its coveted rivals. Jackass Forever opened more than double the take for $1.65 million. With hostile reviews of director Emmerich's latest Independence Day movies, box office receipts certainly seem to be slowing over the weekend.
Just days after being quoted as Emmerich saying Marvel's Star Wars franchises are destroying the industry and making it harder to make successful disaster movies. It seems that he has only made excuses for what is to come.
A series of stunts performed by a group of teenagers in male bodies who are not only overwhelmed by the movie on opening night but are essentially trying to hurt themselves in a joyfully and terribly stupid way. Moonfall is also swamped by Donkey Team for betting review.
Initial Reaction to Donkey Forever The film has received a new rating of 89% from critics, peaking at 90% at some point, and is projected to fetch $18 million over the weekend. This is enough to take the top. Spider-Man: No Way Home chart points..when it comes down to its moonfall.
However, it is currently sluggish with a 42% approval rate, with forecasts of weekend between $9 million and $14 million. This is not what the $146 million budget movie wants to see in its opening weekend.
Is Moonfall really bad, or is Emmerich right about franchise movies killing the industry?
From the general consensus, it seems that many directors Roland Emmerich argue that the disaster plays out like this: moonfall Marvel suffers as a result of the view with DC's Star Wars The movie, his latest movie is really terrible, like a cliché and an unoriginal movie.
His main complaint about the big franchise is that it's a bit tongue-in-cheek, since "they don't offer anything original." Maybe that's when the people of the Glass House have to be careful where they play baseball.
Moonfall The Rotten Tomatoes consensus is: “Whether Moonfall is very bad or just bad depends on B-movie resistance to cheese, but either way, this is Emmerich's catastrophe. Thriller from cover to cover. . ”Given the budget for a huge movie comparable in size to many Marvel movies.
The pathetic $10 million budget and the names of stars like Halle Berry, Donald Sutherland, and Patrick Wilson attached make it hard for most critics to understand how the film seems to have failed, as a viewer.
As the reviews point out, it's definitely an Emmerich movie and you can almost line the movies up together. 2012 independence day When The day after tomorrow, And arrange the cliché story points as a triple point chart in Orion.
Those who like those movies might like to see the same plot in different settings, but for everyone else, the franchise movie doesn't kill the disaster movie, but the real reason for its death seems to be a bit closer to home.