CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports:

After living through nearly two years of a pandemic that won’t end, Americans, as it turns out, were in desperate need of a laugh. That may explain why Paramount’s go-for-broke action comedy “Jackass Forever” triumphed at the domestic box office while Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic “Moonfall” turned into an epic disaster.

The science-fiction catastrophe film crash-landed on the lower end of projections, bringing in $10.1 million from 3,446 venues.

Those ticket sales are potentially problematic because “Moonfall” cost $140 million to produce, making it one of the most expensive independent films in history. Commercial sentiment may not help; moviegoers stuck the film with an unenthusiastic “C+” CinemaScore.

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At the box office, “Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic ‘Moonfall’ turned into an epic disaster.” https://t.co/bFWs9wfUSO

— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) February 6, 2022