‘Moonfall’ was the first blockbuster of 2022 to hit theaters and everything indicates that it will also be the first flop of the year. For now, it has crashed in its debut at the box office in the United States, raising just 10 million dollars and another 9 in the rest of the world when its budget is close to 150 million.
In fact, the new disaster movie from Roland Emmerich had to settle for second place at the North American box office. Ahead of ‘Moonfall’ we have ‘Jackass Forever’, the other powerful premiere this week that has become number 1 at the box office thanks to the 23.5 million dollars it has entered. In addition, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ has been on the verge of surpassing ‘Moonfall’ by adding another 9.6 million dollars.
In Spain has been number 1 but with barely half a million euros, a weak figure for a blockbuster.
Bad future for this kind of movies
The poor result of ‘Moonfall’ confirms that the big productions of disaster movies They have fallen out of favor with the public. ‘Independence Day: Counterattack’ has already fallen short of expectations, while ‘Geostorm’, the first feature film directed Dean Devlin, generated millionaire losses, working especially badly in the United States. Something better went to ‘Greenland: The Last Refuge’, but in that case it helped to have a much more modest budget.
You have to go back to ‘San Andrés’ in 2015 to find the last film of these characteristics that really swept the box office, and there remains the question of to what extent the participation of rock. And I’m not forgetting ‘Don’t look up’, but there the approach was radically different from productions like ‘Moonfall’.