‘Jackass’ And ‘Moonfall’ Fall Hard On Friday

In holdover news for Friday, Jackass Forever earned $2.875 million (-70%) on Friday, sadly proving itself to be a one-weekend wonder. We can expect an $8.12 million (-65%) second weekend and a $37.5 million ten-day cume for Paramount and MTV’s $10 million comedy/documentary/legacy sequel. Even Jackass 3-D dropped “just” 58% after a $50 million debut in October 2010, so at best we’re probably looking at a 2x multiplier and an over/under $50 million finish. Again, that’s more than good enough in terms of this specific franchise, but there was hope that good reviews, good buzz and generational good will toward the franchise would propel it a little farther. It’s still a hit, and here’s hoping Paramount can make it a turkey (the good, three-strikes-in-a-row bowling kind) with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on April 8. 

Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to just leg out. The Tom Holland/Zendaya MCU sequel earned $1.85 million (-10%) for a likely $7.71 million (-19%) weekend and $759.6 million domestic cume. That’ll be just shy of Avatar’s lifetime domestic cume, so give it a few days, while it will nab the seventh-biggest nineth-weekend gross (among films that didn’t platform) ever. It will end the weekend with 95% more than Spider-Man: Far from Home ($390 million in 2019), giving it a better sequel-to-threequel bump than anything save for Goldfinger and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. It should be at around $1.8 billion worldwide tomorrow. We should have the first overseas grosses for Uncharted tomorrow, but Holland (who stars in Sony’s video game adaptation alongside Mark Wahlberg) may own the first and second spots next weekend.  

Universal and Illumination’s Sing 2 continues to hold its own, earning $1.73 million (-19%) on its eighth Friday despite being concurrently available on PVOD. We can expect a $3.07 million (-27%) weekend and $143.5 million cume for the $85 million animated musical, as it races toward $300 million worldwide. And with Turning Red sent to Disney+, Sing 2 is the only game in town until DreamWorks (and Universal’s) The Bad Guys on April 15. Paramount and Spyglass’ Scream earned $810,000 (-33%) on Friday for a $2.79 million (-41%) fifth-weekend gross. It’ll have $73 million by tomorrow. As horror expert Brian Collins pointed out, Scream is now the first slasher movie to top $70 million since (depending on what you count) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ($81 million) in October 2003 or Freddy Vs. Jason ($83 million) in August of 2003.  

Moonfall fell to Earth in weekend two, earning $810,000 (-76%) on Friday. That will give the $146 million Roland Emmerich disaster flick a likely $2.51 million (-75%) weekend and $14.81 million ten-day cume. Lionsgate is only on the hook for domestic distribution-related expenses, but this is still a disappointing result for a director who once was the definition of genre-specific marquee director. The Battle at Lake Changjin 2 earned another $16.5 million, plunging 68% from its previous $52 million Saturday gross. The Korean War epic has earned $515 million in 12 days. It won’t get anywhere near the $905 million gross of The Battle at Lake Changjin from last October, but I think the shot-on-IMAX two-part $200 million epic will be okay. Too Cool to Kill has passed $300 million after earning $14.3 million on Saturday.