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Meghan Markle May Have the Last Laugh After Hollywood Titan Criticized Her Talent – Yahoo Entertainment
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Ariel Elias had a beer can thrown at her — but she got the last laugh and sip
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In her 11 years of doing standup, this was by far the worst heckler Ariel Elias had ever encountered.
The comedian’s gig at the Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey on Oct. 8 started like any other, so she never anticipated becoming the subject of a viral video and the latest example of the comedy stage becoming the scene of an unsettling incident.
Elias had spent the majority of her 20-minute set talking about female body image before launching into a pre-planned question-and-answer portion of her set. A joke she ends on appears on some merchandise she sells after the show.
That’s when a woman in the audience, seated at a large table of people attending a raucous birthday party, yelled to her on stage: “Did you vote for Trump?”
“I wasn’t talking about politics,” she tells CNN. “I think I was honestly talking about my period. It just felt like she was looking for a fight, and I really don’t think I did anything to like elicit that.”
The woman was kicked out. Then the man seated next to her hurled a beer can – fast – at Elias’ head.
In the aforementioned video of the moment, many in the audience react with shock.
Elias says she didn’t see the beer fly by her head, but she heard it loudly thump behind her.
“I just like heard it against the wall and then I felt the back of my legs were wet, and I was trying to figure out what happened,” she says. “And then I looked down and I saw the beer can and put it together and people were furious that that had happened, which was nice. So I’m glad a mob mentality didn’t take over against me.”
In the moment, she picked the can up and found it was still heavy with beer.
“I remember thinking, ‘Don’t let the adrenaline win. Take a sip. Be brave,’” she says. “When I thought that there was still beer in there, I thought, you know what? I’d never needed a drink more in my life. And I think this is kind of the only way to get out of this because I still have five minutes left of my set.”
She knows that she had the option to step away from the stage and that “nobody would’ve been mad at me.” But, she thought, what about her stickers?
“I sell merch after the show, and my my best-selling sticker is based on my closing joke. I was like, ‘Well, I have to do the joke if I want people to come and buy stickers afterwards.’”
So she finished.
Later, Elias says, “it was much scarier once I got home.” She had to watch the video to realize how hard and fast the beer had been thrown.
“To be honest, I’m not the best at processing my emotions. So I think probably just like in six days I’ll cry while watching ‘Man vs. Food,’” she says, laughing.
Her friends and family have been supportive; her parents told her they were proud and her fellow comics keep checking in on her.
“Last night, I did a couple of spots in the city and everybody asked like, ‘Are you okay?’ Which I think is very much the question that I need to be asked,” she says. “Because the answer is, I don’t know yet.”
While Elias has decided not to press charges, the comedy club is. And although she doesn’t want to back to the town where it happened, Elias says she absolutely loves doing standup and will continue on.
“Please don’t throw things at me,” she says. “I love stand up so much. It’s my favorite thing in the world. I love traveling and being in front of people who are different from me.”
Ariel Elias had a beer can thrown at her — but she got the last laugh and sip
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In her 11 years of doing standup, this was by far the worst heckler Ariel Elias had ever encountered.
The comedian’s gig at the Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey on Oct. 8 started like any other, so she never anticipated becoming the subject of a viral video and the latest example of the comedy stage becoming the scene of an unsettling incident.
Elias had spent the majority of her 20-minute set talking about female body image before launching into a pre-planned question-and-answer portion of her set. A joke she ends on appears on some merchandise she sells after the show.
That’s when a woman in the audience, seated at a large table of people attending a raucous birthday party, yelled to her on stage: “Did you vote for Trump?”
“I wasn’t talking about politics,” she tells CNN. “I think I was honestly talking about my period. It just felt like she was looking for a fight, and I really don’t think I did anything to like elicit that.”
The woman was kicked out. Then the man seated next to her hurled a beer can – fast – at Elias’ head.
In the aforementioned video of the moment, many in the audience react with shock.
Elias says she didn’t see the beer fly by her head, but she heard it loudly thump behind her.
“I just like heard it against the wall and then I felt the back of my legs were wet, and I was trying to figure out what happened,” she says. “And then I looked down and I saw the beer can and put it together and people were furious that that had happened, which was nice. So I’m glad a mob mentality didn’t take over against me.”
In the moment, she picked the can up and found it was still heavy with beer.
“I remember thinking, ‘Don’t let the adrenaline win. Take a sip. Be brave,’” she says. “When I thought that there was still beer in there, I thought, you know what? I’d never needed a drink more in my life. And I think this is kind of the only way to get out of this because I still have five minutes left of my set.”
She knows that she had the option to step away from the stage and that “nobody would’ve been mad at me.” But, she thought, what about her stickers?
“I sell merch after the show, and my my best-selling sticker is based on my closing joke. I was like, ‘Well, I have to do the joke if I want people to come and buy stickers afterwards.’”
So she finished.
Later, Elias says, “it was much scarier once I got home.” She had to watch the video to realize how hard and fast the beer had been thrown.
“To be honest, I’m not the best at processing my emotions. So I think probably just like in six days I’ll cry while watching ‘Man vs. Food,’” she says, laughing.
Her friends and family have been supportive; her parents told her they were proud and her fellow comics keep checking in on her.
“Last night, I did a couple of spots in the city and everybody asked like, ‘Are you okay?’ Which I think is very much the question that I need to be asked,” she says. “Because the answer is, I don’t know yet.”
While Elias has decided not to press charges, the comedy club is. And although she doesn’t want to back to the town where it happened, Elias says she absolutely loves doing standup and will continue on.
“Please don’t throw things at me,” she says. “I love stand up so much. It’s my favorite thing in the world. I love traveling and being in front of people who are different from me.”
Elon Musk says he’s buying Manchester United — but if it’s a joke, the SEC is unlikely to laugh
Last Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:27 p.m. ET
First Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:09 p.m. ET
Elon Musk is either getting into international soccer or else may have scored an own goal and teed up more trouble from the SEC.
In a tweet late Tuesday, the Tesla Inc. TSLA chief executive said: “Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome,” referring to the iconic English soccer club that may be up for sale.
It was unclear if Musk was…
Elon Musk is either getting into international soccer or else may have scored an own goal and teed up more trouble from the SEC.
In a tweet late Tuesday, the Tesla Inc.
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chief executive said: “Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome,” referring to the iconic English soccer club that may be up for sale.
It was unclear if Musk was serious, as he’s well-known for tweeting jokes and frivolous statements.
Neither Manchester United nor the SEC immediately replied to requests for further information.
But if it was a joke, it may not be funny to the Securities and Exchange Commission, since Manchester United
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is a publicly traded company. Musk’s tweet came at 8:01 p.m., just after the end of after-hours trading, so Man U’s stock was unaffected.
Musk is no stranger to tweets coming back to bite him. His 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to consider taking Tesla private at $420 a share became the subject of regulatory action by the SEC, ultimately resulting in $20 million fines each against Musk and Tesla.
Musk has sparred with the SEC on a number of other occasions over the years. He’s also embroiled in a bitter legal battle as he’s trying to pull out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc.
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On the other hand, if the tweet is true, it would be a seismic deal for one of the most valuable sports brands on the planet. Manchester United’s current owners, the Glazer family, have been under pressure to sell the team after years of underperformance, mismanagement and a revolt by some fans. The team is currently in last place in the English Premier League, after their second straight loss to start the season, an embarrassing 4-0 defeat to Brentford on Saturday.
Last week, reports said British businessman Michael Knighton planned a formal bid to buy the team. The club has an estimated value of $4.6 billion, according to Forbes.
That price tag would be doable for Musk, who is the world’s wealthiest individual, with a fortune estimated around $267 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Manchester United went public in a 2012 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Its shares are down 10% year to date, in line with the S&P 500’s
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10% loss this year.
Vanessa Bryant in tears as lawyer accuses L.A. deputies of sharing Kobe crash scene photos ‘for a laugh’
Vanessa Bryant’s attorney accused Los Angeles County officials of exploiting Kobe Bryant’s death and sharing photos from the scene of his helicopter crash “for a laugh” in opening arguments of a civil trial that started on Wednesday.
Bryant is suing the county for invasion of privacy, arguing that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and firefighters took and shared grisly photos from the scene of the 2020 crash that claimed the lives of her husband and Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant, their 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.
Per the Associated Press, Bryant’s attorney Luis Li argued in his opening statement that the photos were taken on cell phones and shared in nonprofessional personal settings that he described as “visual gossip.” Bryant wiped away tears as Li made his case.
“January 26, 2020 was the worst day of Vanessa Bryant’s life,” Li said in a Los Angeles U.S. District Court room. “The county made it much worse. They poured salt in an open wound and rubbed it in. …
“They were shared by deputies playing video games. They were shared repeatedly with people who had absolutely no reason to receive them.”
Mira Hashmall, the lawyer for the county, argued that the photos were a necessary tool for the first responders on the scene.
“Site photography is essential,” Hashmall said.
They each made their case in front of a jury of 10 that was selected earlier Wednesday and includes a nun, a TV producer and a college student. Per CNN, potential jurors who claimed strong feelings for either Kobe or Vanessa Bryant or Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva were struck from the pool.
Villanueva acknowledged in 2020 that members of his department took photos and shared them in personal settings. He said in March of that year that he was content that eight deputies who took photos had deleted them.
“That was my No. 1 priority, was to make sure those photos no longer exist,” Villanueva told NBC4 in 2020. “We identified the deputies involved, they came to the station on their own and had admitted they had taken them and they had deleted them. And we’re content that those involved did that.”
Per AP, Li showed jurors security footage from a bar of an off-duty deputy sharing images from the scene with a bartender, who shook his head in response. He then told jurors that firefighters shared images at a banquet two weeks later and showed them documentation that those photos were eventually shared with 30 people.
Bryant described the trauma the existence of the photos has caused her in a pre-trial legal filing in December.
“These deputies and firefighters took the worst thing that has ever happened to me — the worst thing that could happen to any mother or spouse — and made it worse,” Bryant stated in the filing. “I will never be able to shake the anguish from knowing that the officials who are supposed to keep us safe treated Kobe and Gianna with such callous disrespect.
“For the rest of my life, one of two things will happen: either close-up photos of my husband’s and daughter’s bodies will go viral online, or I will continue to live in fear of that happening.”
Hashmall argued on Wednesday that the photos haven’t appeared online, a testament to the discipline of the first responders in ensuring their security.
“They’re not online,” Hashmall said. “They’re not in the media. They’ve never even been seen by the plaintiffs themselves. That is not an accident. That is a function of how diligent they were.”
She also addressed the deputy who shared the image with the bartender, whom she described as a longtime friend of the deputy.
“He pulled out his phone, and that should not have happened,” she said. “In a lapse, in a moment of weakness, he showed those photos, and he has regretted it every day of his life.”
Chris Chester, whose wife Sarah and 13-year-old daughter Payton were killed in the crash, is also a plaintiff. Per USA Today, his lawyer Jerome Jackson described a graphic image of Sarah’s body having been cut in half at the waist as one that was shared.
“That’s what they photographed,” Jackson said, per USA Today. “That’s what they shared. That’s what they laughed at.”
Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka was Kobe’s agent and close friend and Gianna’s godfather. He took the stand on Wednesday and testified that the sharing of the images has “added so much more grief,” according to USA Today.
Hasmhall argued that the grief experienced by the crash victim’s survivors was about their deaths — not the photos.
“There is no doubt these families have suffered,” she said, per AP. “It’s unspeakable. But this case is not about the loss from the crash. It’s about the pictures.”
Why Miami GP is having the last laugh over fake marina memes
The collection of 10 yachts on the inside of Turns 6, 7 and 8 of the Miami circuit, which are surrounded by special solid ‘vinyl’ water, have prompted a flood of photoshopped images and videos.
One edited Twitter video, of a man appearing to jump into the water only to bounce off the solid surface, went viral and has now attracted more than three million views.
The opinion from fans over what Miami has done has, unsurprisingly, been divided.
Some have embraced the uniqueness of it, as the track has tried to offer something completely different, others have been more scathing about the lunacy of the extravagance of it all on a weekend when ticket prices have clearly been aimed at top dollar buyers.
But for Miami GP managing partner Tom Garfinkel, who is vice chairman and CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium, fans poking fun at what the track has done with the marina is not a worry at all.
First, he quite likes the fact that it means everyone is talking about the Miami GP. But, more importantly, he sees no downside to the race having a bit of a laugh and being able to offer something so unique.
Speaking to Motorsport.com, Garfinkel said: “I think we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We’re having some fun with it, right?
“I think people are enjoying it. I think the people on the back of those yachts watching the race will have fun, and I think the people that are sort of poking fun at it, I think it’s funny, and it’s great.
“We’re not taking ourselves too seriously. We’re trying to have some fun with it.”
Marina atmosphere
Photo by: Jon Noble
Garfinkel says the idea of the marina at the stadium came about after the plans for the original Miami GP in the city – and the real marina – fell through.
“Initially, when we were looking at downtown, F1 had some ideas about wanting the shots of the yachts,” he explained.
“When we moved here [to the Hard Rock stadium] for a number of reasons, most importantly because we didn’t think we could have a good racing circuit downtown, I told F1 that you’re gonna get your yacht shots, you’re gonna have your yachts.
“They looked at me like I was crazy. And then I came back and drew it on the whiteboard and said: ‘I want a marina with yachts here, and we’re gonna make it happen.’ And so we did. And it’s a lot of fun.”
What’s important to understand is that the fake marina yachts are not some irrelevant piece of trackside furniture aimed solely at making the circuit look better on television.
Instead, they are a focal point for a boulevard of entertainment stands that form a concourse for fans. The marina sits alongside a trackside multi-storey yacht club with bars and restaurants, and is also surrounded by a fake beach with deck chairs, games and loungers.
So while around 400 guests will be lucky enough to be able to spend the race weekend on the yachts themselves, the whole area around it will be surrounded by thousands of partying guests soaking up the sunshine and what’s on offer.
Marina atmosphere
Photo by: Jon Noble
Sorting out the fake marina was no easy feat for Miami, with the process of sourcing the yachts and getting them into the circuit taking 10 months.
With permits only allowing the yachts to be transported at night, and the track needing to put special floors down over the circuit so the track surface wasn’t damaged when they were driven in, the largest yacht took five hours to get from the Miami marina to be in place at the track.
While the effort may seem extreme, it fits very much in with the vibe of Miami, which doesn’t do things by halves.
But, beyond everything else, Garfinkel is absolutely clear on one thing. Doing something like the marina, or the Hard Rock Beach Club with ‘real’ sand at the other end of the circuit, could never be justified if they were situated alongside a track that didn’t offer up any potential for great racing.
It is why, with the circuit having drawn some rave reviews from drivers and looking like it could deliver a good spectacle, he thinks it only right Miami went the extra mile to ensure there was something special to surround it.
And judging by the sell-out crowd, who rushed to get tickets despite them being set at premium prices, the efforts seem worth it.
“First and foremost, the first priority was creating a great circuit for racing,” he said. “So we really believe that if it’s a circuit that drivers want to drive on, and teams want to come race on, then it’d be great for fans. So that was the first priority.
An advertising board on the water
Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images
“Then after that, why not make it Miami? Why not bring a part of the culture of Miami out here to create great experiences for fans?
“If it’s a proper circuit for racing, first and foremost, then we can move on from that and do other things to make it great. So that’s really what we’re trying to accomplish.”
Asked if he ever expected the marina to have such a social media buzz around it, Garfinkel is quick in his response.
“I didn’t know if that would be the thing, or the beach club would be the thing with its actual sand, or the podium itself,” he replied.
“But as long as people say we created a great race circuit for great racing first, and people came here and had a great time, then the rest of it, we can have some fun with it.”
Jesse Plemons: Sam Elliott’s ‘homophobic’ criticism of Power of the Dog ‘made me laugh’
Power of the Dog star Jesse Plemons said veteran actor Sam Elliott’s ‘homophobic’ criticism of the film ‘made me laugh,’ before adding that ‘not everyone has to like it.’
The Oscar nominee, 33, also told The Hollywood Reporter that people are entitled to their own opinions while on the red carpet ahead of Friday night’s screening of his upcoming film Windfall.
‘I know there are different layers to that,’ he said. ‘Not everyone has to like it, I’ll say that. That’s fine.’
Plemons is the latest actor from the critically-acclaimed film to speak on Elliott’s comments regarding movie’s themes of masculinity and sexuality, which he delivered less than two weeks ago on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast.
‘They made it look like – what are all those dancers that those guys in New York that wear bowties and not much else?’ Elliott, 77, said.
‘That’s what all these f****** cowboys in that movie looked like. They’re all running around in chaps and no shirts. There’s all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the f****** movie.’
Jesse Plemons, pictured, attends the Windfall LA Special Screening on Friday in West Hollywood, California
Pictured: Sam Elliott as Shea of the Paramount+ original series 1883
Jesse Plemons in a scene from the popular Netflix series Power of the Dog
In the interview at the center of the controversy, Elliott went on to question the suitability of the movie’s director Jane Campion, asking how a ‘woman from down there [New Zealand] can ”know about the American West.”’
Elliott added that he was also angry that lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s character never seemed to remove his chaps.
‘Every f****** time he would walk in from somewhere – he never was on a horse – he’d walk in to the f****** house, storm up the f****** stairs, go lay in his bed, in his chaps and play the banjo.’
Elliott, however, did call director Jane Campion a ‘brilliant’ filmmaker and said he just did not agree with her direction in The Power of the Dog.
Campion, 67, said she ‘encouraged’ the homosexual fetishes and ‘gear’ seen in the movie when asked if she ‘ever worried about overdoing’ it.
‘Too much leather and ropes and chaps? I encouraged it,’ she told the Guardian in an interview published on March 4. She also said she knew parts were ‘quite eroticized,’ including a scene where Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is hiding a rope Phil (Cumberbatch) had given him under his bed.
The Power of the Dog follows Cumberbatch’s character Phil Burbank, a menacing rancher whose brother (Plemons) surprisingly gets married to a woman (Kirsten Dunst) who moves onto their ranch with her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
The film centers around Burbank’s anger over his repressed feelings as he torments his new sister-in-law and her son at their Montana ranch until he learns to love his family. It was filmed in New Zealand because Campion wanted to direct it close to her native country.
The film leads all contenders with 12 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Campion and Best Actor for Cumberbatch.
Sam Elliott attends the world premiere of “1883” at the Encore Beach Club at Encore Las Vegas on December 11, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Jesse Plemons as George Burbank and Kirsten Dunst as Rose Gordon in Power of the Dog
In response to Elliott’s comments, Cumberbatch hit back and described the comments as ‘very odd.’
Cumberbatch, 45, who stars as a repressed gay cowboy in the film, branded Elliott’s comments a ‘very odd reaction’ to the movie and noted there is still ‘a massive intolerance in the world at large towards homosexuality.’
‘I’m trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here,’ Cumberbatch said during BAFTA’s Film Sessions on Friday.
Benedict Cumberbatch arrives at the AFI Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 11, 2022, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
The Oscar nominated film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, above, playing a closeted gay man. Elliott said Cumberbatch spent too much of the movie shirtless and wearing chaps
‘Without meaning to stir over the ashes of that […] someone really took offense to – I haven’t heard it so it’s unfair for me to comment in detail on it – to the West being portrayed in this way,’ Cumberbatch continued.
Elliott said his main gripe stemmed from the implications that the character Phil Burbank was a closeted gay man and that the movie over-critiqued the masculine image of the west.
Meanwhile, Elliott was spotted in public this week for the first time since he caused outrage by tearing into Oscar-nominated cowboy movie.
The dry-witted actor sarcastically claimed to have no knowledge of the movie when approached by DailyMail.com while running errands Wednesday.
‘What are you talking about?’ Sam said when asked about his thoughts on the film. ‘I don’t know anything about it.’
DailyMail.com spotted Sam Elliott running errands in his first sighting since bashing the film Power of the Dog
‘What are you talking about?’ Sam said while asked about his thoughts on the film. ‘I don’t know anything about it’
‘Jackass Forever’ Gets Last Laugh With $23.5M Opening – The Hollywood Reporter
There was nothing gross about the opening of Jackass Forever at the box office.
The R-rated movie took in a better-than-expected $23.5 million from 3,604 theaters to mark a triumphant return to the big screen for prankster king Johnny Knoxville and his crew.
Jackass Forever, costing a mere $10 million to make, is the second box office win — and profit generator — for Paramount following January’s Scream.
Paramount Pictures, MTV Entertainment and Dick Productions decided to revive Knoxville’s slapstick, gross-out comedy franchise after a 12-year hiatus from the big screen. Jackass Forever is purportedly the last film in the franchise.
Critics loved Jackass Forever, as did younger moviegoers and especially younger males. Three-quarters of all ticket buyers were under the age of 35, including 67 percent between ages 18 and 34, while 68 percent of the audience were males. The movie currently sports an 85 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (a few days ago, it was 90 percent).
Top markets that over-indexed included Los Angeles — where nine of the top 10 theaters were — Phoenix, Sacramento, Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas, Portland OR, Fresno, Albuquerque, El Paso, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. Top markets that under-indexed included New York and Dallas (both were storm related), Washington D.C., Atlanta, Orlando and Miami.
Heading into the weekend, the film had been tracking to open in the mid-teens.
Like many other franchise installments, Jackass Forever still couldn’t match the opening of the last film in the franchise, Jackass 3D, due to the ongoing pandemic. Jackass 3D debuted to $50 million.
Jackass Forever, which reunites many original crew members, stars Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, Preston Lacy, Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Zach Holmes, Eric Manaka and Rachel Wolfson. (There are also numerous cameos.)
The Motion Picture Association’s rating board slapped Jackass Forever with an R for “strong crude material and dangerous stunts, graphic nudity and language throughout.”
Overseas, the pic opened to $5.2 million from its first nine markets for an early global start of $28.7 million. The U.K. led with a strong $2.8 million.
The big news internationally was China, where the Lunar New Year holiday saw box office revenue soar to record levels, with The Battle at Lake Changjin II grossing $153.5 million alone, according to Comscore. Too Cool to Kill followed with $111.5 million.
In North America, Jackass Forever easily beat Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi disaster pic Moonfall, which crashed to earth in its opening.
Backed by Centropolis, the movie opened to an estimated $10 million in North America from 3,446 theaters after costing at least $138 million to make (that’s according to Emmerich). It also bombed overseas with $9.4 million from 45 markets for a global total of $10.4 million.
Lionsgate is distributing Moonfall domestically and insists it will make a profit off its fees even if the movie loses money overall, according to company insiders.
Moonfall stars Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu and Donald Sutherland.
The film played notably older, with more than 50 percent of ticket buyers 35 and up. It also skewed male (60 percent). Moviegoers sent Moonfall to the back of the class with a C+ CinemaScore.
Spider-Man: No Way Home continued is remarkable run, coming in third with $9.6 million to finish Sunday with a domestic total of $748.9 million, which is just shy of the $749.8 million grossed by Avatar in its original run. No Way Home now has a real shot at passing up the $760 million ultimately grossed by Avatar domestically to become the No. 3 top-grossing movie of all time, not adjusted for inflation.
Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s global haul is $1.77 billion.
Scream placed No. 4 with $4.7 million domestically for a total of $68.9 million, while Sing 2 rounded out the top five with $4.2 million. Sing 2 finished Sunday with a domestic haul of $139.6 million and $291.5 million globally.
New nationwide offering The Wolf and The Lion faltered in its opening with less than $700,000 from an estimated 1,000 theaters.
At the specialty box office, acclaimed Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World impressed with an opening location average of $33,760 from four theaters in New York and Los Angeles for distributor Neon. That’s the best showing for a foreign language film since 2019, and among the top 20 opening location averages ever for a foreign language film.
Among holdovers, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza grew its domestic tally to $12.7 million on the eve of Oscar nominations, which will be announced Feb. 8.
Belfast, another possible Oscar nominee, finished Sunday with $7.5 million domestically.