Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny did a belly flop from 10,000 feet this weekend as the Mouse House’s LucasFilm killed the last piece of intellectual property that it hadn’t yet destroyed.
The movie only made $130 million total on opening weekend (a holiday weekend, no less!). That’s $60 million domestically and $70 million internationally against a budget of more than $300 million (not including marketing).
That is less than half of the $272 million that the subpar Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pulled in back in 2008!!
[That’s in nominal dollars too, not inflation-adjusted dollars. CNN also called the opening box office “underwhelming,” and notes that it was even lower than advance estimates. I haven’t seen the film yet, but I’ve also not been particularly motivated to do so either. I imagine that many fans of the Indiana Jones franchise probably feel the way I do: ‘The Last Crusade’ was a fitting end to the series. And even more to the point, viewer trust in studios to treat these franchises properly is at an all-time low. — Ed]
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