Indiana Jones and executives from the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm made a somewhat disheartening discovery over the weekend. Moviegoers didn’t rush to the cinema to see “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate” and bid farewell to Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist.
The film, whose budget exceeded $250 million, fell short of expectations, as it grossed $60 million from 4,600 theaters in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. .
With $70 million in international screenings in 52 markets, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate” celebrated a $130 million global opening. He easily managed to rise to the top of the box office, but it wasn’t the grand farewell that many were expecting for one of modern cinema’s most iconic characters. Disney expects to make $82 million in the United States over the Independence Day holiday weekend and $152 million worldwide.
“Dial of Destiny” is the fifth part of the adventure saga created by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in 1981, and the first not directed by Spielberg himself. Veteran James Mangold has taken the reins of the Spielberg-approved script, in which an elderly Dr. Jones retires from his college job and embarks on a new adventure with his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
The film opened to much fanfare at the Cannes Film Festival in May, with a celebration worthy of Ford, who said it was his last time portraying the character.
Here are the 10 highest-grossing movies this weekend in the United States and Canada, according to Comscore. The final figures are known on Monday:
1. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate,” $60 million.
2. “Spider-Man: Through the Spider-Verse,” $11.5 million.
3. “Elementary”, 11.3 million.
4. “No Grudges,” $7.5 million.
5. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” $7 million.
6. “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” $5.2 million.
7. “The Little Mermaid,” $5.2 million.
8. “The Flash,” $5 million.
9. ‘Asteroid City’, $3.8 million.
10. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”, $1.8 million.
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