With 60 million dollars in receipts for its first weekend of exploitation, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” largely takes the lead at the American box office. But its start is somewhat disappointing.
US BOX OFFICE FROM JUNE 30 TO JULY 2, 2023
1 – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: $60,000,000 (New)
2 – Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse: $11,500,000 (total: $339,871,821)
3 – Elementary: $11,300,000 (total: $88,778,805)
4 – The Challenge: $7,500,000 (total: $29,310,952)
5 – Transformers – Rise of the Beasts: $7,000,000 (total: $136,110,066)
6 – Ruby the Teen Kraken: $5,200,000 (New)
7 – The Little Mermaid: $5,150,000 (total: $280,998,328)
8 – The Flash: $5,000,000 (cumulative: $99,250,938)
9 – Asteroid City: $3,800,000 (total: $18,144,710)
10 – Guardians of the Galaxy 3: $1,800,000 (cumulative: $354,875,623)
TO REMEMBER
He was expected, not as the Messiah, but as the one who was going to give a boost to attendance made moribund by the disappointing start of The Flash And Elementary. And on this level, the mission is half accomplished for Indiana Jones.
With receipts estimated at 60 million dollars for its first weekend of operation, the fifth opus in the saga carried by Harrison Ford takes the lead in the American box office, with a good head start on its direct competitors. But his loot is below expectations.
James Mangold’s film even climbs on the second step of the best starts of the saga, behind the 100 million collected by the previous opus in May 2008.
Even if the disappointment caused by the latter may have played in the decline of public enthusiasm for a new episode, which today brought in 150 million greenbacks worldwide.
Word-of-mouth and maintenance issues will therefore be crucial for Harrison Ford’s last stand in the role, while Mission: Impossible 7, Barbie and Oppenheimer will soon arrive. And in the meantime, it’s Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse which shows good stability.
On the way to 350 million dollars in revenue on American soil, the brilliant animated film could, on arrival, do better on its land than the first opus in the world. And that would bode well for the third (and final?) part… even if there is a very good chance that its release will be postponed.
In third position, Elementary struggles but limits damage, while The challenge And Transformers – Rise of the Beasts don’t move. And Indiana Jones will be able to console themselves by seeing the complicated start of Ruby the Teen Krakennew baby from Dreamworks studios.
If he stands in front The little Mermaid (in theaters for six weeks all the same), which also takes place under the ocean, the animated feature makes a pretty big splash when it comes time to jump in the deep end with 5,200,000 greenbacks, and it will be difficult for it to come back towards the surface.
Maybe not as much as The Flash, certainly. Today, the DC film is on the threshold of $100 million on American soil. But he should have reached this milestone in a weekend, not three weeks. And will remain a failure when it was to be crucial for the future of superheroes from the studio to the cinema. It remains to be seen what consequences this will have.
Source: Box Office Mojo