Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny It dug in to $24 million at the Friday box office for an anticipated debut weekend in the $60 million range. This would put the opening on the low end of expectations.
Friday’s total includes $7.2 million in previews.
The latest and fifth installment in Disney and Lucasfilm’s long-delayed action adventure series will top the domestic box office chart the long July Fourth weekend. The filmmakers are still hoping to debut near $65 million, but B+ CinemaScore and lukewarm reviews could hamper word of mouth. One bright spot is its 88 percent positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
the Indiana Jones The film series once again stars Harrison Ford as the smug archaeologist. The 80-year-old actor stars as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethan Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen in the James Mangold-directed film. (Steven Spielberg led each of the previous four dew films.)
The movie is a sequel to 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullwhich scored a three-day $100 million debut 15 years ago.
keeping the ongoing Nazi theme of the film series alive, Destiny askedThe s story revolves around an old device that is haunted by Jones and a villain played by Mikkelsen.
Indiana Jones 5 Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Spielberg and George Lucas as executive producers. John Williams, who scored every goal Indiana Jones The movie since the original Raiders of the Lost Ark In 1981, the score is composed again.
DreamWorks Animation and Univeral’s will also open during the weekend leading up to the Fourth of July Robbie Gelman, Teenage Kraken which earned $2.4 million on Friday, including $725,000 in Thursday previews. The DOA family film debuted with a projected $6 million opening weekend and a sixth-place finish.
July 1, 7:45 a.m: Updated with Friday totals and revised weekend estimates.
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