‘Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny’ Domestic Box Office Underwhelms
Older-skewing franchises are usually slow out of the gate. Both Mission: Impossible — Fallout and No Time to Die had relatively soft domestic openings, but ended up grossing nearly $800 million worldwide. For its own sake, Disney would hope that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has a similar trajectory at the box office, because its domestic debut doesn’t seem very promising.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT And many people didn’t even like that movie. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull managed to gross more than $300 million domestically and more than $700 million worldwide by the end of its theatrical run, turning a nice profit for Paramount, which held the rights to Lucasfilm projects back then.
The movie’s soft opening would’ve been disappointing under any circumstances, but considering that this is star Harrison Ford’s final time playing the legendary character, the sadness hits harder. Disney was bullish about the Dial of Destiny, premiering it at the Cannes Film Festival some weeks ago. But to everybody’s surprise — James Mangold is usually a reliable director — the movie earned mostly mixed reviews.
The fourth spot this weekend went to Sony’s raunchy R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, which added $7.5 million to its domestic tally after a promising debut seven days ago. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, the movie has made nearly $30 million domestically so far. Rounding out the top five was Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which generated $7 million this weekend — its fourth — and took its running domestic total to an underwhelming $136 million.
You can watch our interview with Dial of Destiny stars Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge here, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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