Indiana Jones 5's Third Weekend in Theaters

For the third weekend in a row Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has fallen short of Boxoffice Pro's projection for it. Expected to take in $14.6 million it actually picked up $12.3 million for a total of $144 million after seventeen days in release. With a week-to-week drop of 59 percent in the first two full weeks these stronger-than-expected drops, should they continue, imply the movie's not making it much past $160 million, with $180 million a relatively optimistic figure. Meanwhile the movie's overseas performance is not looking like any source of salvation--in contrast with the prior films, let alone the pattern of the Fast and Furious or Transformers-style manner that might alone have afforded a real rescue of the movie from flop status, it is only making slightly more money internationally than domestically (with the domestic/international split 48/52, not quite a tenth more). Should this remain the case then my guess is that the movie will end up with a global take in the $330-$370 million range.

Once again I look back to April and think of how I wondered if I was not doom-mongering in suggesting a comparison between Indiana Jones and Solo. Now there would probably be relief if the film did as well as Solo, which pulled in a whole $393 million back in 2018, five inflationary years ago.