Flabbiana Jones and the Dial of Disappointment: Weekend Box Office Results (Jun. 30 - Jul. 2)
Harrison Ford's send off as
ana Jones in
The Dial of Destiny is here and it's number one at the box office with $60 million. That's actually an improvement from the $55 million it was looking at after it's $24 million Friday opening. This was the 6th widest opening in history as the movie played in 4,600 theaters. All five movies that open wider open bigger. Matter fact, of the 10 widest openings in history,
The Dial of Destiny only beat out
The Secret Life of Pets 2's $46.6 million opening from 4,561 theaters.
How does this
Indy compared to the prior
Indy?
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had a $100.1 million opening weekend back in May of 2008. It ended up doing $126.9 million over Memorial Day weekend. And that movie only had a
B cinemascore. If you remember it, it wasn't that good and I haven't seen it since maybe 2010. The dial of destiny actually ended up with a
B+ cinemascore. So better word of mouth but a much worse showing in its opening weekend. It makes sense when
Dial of Destiny is coming off of
Crystal Skull and
Crystal Skull was coming off of the beloved
Last Crusade.
What's even more perplexing is the fact that
Dial of Destiny is rocking a gargantuan $300 million production budget.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had a $185 million budget back in 2008. Adjusted for inflation, that's $259 million. That is just inexcusable. You know, we talked about
Fast X's and
Black Adam's budgets.
Fast X: $340M and
Black Adam: $200M *$260M w/ reshoots, respectively.
Black Adam was an unknown superhero origin story that opened on fewer screens and still made $67 million. Like
Indiana Jones,
Fast X has the history. It opened in even fewer theaters than
Black Adam and still made $67 million. That's a flop for
The Dial of Destiny no matter how you slice it.
At least it'll do $82 million over the 5-day holiday weekend.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse edges out
Elemental for the second weekend in a row. With another 11.5 million in the bank, Miles and the rest of the Spider-Men have totaled $339.8 million domestically and $607.2 million globally. It's now just a couple of million shy of surpassing
Zootopia's $341.2 million to become the 15th highest grossing animated movie ever domestically. It's running 8.5% ahead of
Guardians 3, which made made $10.6 million in its fifth weekend.
Elemental dropped to third place with $11.3 million. It's closing in on $100 million domestically with $93.6 million after the holiday weekend. It's looking to catch light years $118.3 million total. For
Elemental it's all but elementary at this point.
Remaining in fourth place was
No Hard Feelings with $7.5 million down 50% from its opening weekend. With $29.3 million, it's already passed Sony's
The Invitation which made $25.1 million last year. In its second weekend of wide release, Sony's last comedy, A man called Otto, had made $19 million. That movie liked its way to 64.2 million so maybe Jennifer Lawrence and her rear naked suplexes can do what Tom Hanks did.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts took 5th with $7 million. So it officially passes The Last Knight's $130.1 million and
Bumblebee's $127.1 million totals. I don't foresee it passing
Age of Extinction's $245.4 million domestic total but can it pass
Bumblebee's $465.1 global total? It's made $379 million so far.
Notables
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, which
@Lootpack mentioned last week, and I saw an ad for on my firestick, opened with $5.2 million. They got an
A-cinemascore, not far off of Elemental's straight
A.
If you don't know about this movie, I can't blame you. It's an animated DreamWorks pic.
The Flash, which I saw on Tuesday and very much enjoyed, is at $99.2 million after a $5 million 3rd weekend.
The Boogeyman will total $41.5 million after the holiday weekend including $62.3 million worldwide. Without the holiday weekend, it's at $40.9 million which is enough to pass
Barbarian's 40.8 million domestic total.
The Top Ten
| Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
| 1 | - | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | $60,000,000 | - | 4,600 | $60,000,000 | 1 | Disney |
| 2 | 1 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | $11,500,000 | -39.5% | 3,405 | $339,871,821 | 5 | Columbia |
| 3 | 2 | Elemental | $11,300,000 | -38.7% | 3,650 | $88,778,805 | 3 | Disney |
| 4 | 4 | No Hard Feelings | $7,500,000 | -50% | 3,208 | $29,310,952 | 2 | Sony |
| 5 | 5 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | $7,000,000 | -40.4% | 2,852 | $136,110,066 | 4 | Paramount |
| 6 | - | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | $5,200,000 | - | 3,400 | $5,200,000 | 1 | DreamWorks |
| 7 | 7 | The Little Mermaid | $5,150,000 | -39.8% | 2,430 | $280,998,328 | 6 | Disney |
| 8 | 3 | The Flash | $5,000,000 | -67% | 2,718 | $99,250,938 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| 9 | 6 | Asteroid City | $3,800,000 | -58% | 1,901 | $18,144,710 | 3 | Focus Features |
| 10 | 8 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | $1,800,000 | -48.1% | 1,165 | $354,875,623 | 9 | Disney |
I havnt seen a single instagram promo or anything 
