Indiana Jones debuted at the top of the US box office, but did not break through

Indy has done it again. Freshly baked at Disney/Lucasfilm, the final chapter in the beloved Indiana Jones saga is at number one in the ranking of the most-watched films of the weekend in the US. Dressed — for the last time — as adventurous archaeologist, Harrison Ford sold $60 million in tickets in its first few days in theaters and promised to keep going, given that the long Fourth of July weekend has begun in America. Worldwide, the collection of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate” reaches 130 million. A more than satisfactory result for any debut at the box office, but not for the latest Indy, which cost nearly $300 million, excluding huge merchandising campaign expenses (Deadline estimated at nearly $90 million). On the other hand, the story was one of the reasons Disney paid Lucasfilm $4 billion in 2012. Four years prior to this acquisition, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” grossed $272 million in its first weekend. In theaters worldwide: almost twice as much as this year’s chapter (not even taking into account inflation). The second most-watched movie in the US over the weekend was Columbia Pictures’ animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which earned another $11.5 million, bringing its domestic total to 340 million after a month. . for the first time. In third place is still Disney with Elemental adding $11.3 million to a total of $93.6 million in two weeks.