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Indiana Jones 5’ Underwhelms With $70 Million at International Box Office, ‘Spider-Verse’ Hits $600 Million Globally​

By Rebecca Rubin
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is stumbling in its box office debut, generating $70 million internationally and $130 million globally to start.

Those ticket sales wouldn’t be bad for a film aimed at older audiences, except for the fact that Disney and Lucasfilm spent $295 million before marketing to bring the fifth and final action-adventure, starring Harrison Ford, to the big screen. “Dial of Destiny” is posting similar numbers to Warner Bros. and DC’s misfire “The Flash,” which opened to $75 million internationally and $139 million globally but cost $100 million less to make. Both tentpoles are expected to lose money in their theatrical runs.

Outside of its underwhelming $60 million debut in North America, “Indiana Jones 5” had the biggest turnout in the United Kingdom ($8.9 million), France ($5.9 million), Japan ($4.7 million), Korea ($4.1 million) and Germany ($4.1 million).

“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” a $70 million-budgeted family film from DreamWorks and Universal, also underwhelmed with $7.6 million from 67 markets. Along with $5.2 million in North America, the movie has grossed a dreary $12.5 million to date. Top overseas markets were Mexico ($1.2 million), the U.K. and Ireland ($1.09 million) and Spain ($643,000).

“Ruby Gillman” has stacked competition from kid-friendly films like Pixar’s “Elemental,” Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “The Little Mermaid.” This weekend, those films each earned more (or roughly the same) amount as “Teenage Kraken” despite being released in theaters weeks prior.

“Elemental” added $29.8 million from 40 markets, bringing its overseas tally to $98 million and its global total to $186.8 million. Like “Indy 5,” the movie’s massive $200 million price tag makes it difficult to achieve profitability in its theatrical run.

Ditto the studio’s $250 million-budgeted “The Little Mermaid,” which collected $7.2 million from 52 markets in its sixth weekend of release. So far, the Disney remake has amassed $242.8 million internationally and $523.8 million worldwide.

“Spider-Verse,” already a theatrical winner, made $13.8 million from 63 markets over the weekend, enough to take the animated adventure past the $600 million mark globally. The comic book sequel has grossed $267.4 million overseas and $607.3 million worldwide.

Miles Morales, as Spider-Man is known in the “Spider-Verse,” has had far better success in selling tickets compared to “The Flash,” which added $11.4 million from 78 markets in its third weekend in theaters. The Warner Bros. and DC comic book adventure has generated $146 million overseas and $245.3 million to date.



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[The Backwards Man]

In a perfect world both of these movies would have made $0.

 

[Back me up!]

Mission: Impossible 7 is gonna be the only big summer movie that is gonna make gang busters money since its stars the last, great movie star still alive (who is also hellbent on ending his life in the most spectacular way possible for the audience).

And dear god Kathleen Kennedy. You've just mined and ruined ever single property George Lucas had created, lost close to a billion dollars, and still are keeping your job. I can't tell if its just white, female privilege and/or she has video on every one where the bodies are hidden.

 

[JULAY]

Maybe this will finally, FINALLY be the thing that ends Kathleen Kennedy's ignominious career.

Let's hope that this ninth straight money-losing film will finally teach Disney the lesson they clearly haven't learned: Get Woke, Go Broke.

 

[Miller]

or she has video on every one where the bodies are hidden.

She probably knows what happened to Heather O'Rourke and who did it.

 

[Corbax]

I remember when Crystal Skull was coming out. It was a novel thing at the time, a new sequel to a decades old franchise. I guess it started the legacy sequel trend. Maybe this new one will finally kill it. It's fitting.

 

[saintJogger]

Ditto the studio’s $250 million-budgeted “The Little Mermaid,” which collected $7.2 million from 52 markets in its sixth weekend of release. So far, the Disney remake has amassed $242.8 million internationally and $523.8 million worldwide.

Well, shit, I didn't expect for The Nigger Mermaid to make money.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

what i like to see is that all of these movies listed either havent made any money or they havent made enough to be worth it. remember, even if a movie makes profit, it can still be a bad thing; movie production companies count on large profits on some movies to cover the cost and losses of other movies. so even if a movie makes money, if it doesnt make a large profit it can still hurt a company. you add that up with a large number of losses and it sure is a fun time to be a movie exec.

 

[NoReturn]

We've been through this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmY2yb_84kw

Mission: Impossible 7 is gonna be the only big summer movie that is gonna make gang busters money since its stars the last, great movie star still alive (who is also hellbent on ending his life in the most spectacular way possible for the audience).

The older he gets, the more convincing his argument for the benefits of Scientology becomes.
I kid, I kid.

I can't tell if its just white, female privilege and/or she has video on every one where the bodies are hidden.

It's gotta be the second one. Gislaine Maxwell kinda deal.

Let's hope that this ninth straight money-losing film will finally teach Disney the lesson they clearly haven't learned: Get Woke, Go Broke.

Even the trailer alone was insufferable. I don't want to go see a movie that's going to lecture me about how problematic the original films I enjoyed are.

 

[northstar747]

But spider man was a black mulatto and had Indian Spiderman and Latin American super spiderman

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Kathleen Kennedy has managed to embody the meme of "Nice franchise, be a shame is something happened to it..."

I've heard she knows the Wienstien and the Lolita Express dirt, and that's why they won't get rid of her.

I think it's simpler.

Disney would rather lose a shit-ton of money than prove ex-fans right and replace her.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I thought Into the Spider-verse was black, female, and gay.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Well, shit, I didn't expect for The Nigger Mermaid to make money.

Did it, though? As far as I'm aware, the money reported at the box office is before middlemen take their cut. Disney will be lucky to get $300 million of that global $523.8 million, which will cover the $250 million production costs but won't do better than dent the marketing budget.

 

[Pentex]

I'm glad Robert Downey Jr. wasn't contracted to Marvel for another movie or appearance so he didn't have to 'pass the mantle' (humiliation ritual) of Iron Man to ReeeeeReeee Williams in the way that Mark Cuckalo and Chris Hemsworth had to with Hulk and Thor respectively.

Because that's the logic of the 'writers' at the princess factory: in order for your girlboss to be a 'hero' they don't have to improve, overcome internal flaws or external adversity; they just have to passive-aggressively humiliate their predecessors and 'be themselves' until circumstances align so that their 'greatness' is recognized by everyone around them.

Ditto the studio’s $250 million-budgeted “The Little Mermaid,” which collected $7.2 million from 52 markets in its sixth weekend of release. So far, the Disney remake has amassed $242.8 million internationally and $523.8 million worldwide.

If the theaters took their customary 50% chop, plus marketing, that 523.8m is going to shake out as another L for Disney.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Making everything black, female, gay, and retarded continues to not work​

Ah but have you ever considered the alternative, that everything is not black, female, gay and retarded enough?

D’Alessandro suggests that another of Dial of Destiny’s problems was that it remained set in its ways and made “no efforts … to cast-it-up and make it appealing to an under-40, diverse crowd”.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/03/indiana-jones-dial-of-destiny-disappoints-box-office-harrison-ford

Did it, though? As far as I'm aware, the money reported at the box office is before middlemen take their cut. Disney will be lucky to get $300 million of that global $523.8 million, which will cover the $250 million production costs but won't do better than dent the marketing budget.

The long accepted general rule of thumb is that between all the non-production costs like marketing, distribution, residuals, interest on debt financing etc a film needs to earn between 2-2.5x it's production budget just to break even. Bear in mind that's just breaking even, not profit, and people risking $250mil making a movie are not doing it just to make 10, 20 50 or even 100mil profit, they're spending big money because they want and expect to make big money.

 

[saintJogger]

Did it, though? As far as I'm aware, the money reported at the box office is before middlemen take their cut. Disney will be lucky to get $300 million of that global $523.8 million, which will cover the $250 million production costs but won't do better than dent the marketing budget.

Truth be told, I don't really know enough about the inner workings of the film industry to really give a proper response, but I guess you have a point. Although I do seem to remember reading somewhere that many times the marketing firms are owned by the studios, so what accounts as marketing costs couldn't really be counted as full losses or the studio in the grand scheme of things. But as I said, I am by no means an expert.

 

[Scout Trooper]

DC’s misfire “The Flash,” which opened to $75 million internationally and $139 million globally but cost $100 million less to make.

Is the author of this article stupid or just bored? $100 million less than what? So it cost $39 million to make?

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Is the author of this article stupid or just bored? $100 million less than what? So it cost $39 million to make?

They are just a shitty writer, what they are saying is that the Flash cost $100 million less than Indy Five to make but both films are struggling

 

[saintJogger]

Is the author of this article stupid or just bored? $100 million less than what? So it cost $39 million to make?

100 million less than the Indy movie. It's very easily derived from the chapter. I'd focus more on "$75 million internationally and $139 million globally".

 

[CharlesBarkley]

I hope they made a Batman universe movie where he is a gay black retard in a wheelchair and his troon lover was kink-shamed to death by the Joker.