Why Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has been a box-office flop
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinystands at the end of its second weekend of release.
In the US, the movie dropped 56% from its opening weekend to add $26.5 million for $121.2 million to date. Including its overseas haul of $126.7 million,A sign of how poorly it's done so far is that it's still ranking as the lowest-grossing movie of the series, even though the original trilogy was released in the 1980s and no adjustment for inflation has been taken into account.Raiders of the Lost ArkIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullIf there's comfort to be had, it's that the new Indy movie will at least overtake fellow flop
, currently at $261.6 million worldwide. Whatever happens in the coming weeks though, it will still remain a box-office failure.ends up around $350 million to $400 million, it's a final result that some other 2023 blockbusters, like, would happily take. But a key part of why it's being viewed as such a flop is that it cost a lot of money.
The reported budget for the movie is around $300 million and, typically, a movie would need to make 2.5 times its budget before it starts hitting profit. That factors in a marketing spend that, for
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