Indiana Jones has tackled Nazis, solved puzzles, braved snakes and destroyed cults. But this week, the intrepid archaeologist met his match in the form of a middling horror movie.
Newcomer Insidious: The Red Door raked in the green, collecting an estimated $32.7 million in North America to win the weekend. It scared up another $31.4 million overseas, which brought its collective weekend take to a tidy $64.1 million. Given that its makers spent just $16 million to create the film, The Red Door might already be in the black.
The same cannot be said for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. While the film did earn another $26.5 million this weekend—good enough for second place—and has earned $121.2 million overall in North America, Disney and company spent at least twice that to make it. (It is, many say, one of the costliest films in history.)
Indeed, Indy isn’t just getting pushed by horror flicks, but by Christian ones, too.
Sound of Freedom finished third for the weekend, raking in $18.2 million. In fact, Sound of Freedom out-earned Dial of Destiny on July 4, the day of Sound’s release. (It earned a whopping $14.2 million on Independence Day, compared to Dial’s $11.7 mil.) Without any global release to boast of, Sound of Freedom has already collected $40.2 million. (Want to hear more about Sound of Freedom? Check out Adam Holz’s interview with Jim Caviezel and Angel Studios’ Jordan Harmon on our recent podcast.)
Elemental finished fourth for the weekend, banking another $9.6 million. Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spun another $8 million to take fifth. While it looks like Spider-Verse is slowing, don’t feel bad for ol’ Spidey. The movie’s total domestic tally now stands at $357.6 million, just a silk strand ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 for the year. That means that Across the Spider-Verse is now the year’s second-highest-grossing film, trailing only The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($573.8 million).
Joy Ride, the second film making its wide-release debut this weekend, earned $5.9 million to finish sixth.
3 Responses
-It’s sooooo good to see the Christian film industry step up its game! Though I wont be seeing Sound of Freedom because of its mature content, I’m looking forward to more from Angel Studios!
-I was excited to see that Sound of Freedom is at my local, small family-owned theater since they usually don’t show Christian movies because it is risky financially. But yeah, I don’t think I can watch the movie without nightmares.
-From what I’d read from various other reviews, the presentation of the material sounded tactless. I liked the way “Spotlight” handled it, and Focus even highlighted this in italics — there are no flashback scenes. I’ve seen “Sound of Freedom” get a lot of criticism for the presentation of its material, to say nothing of its adherence to the facts.