In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy learned that there were more important things in life than fortune and glory.
Hope the character remembers that now.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and presumably last film in the Indiana Jones franchise, dug up a weekend box-office victory. But the win was a bit anticlimactic. It’s as if Indiana had dodged poison darts and careening boulders to discover an idol made out of zinc.
The Dial of Destiny earned an estimated $60 million in North America—a good $10 million less than many prognosticators believed it would earn. It whipped up another $70 million overseas, which brought its total loot to around $130 million for the weekend. Most are expecting Dial of Destiny to make a good amount of cash during the five-day Fourth of July run—about $82 million total, according to CNN—but Indy still has plenty of work to do before it can call this a successful monetary adventure.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse continued its own swing through the box office, finishing second with $11.5 million. The film hasn’t been outside the box office’s top three since it started its cinematic journey June 2. Across the Spider-Verse has now earned $339.9 million over that web of time, and it still stands as the year’s third highest-grossing movie. Given that it’s less than $16 million behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($355.6 million), Across the Spider-Verse could be No. 2 before it’s done.
In third place, you ask? Why it’s Elemental, my dear reader. It earned $11.3 million—just a breath away from Across the Spider-Verse—to bring its total haul to $88.8 million. While Elemental continues to collect cash, it appears paltry compared to Pixar’s previous pics. Of the studio’s 23 movies, it currently ranks 22nd—ahead of Onward (which made just $61.6 million just as COVID locked everything down in 2020) and behind 2015’s The Good Dinosaur ($123.1 million).
No Hard Feelings earned $7.5 million in its second week of release, bringing its total domestic tally to $29.3 million. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts closed out the top five with a $7 million weekend.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken—the weekend’s second wide release—struggled against the movie-going currents. The DreamWorks production earned a disappointing $5.2 million.
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