New 'Indiana Jones' discovers $60M to lead box office
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (NYSE:DIS) didn't pop any eyes at the box office, but largely delivered expected ticket numbers over the weekend leading up to the U.S. Independence Day holiday.
The fifth Indy film scored $60M in grosses over three days in about 4,600 theaters, according to Comscore, a bit below hopes for $65M, and definitely not an upside surprise.
The new movie added another $70M internationally for a worldwide total of $130M, and it opened No. 1 in a number of key markets, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Australia and Argentina, Comscore added.
IMAX (NYSE:IMAX) said the big-platform movie drew $11M in its theaters worldwide, of $15M total. (Domestically IMAX saw $6M in Indy dollars, with $5M internationally.)
Indiana Jones was well ahead of the box-office leftovers, including No. 2 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (NYSE:SONY), with $11.5M. That fifth-week movie has reached a cumulative total of $339.9M domestically, and over the weekend did better than some other modest performers: No. 3 Elemental (DIS), with $11.3M; No. 4 No Hard Feelings (SONY), with $7.5M in its second weekend; No. 5 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (PARA) (PARAA), with $7M; and the opening at No. 6 of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (CMCSA), which hit just $5.2M.
The Flash (NASDAQ:WBD) suffered another vertiginous week-to-week drop in tickets -- fizzling another 67% to just $5M in its third week (still in more than 2,700 theaters), and only the eighth-best performer of the weekend. It still had yet to surpass $100M in domestic box office.
Indy gets one more weekend more or less to himself before the opening Wednesday, July 12 of Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part I (PARA) (PARAA).
Cinema tickers on the shortened Monday trading session: AMC Entertainment (AMC) +0.9%; Cineworld (OTCPK:CNNWQ); Cinemark (CNK) +0.4%; (IMAX); Marcus (MCS) +0.9%; Reading International (RDI) +2.6%; Cineplex (CGX:CA); National CineMedia (NCMI) -2.8%.
Source: Seeking Alpha
