Analysts decry ‘disastrous result’ as Harrison Ford’s Hollywood blockbuster takes $130m on opening weekend

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has proved a disappointment at the US and international box office on its first week of release, a second successive setback for a supposed Hollywood tentpole movie after The Flash failed to set audiences alight earlier in June.

While the film opened at No 1 at the US box office, its estimated opening weekend total of $60m is at the low end of its predictions – and under half of the $120.7m that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse achieved on its first weekend. By comparison, The Flash took $55m on its opening three days. Dial of Destiny’s non-US box office also disappointed, with 52 territories recording an estimated $70m, to make the film’s total opening weekend $130m, for a film that is rumoured to have cost around $300m to make.

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Source: The Guardian