| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | $ | $126M | |
| 2 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | $ | $91.1M | |
| 3 | Iron Man (2008) | $ | $252M | |
| 4 | What Happens in Vegas… (2008) | $ | $54.2M | |
| 5 | Speed Racer (2008) | $ | $36.2M | |
| 6 | Made of Honor (2008) | $ | $39.1M | |
| 7 | Baby Mama (2008) | $ | $52.1M | |
| 8 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | $ | $58.2M | |
| 9 | Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | $ | $35.9M | |
| 10 | The Visitor (2007/I) | $ | $4.43 |
We all got suckered in, didn’t we? If I can take any solace from the $126 million that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has made over four days, it’s that it could have been more if Obsessed With Film didn’t put up the quick negative reviews that we did. I know for a fact that mine, Ray and Mike’s reviews put off some people from seeing the film and it pleases me greatly to provide such a public service.
The bloated film made $100 million Friday to Sunday – plus $25 million on it’s first full day of release on Thursday and is expected to earn up to another $25 million on Memorial Day today.
If you add international box office to it’s totals, we are talking $269 million which makes it the sixth highest grossing worldwide film of all time.
So George Lucas has managed to do it again, release a ridiculous new continuation of a franchise that should have stayed dead long ago and added another fortune to his massive estate. This time though here’s suckered in Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford – with only the latter coming out with any kind of credit from the film. I would expect a pretty big drop out for the INDY IV over the next few weeks, similar to what happened to Spider-Man 3 – bad word of mouth is spreading like wildfire.
Elsewhere, Narnia 2 raked in another $23 million to push it’s total to $91 million in 10 days, which stands the movie on $113 million from a plus $200 million budget. Not enough just yet and it should fall fast from here.
In comparison, Iron Man is still finding an audience, $20 million this weekend which puts the film on a whopping $252 domestic, could it reach the elusive $300 million domestic figure? Next week see’s Sex and the City – the big movie for the other sex, I just wonder if the men might get a chance to bump up Iron Man further yet.
source – coming soon
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I actually WANT to see Sex and the City. Living with 2 women for most of my life means I actually saw pretty much every episodes, so I do have quite a bit of interest in the thing (most of my it being directed at Kristin Davis…).
I still haven’t seen Indy and I’m keeping it that way!
6th highest money making film of all time? Can’t be that bad a film then.
Oh wait. Titanic is in the top 5 isn’t it?
Ok, well maybe it is bad.
It’s impossible that it’s the sixth highest grossing worldwide film of all time at a mere $269 million. Didn’t Titanic make over a billion dollars worldwide? All three LOTR movies worldwide? The STAR WARS trilogy worldwide? Spiderman worldwide?? And on and on and on.
All of those films make AT LEAST $300 million in the U.S. alone … not to mention worldwide grosses. There’s no way that this new Indy is sixth all time … hell, it hasn’t even passed the U.S. grosses of the first three Indy movies.
Saw Indy and liked it, thought it was a good chapter in the series.
Not sure why you have a hate affair with Lucas. It’s hard to make a film. Look at the Narnia series, that isn’t very good and had Lucas made those you would be killing him.
Lucas just wrote the story for the new Jones flick and you are still killing him. Find it kind of funny.
Anyway, decent film. It played well with the audience I saw it with. I knew it would be over the top and it was but it was also a fun movie.
Ray, I think he means in the opening weekend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_opening_weekends
Buncha haters. What’dya want anyway? What’s the standard for these films,the unobtainable high-bar? I thought given the tall order it was to fill it did great.
It doesn’t surprise me at all … and I don’t feel suckered. I wrote before that this movie is the inferior one of the franchise but that doesn’t mean is a piece of crap. If Sex and The City make over $200 million then that’s a sign of the end of the world… I’m joking of course.
In more important things …. Benicio Del Toro best actor in Cannes!!!! … I feel so proud because I’m puertorican and he is making such a good represention of my nation in one of the biggest stages in the world of cinema. I’m sure he will be nominated for tha oscar … He won with his outstanding work in “Traffic” and now I have a good feeling that Hollywood will consider him for “The Argentine”. And next year we’ll see him in “The Wolfman” … very interesting.
The roughly 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from respected critics like Roger Ebert, the Washington Post, Newsweek and Variety seems to have held more sway than the few online fanboyisms, it would seem. (though it is only 63% with “top critics”, which is still okay).
It’ll drop to $30 million next week, but not due to bad word of mouth, thats just how the B.O. works these days.
Roger Ebert is obviously suffering from radiation therapy if he gave a positive rating to this pile of shit. Anyone who accepts this as anything other than Spielberg’s worst (or possibly second worst) film is suffering from nostalgia syndrome. Don’t worry … they will all be sorry six months from now when it wears off and they realize how fucking suckered they actually were by this film.
Right, Matt. I’m sure OWF put a HUGE dent in Indy’s box office take this weekend – fucking get over yourself. There are CORNS in Harry Knowles morning SHIT that are more influential than you. People like you are exactly what’s wrong with so-called “fandom” today.
Guys, the movie is rated 79% by every critics averaged rating at RT. Thats very good. The film got generally good reviews, and even by the really hard “snobs” in the so-dubbed “top critics” selection its still in the high 60’s. And its box office CLIMBED each day over the weekend. Thursday had a lower than estimated gross but then saturday jumped massively and sunday not only did not decrease but I believe there was even a slight increase. So if anything word of mouth is GOOD. The only people trashing the film are a few pockets of fanboys–generally, it is doing well, both critically and financially.
3 kids 9 and younger thought just okay. two dads hated it.
not a dual-demographic movie; just prepare yourself in the same way you would for taking your kids to see hanna montana and you are all set.
I suggest taking a radio with headsets and going during a baseball game you can listen to.
Yea your rather inane and pathetic reviews of Indy 4 really affected it’s gross, Actually it got postive word of mouth, over $700 million dollars in the bank. I think that is massive proof that you talk complete shit!!!
Taz, is there any particular reason you are going around flaming on posts made months ago?
Just showing after all this time how wrong these muppets were!!
Sorry i didn’t realise that a law had been passed not allowing free speech anymore.
Begs the question why are you doing the same by responding??????????