
Spielberg and Lucas’ adventure outing makes $311 million in its opening weekend
Despite costing a whopping $185 million to make, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ latest cinema outing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made an estimated $311 million worldwide in its opening weekend, the Associated Press reports.
Coming 19 years after the release of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Harrison Ford’s elderly depiction of his likeable adventurous rogue enjoyed the second most profitable opening weekend in US box office history.
The only film to do better is Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, which made $160 million in the US and Canada in its first weekend - $9 million more than Indiana.
Indiana’s popularity marks a solid month for distributor Paramount, which also saw the money rolling in off the back of Marvel flick Ironman.
The success comes in stark contrast to Speed Racer, which was directed by the Wachowski Brothers – the pair behind the cult Matrix sci-fi trilogy. To date that film has made less than $70 million – failing so far to recoup the $120 million filming costs
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Seen it?
Anyone seen this film yet? What are your thoughts?
Re: Seen it?
It was so, so damn good, really recaptured the fun of the first three up until the last five minutes - which were out-fecking-rageous! They'd done so well to make it stand up to its predecessors (though not surpass them) and then they well and truly ballsed it up in the last few minutes. Talk about tripping at the finish line - Indy's just hospitalised himself.
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Seems a little out of place amongst the other news stories but I'd rather see an article on good old Indy than Speed Racer
Haven't seen it yet but no review could stop me from going to see it :)
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James, I thought you were gonna give away the ending... phew. How did Shia LeBeouf do in the film? Thought his performance in Transformers was 2nd to none (except maybe Optimus Prime himself, which is saying something)
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Shia LeBeouf did well. Thought he was a decent co-star
maybe a little bit 2 much action from him and not enough from indy in SOME scenes.
The movie was good (barr 1 or 2 niggles), but as James said - trips at the final hurdle.
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That's cos Harrison is too old for all the action, so they get the up-and-coming to do most of it...
I'll def see it, too bad they tripped up at end, will have to see what I think.
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I thought it ended well. Sorta...
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I think Shia got a lot of scenes as Lucas said in an interview he's toying with the idea of the franchise continuing with him instead of Ford, with Indy coming in as the sean connery type mentor figure.
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That's what I'd expect, but I'd have to check this movie out before I could comment on whether or not I think that would work...
Off the top of my head, I'd say no, Harrison Ford is what made Indiana Jones, Shia LeBeouf seems too boyish to pull it off. Who knows?
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If only this story was reported correctly, this is the largest Memorial Day opening, not biggest opening full stop as currently Spiderman3 managed the following figures:
$151 million Domestic
$382 million Worldwide
Also it should be noted that these are adjusted figures, and not the first report figures that Indy is basing it's acclaim on.
Everything said, an okay film in my opinion, didn't quite work for me, although the lack of obvious CGI everywhere was a nice change in many ways.
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Just whent to see the new Indie film a few days back. I thought it was awesome!!! Mr Ford has still got it and I want to see him do a follow up. Yeah Shia was good (as he is in everything he does) but if he took over it wouldnt work. You cant do an Indie film without Harrison! its as simple as that.......its like suggesting someone else to play Han Solo. It just wouldnt work. I know, while we are at it lets get Mr T to play the role Marty Mcfly.....
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