Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is barely winning an unexpectedly close race with “Insidious: The Red Door” on international box office charts, with each film collecting roughly $31 million over the weekend.Based on Sunday’s estimates, “Indiana Jones 5” is ever-so-slightly ahead of “Insidious 5” with $31.8 million for Harrison Ford’s swashbuckling adventure and $31.4 million for Sony’s paranormal horror story.“The Red Door” easily took town “Dial of Destiny” at the domestic box office, with the former earning $32.6 million in its debut.
It marked the second-best opening weekend of the franchise behind 2013’s “Insidious-Chapter-2-2013-movie-posters/”>Insidious: Chapter 2” ($40 million).Overseas, the newest “Insidious” movie managed to secure the best start for a horror film in pandemic times, as well as the biggest start of the supernatural-horror series in comparable markets.
Top markets include Mexico ($5.8 million) the Philippines ($3.7 million) and the U.K.
($2.8 million).With $64 million in global ticket sales to date,…
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