Older-skewing franchises are usually slow out of the gate.
Both Mission: Impossible — Fallout and No Time to Die had relatively soft domestic openings, but ended up grossing nearly $800 million worldwide.
For its own sake, Disney would hope that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has a similar trajectory at the box office, because its domestic debut doesn’t seem very promising.
The fifth film in the iconic franchise came in at the lower end of projections, and grossed an estimated $60 million in its three-day opening weekend, after a $24 million Friday.
The movie is expected to generate $82 million across the five-day extended weekend, which would still not be enough to eclipse the $100 million debut that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull delivered 15 years ago.
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