Tag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

  • Unlike Harrison Ford, Karen Allen Isn’t Swearing Off Indiana Jones Quite Yet

    Unlike Harrison Ford, Karen Allen Isn’t Swearing Off Indiana Jones Quite Yet

    When it comes to the female companion characters of the “Indiana Jones” franchise, Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood stands above the rest. After her debut in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Marion has returned for two other adventures — “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” and the recent “Indiana Jones and the Dial…

  • French box office jumps in July as ‘Barbenheimer’ drives up ticket sales

    French box office jumps in July as ‘Barbenheimer’ drives up ticket sales

    Ticket sales in July up 33.13% compared with same month in 2022; Barbie and Oppenheimer alone accounted for 25% of admissions.After a slow summer start with dipping ticket sales in June, the French box office jumped back to life in July with 18.38m tickets sold, powered by ‘Barbenheimer’ and US blockbusters. Ticket sales were up…

  • 5 Reasons Disney’s Haunted Mansion Flopped At The Box Office

    5 Reasons Disney’s Haunted Mansion Flopped At The Box Office

    Disney has had an admittedly mixed year at the box office. They’ve had hits like “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” not to mention the absolute surprise turnaround that has been going on with “Elemental.” But the studio has also suffered some horrible misfires like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Ant-Man and…

  • Raiders Of The Lost Ark’s Snake Handler Made A Surprise Cameo In The Movie

    Raiders Of The Lost Ark’s Snake Handler Made A Surprise Cameo In The Movie

    Run-ins with creepy crawlies are an obligatory element of every Indiana Jones movie. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is loaded with centipedes, millipedes, and cockroaches; “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” plunges our hero into the rat-infested catacombs of Venice; “Indiana and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has those not-very-terrifying CGI Siafu…

  • Pixar’s Elemental Is Now The Biggest Original Hollywood Movie Since The Pandemic

    Pixar’s Elemental Is Now The Biggest Original Hollywood Movie Since The Pandemic

    Even though things didn’t start out on the best foot, Pixar’s “Elemental” has had a downright astonishing run at the box office since it opened last month and, in its seventh weekend, managed to cross a pretty impressive milestone. Amazingly enough, it now ranks as the highest-grossing original Hollywood film released in theaters since the…

  • This Movie Holds the Box Office Record for Most Weeks at #1

    This Movie Holds the Box Office Record for Most Weeks at #1

    If you’re a film fan, you can’t get around the never-ending talk of box office receipts. Headlines rave about how well Barbie and Oppenheimer do, while also looking at the failure of the latest sequel or superhero film like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny or The Flash. When a film is a hit,…

  • The Biggest Casualty Of Barbenheimer Was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    The Biggest Casualty Of Barbenheimer Was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    It was, without exaggeration, one of the biggest weekends in the history of the box office. The epic showdown between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” was everything moviegoers and the industry alike wanted to see, with both films delivering, collectively, the biggest weekend we’ve seen since “Avengers: Endgame” debuted in 2019. “Barbie” ran away with the win,…

  • ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Both Receive A Grades from CinemaScore as Fans Flock to Double Features

    ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Both Receive A Grades from CinemaScore as Fans Flock to Double Features

    Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” entered their opening weekend with impossibly lofty expectations. In addition to being highly anticipated works from A-list auteurs, the two films were burdened with salvaging a disappointing summer box office after films like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Elemental” failed to catch on as cultural…

  • ‘Barbenheimer’ to pump up North American box office after high previews results

    ‘Barbenheimer’ to pump up North American box office after high previews results

    Hollywood hoping for $200m weekend session.‘Barbenheimer’ – the twin attack of Warner Bros’ Barbie and Universal’s Oppenheimer – are looking to give North American box office a boost as they open this weekend and have already scored high preview numbers with Barbie delivering the biggest of the year to date.Barbie earned an estimated $22.3m while…

  • The Sound Effect That Links Judy Garland to ‘Star Wars’

    The Sound Effect That Links Judy Garland to ‘Star Wars’

    Hat. Whip. Nazis. Trains. CG de-aging. It’s interesting what it takes to bring Indiana Jones back to the ‘40s. It’s even more interesting what filmmaking language “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” employs to make us feel embedded in the era’s cinema of action and adventure: It wouldn’t be complete without a goon falling…