Tag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…