This resulted in landing like a wet towel on tracking three weeks ago, with projections not budgeting. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyhas been destined to live in a Temple of Box Office Doom since world premiering at Cannes to lackluster reviews. The point is, for what the studio spent, it’s not getting anywhere near Star Wars box office results. All that said, it stands to reason that Disney would invest greatly here to revive a franchise its spent $259M on The Force Awakens in 2015. But the high price tag here is due to the start and stops of production during Covid Harrison Ford’s $20M fee Steven Spielberg reaping a huge producing fee, which is standard and I’m told director James Mangold got a pretty penny. ![]() Disney doesn’t comment on budgets, and I’m getting some pushback. Much higher than the $250M-$295M that’s been leaked out there. On Saturday, I learned from a key source that Indiana Jones and the Dial Destiny, before $100M in estimated P&A, cost a mindboggling $300M-plus. How could Disney and Lucasfilm mess this up? ![]() Michael Cieply: Slouching Towards Hollywood, One Rough Beast Of A SeasonĪ few things to stomach: Not only did 2018’s Star Wars spinoff bomb Solo open higher than Dial of Destiny, with $84.4M 3-day/$103M 4-day, but so did Paramount’s seventhquel Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ($61M) in May.
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