Tom Cruise, Barbie Are Hollywood’s Last Hope for Summer Success
- Disney’s ‘Indiana Jones’ comes in at low end of forecasts
- Summer ticket sales in the US are now trailing 2022 levels
Tom Cruise at the Australian Premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One’ in Sydney, Australia, on July 3.
Photographer: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth film in the Walt Disney Co. series about a globe-trotting archaeologist, brought in $83.9 million in theater ticket sales over the five-day July 4 holiday in the US, another mediocre reception for a big-budget summer movie.
While the international box office brought total receipts to well over $100 million, that’s still a modest sum for a film widely reported to have cost almost $300 million to produce, and tens of millions more to market and distribute.