Sunday
25May2008
Box Office - 'Indiana Jones' Whips Up $126 Million in Four Days
Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 12:00PM
Because it's an otherwise boring holiday weekend, the big
story is the box office performance of
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
We've been updating you daily on its estimated total, and while we were off-base
after Thursday's $25 million opening, we corrected ourselves and the course of
the film after seeing Friday's $31 million estimate.
In fact, yesterday we indicated that Indy would
probably make around $34 million on Saturday, another $31 million on Sunday and
$22.5 million on Monday, giving us a five-day total of $143 million.
Now the actual estimates are in from
Box Office Mojo, and we were a little low, but
nothing close to the discrepancies over the past few weeks. With $37 million on
Saturday and $34 million on Sunday, Indiana Jones has passed the $125
million mark in four days, and while it won't break any records and will, in
fact, probably fall a little short of expectations on opening weekend and
possibly its entire run, we are looking at a $145 - $152 million weekend.
Indy would need a little more than $23 million on Monday to
cross the sesquicentennial mark (and for the record, I spelled that right the
first time...although it was a guess), which would give it a fair chance to
overtake
Iron Man in June to become the year's top dog
at the box office.
The interesting news is that, after Monday, Indiana
Jones will have outgrossed the big movies of the past weekends combined!
Speed Racer continues to flop, while
Prince Caspian is also struggling, looking at
holding off Iron Man by maybe $5 million over the entire five-day
weekend. The question for Iron Man is, can it make another $50 million?
If so, it'll be the first $300 million earner since Transformers. It's
looking like a stronger possibility than ever, but I wouldn't call it a lock.
Oh, and congratulations to
The Visitor and director Thomas McCarthy and
star Richard Jenkins. For the second week in a row, the quiet,
modestly-distributed human drama has placed in the bottom of the top ten, and
it's never even played in more than 300 theaters. It's a great film, excellent
summer counterprogramming, and it seems to be working.
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