Professor Jones is going to hang up his hat for a while! At any rate, that’s what Indiana Jones and the Clock of Fortune is offering at the box office, which grossed “only” $383.9 million worldwide when it was released last June. The film is one of Disney’s major failures in 2023.
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134 million loss
Harrison Ford in “Clockwork”
in total, Forbes An estimated 134 million was lost by the big viewing house on the new adventure of Dr. Jones. This huge loss can be explained by the cost of the film, which the media estimated at $387.2 million (including $79 million for post-production). Real wealth!
In comparison, with a gross of 383.9 million, the film grossed 49% less than its previous opus, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, which was also poorly received by the public upon its release.
These poor figures can be explained by the fact that the public does not want Harrison Ford to play the role of an adventurer-archaeologist at the age of 80, perhaps also because. Indiana Jones 5 Filmed during the COVID period and therefore mainly on green screens, where the previous ones tried their best to offer realistic settings. Or even a scenario that involves time travel, which is always tricky.
2023, a very bad year for Disney
Still, Indiana Jones contributed to Disney’s very poor financial year at the movies in 2023, with more than a dozen films struggling:
– Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania only made $476 million when it needed to make $600 million to break even.
– Elementary (Pixar) is close to 500 million, which is a fair figure, but less than expected.
– The Little Mermaid was a solid gross (569.6 million), but disappointing for Disney, which was more used to live-action remakes of its animated films.
– Guardians of the Galaxy 3: The latest installment of the adventures of the Marvel team was 845.5 million.
– The Haunted Mansion, a new addition to the “movie attractions” saga, was down 117 million.
– Marvels was a disaster with only 206 million, the worst Marvel box office in the studio’s history.
– Wish – Asha and the Lucky Star, the last film of the year, was in celebration of Disney’s 100th anniversary and totaled 254.5 million.
Therefore, the best score for the studio was Guardians of the Galaxy 3, but no film reached the billion dollar mark and few crossed the symbolic barrier of 500 million.
Financiers may adapt to public opinion in order to correct the situation in the future. It remains to be seen how. Will 2024 be the year of the review?
Source: Allocine
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