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WELCOME BACK, INDY! Exclusive First #s
WELCOME BACK, INDY! Exclusive First #s
I've just been told that Thursday's opening box office gross for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull was in the $20 million to $25 million range for North America. That's an excellent start to its 5-day Memorial Day Weekend since analysts believed that any total over $18 million for Thursday would be considered MAJOR [...]
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Indiana Jones Box Office
Oh No They Didn't! — ... major theaters in cities are starting to charge the same for children as adults. So Indy 4's totals, and Paramount's bragging rights, can surely benefit from all that even if it does hurt the finances of filmgoers. On the other hand, I'd been told Paramount saw some weakness in the tracking among teens. But that was made up for, I was assured, by eagerness among adults: the problem is that those older moviegoers generally wait until the 2nd or 3rd weekend to screen a flick. Source ...

Thursday Box Office: Indiana Jones Returns With $26 Million
/Film — ... is reporting the film took in $26 Million. Nikki Finke says that “analysts believed that any total over $18 million for Thursday would be considered major moolah.”  The Wednesday midnight shows were also a bit softer-than-expected (around $4 million). ...

Multiplex Mayhem: The First Crack of the Whip
Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — ... ” is how massive will the inevitable cascade of shekels be for the gang at Paramount. Newshound Nikki Finke is already providing some numbers from the Thursday opening of it’s very long holiday weekend and, so far, it looks potentially ginormous, though it remains to be seen if it will be ultra-super-stupendous ginormous. My personal guess is that it comes up just a little short of the $172 million Memorial Day of “ ...

Indiana Jones $25 million Opening Day
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — ... According to Deadline Hollywood, up to this morning (Saturday) the film had managed $56 million at the box office in the US, with a further $60 overseas, making a two day opening total of $116 million. Guesstimates are now being made for a US opening 5 day weekend total of between $140 and $175 million. ...

Multiplex Mayhem: Before the Faces Melt
Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — ... ” but also by recent ticket price increases in some theaters. (The culprit, as Nikki Finke and many others have discussed, appears to be — wait for it — the ethanol clusterfrak. Yes, it’s not just causing food riots, but forcing you to spend another buck for the privilege of enduring a poorly projected flick with talkative teens and sticky floors.) Nevertheless, it’s safe to say that the fourth adventure of swashbuckling Professor Indiana Jones is making enough to keep the money people whistling a happy little John Williams tune for ...

Indiana Jones and the Box Office Sodomy of Uwe Boll
Topless Robot — ... According to TR's infinitely-more-popular sister blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, Indiana Jones made $151 mil on last Thursday through Monday on North America, and $311 million worldwide. It opened on a rather impressive 4000+ sceens, which certainly helped to a certain degree. ...

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Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" thundered into theaters at 12:01 Thursday morning and whipped up an impressive, but far from record-breaking, $25 million in its first day of release, according to Nielsen EDI.
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Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" thundered into theaters at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and whipped up an impressive, but far from record-breaking, $25 million in its first day of release, according to Nielsen EDI.