Posted on 07/02/2023 6:02:40 PM PDT by dynachrome
I know we're all excited to go see "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," the fifth installment in the 40-year-old franchise and yet another beloved series that Disney is using to push a woke girlboss agenda while trashing and debasing the legacy characters that we all know and love.
Oh wait, we're not interested in seeing that?
That's right: Throw in those marketing costs and other odds and ends and you're looking at what could be close to a $500 million price tag for this thing. Half a billion dollars. That's a lot of money.
For a studio to recoup that kind of monstrous budget, the dang movie needs to hit the ground running. It needs to start sweeping the box offices on opening night. Heck, even 2008's boring, useless Indy installment "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" netted $100 million in its first three days.
"Dial of Destiny" looks set to capture barely two-thirds of that.
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The first Indiana Jones was pretty good after that it got lame...
I think I watched the second one & I was done...
**She destroyed Star Wars. She destroyed Indiana Jones.**
The only one I recall seeing is the original Star Wars in 77. A couple of gearhead buddies and I were just interested in pretend spaceship stuff. I made fun of the movie at times, which irritated people nearby, like once, when I mocked the dogfighting spaceships, mentioning, “look, they’re flying around like it’s Spitfires versus ME109s, I want my money back” (laughing).
I know, they should’ve just stopped after “The last crusade”.
Kathleen Kennedy has been FIRED , finally
If it was a decent movie I don’t care about his age
I was just about to post the same thing.....you saved me the typing time.
The movie is going to be another blockbuster in the Indiana Jones Franchise.
Box Office as of 07/01/23
Budget $294,700,000
Opening weekend * $60,000,000
Gross (US & Canada) $82,000,000
Gross (World) $152,000,000
In five days it has made half of its budget.
The five Indiana Jones movies have collecting grossed $1 Billion worldwide.
The rule of thumb is that the box office must be three times the production cost to break even to cover marketing, distribution and the theaters’ share. I don’t know whether that is still true with expectations of streaming sales, but only covering half your production cost on the first weekend is the path to a financial bomb.
Where did you read this?
I’m sorry, but ESG, Blackrock, and WEF have become the conservative boogeyman-equivalent of Halliburton, blood-for-oil, and Cheney for leftists circa 2002-2003.
Yes, ESG is a real thing and Blackrock owns about 7% of Disney’s stock. But that also means 93% of the stock isn’t with Blackrock.
I’ll tell you what shareholders want: price appreciation. And that happens when earnings grow. One of the key measures of underlying profitability is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. Here is Disney’s recent annual EBITDA (Millions of US $):
2022 $11,696
2021 $8,116
2020 $8,357
2019 $14,814
2018 $17,815
2017 $16,557
2016 $16,729
2015 $15,525
2014 $13,688
2013 $11,428
2012 $10,750
2011 $9,567
2010 $8,169
In other words. Disney hasn’t improved its profitability since 2013. And - surprise, surprise, surprise - the stock is at 2014-levels. THAT is more important to shareholders than being woke, ESG score, or if they’re serving WEF-approved bugs at DisneyWorld.
This movie was going to flop with or without Kennedy... yes she made it worse, but no one was clammering for another Indian Jones movie, no one.
Crystal Skull destroyed the franchise, betrayed the fans, and there was not a chance in hell a new movie was going to draw enough ticket sales to make money
With a $300 Million production budget, and likely more than that on promotion, this film would need to see over a BILLION dollars world world wide to be profitable and it that was NEVER going to happen.
“In five days it has made half of its budget.”
Lets put this in context:
Crystal Skull did a 200,000,000 opening weekend when ticket prices were 1/2 of what they are today.
This film needs to make over 1,200,000,000 to be profitable
They spent 300M to produce and around as much, if not more on marketing, meaning for Disney to see a profit, its going to need to GROSS at around 1.2 BILLION dollars to BREAK EVEN.
This film is not a blockbuster, its a flop.
The studio doesn’t get all the ticket price, they get about 60% of the ticket price in the US, and between 20 and 40% of the ticket price overseas depending on the market.
So, WORLDWIDE the STUDIO on opening week make about 76 Million total at MOST... or less than 20% of the what the studio has spent on this movie.
And for the longest time Ford kept saying he didn’t want to do another Indy, or Star Wars for that matter.
My son, who is very conservative, took his two boys, 9 and 11 to see the movie. They sat spellbound for 21/2 hrs. He said the movie was great. He didn’t see anything in it that struck him as being “woke” OTOH, I’m not sure if muy son would know, but it tells me that whatever wokeness may be cloaked.
Has anyone seen the movie?
This is FreeRepublic. That's like asking someone if they read the linked article before commenting. :),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Kennedy_(producer)#Filmography
No Denholm Elliott or Sean Connery. I’ll pass.
Old school action hero is shown to be a tired old man who can’t do anything and is pathetic and cowardly. Indy is an alcoholic who drinks in the morning, and none of his students respect him. His son is dead in Vietnam and Marion is divorcing him. He literally pulls the “get off my lawn” bit by complaining to his apartment neighbors for playing loud rock n roll music.
Then of course, the screechy female know it all feminist shows up and makes him remember how to go on an adventure. Except Indy is the sidekick, THE WOMAN is the main hero.
Indy gets shot in the chest about 2/3rds of the way into the movie, and limps along dying until the end. They ultimately go back in time to meet Archimedes, and Indy wants to stay in the past because he has no future to go back to. His son is dead and his wife hates him. But of course, the strong WOMAN hero has to save the timeline and save Indy again, so she punches him in the face and knocks him out so she can drag him back to the future.
The lady who plays Helena is a super woke feminist who obviously affected the plot threads.
It’s a horrible, pathetic movie that would only appeal to someone who’s never seen the originals, and continues the tradition of woke-feminist Kathleen Kennedy destroying legacy male characters for the purposes of identity politics.
Here’s the best breakdown so you don’t have to take my word for it:
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