Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Adventures to a $60 Million Domestic Opening Weekend Box Office Victory

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has won the global weekend box office with ticket sales reaching $130 million, with $60 million of that coming from North America and the other $70 million coming from overseas.

As reported by Comscore, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the fifth entry in the franchise that began in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it serves as Harrison Ford’s last adventure as the legendary character. It also came with a reported budget of roughly $295 million before marketing, so it has an uphill battle ahead of it if it hopes to make a profit.

While its domestic opening performance, according to Box Office Mojo, was enough to surpass Raiders of the Lost Ark’s $8.3 million, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’s $25.3 million, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’s $29.3 million, it wasn’t enough to take down Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull’s $100.1 million debut.

Speaking of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it ended its global run at $317.1 million, so it will be interesting to see if DIal of Destiny can catch up to that divisive film. Reviews for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny are similarly all over the place, but there has been some warmer reception online than there appeared to be for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at launch back in 2008.

If you take a look at Rotten Tomatoes, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has a 77% from critics and a 53% from the audience, whereas Dial of Destiny has a 68% from critics but a much better 88% from the audience so far.

In our Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review, we said it “fails to recapture Spielberg’s magic. With uninspired action and conflicting themes and character motivations, it’s proof that some things should just be allowed to end.”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse placed second with $11.5 million, which was only a 39% drop from the last weekend. The latest Spidey film’s North American total has reached $339.87 million and it has crossed $607 million globally.

Elemental also had a 39% drop and that was enough to keep it in third place with ticket sales of $11.5 million domestically. Elemental has brought in $89 million in North America and $187 million globally.

Jennifer Lawrence’s No Hard Feelings took fourth place with $7.5 million and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rounded out the top five with $7 million.

The Flash, unfortunately, dropped all the way to 8th place in its third weekend with ticket sales only reaching $5 million. That equals a 67% drop from last weekend for the latest DC film. The Flash has earned $99.2 million domestically and $245.3 million worldwide.

For more, check out our explainer of the ending of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. our debate as to wheter Han Solo is more heroic that Indiana Jones, and our chat with Harrison Ford about his favorite Indy moments.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.