Warner Todd Huston – The Western Journal July 1, 2023
If the dismal trends hold from its opening day, super-woke Disney’s “blockbuster” new “Indiana Jones” movie is cratering.
Moviegoers, however, aren’t planning to stay home, because “Sound of Freedom,” a faith-based Jim Caviezel film, has already earned an impressive amount at the box office, and it hasn’t even had its opening day.
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the fifth in the Indy series, arrived in theaters on Thursday, 15 years after the fourth episode debuted. And, if its dismal opening day numbers hold, “Dial” will become of one the lowest-earning Indy flicks of the pack.
According to Variety, “Dial” only earned $7.2 million in ticket sales during its Thursday previews and another $16.8 million on Friday. This is not a stellar performance, especially when comparing it to Warner’s “The Flash” which earned $9.7 million for its Thursday previews, and “Flash” is being considered a failure.
This puts “Dial” as the lowest-earning Indy film yet on opening weekend for modern-day film openings. The fourth film, “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” earned more than $100 million and it is generally considered the worst of the bunch.
Of course, the original and its sequel, which earned $8.30 million and $25.33 million respectively on opening day, came out in 1981 and 1984, and the 80s was a far different time for movie finances, so it isn’t really proper to compare the two (and adjusted for inflation, they are both north of $143 million, anyway). Especially considering the original went on to make more than $250 million on a mere $18 million budget. Regardless, “Dial” is coming up way short.
If projections hold and Disney’s “Dial” doesn’t all of a sudden catch fire, that means the film will only earn about $60 million for its opening weekend, Deadline reported. And that, folks, is a crushing defeat for Disney, especially considering that the film cost nearly $300 million to make, distribute and advertise.
“Dial” has already had stiff headwinds ahead of its opening. As Deadline noted, it earned lackluster reviews when Disney debuted it at the Cannes Film Festival this year and it has been dogged by low approval ratings on nearly every ratings board ever since. Critics’ reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, for instance, have it at a low 68 percent.
This particular opening weekend coincides with the Independence Day weekend, so that will give “Dial” an extra day to be considered for its “weekend box office.” So, that may boost it to $80 million in earnings.
Regardless, all that money talk means that “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is cruising to a major financial flop for Disney.
Again, we can compare it to Warner’s “The Flash,” which skidded to a stop at $55 million for its opening weekend, far below the hoped-for $70 million, the Hollywood Reporter noted last week.
Despite its creepy CGI cameo of Christopher Reeve as Superman, the film at least seems to have broken even with its overseas box office added to its domestic take.
“Dial,” though will likely struggle to achieve a break-even point, if these projections hold. What a disaster for ultra-woke Disney, a studio that has already lost nearly $900 million over its last eight-box office bombs.
Meanwhile, Angel Studios seems to have a guaranteed hit on its hands with the Jim Caviezel-starring action picture, “Sound Of Freedom,” a faith-based movie following the efforts of Tim Ballard, a U.S. Homeland Security agent who went on a crusade to save trafficked children.
“Sound” won’t open until Tuesday, but the film already has racked up more than $7.2 million in ticket pre-sales, according to Deadline.
Angel Studios was the team behind Easter’s standout film “His Only Son,” which was about the prophet Abraham, and opened to $5.5M with a more than $12 million domestic box office.
The studio set a goal of selling two million pre-sale tickets ahead of its Tuesday, July 4 opening, and as of the publication of this story, they have already hit more than 869,000, according to its running tracker. And those sales are soaring minute by minute, the tracker shows.
Angel Studios’ upcoming film is not an outlier, either. Moviegoers may also remember that Lionsgate had a surprise hit on its hands earlier this year with “The Jesus Revolution,” a faith-based film that opened with a $15.8 million weekend box office, and earned an amazing $51 million for its theatrical run, easily paying off its $15 million budget.
Will Hollywood learn that people are sick and tired of the woke garbage that studios are throwing at them? If “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” fails as badly as it seems it might, maybe the light will start going on in boardrooms across the entertainment industry.
My sons school announced they were putting on a play about Robin Hood
tickets were £ 3 each and parents supported it approx 60 tickets were sold
just a couple of days before the school announced all parts would be played by black schoolchildren
on the night of the pay 3 parents and 4 school workers showed up
One Muslim parent said it was a disgusting show of socialist racism and hate for other children at the school to be excluded like this
It’s a pervasive philosophy. It used to be “the customer is king”, now it’s “this is what we’re selling, take it or leave it”. Supply-side economics replaced demand-led economics then anything with economic clout found it could dictate its terms on human society and this dark philosophy took over. It started going downhill from there where Hollywood pumped out sh!te and eventually led to “woke” and trans-.
It became “There Is No Alternative”. Dictatorship with a smiley face. If there was an alternative where the customer is king we would never have gotten here. Apart from a few freaks we’d never have bought into it.
l’m trying to give a shit about what hollyweird nonsense makes this that or the other.. whenever and whatever…
and whoever…
But l just can’t …..
Disney and Hellyweird can both go to hell where they belong! Both are satanic child-grooming, pedophile-infested, reprobate Q’ba’alistic-run, shitholes worthy of the judgment coming upon them! “Get out of her” all whom are Christ’s own! Jesus LIVES!!!!!
Millions and millions of dollar spent in nonsense entertainment. Have you seen the trend? Pathetic!
Although it ought to be named God’s Land for its beauty, British Columbia no doubt is the biggest whore on planet mainly for its materialism and paganism. Satanism thrives in the richer quarters, and the most respected families run the heroin and fentanyl trades. There is a huge drug problem and it is only going to get much worse since the puppet governments of the ruling oligarchs have legalized pot and are now clearing the way for other hallucinogenic substances to be more readily available. Of course they will not allow access to wonder drugs such as Ivermectin to save the elderly and vulnerable from a host of flus and other ailments.
In this balmy and indifferent climate, where are streets are marred with numerous victims of legal trafficking in the hard drugs, one has to wonder how much child trafficking is also going on in our midst. Chinese factories produce cheap auto parts, and live human parts, and tons of fentanyl, and Vancouver is a major distribution center. How about live children?
Only a few theatres in the entire province released The Sound of Freedom yesterday. Unless you reserved a few weeks ago, you were out of luck. Meanwhile, at the centers with multiple theatres there were up to seven other movies running and most of them with only a few people in the audiences. Then you look at the schedules for more showings over the next few weeks and what do you find? You find only very scant showings spaced out like twice or once in a week. You will only get in with a reserve ticket. It is clearly the case that the ruling oligarchs of BC do not want very many people to see this movie and the reason should be obvious.
Why did it take some two years for this movie, which originally I understand was quite a bit longer, to be released? What compromises in it did the independent producers have to make to it to have it shown in the mainstream theater networks? What is the thoroughly corrupt establishment afraid of?
What can be expected of a society which kills its unwanted, born and unborn? What can be expected of a society which turns a blind eye to all of the drug trafficking in its midst where even the vice squads are never allowed to go up the ladder and arrest any actual organizers much less any of the actual drug lords and families? What can be expected of a society which turns a blind eye to the traffic in human organs and has no qualms as to the source? What can be expected of a society where various groups of people are targeted with substances called “vaccines” designed to ruin their immune systems, cause clotting and eventually killing them, and with only a few of the people who actually care?
What can you expect from a society where its leading university did the US DoD and DARPA dirty work in developing Covid vaccine nanoparticle delivery system, and will do anything for money? What can you expect from a society where its courts will not even force the corrupt and lying government to disclose its medical-scientific evidence for dismissing the thousands of health-care workers who refused to be jabbed? What can you expect from a society which calls drug trafficking and child trafficking “industries” and not “heinous crimes”? What can you expect from a society which is so “here and now” that only immigrants and a few religious people are having children to sustain the 1.17 children-per-woman birth rate which is the lowest in Canada, which is 1.4 and which is no where near the sustainability level of 2.2? What can you expect of a society where the the richer you are, the more materialistic you are, the less religious you are, then the less children you have, and the less you care for the plight of children anywhere? What can you expect of a society where if anything is a money-making “industry” including buying, abusing, mutilating, killing and sacrificing children, and even drinking their blood as an elixir for longevity, it is protected by the ruling establishment?
What can you expect? You can expect either a huge wave to come from the Pacific and wash all of the filth of the West Coast entirely away, or you can expect a huge wave of people from foreign lands who cherish children to come here and replace the inhabitants, as they are now doing, and everywhere else in the West as well.
Woke movies are tanking. Tranny-labeled beer sales are tanking. And ya know what? It doesn’t matter one iota!
Because the consumer has been totally disempowered. The rulers don’t need us, our labor, or our money. They will keep churning out this sickening propaganda. And if it grosses 5 bucks nationwide at the box office, so be it. Welcome to the age of the Antichrist.
Stop watching crap from Hollyweird, Noseflix and Amazog Prime. Let everything they prodice tank.
I am absolutely Hollywood unedjucated + despise
american talking about what they learned from
some films because I have my european education
by myself + not from government dictated . all big
nations were robbers,the kings,aristocraty, priests .
I would like to be on a planet without abrahamites,
only 1000 stoneage hunters, planters,fishers of same
tribe !
Cheer up, Fred.
Evil abounds but you shouldn’t let that exasperate you so. It’s not your fault.
Gallows occasion levity, not wringing despair.
Try looking at it this way – at least the Apocalyse is living up to promise.
Can’t really complain on that count, eh?
Hollywood doesn’t have the writers or actors worth a plug. Trying to depend on geezers or woke isn’t going to cut it.