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Surprising absolutely no one, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull raked in an estimated $151 million over the Memorial Day weekend. That doesn’t break the record set by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End that had a $153 million haul its opening weekend.
It ain’t exactly chump change, though. Indy shrugged off a blasé reaction from critics as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas did what they do best, thrill audiences. But even with the sure fire success of Dr. Jones’ latest escapade and the surprising performances of films like Iron Man, the box office overall is down this year.
In 2007 by this time, there had been seven movies surpassing the $100 million mark. That was propelled by the infamous “Summer of Three” featuring the third installments of the Pirates, Spider-Man and Shrek franchises. This year only the aforementioned Iron Man and Indiana Jones join family flick Horton Hears a Who in that exclusive club.
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OK, I understand your point and agree that Indy 4 has made more than just chump change…Also, I would agree w/some of your other posts that if there is another Indy film it H_Ford will not be the title character, it will most likely be a young Indy film w/S_Labeauf as Indy.
However, technically…Iron-Man, Indiana Jones: Kingdom of Crystal Skull & Horton Hears a Who cannot really be considered part of the exclusive “Summer of 3″ club…Since Iron-Man was 1st of that series, Indy was the 4th & Horton was the 4th Dr. Suess film, I believe.
–Godspeed–
Yeah, they better be careful there. If they keep making money somebody will greenlight Whos vs Aliens vs. Predator.
seriously, that many people went to see ” Horton hears a Who.” Man parents are hard up to entertain their children. I feel so sorry for them.