‘Indiana Jones 5’ Underwhelms With $70 Million at International Box Office, ‘Spider-Verse’ Hits $600 Million Globally

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is stumbling in its box office debut, generating $70 million internationally and $130 million globally to start.

Those ticket sales wouldnt be bad for a film aimed at older audiences, except for the fact that Disney and Lucasfilm spent $295 million before marketing to bring the fifth and final action-adventure, starring Harrison Ford, to the big screen. Dial of Destiny is posting similar numbers to Warner Bros. and DCs misfire The Flash, which opened to $75 million internationally and $139 million globally but cost $100 million less to make. Both tentpoles are expected to lose money in their theatrical runs.

Outside of its underwhelming $60 million debut in North America, Indiana Jones 5 had the biggest turnout in the United Kingdom ($8.9 million), France ($5.9 million), Japan ($4.7 million), Korea ($4.1 million) and Germany ($4.1 million).

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, a $70 million-budgeted family film from DreamWorks and Universal, also underwhelmed with $7.6 million from 67 markets. Along with $5.2 million in North America, the movie has grossed a dreary $12.5 million to date. Top overseas markets were Mexico ($1.2 million), the U.K. and Ireland ($1.09 million) and Spain ($643,000).

Ruby Gillman has stacked competition from kid-friendly films like Pixars Elemental, Sonys Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Little Mermaid. This weekend, those films each earned more (or roughly the same) amount as Teenage Kraken despite being released in theaters weeks prior.

Elemental added $29.8 million from 40 markets, bringing its overseas tally to $98 million and its global total to $186.8 million. Like Indy 5, the movies massive $200 million price tag makes it difficult to achieve profitability in its theatrical run.

Ditto the studios $250 million-budgeted The Little Mermaid, which collected $7.2 million from 52 markets in its sixth weekend of release. So far, the Disney remake has amassed $242.8 million internationally and $523.8 million worldwide.

Spider-Verse, already a theatrical winner, made $13.8 million from 63 markets over the weekend, enough to take the animated adventure past the $600 million mark globally. The comic book sequel has grossed $267.4 million overseas and $607.3 million worldwide.

Miles Morales, as Spider-Man is known in the Spider-Verse, has had far better success in selling tickets compared to The Flash, which added $11.4 million from 78 markets in its third weekend in theaters. The Warner Bros. and DC comic book adventure has generated $146 million overseas and $245.3 million to date.