Box Office: INDIANA JONES AND THE $126 MILLION LOOT

1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) $ $126M 2 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) $ $91.1M 3 Iron Man (2008) $ $252M 4 What Happens in Vegas... (2008) $ $54.2M 5 Speed Racer (2008) $ $36.2M 6 Made of Honor (2008) $ $39.1M 7 Baby Mama (2008) $ $52.1M 8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) $ $58.2M 9 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) $ $35.9M 10 The Visitor (2007/I) $ $4.43 We all got suckered in, didn't we? If I can take any solace from the $126 million that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has made over four days, it's that it could have been more if Obsessed With Film didn't put up the quick negative reviews that we did. I know for a fact that mine, Ray and Mike's reviews put off some people from seeing the film and it pleases me greatly to provide such a public service. The bloated film made $100 million Friday to Sunday - plus $25 million on it's first full day of release on Thursday and is expected to earn up to another $25 million on Memorial Day today. If you add international box office to it's totals, we are talking $269 million which makes it the sixth highest grossing worldwide film of all time. So George Lucas has managed to do it again, release a ridiculous new continuation of a franchise that should have stayed dead long ago and added another fortune to his massive estate. This time though here's suckered in Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford - with only the latter coming out with any kind of credit from the film. I would expect a pretty big drop out for the INDY IV over the next few weeks, similar to what happened to Spider-Man 3 - bad word of mouth is spreading like wildfire. Elsewhere, Narnia2 raked in another $23 million to push it's total to $91 million in 10 days, which stands the movie on $113 million from a plus $200 million budget. Not enough just yet and it should fall fast from here.

In comparison, Iron Man is still finding an audience, $20 million this weekend which puts the film on a whopping $252 domestic, could it reach the elusive $300 million domestic figure? Next week see's Sex and the City - the big movie for the other sex, I just wonder if the men might get a chance to bump up Iron Man further yet. source - coming soon