‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ Digging Up $60M Opening After $24M Friday
Harrison Ford returns as the adventurous archeologist in the fifth and final installment in the series.

Friday’s haul includes $7.2 million in previews.
Disney and Lucasfilm’s long-delayed final and fifth installment in the adventure-action series will easily top the domestic box office chart heading into the long July Fourth weekend. The filmmakers are still hoping for a debut closer to $65 million, but a B+ CinemaScore and tepid reviews could hamper word of mouth. One bright spot is the 88 percent positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie is a sequel to 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which posted a three-day debut of $100 million 15 years ago.
Keeping the film series’ ongoing Nazi theme alive, Dial of Destiny’s storyline revolves around an ancient device being chased by Jones and a villain played by Mikkelsen.
Indiana Jones 5 is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. John Williams, who has scored every Indiana Jones film since the original Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, once again composed the score.
Also opening over the pre-July Fourth weekend is DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, which earned $2.4 million on Friday, including $725,000 in Thursday previews. The family film appears DOA with a projected weekend opening of $6 million and a sixth-place finish.