THE FLASH Drops From Top 10 After 4 Weeks Of Release As INDIANA JONES 5 Also Struggles To Find An Audience

THE FLASH Drops From Top 10 After 4 Weeks Of Release As INDIANA JONES 5 Also Struggles To Find An Audience

The Flash's time as part of the Top 10 is over after just four weeks in theaters, but there's similarly bad news for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny! Find the latest updates on both movies here...

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By JoshWilding - Jul 10, 2023 09:07 AM EST
Filed Under: The Flash
Source: Variety

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse served as a great start for June in terms of box office takings, but it was all downhill from there. Now, the hope is Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Barbie, and Oppenheimer will be able to escape the dismal fate met by The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

During its second weekend in theaters, the latter earned just $26.5 million in North America, and an additional $31 million overseas has done little to help.

As things stand, the final Indiana Jones movie has earned only $248 million worldwide, an appalling result for a franchise with such high brand recognition. However, the biggest issue for Disney and Lucasfilm is the fact it cost a whopping $300 million to produce, all but guaranteeing it will now be deemed a flop. 

Still, it's not alone. In The Flash's case, the movie dropped out of the Top 10 after just four weeks in theaters, all but signalling the end of its box office run. As things stand, it has racked up only $261 million globally, and with a $200 million production budget and rumoured $100+ million marketing spend, this is an utter catastrophe.

A final haul of $450 million is necessary for The Flash to turn even a meagre profit, but "the greatest superhero movie ever made" will be lucky to scrounge up even an additional $20 million in the weeks ahead. 

Love or hate it, The Flash is one of the biggest box office bombs ever made, and there's simply no way back from this. 

While DC Studios is thought to be largely independent of Warner Bros., we'd be shocked if discussions about whether it's wise for Andy Muschietti to helm Batman reboot The Brave and the Bold aren't already taking place (especially as The Flash also received a mixed/negative response from critics and moviegoers). 

This should also close the door on Ezra Miller's time as Barry Allen and while the Scarlet Speedster may well be rebooted somewhere down the line, it probably won't be that early into the DCU's "Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters" era of storytelling.

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Scarilian
Scarilian - 7/10/2023, 10:15 AM
Fogs
Fogs - 7/10/2023, 10:16 AM
Eh. Won't see any of those in the theaters.

Damn, didn't even check gotg3 or SMASV.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 7/10/2023, 11:34 AM
@Fogs - You wont have to, movies come out so fast on streaming or vod that even if it flops or does well it doesn't matter. You can now just catch it on your down time.

I love horror movies and I no longer go to theaters for them because they are best watched at home without annoying teens and loud mouths talking all the time.
Midnaslament
Midnaslament - 7/10/2023, 10:18 AM
$200+ million dollar budget blockbusters are dead, so delicious.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/10/2023, 10:21 AM
You mean to tell me a movie staring an unlikeable, pedophile playing the most annoying version of the character ever, in a movie that doesn't matter flopped?

On top of it, a movie staring Harrison Ford as a miserable, deconstructed version of the character, seperated from his wife, lost his son, only to be replaced by an annoying girl boss who is better than him in every way flopped?

Man, poor Harrison. He had to go through the same arc both as Han Solo and Indy. They must hate guys, er I mean that guy. Wonder if they will blame super hero movie fatigue on Indy flopping ...oh wait.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/10/2023, 3:53 PM
@AvalonX - I agree, but just like Mark Hammill, Ford didn't "had to go through" anything.

They both have enough "star-power" to just state "no, with this shitty script I won't".

So they have their responsibility with these recent travesties as well.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/10/2023, 10:39 PM
@Fogs - Not once they sign the contract they don't. Ford is well known for taking a role to get paid. Hammill could not have been more vocal.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/11/2023, 5:31 AM
@AvalonX - Then Disney will do what, kill them?

They (Disney) would lose more money than the actors, I'll tell you that.

It's called balls, and they didn't show any.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/11/2023, 10:27 AM
@Fogs - I'm not sure what your point is. Mine was the way they wrote these legacy characters, poorly and intentionally to be replaced by their better female versions.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/11/2023, 10:51 AM
@AvalonX - As I said in my 1st comment, I agree with what you said.

The only observation I made is that you stated HF was a poor dude who had to endure all that - IMO he could've done something about it, if he had the guts. Like Hammill in SW.
amesjazz
amesjazz - 7/10/2023, 10:21 AM
Went and checked out Sound of Freedom this weekend instead. Excellent movie worth watching. Can't freakin wait for Mission Impossible!!
ShellHead
ShellHead - 7/10/2023, 10:33 AM
@amesjazz - That movie is Qanon trash, just fyi
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/10/2023, 10:51 AM
@ShellHead - lol wut?
amesjazz
amesjazz - 7/10/2023, 10:53 AM
@ShellHead - What???
Oltzar
Oltzar - 7/10/2023, 11:09 AM
@ShellHead - false. See the movie, then make your opinion.
SATW42
SATW42 - 7/10/2023, 11:49 AM
@amesjazz - @AvalonX - so basically the movie itself is based on the life of Tim Ballard. A life and whose claims have been proven to be either largely exaggerated or just flat out lies. Mainly what he organizations the "Underground Railroad Project" does.

So while the movie apparently steers away from some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories that Q has, it's still signal boosting for a dude who at best is a liar, and at worst is using child trafficking as a way to boost his own fame cache.

Lastly, the films star Caviezel does completely buy into the more fantastical aspects of Q and has apparently been using the press fro this movie to talk about a giant secret international cabal that harvest children's body parts. Think along the lines of celebrities eating babies to maintain their youth type conspiracies.

Alot of what I'm writing is like the cliff notes of cliff notes for the whole situation. I encourage you to look into it if you are interested.
SATW42
SATW42 - 7/10/2023, 11:51 AM
@Oltzar - which part of what he said is false?
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 7/10/2023, 12:12 PM
@amesjazz - yeah, if you read up on the guy (various people have written investigative articles about him and his work, including people who used to work with him), there are at least as many red flags as you would suspect from a guy who is essentially a “professional hero”. From trying to sell a reality show based on what he does and looking for constant promotion, to very dubious methods that a lot of anti-trafficking organizations find unethical, to taking credit for things and rescues that there is no record he was involved with, to massive distortions and embellishments when telling accounts to Congress, to finding a very receptive audience among Qanon and far right supporters to fund his organization who believe that Tom Hanks is sacrificing kids in satanic Hollywood orgies, to very obscured accounting of the money that people throw at his organization.

Does he ultimately do some good? Probably… I don’t get the impression it’s a complete scam on his organization’s part. But he does seem to have found a track to money, fame and political clout by doing the showiest efforts to fight trafficking rather than the most effective or best route for the victims.
amesjazz
amesjazz - 7/10/2023, 1:04 PM
@Chewtoy - I'll look more into him. Regardless of his views I think a movie that brings to light more info on the child trafficking business is never a bad thing.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/10/2023, 1:49 PM
@ShellHead - sure if you watch msnbc and simp to legacy narratives. There's one line about God. It's not political nor religious. Jeremy Jahns even gave it a glowing review. You're simply a bot man.
Imprtracr1
Imprtracr1 - 7/10/2023, 3:26 PM
@ShellHead - Says you, the Biden voter??? hahahaha get real.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/10/2023, 10:35 PM
@SATW42 - No offense but the leftist media mad about an anti child trafficking movie is really where we've gone off a cliff. This movie has nothing to do with conspiracies but it sort of makes you wonder why all the leftist pundants are saying it is. The last bit of outrage was a simple tweet "leave children alone."

You have to sort of question why anyone would think this way...
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/10/2023, 10:38 PM
@ShellHead - Based on what? The leftist media outlets? Doesn't it make you think twice when the entire left comes out against a movie they havent seen which tackles ...child trafficking? There are no conspiricies in this movie but man, you really went with the company line didnt you?
Equivocal
Equivocal - 7/10/2023, 10:44 PM
@McMurdo -

"Jeremy Jahns even gave it a glowing review..."

you lost me there

SATW42
SATW42 - 7/11/2023, 9:04 AM
@AvalonX - first off, I've seen no uproar from any "leftist media" and didn't even know this movie existed until yesterday. I am however aware of Tim Ballard and most of the *ahem* "outrage" is over platforming this guy who seems to use child trafficking to build his own brand and make money off it, with either wildly exaggerated or flat out lies about what he and his organization does.

Maybe people just don't like a dude who claims to want to help children, but actually is using false information to line his own pockets. He and his organization are under criminal investigation for coming up with a plan to launder non profit money into for profit corporations.

and before you say it's just lefties trying to take him down, it's a republican D.A. in Davis county Utah, a county that voted 60% republican in the last election, in a state that historically goes republican.

Dude is a fraud.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 7/11/2023, 10:29 AM
@SATW42 - The post that started this was the claim that this movie is Qanon nonsense. It isn't.
SATW42
SATW42 - 7/11/2023, 10:33 AM
@AvalonX - and i responded directly what you said to me with the post starting with "no offense" so now that i reasonably counterpointed, thats not what we're talking about anymore?
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/11/2023, 9:19 PM
@Equivocal - you're allowed to have poor taste in this country.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 7/10/2023, 10:24 AM
Well, maybe they shouldn’t keep making a bunch of 200 million dollar movies that are mediocre. My thoughts on Dial of Destiny:
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