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The age of Indy has come and gone. Once again, shock horror wipes out the box office floor with its jump scares and insidious malevolence while Harrison Ford languishes in his post-Star WarsandIndiana Jonesglory. In the meanwhile, Hollywood churns outConjuringandInsidiousfilms at record speed as these franchises have yet to stumble into irrelevance despite almost half a dozen of the latter and a horde ofmovies, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, and tie-in media related to the former.
With the fifthInsidiousinstallment now haunting theatergoers and movie buffs around the world, Patrick Wilson makes his directorial debut before returning to close out the final chapter of the formerly celebrated DC Extended Universe withAquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
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Insidious 5WhipsIndiana Jones 5Into Submission
It’s a battle of the five-movie franchises asPatrick Wilsonbattles it out in a stand-off againstHarrison Ford‘s final adventure as the evergreen Indiana Jones. In the contest of creativity and box office collections, Wilson has already won the race in its opening weekend with a collection of $32.6 million while Indy gets to bring home a mere $26.5 million in its second weekend. Ford’s fedora-tipping farewell withIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyhad peaked at $60 million in its opening weekend and has been on a steep decline ever since – 56% to be precise.
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With a budget that falls somewhere between $250-300 million,Indiana Jones 5bringing in $247.9 million in its worldwide collection hardly cuts it as the production fails to break even as sales continue to plunge. And although Ford and Indy’s last hurrah looks like it may have been in vain, Wilson’s directorial debut venture looks pretty hopeful and optimistic for the Scream King as his film rakes in $64.05 million against a budget of $16 million in its opening weekend itself.
Patrick Wilson Had One Chance and He Made It Count
Even though the actor may be limited by his horror-infused resume and affinity toward the supernatural, Patrick Wilson did find an opportunity to branch out even within the world ofInsidiousandConjuringby making his directorial debut withInsidious: The Red Door.Despite being a commercial success, the film like its creator then finds itself being limited too in its formulaic jump scare horror fiesta. Wilson’s saturated resume stops the plot from being as substantial as Andrés Muschietti’s blockbuster hit,IT.
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Now, $64 million is pocket money compared to $248 million in earnings but when pitted against their production budgets, the case speaks for itself. In that regard, even thoughInsidious: The Red Doorwins at the box office by a landslide, creatively speaking,Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinydoes way better with a 69% rating againstThe Red Door‘s 31% at Rotten Tomatoes.
It isn’t a bit surprising that horror still has a chance of reproducing and surviving at the box office in an era when films likeXO, Kittyget commissioned by streaming giants while an artistic goliath like Guillermo Del Toro still has a drawer full of 28 rejected manuscripts that are too high-end for studios to produce.
Insidious: The Red DoorandIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destinyare playing in theatres globally.
Source:Variety
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
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