While we celebrate the victories and successes, it’s sometimes also necessary to acknowledge the missteps, and while creatively the last ride of Doctor Henry Jones Jr in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was a fine send off, from a financial point of view it was anything but. Forbes take a look at the numbers – a budget of $387.2 million, including $79 million in post-production costs but not including the marketing budget – which makes for uncomfortable reading.
A new report from Forbes now reveals the true extent of the losses from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’s box office performance. According to the publication, the film’s final budget came in at a staggering $387.2 million, $79 million of which went toward post-production costs in early 2023. After factoring in theaters’ cuts of the sequel’s $384 million box office haul (generally about half) and reimbursements from the UK government, Disney is left with an estimated loss of $134.2 million, though this figure doesn’t take into account marketing costs nor revenue generated from merchandise and physical media sales.
Yesterdays announcements from Disney would appear to very much underline the desire to right the ship and focus on the franchises and brands that have resonated with fans so stringly for so long, Let’s hope Bob Iger is able to lead the House of Mouse back to the highs of the last decade, because as the many awards nominations for this film showed there’s still plenty of appreciatiuon for those iconic IPs.
