Disney Projected to Have Worst Flop of the Year While Faith-Based Film is Zooming Past Expectations

If the dismal trends hold from its opening day, super-woke 🏰Disney’s “blockbuster” new “Indiana Jones” movie is cratering.

Moviegoers, however, aren’t planning to stay home, because “Sound of Freedom,” a faith-based Jim Caviezel film, has already earned an impressive amount at the box office, and it hasn’t even had its opening day.

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the fifth in the Indy series, arrived in theaters on Thursday, 15 years after the fourth episode debuted. And, if its dismal opening day numbers hold, “Dial” will become of one the lowest-earning Indy flicks of the pack.

According to Variety, “Dial” only earned $7.2 million in ticket sales during its Thursday previews and another $16.8 million on Friday. This is not a stellar performance, especially when comparing it to Warner’s “The Flash” which earned $9.7 million for its Thursday previews, and “Flash” is being considered a failure.

This puts “Dial” as the lowest-earning Indy film yet on opening weekend for modern-day film openings. The fourth film, “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” earned more than $100 million and it is generally considered the worst of the bunch.

Of course, the original and its sequel, which earned $8.30 million and $25.33 million respectively on opening day, came out in 1981 and 1984, and the 80s was a far different time for movie finances, so it isn’t really proper to compare the two (and adjusted for inflation, they are both north of $143 million, anyway). Especially considering the original went on to make more than $250 million on a mere $18 million budget. Regardless, “Dial” is coming up way short.