Media: Disney lost more than $130 million on Indiana Jones 5

In 2023, the film "Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fate" was released on big screens, which, although the audience liked it, still could not attract a large number of spectators in cinemas. Perhaps the initially negative reviews are to blame for this since later critics who saw the film were more lenient towards it. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has 70% positive reviews from reviewers and 88% from audiences. As it turned out, low ticket sales and additional production costs led to the fact that the film brought Disney considerable losses.

As Forbes ' Caroline Reed reports, "Indiana Jones 5" failed to recoup its costs at the box office, with financial reports released Friday showing Disney spent $134.2 million more to make the film than it took in from ticket sales.

According to the expert, in addition to low ticket sales, the financial failure was also affected by additional costs that arose during post-production. After the film was filmed, Disney was forced to spend another $79 million, most of which went towards digitally de-aging Harrison Ford. The film opens with a long scene on a train featuring "young" Ford. Including this, the total budget of the film was $387.2 million.

If you subtract from that figure $192 million in ticket sales for Disney (the studio typically takes 50% of box office receipts) and tax refunds from the UK, James Mangold's blockbuster resulted in a loss of more than $134 million for the label. The archaeologist probably enjoyed the opportunity to see the final adventure of Indiana Jones, but for the Disney corporation itself, this film turned out to be a financial failure.