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Article: 'Skull' comes out ahead: Indy digs up $311 million.(Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- May 27, 2008
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The opening of Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" crystal into a $311.1 million behemoth at the worldwide box office.
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Performance marks a triumphant return for the classic action-adventure film franchise after an 19-year slumber, and for topliner Harrison Ford.
On the strength of baby boomers and their kids, "Crystal Skull" grossed an estimated $126 million domestically from 4,260 theaters over the long holiday weekend in the second-best Memorial Day bow. Last year's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ($139.8 million) holds the record.
"Crystal Skull" opened Thursday; ...