Indy the Worldwide Box Office Champ of This Summer
29/08/08, 3:48pm EST

While he might have had to fight off more naysayers and bad critics than ever before, the man with the Hat managed to top the worldwide summer box office. According to Variety's end of summer numbers:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was the one pic that everyone thought would succeed overseas, and it did exactly that as the top international summer grosser at $466 million.

Still, that would have been only the fifth highest last summer, after the third Pirates of the Caribbean pic, the fifth Harry Potter and the third editions in the Spider-Man and Shrek franchises.

After Crystal Skull, though, few of the properties carried a guarantee of blockbuster performance outside the U.S. That was clearly the case with The Dark Knight, which now looks likely to top the $400 million mark in international grosses today and should wind up the final summer weekend in the lead.

We will have to see how Indy does in the final race against The Dark Knight for Box Office Champ in the Foreign Box Office this weekend.

Source: Variety

Posted by Mitchell Hallock