
Five years later, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” spent 10 weeks in the top 10. In fact, as the summer progresses and more movies enter release, it becomes harder and harder to hold on to theaters.īut look at how the whole process has accelerated: In 1984, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” the second film in the franchise, spent 12 weeks in the top 10.

Now eight weeks in the top 10 is nothing to sneeze at these days.

In fact, “Iron Man” is the only film to have spent eight weeks in the weekend top 10 this summer fellow Paramount release “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which is jousting with “Iron Man” for the summer’s top spot with just more than $310 million to date, came close but dropped out after seven weeks.
