Can Indy squash Spidey?

May 20, 2008 Expectations management goes out the window when a picture is considered a candidate for the biggest opening of all time. Double and triple screenings in many venues easily will double that number, for a print run servicing upward of 8,000 screens. The 1980s Indy films posted domestic totals running from $209.6 million for franchise fountainhead "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to $197.2 million for the second sequel, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," whose outsized foreign grosses helped "Crusade" outgross "Raiders" on a worldwide basis.

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