And said today that they’ve reached a marketing and distribution deal for the franchise. Among other things, this agreement removes the last hurdle for in moving forward with future Indiana Jones movies, which the company acquired when it purchased Lucasfilm.
The new deal gives Disney marketing and distribution rights to future films as well as retaining Lucasfilm’s ownership rights — which basically means they’ve got the whole shebang now. Paramount, on the other hand, isn’t left in the cold: The studio will continue to have distribution rights to the first four films. While details of the deal are unknown, Paramount also will receive financial rewards on any future Indiana Jones films that are produced and released by Disney. Moving ahead with a new movie coming out in December 2015 and with two more in the pipeline, the studio has not confirmed that a fifth Indiana Jones has the green light. However, with today’s news and star Harrison Ford’s previous expressed interest in returning to the role, one would have to say it’s looking likely.
Running time 115 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $18 million Box office $389.9 million Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 American directed by, written by from a story. It was produced by for Ltd., with Lucas and as executive producers. The first installment in the, it stars as archaeologist, who battles a group of searching for the. It co-stars as Indiana's former lover,; as Indiana's rival, French; as Indiana's sidekick,; as agent; and as Indiana's colleague,. The film originated from Lucas' desire to create a modern version of the of the 1930s and 1940s.
Production was based at, England, but filming also took place in, and from June to September 1980. Raiders of the Lost Ark became 1981's top-grossing film and remains one of the adjusted for. It was nominated for eight in, including, and won for, and with a fifth Academy Award: a Special Achievement Award for. It is often considered one of the. In 1999, it was included in the U.S.
The 'Indiana Jones' Films - Part 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) d. Steven Spielberg, 115 minutes. Film Plot Summary. The serial-based adventure-action film,. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime. Watch Raiders of the Lost Ark Full Movie Online Free.
' as 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. The film began a franchise including several sequels, a television series, (1992–1996),. Contents. Plot In 1936, American archaeologist braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in and retrieves a. He is confronted by rival archaeologist and the indigenous people.
Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones surrenders the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting, where he uncomfortably shares his seat with the pilot's pet snake. Jones returns to his teaching position at Marshall College, where he is interviewed by two agents. They inform Jones that the are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, under whom Jones studied at the. The Nazis know that Ravenwood is the leading expert on the ancient city of in, and that he possesses the headpiece of an artifact known as 'the Staff of '. Jones deduces that the Nazis are searching for the — the Nazis believe that if they acquire the Ark, their armies will become invincible.
The Staff of Ra (used to project a beam of on a building in a diorama of the city) is the key to finding the, a secret chamber in Tanis, Egypt, in which the Ark is buried. The agents authorize Jones to recover the Ark to prevent the Nazis from obtaining it. He travels to and discovers that Ravenwood has died, and the headpiece is in the possession of Ravenwood's daughter. Jones visits Marion at her, where she reveals her bitter feelings toward him from a previous romantic affair.
She physically rebuffs his offer to buy the headpiece, and Jones leaves. Shortly after, a group of thugs arrive with their Nazi commander. Toht threatens Marion to get the headpiece but Jones returns to the bar and fights the Nazis to save Marion. During the fight, the bar is set ablaze and the headpiece lands in the flames. Toht severely burns his hand trying to take the hot headpiece and flees the tavern screaming in agony. Jones and Marion escape with the headpiece, and Marion decides to accompany Jones in his search for the Ark so he can repay his debt to her.
The pair travels to, where they meet up with Jones' friend and skilled digger. Sallah informs them that Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the Well of Souls with a replica of the headpiece (created from the scar on Toht's hand). They quickly realize the Nazi headpiece is incomplete and that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place. The Nazis kidnap Marion and it appears to Jones that she is killed in an exploding truck. After a confrontation with Belloq in a local bar, Jones and Sallah infiltrate the Nazi dig site and use their staff to correctly locate the Ark. Jones discovers Marion is alive when he finds her bound and gagged in a tent.
He refuses to release her out of fear of alerting the Nazis. Jones, Sallah, and a small group of diggers unearth the Well of Souls and acquire the Ark. Belloq and Nazi officer arrive and seize the Ark from Jones, throwing Marion into the Well of Souls with him before sealing it back up.
Jones and Marion escape to a local airstrip, where Jones has a fistfight with a Nazi mechanic and destroys the that was to transport the Ark to. The panicked Nazis remove the Ark in a truck and set off for Cairo, but Jones catches them and retakes it.
He makes arrangements to take the Ark to aboard Bantu Wild. The next day, a Nazi appears and intercepts the ship.
Belloq and Dietrich seize the Ark and Marion but cannot locate Jones, who stows away aboard the U-boat and travels with them to an island in the. Once there, Belloq plans to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to. Jones reveals himself and threatens to destroy the Ark with an anti-tank rocket, but Belloq calls his bluff and Jones surrenders rather than destroy such an important historical artifact and kill Marion in the process.
The Nazis take Jones and Marion to an area where the Ark will be opened and tie them to a post to observe. Belloq, dressed as an, performs a ceremonial opening of the Ark and finds it full of sand. Spirits emerge from the Ark, destroying the equipment the Nazis are using to film the opening, and Jones tells Marion to close her eyes and not look. Belloq and the others look on in astonishment as the ghosts are suddenly revealed to be. A forms above the Ark and shoots bolts of fiery energy into the gathered Nazi soldiers, killing them all. Belloq, Toht and Dietrich all scream in terror as the Ark turns its fury on them: Dietrich's head shrivels up, Toht's face is melted off his skull and Belloq's head explodes.
Flames then engulf the remains of the doomed assembly, save for Jones and Marion, and the pillar of fire rises into the sky. The Ark's lid is blasted high into the air before dropping back down onto the Ark and sealing it. Jones and Marion find their ropes burned off and embrace.
In, the Army Intelligence agents inform Jones and that the Ark is someplace safe and will be studied by 'top men'. The Ark is then shown being stored in a giant government warehouse among countless similar crates. Main article: composed the score for Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was the only score in the series performed by the, the same orchestra that performed the scores for the saga.
The score most notably features the well-known 'Raiders March'. This piece came to symbolize Indiana Jones and was later used in the scores for the other three films. Williams originally wrote two different candidates for Jones's theme, but Spielberg enjoyed them so much that he insisted that both be used together in what became the 'Raiders March'. The alternately eerie and apocalyptic theme for the Ark of the Covenant is also heard frequently in the score, with a more romantic melody representing Marion and, more broadly, her relationship with Jones.
The score as a whole received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score, but lost to the score to composed. Release Merchandise The only based exclusively on the film is, released in 1982 by for their console. The first third of the video game, released in 1994 by JVC for 's, is based entirely on the film. Several of the film's sequences are reproduced (the boulder run and the showdown with the Cairo Swordsman among them); however, several inconsistencies with the film are present in the game, such as Nazi soldiers and bats being present in the Well of Souls sequence, for example. The game was developed.
In the 1999 game, a bonus level brings Jones back to the Peruvian temple of the film's opening scene. In 2008, to coincide with the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, released the line—which included building sets based on Raiders of the Lost Ark —and LucasArts published a video game based on the toyline, which was developed.
Published a comic book adaptation of the film by writer and artists. It was published as #18 and as a three-issue. This was followed with the comic book series which was published monthly from January 1983 through March 1986. In 1981, released a 12-inch (30 cm) doll of Indiana Jones, and the following year they released nine action figures of the film's characters, three, as well as toys of the Nazi truck and Jones' horse. They also released a.
In 1984, miniature metal versions of the characters were released for a, and in 1995 released of the film's vehicles. Released action figures based on the film, ranging from 3 to 12 inches (7.6 to 30.5 cm), to coincide with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on May 1, 2008. Later in 2008, and in 2011, two high-end sixth scale (1:6) collectible action figures were released by, and, Ltd. A by Ryder Windham was released in April 2008 by to tie in with the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A previous by Scottish author (under the pseudonym Campbell Black) was concurrently released with the film in 1981. A book about the making of the film was also released, written. Home media The film was released on, and in only, and on in both pan and scan.
For its 1999 VHS re-issue, the film was remastered in and made available in widescreen. The outer package was labeled Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark for consistency with. The subsequent release in 2003 features this title as well. The title in the film itself remains unchanged, even in the restored DVD print. In the DVD, two subtle digital revisions were added. First, a connecting rod from the giant boulder to an offscreen guidance track in the opening scene was removed from behind the running Harrison Ford; second, a reflection in the glass partition separating Ford from the cobra in the Well of Souls was removed. Shortly before the theatrical release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Raiders (along with The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade) was re-released on DVD with additional extra features not included on the previous set on May 13, 2008.
The film was released on in September 2012. Previously, only Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had been available on Blu-ray.
Reception Box office Raiders of the Lost Ark opened at #1 and grossed $8,305,823 from 1,078 theaters during its opening weekend. The film, made on an 18 million budget, grossed $384 million worldwide throughout its theatrical releases. In North America, it was by some distance the highest-grossing film of 1981. It also became ' most successful film at that time, and remains one of the top twenty-five ever made when adjusted for.
Estimates that the film sold more than 70 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Its IMAX release in 2012 opened at #14 and grossed $1,673,731 from 267 theaters ($6,269 theater average) during its opening weekend. In total, the IMAX release grossed $3,125,613 domestically. Critical reception The film was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. On, the film has a 95% 'Certified Fresh' rating with a 9.2/10 average rating.
The sites critical consensus stating: 'Featuring bravura set pieces, sly humor, and white-knuckle action, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most consummately entertaining adventure pictures of all time.' , as well as an 85% rating on Metacritic, indicating 'universal acclaim'. In his review for, praised the film, calling it, 'one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.' In his review for the wrote, 'Two things, however, make Raiders of the Lost Ark more than just a technological triumph: its sense of humor and the droll style of its characters. We find ourselves laughing in surprise, in relief, in incredulity at the movie's ability to pile one incident upon another in an inexhaustible series of inventions.' He later added it to his list of 'Great Movies'.
Said the film was 'the ultimate Saturday action matinee–a film so funny and exciting it can be enjoyed any day of the week.' Bruce Williamson of claimed: 'There's more excitement in the first ten minutes of Raiders than any movie I have seen all year.
By the time the explosive misadventures end, any movie-goer worth his salt ought to be exhausted.' Stephen Klain of also praised the film.
Yet, making an observation that would revisit the franchise with its next film, he felt that the film was surprisingly violent and bloody for a PG-rated film. There were some dissenting voices: described it as an 'expensively gift-wrapped Saturday afternoon pot-boiler', and champion, who once contended that she only got 'really rough' on large films that were destined to be hits but were nonetheless 'atrocious', found the film to be a 'machine-tooled adventure' from a pair of creators who 'think just like the marketing division'. (Lucas later named a villain, played by Raiders Nazi strongman, in his 1988 fantasy film after Kael.) Years later, screenwriter, of acclaim, considers the date of the decline of American cinema as the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark, viewing it to be simply a bad movie. Awards and accolades The film was subsequently nominated for nine, including Best Picture, in 1982 and won four (Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (, and ). It also received a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. It won numerous other awards, including a and Best Picture at the.
Spielberg was also nominated for a. Awards and nominations Association Category Nominee(s) Result Ref. Nominated Nominated, and Won Nominated Won Nominated, and Won, and Won, and Won Steven Spielberg Nominated Frank Marshall Nominated Nominated John Williams Nominated Douglas Slocombe Nominated Michael Kahn Nominated Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Roy Charman Nominated Won Won Steven Spielberg Won Won Won Nominated Won John Williams Won Nominated Richard Edlund Won American Film Institute.
—No. 2 Hero.:. 'Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?' —Nominated. —Nominated.
—No. 66 Influence Following the success of Raiders, a prequel, and two sequels, and, were produced, with a third sequel set for release in 2021. A television series, entitled, was also spun off from this film, and details the character's early years. Numerous other books, and video games have also been produced. In 1998, the placed the film at number 60 on its top 100 films of the first century of cinema.
In 2007, AFI updated the list and placed it at number 66. They also named it as the 10th most thrilling film, and named Indiana Jones as the second greatest hero.
In 1999, the film was deemed 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' by the U.S. And selected for preservation in the. Indiana Jones has become an icon, being listed as 's third favorite action hero, while noting 'some of the greatest action scenes ever filmed are strung together like pearls' in this film. An amateur, near shot-for-shot remake was made by Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb, then children in. It took the boys seven years to finish, from 1982 to 1989. After production of the film, called, it was shelved and forgotten until 2003, when it was discovered by and acclaimed by Spielberg himself, who congratulated the boys on their hard work and said he looked forward to seeing their names on the big screen.
And purchased the trio's life rights with the goal of producing a film based on their adventures making their remake. In 2014, film director published an experimental black-and-white version of the film, with the original soundtrack and dialogue replaced by an electronic soundtrack. Soderbergh said his intention was to encourage viewers to focus on Spielberg's extraordinary staging and editing: 'This filmmaker forgot more about staging by the time he made his first feature than I know to this day.' Assessing the film's legacy in 1997, Bernard Weinraub, film critic for, which had initially reviewed the film as 'deliriously funny, ingenious, and stylish', maintained that 'the decline in the traditional family G-rated film, for 'general' audiences, probably began' with the appearance of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 'Whether by accident or design,' found Weinraub, 'the filmmakers made a comic nonstop action film intended mostly for adults but also for children.' Eight years later, in 2005, viewers of rated the film as the 20th-best of all time, with Spielberg taking best over-all director honors. On magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, Raiders ranked second, beaten only.
The film was ranked at number 11 in a list of the 25 best action and war films of all time. In conjunction with the Blu-ray release, a limited one-week release in theaters was announced for September 7, 2012. Steven Spielberg and sound designer Ben Burtt supervised the format conversion. No special effects or other visual elements were altered, but the audio was enhanced for. In the episode ', the protagonists are extremely slightly late to see a 21-seconds-expanded version of Raiders of the Lost Ark (which, as suggests, could include the cut sequence in which Jones entered the U-boat), and an enraged steals the film reels, followed by dozens of fans trying to stop him and comments about the similarity of the situation to the beginning of the film, when Jones runs away from the Hovitos to the hydroplane. 2012 replica mystery In December 2012, the 's admissions department received a package in the mail addressed to Henry Walton Jones, Jr., Indiana Jones' full name. The address on the stamped package was listed for a hall that was the former home of the university's geology and geography department.
Inside the manila envelope was a detailed journal similar to the one Jones used in the movie, as well as postcards and pictures of. The admissions department posted pictures of the contents on its Internet blog, looking for any information about the package. It was discovered that the package was part of a set to be shipped from Guam to Italy that had been sold on. The package with the journal had fallen out in transit and a postal worker had sent it to the university, as it had a complete address and postage, which turned out to be fake. All contents were from a 'prop replicator' who sells them all over the world.
The university will display its replica in the main lobby of the. See also.