MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has announced that Indiana Jones, the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise, and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has crossed the $300 million mark at the US box office. It has also topped $400 million overseas. With a cumulative gross of more than $713 million to date, it is the highest grossing worldwide release of 2008, the studio says.

The film gave Paramount's distribution arm its second $300 million plus release for the summer joining Marvel Entertainment's Iron Man, which has grossed more than $309 million so far in the US and almost $250 million overseas.

Paramount says that it, thus, becomes the first studio in movie history to release two back-to-back $300 million plus grossing films two years in a row. In 2007, two consecutive Paramount releases, Shrek the Third and Transformers, both surpassed $300 million in the US.