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The weekend isn’t looking good for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, as it is falling a lot faster than I expected. If estimates hold, it will fall 59% to $72.0 million over the weekend for a running tally of $361.8 million after two weeks of release. However, this is still a massive amount of money. It is already the seventh-biggest hit released in 2019, and is on pace to earn third place on that chart, maybe even second. Internationally, the film added $94.3 million in 52 markets for a running tally of $363.0 million internationally and $724.8 million worldwide. That’s without any earnings from South Korea, where it will debut in a couple of weeks. It should have no trouble getting to $1 billion worldwide by the end of its run, but most were expecting a lot more than that. It is yet another profitable disappoint—and we saw too many of those in 2019.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Last night TNT aired Last Jedi for the first time. I watched even though I hated it in the theater two years ago. Yep, still sucks. Really sucks. I can only imagine how bad the new one is. But just out of curiosity I'll be watching it when it's available on cable On Demand for $5.99.

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Originally posted by second:
Top Opening Weekends By Month
December
1 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens $247,966,675
2 Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi $220,009,584
3 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker $177,383,864
4 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $155,081,681
5 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $84,617,303
6 I Am Legend $77,211,321
7 Avatar $77,025,481
8 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $73,645,197
9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $72,629,713
10 Aquaman $67,873,522

www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/release_top_opn_wkd_in_month/?in_occasion=
december&ref_=bo_rl_rr

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Zeek:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I second that. First Star Wars movie with an episode number that I haven't seen in theaters and nothing I've read has changed my mind.

Star Wars needs a reboot.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No Rose/Finn love story. After the passionate kiss in TLJ and after Rose risked her life for Finn, all she gets in TRoS is a "no, you stay here buddy" and a pat on the back.

Nobody cares about Rey or what she's doing after this. Certainly not Daisy Ridley who just phoned in this performance.

And a recent interview with John Boyega he was asked if he'd be coming back and reprising his role as Finn and all he had to say was "You're not going to Disney Plus me", with a laugh.

Fuck Star Wars.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Zeek:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't give them 5 bucks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I second that. First Star Wars movie with an episode number that I haven't seen in theaters and nothing I've read has changed my mind.

Star Wars needs a reboot.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Finn and Rey were heading towards a far more meaningful relationship, and then we got this twisted 50 Shades of Reylo. Forced nonsense, because mental and violently abusive relationships are far more preferable than *gasp!* interracial ones.

Finn was a garbage man.

#SoloLostMoney

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
ROS is already past $1 billion in ticket sales. That's a profit already of about $700 million, even before merchandising and dvd profits are calculated. Nobody at Disney is gonna be upset with that. Why should they give a rat's patoot if the movie disappoints 50 & 60 year-olds who still expect and yearn for the quality of the original trilogy? Money talks, quality walks.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
ROS is already past $1 billion in ticket sales. That's a profit already of about $700 million, even before merchandising and dvd profits are calculated. Nobody at Disney is gonna be upset with that. Why should they give a rat's patoot if the movie disappoints 50 & 60 year-olds who still expect and yearn for the quality of the original trilogy?



Money talks, quality walks.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Why did you quote that? It's wrong.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Dec 20, 2019 1 $89,615,288 4,406 $20,339 $89,615,288 1
Dec 21, 2019 1 $47,467,565 -47% 4,406 $10,773 $137,082,853 2
Dec 22, 2019 1 $40,301,011 -15% 4,406 $9,147 $177,383,864 3
Dec 23, 2019 1 $29,389,847 -27% 4,406 $6,670 $206,773,711 4
Dec 24, 2019 1 $20,270,474 -31% 4,406 $4,601 $227,044,185 5
Dec 25, 2019 1 $32,165,681 +59% 4,406 $7,300 $259,209,866 6
Dec 26, 2019 1 $30,586,950 -5% 4,406 $6,942 $289,796,816 7
Dec 27, 2019 1 $26,069,973 -15% -71% 4,406 $5,917 $315,866,789 8
Dec 28, 2019 1 $25,075,535 -4% -47% 4,406 $5,691 $340,942,324 9
Dec 29, 2019 1 $21,244,082 -15% -47% 4,406 $4,822 $362,186,406 10
Dec 30, 2019 1 $15,302,130 -28% -48% 4,406 $3,473 $377,488,536 11
Dec 31, 2019 1 $13,217,698 -14% -35% 4,406 $3,000 $390,706,234 12
Jan 1, 2020 1 $17,076,472 +29% -47% 4,406 $3,876 $407,782,706 13
Jan 2, 2020 1 $9,274,735 -46% -70% 4,406 $2,105 $417,057,441 14
Jan 3, 2020 1 $11,038,440 +19% -58% 4,406 $2,505 $428,095,881 15
Jan 4, 2020 1 $14,319,903 +30% -43% 4,406 $3,250 $442,415,784 16
Jan 5, 2020 1 $9,166,472 -36% -57% 4,406 $2,080 $451,582,256 17
Jan 6, 2020 1 $2,978,242 -68% -81% 4,406 $676 $454,560,498 18

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I don't buy that SW ' screwed ' JJ in any manner. The Disney trilogy was never going to pay homage to the original story. It was doomed from the very start. They opted to NOT reunite Han, Luke and Leia on screen in the first movie, then Carrie Fisher up and died.

From that point forward, the story they WANTED to tell, of Leia taking over for Luke , had come to an end.

Instead of putting in serious hard work researching the canon stories from the EU ( KK claimed there WAS no source material, remember? ) the chose to push forward w/ the original idea. Through old footage and the magic of Hollywood ( CG ) they tried to piece the tattered parts of their dream together.

But it was never going to work. They knew it. But still weren't deterred.

They gave us Disney RoS, and then shortly after, this nonsense about the Jar-Jar Abrams cut started circulating. The REAL story?

Nope. That died even before Carrie Fisher passed. It died when Lucas sold the story to Disney.

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