‘Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker’ Box Office Numbers Are Here
Written by SOURCE on December 21, 2019
The force is strong with this film.
Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to have a $193.7 million opening for its domestic opening weekend, according to Deadline. That number puts the film at the third-highest spot for December, and it earned $90 million on Friday. Fans went out in droves for the Skywalker cast, which includes new Star Wars actors John Boyega, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, and legends like Billy Dee Williams, and Mark Hamill, and the late Carrie Fisher.
If you want to compare, The Last Jedi, helmed by Rian Johnson, earned a cool $45 million on Thursday which made for $104.6 million on its opening day. The J.J. Abrams-led The Force Awakens earned $57 million and a $119.1 million on that Friday. The film had a huge showing across the country, but “played best on the coasts and in the big cities,” Deadline reports.
We all knew the film was going to make money, but early reactions to Skywalker are mixed. On top of that, it has the distinct honor of holding the second-lowest Rotten Tomatoes rating of the Star Wars saga, ahead of 1999’s Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Skywalker has a 57 percent aggregate score, while The Phantom Menace has a 53 percent score.
2019 has been good to Disney. It became the first studio ever to make more than $10 billion in a year at the worldwide box office this month.
