The Rise of Skywalker Star Wars IX Box Office Thread

[Mr. Peanut]

I guess you didn’t see any of the sequel trilogy

tell me what OT or PT species Moz Kanata, General Snoke and Babu Freaky are.

The Mandalorian however only made the already established species greater. The Jawas’ stock as well as IG robots have skyrocketed DONT get me started on Yodas species

Well I guess if you're just talking about adding a bunch of random new species if the background, sure, they "already tried that".

But I think what Iceman was talking about was adding substantial alien characters in general (as in, characters that are important to the plot, and not just background decoration) and expanding on the worlds and societies they come from (we got none of this in the ST, aside from some rushed bits in RoS).

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Should tick over 500 domestic this weekend. Sorry Stark Bauer, ya fought the good fight!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

source for SW:TROS Week 6 theater count

 

[SomeOldGuy]

 

[lime]

1.1 billion is respectable BO for any blockbuster. Yes, it pales to TFA's 2.1 billion, but that one has a lot of mixed feelings while TFA was unversally loved.

3 films of the new trilogy and 4.4 billion dollards. Not bad.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

1.1 billion is respectable BO for any blockbuster. Yes, it pales to TFA's 2.1 billion, but that one has a lot of mixed feelings while TFA was unversally loved.

3 films of the new trilogy and 4.4 billion dollards. Not bad.

TROS was also coming off the back of TLJ which had a somewhat mixed reception with the fanbase. TFA was the first SW movie in 10 years.

 

[writer0327]

TROS was also coming off the back of TLJ which had a somewhat mixed reception with the fanbase. TFA was the first SW movie in 10 years.

A fact that strangely eludes some people when discussing the box office potential of this franchise. TFA was an outlier, certainly not the rule.

 

[gerrym51]

I think it's possible that this movie will not beat Joker worldwide. Overseas will fall faster than domestic which is not currently doing great. Joker died at 1.07 billion

 

[Stark Bauer]

1.1 billion is respectable BO for any blockbuster. Yes, it pales to TFA's 2.1 billion, but that one has a lot of mixed feelings while TFA was unversally loved.

3 films of the new trilogy and 4.4 billion dollards. Not bad.

ok but that’s like saying I am Lebron James and I normally average 30 points a game - And then I go on to score 15 points - the last jedi and then the next game I score 10 - TROS - expectations are not met - therefore your stock and therefore your reputation will plummet. This is what we call a slump.

 

[dhandler01]

A fact that strangely eludes some people when discussing the box office potential of this franchise. TFA was an outlier, certainly not the rule.

No one forgets it. What gets lost is that despite TLJ's reception it still destroyed TROS overall. That wasnt what was predicted, and it certainly wasnt what Di$ney expected.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

 

[Mani-Man]

No one forgets it. What gets lost is that despite TLJ's reception it still destroyed TROS overall. That wasnt what was predicted, and it certainly wasnt what Di$ney expected.

TLJ had TFA momentum and the peoples curiosity that carried it as much.
What did ROS had? People hating TLJ and going "star wars is dead".
Even with the whole palpatine hype, the movie came after TLJ while TLJ was on the high TFA created.

Disney probably expected ten times more, but that is why it doesnt matter what disney "expects".
They were arrogant and short sighted right from the start, they thought that you dont need to put a lot of thought and work into this and still would get constantly rising numbers.
For them, everything is below expectations because they had them at an high that never had a chance of reaching.
Hell even TFA was probably below expectations for Disney.

 

[Iceman]

1.1 billion is respectable BO for any blockbuster. Yes, it pales to TFA's 2.1 billion, but that one has a lot of mixed feelings while TFA was unversally loved.

3 films of the new trilogy and 4.4 billion dollards. Not bad.

Except Avengers films and SW Episode films, yeah. A SW Episode film shouldn’t be coming 9th in any year, no matter how stacked the year is.

 

[Mysteryman]

Well I guess if you're just talking about adding a bunch of random new species if the background, sure, they "already tried that".

But I think what Iceman was talking about was adding substantial alien characters in general (as in, characters that are important to the plot, and not just background decoration) and expanding on the worlds and societies they come from (we got none of this in the ST, aside from some rushed bits in RoS).

They were CCSP'S Central Casting Species , but,that's okay.

 

[Mysteryman]

Except Avengers films and SW Episode films, yeah. A SW Episode film shouldn’t be coming 9th in any year, no matter how stacked the year is.

In box office terms, at least for now, Star Wars is like any other franchise. And that's what happens to everybody else.

When I say that, I am talking about its legs.

SW used to have the best box office legs in the business.but, people loved SW not simply because of the story and characters but because it felt like a special treat to visit that Galaxy far far away.

But, by continually returning to that Galaxy regularly ,Disney has deleted the special nature of Star Wars. The only way to solve this problem is to stop making Star Wars films for at least 15 years.

The Best Case Scenario would be a 30 year break.

I am talking about the films. Build the TV universe. If you want people to love Star Wars fllms again, then, you have to take the franchise away from them. We would survive guys. After all we have over 40 years of content to keep us busy.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

A fact that strangely eludes some people when discussing the box office potential of this franchise. TFA was an outlier, certainly not the rule.

Another issue is that some people treat TFA as more of an outlier than the facts suggest. If it's all about being the first in 10 years then TLJ wouldn't have been around 10% behind on OW, it would have been around 35% behind already from the start. That obviously wasn't the case though. We could see that the hype was not far from that of TFA, it was just that when TLJ needed to stand on it's own merits it started to have a pretty severe drop.

Compare that to The Avengers and Age of Ultron. Those were equal in distance in both OW and total BO, a little under an 8% drop. I see the quality of the films being a significant reason why Star Wars is declining.

 

[Iceman]

In box office terms, at least for now, Star Wars is like any other franchise. And that's what happens to everybody else.

When I say that, I am talking about its legs.

SW used to have the best box office legs in the business.but, people loved SW not simply because of the story and characters but because it felt like a special treat to visit that Galaxy far far away.

But, by continually returning to that Galaxy regularly ,Disney has deleted the special nature of Star Wars. The only way to solve this problem is to stop making Star Wars films for at least 15 years.

The Best Case Scenario would be a 30 year break.

I am talking about the films. Build the TV universe. If you want people to love Star Wars fllms again, then, you have to take the franchise away from them. We would survive guys. After all we have over 40 years of content to keep us busy.

To me it seemed most fans (not GA) seemed to have always wanted regular SW content. The MCU is the most regular franchise by a long way with many films a year, and the numbers continuously going up despite all warnings of fatigue. The films are special because they are continuously reinforced with other films rather than needing any lengthy period away. The MCU spin offs are making big money now that can compete with the leading blockbusters of other franchises. As a SW fan yourself would you say you watched less because they made more? I think they just needed more variety and new ground covered along with high quality to keep the ball rolling after Rogue One.

I also think by staying away for massive amounts of time between trilogies prior to TFA, they have missed out on generations of fans as well as the opportunity to build loyal fanbases in a number of significant growing overseas territories. When the very young guys get new films they then judge these new films entirely on their own merits rather than with reinforcement of an overall franchise which means there is less margin for error and no safety net when you have a disaster or 2.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Domestic Box Office $501,583,140
International Box Office $544,600,000
Worldwide Box Office $1,046,183,140

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - Financial Information

 

[Stark Bauer]

The problem with SW is they need to do with the movie side as they have done with the TV side : high quality storytelling, lovable characters, all around it is Star Wars that anyone can fall in love with. There is a clear vision for SW for Filoni and Favreau. They seek input and guidance from George Lucas. TBH they could release a new Star Wars every week and it would still make a killing at the box office. Oh you know what they did. It was called the Mandalorian and it blew up the internet. NUFF SAID

 

[sueb1863]

Did "The Mandalorian" blow up the internet or was it just Baby Yoda?

 

[Smurphftw]

It looks to me like it's going to finish 8th overall passing Alladin with an outside chance of passing the Joker for 7th. Is that true or am I way off?

 

[jolldan]

 

[VSG]

I find Rey more lovebable than The Mandalorian XD

 

[Mani-Man]

Did "The Mandalorian" blow up the internet or was it just Baby Yoda?

Mainly baby yoda, but the Mandalorians quality is also praised...but baby yoda is the beast that got a lot of people into it.

Im saying what i always said and will...Star Wars Multiverse.
You can do so unlimited much with a Multiverse.
You can keep the legends timeline, you can create a new and exclusive one for the comics and so on.

Hell i still would love to see a star wars timeline where Anakin actually helped destroy palpatine, that would be interesting to see.

We have all this **** with force ghosts, magic, clones and so on...dont tell me multiverse would be impossible...do it you cowards.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

It looks to me like it's going to finish 8th overall passing Alladin with an outside chance of passing the Joker for 7th. Is that true or am I way off?

That seems about right. It’s only about $4 million away from Aladdin so it will pass that easily. After that, we’ll just have to see.