STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Bombs At The Chinese Box Office With Franchise Low Debut

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Bombs At The Chinese Box Office With Franchise Low Debut

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker won't be making back much of its whopping $300 million budget in China, as the movie has failed to take down Ip Man 4: The Finale>. Read on for further details...

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By JoshWilding - Dec 23, 2019 09:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Variety
The Star Wars franchise has never made much of an impact at the Chinese box office as moviegoers in the Middle Kingdom don't really have much history with the galaxy far, far away (the original movies were never actually released there). However, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has not only bombed at the box office, but it currently looks set to do worse than every other modern Star Wars movie released in the country. 

Ip Man 4: The Finale won the weekend and, ironically, it stars Rouge One's Donnie Yen. That knocked Star Wars out with an impressive $43 million haul, while The Rise of Skywalker earned only $8.73 million over the weekend but with Wednesday previews added in, it made $12.1 million by the end of Sunday. 

This is easily the weakest opening for any Star Wars movie in the country, and it's said that its final gross won't come near to the likes of The Force Awakens or The Last Jedi. Considering the fact that The Rise of Skywalker cost $300 million before marketing, that's not good news for Disney and Lucasfilm, especially after a global debut that's already lower than those of the previous instalments in that Skywalker Saga.

How much do you guys think The Rise of Skywalker will make at the global box office? 
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tmp3
tmp3 - 12/23/2019, 9:32 AM
>Claim to have LGBT representation to appeal to more demographics
>Reject Finn/Poe romance despite actors being game for it since having main characters who are LGBT would hurt chances in China
>Relegate it to a two second kiss between background characters, just enough to appear progressive without pissing off Xi Jinping
>Bomb in China anyways
lol
dracula
dracula - 12/23/2019, 10:18 AM
@tmp3 - Yup, shows representation doesn't matter if the move representing them sucks
tmp3
tmp3 - 12/23/2019, 10:23 AM
@dracula - Representation is a good thing. Doing half-assed representation to give off the illusion of being progressive is lame.
dracula
dracula - 12/23/2019, 10:35 AM
@tmp3 - agree representation is a good thing, but gets annoying when movies use that representation as a shield against any type of criticism
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/23/2019, 10:39 AM
@tmp3 - "Representation" is all well and good, but it wouldn't have done a damn thing. When the overall plot and screenplay suck, they suck.
tmp3
tmp3 - 12/23/2019, 10:43 AM
@GeneralZod - Yeah, I've heard this movie's a dud which is why I'm not seeing it, I just think it's hilarious that they touted it as a "groundbreaking" development when it was barely anything, and it backfired on them.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/23/2019, 10:59 AM
@tmp3 - It is not a bad film. It's OK. It's just not what should have happened, but then again, TLJ was not supposed to happen the way it did. JJ does share some blame for not putting Luke, Leia and Han in a scene together in Ep VII. That was a real missed opportunity.
fadersdream
fadersdream - 12/23/2019, 12:07 PM
@tmp3 - This is why I hate all the make such-and-such gay nonsense.
Don't make Captain America gay, instead go find out who Northstar is, or Shatterstar or Richtor or Alan Scott or Batwoman ... or whatever.

Fake representation doesn't do any good, support the characters that are already representing to show that it has economic viability.
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 12/23/2019, 9:35 AM
Still at 57%. I'm pretty surprised the audience score is so high. I've talked to a lot of fans/friends of mine that enjoyed it. But some also said they had to talk themselves into 'just enjoying it for what it is'. Isn't that the movies job though? As the finale for some of my favorite movies ever and a 40+ year saga I thought it dropped the ball enormously and broke all rules/logic/plotlines the previous two movies both set up.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 12/23/2019, 9:44 AM
@SpideyPuffsMJ - I loved it. The best part of star wars is that it'll never make everyone happy. We went thru the same shit when the prequels came out. Fans wanted George's head when that came out
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 12/23/2019, 9:54 AM
@ThorArms - I don't think I was old enough for the prequels to go through what I'm going through now with the sequels. I had Attack of the Clones on DVD and loved it even if it was boring at parts for a kid. Then went to Revenge of the Sith at like 12 and thought it was incredible. Then grew up with the meme of how bad the prequels are and there's plenty of bad.

But present day I go back and watch and I still find things I love in there. Enough to overshadow bad dialogue moments or shotty green screen effects. I love Anakin's story. Theres just so much on the surface in Rise of Skywalker that if you don't buy into, it breaks a lot of this new trilogy. It felt like such a Chris Terrio last minute retcon.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 12/23/2019, 9:57 AM
@SpideyPuffsMJ - yeah. There are documentary's on how much people hated George Lucas after what he did. It was actually incredibly sad. George didn't even want to make the last 2 after phantom menace came out... He wanted a different director because of all the hate.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/23/2019, 10:41 AM
@SpideyPuffsMJ - TLJ dropped the ball and broke the rules/logic/plotlines. JJ spent all of ROTS cleaning up Rian's mess.
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 12/23/2019, 9:39 AM
Also, thank God for Jedi: Fallen Order, The Mandalorian, Clone Wars returning and Battlefront 2's redemption arc. All doing amazing despite the main Episodes (what all of these spinoff media are based on) totally getting mixed results at best. Disney Star Wars would be in the shitter reputation wise right now without these other media picking up the slack.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 12/23/2019, 9:44 AM
Makes me want to see Ip Man 4...
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/23/2019, 9:53 AM
@Batmangina -

GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/23/2019, 9:51 AM
SuperCat
SuperCat - 12/23/2019, 9:53 AM
Mysterion
Mysterion - 12/23/2019, 9:57 AM
Star Wars was never popular in China.....like ever
SuperCat
SuperCat - 12/23/2019, 9:59 AM
BabyBaboons
BabyBaboons - 12/23/2019, 10:07 AM
I know we hate both of these directors up here, but as a fan of Snyder’s DC films, it’d be nice to see him get the same amount of strange and unusually obsessive support from film critic twitter that our boi Rian Johnson and TLJ gets.
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