STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Finally Set To Cross $1 Billion At The Worldwide Box Office - UPDATE

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Finally Set To Cross $1 Billion At The Worldwide Box Office - UPDATE

It's taken a while, but Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now finally set to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. Will it ultimately top The Last Jedi? Read on for more details...

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By JoshWilding - Jan 15, 2020 09:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: The Wrap
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now halfway through its fourth week in theaters, and after adding $4.3 million on Monday, the final chapter in the "Skywalker Saga" has a worldwide total of $996.5 million. That means it will pass $1 billion by today at the latest, but it's definitely taken a while to get there! 

Right now, The Rise of Skywalker is roughly $60 million shy of passing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's total haul, but it will NOT pass the $1.33 billion made by 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

As a result, this finale looks set to be the lowest grossing instalment in the sequel trilogy to date, a surprise considering the fact it's the end of a nine chapter story. It definitely appears as if negative reviews hurt The Rise of Skywalker to an extent, and repeat viewings must have been down after fans rejected this conclusion and many of the creative decisions that were made.

While The Last Jedi was divisive, it seems the attempts to make hardcore fans happy with this finale backfired, while the lack of answers (many of which have since been addressed in the movie's "Visual Dictionary") also proved to be frustrating. 

How many times did you guys end up watching The Rise of Skywalker? 

UPDATE: The numbers are in, and The Rise of Skywalker has officially joined the $1 billion club!]
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dracula
dracula - 1/15/2020, 12:54 AM
Looks like we are stuck with Crap Wars, well at least we have the Disney+ shows and the animated stuff.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 1/15/2020, 9:31 AM
@dracula - Looks like we are stuck with Crap Wars,

Thirty plus years and counting.
Nebula
Nebula - 1/15/2020, 12:55 AM
Comicbookart
Comicbookart - 1/15/2020, 12:58 AM
Terrible. It seems that all these major franchises have to do now is show up and then they can make billions of dollars.

Rise of Skywalker is one of the worst films I've seen. It's so bad it almost makes crap like Last Jedi seem attractive. smh.
Deodorant
Deodorant - 1/15/2020, 1:06 AM
Rogue One deserved to earn more than TLJ and TROS
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 1/15/2020, 1:36 AM
@Deodorant - RO was definitely the best Star Wars film from the Disney era. Good characters, interesting story that enriches ANH, amazing (almost photorealistic) visuals and Vader.
MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 1/15/2020, 1:09 AM
STAR WARS: THE SINKING OF SKYWALKER. Not my Star Wars.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 1/15/2020, 10:30 AM
@MarvelousMarty - Episode IX: Palpatine Victorious! 🤣
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 1/15/2020, 1:21 AM
And that’s why we have all these fresh rumors of new movies and stepping beyond trilogies. A movie comes out to middling reviews and still makes a billion dollars. Imagine what a new set of movies without the Skywalker baggage and great reviews could do said every executive at Disney.
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 1/15/2020, 1:22 AM
The Trevorrow version would’ve been better.

You will never see or hear me use those words again.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 1/15/2020, 2:12 AM
@MUTO123 - ROSW was bad, but it's still better than Jurassic World and Book of Henry
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 1/15/2020, 2:22 AM
@FinnishDude - I disagree. Jurassic World is stupid but fun. And Book of Henry’s at least fascinatingly bad. Rise of Skywalker is bad in the way that just makes you wanna throw your drink at the screen.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 1/15/2020, 9:50 AM
@MUTO123 - really?? Rey and Poe together?
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 1/15/2020, 10:21 AM
@ThorArms - I'll take that over a half-assed attempt to copy the dynamic of the original trio.
ThorArms
ThorArms - 1/15/2020, 10:24 AM
@MUTO123 - I hate 80% of what I read thru. I few interesting ideas. Either way I think it would've been just as divisive
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 1/15/2020, 1:39 AM
smallvile559
smallvile559 - 1/15/2020, 2:10 AM
IDK.
I Didn’t contribute dollar $1 to this abomination (IMO)
So I sleep easier at night.
But that’s just me lol
Moriakum
Moriakum - 1/15/2020, 2:14 AM
RoS reaching a billion after a month:



Never thought the big 9 movie conclusion of the Skywalker Saga would take so much time to reach a billion.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 1/15/2020, 2:51 AM
I enjoyed, but not once did I actually thought this was a movie worth to make a billion. The more I think about, Birds of Prey might do even more
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 1/15/2020, 2:54 AM
Did I just read an article laying ROS's financial performance at the feet of.....ROS?



It's obvious that the SW brand is strong, but it's also been true since it reemerged that you have to make actual good films or else you don't maximize the potential. We knew that with SOLO and we're seeing it here to. I said it a little over a month ago that the floor for these mainline SW movies is 1 billion assuming they don't fully crap the bed (and as bad as ROS is in many places, it's not quite "time to sleep in diapers" levels of shitty) and the ceiling for a really crowd pleasing film is in the 1.3-1.5 billion range assuming there's no significant competition, and the idea of making 2 billion again on any of these is incredibly unlikely, as it should be. You're never getting the old cast back aside from maybe Hamill, and you're never going to cash in on decades of audience longing for the OG cast again. We now have enough of a sample size to know all of this is likely the case. Where they go from here dictates a lot but they have to get good people involved (and they have Johnson, Waititi, Favs, Chow, Fukuyama, etc) and as long as they let them be creative they will be able to keep the audience engaged.

Also, all this talk of it being the "end of a 9 film saga" has never held weight with me, just like ROTJ wasn't REALLY the end of a 3 film saga and ROTS wasn't the end of a 6 film one. There's no way they aren't revisiting this in the next decade in some capacity
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 1/15/2020, 3:21 AM
@TheBlueMorpho - Did everyone who despises Kathleen Kennedy forget to hate-watch the Jumanji sequel? Interesting if true.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 1/15/2020, 3:52 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd -

I think they did.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 1/15/2020, 3:25 AM
Also, yeah, there's a lesson here regarding cashing in on nostalgia. The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Jumanji Welcome to The Jungle and a few others of these "old franchise returns to glory" films (namely The Hobbit) have all had immediate sequels that dipped in box office despite not being received significantly worse by critics. Nostalgia can only really get cashed in once, and often times the biggest nostalgia is just having the franchise back. I'm sure the next Jurassic World will make less than the second even if it's better, and the next Jumanji will probably tread in the same lower numbers as the sequel is currently. This is because normally most franchises make less and less as they go on. Exceptions are of course the MCU, Harry Potter, Fast/Furious, John Wick and a select few others, but the norm is that you see dips as things go on. That sort of thing will always be the case
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