Despite a vocal minority declaring the
Star Wars franchise dead after the perceived "failure" of
The Last Jedi,
The Rise of Skywalker has now knocked
Avengers: Endgame off the first-hour ticket sales top spot
According to online ticket retailer Atom, the final installment in the iconic, long-running Skywalker Saga set a new first-hour ticket-sale record. It didn't just inch past
Endgame to achieve this, either, it outsold the Marvel epic by a massive 45%.
You might assume that impressive final trailer helped, but tickets actually went on sale a good two hours before the teaser was released online.
Endgame would go on to take in a whopping $2.79 billion globally and surpass
Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time, so this obviously bodes well for
The Rise of Skywalker's box office performance when it hits theaters this December.
Tell us, have you purchased your tickets yet? What did you make of last night's trailer? Check it out below along with the new poster, and drop us a comment in the usual place.
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