The Rise of Skywalker Passes $1 Billion At The Box Office
So far so good. The Rise of Skywalker is outdistancing its critics to the tune of over $1 billion.
The Rise of Skywalker has officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. The latest installment in the long-running sci-fi franchise was released in December and has been raking in the dough all around the world ever since. While it may not manage to top the previous entries in this sequel trilogy, it marks yet another financial win for the Disney era of Star Wars.
With the additional money that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker pulled in on Tuesday, its total box office now stands at $1.001 billion worldwide. The finale of the Skywalker saga has earned $481.3 million domestically while taking in $519.7 million overseas. That represents a 48/52 percent split between domestic and international grosses. For the sake of comparison, The Last Jedi, which topped out at $1.33 billion, earned 46.5 percent of its money domestically and 53.5 percent from international markets. This has, more or less, been the trend with the recent Star Wars movies.
The Force Awakens remains the highest-grossing of the newer entries in the franchise, with its record-breaking total of $2.06 billion. The movie’s $936.6 million domestic gross remains a record to this day. Rogue One earned $1.05 billion during its run and Solo remains the lone disappointment, from a financial perspective, for Disney as it earned just $392.9 million.
With “Rise of Skywalker” wrapping up the nine-film Skywalker Saga, it remains unclear what’s next for “Star Wars” on the big screen. The franchise successfully veered from its core storyline with 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” a commercial hit that earned $1.05 billion worldwide. (Notably, “Rise of Skywalker” likely will not surpass “Rogue One’s” $532 million domestic haul.)
But after 2018’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” became the first “Star Wars” movie ever to lose money, it was clear that not everything that hailed from George Lucas’ universe had the Midas touch. Disney has dated a trio of untitled “Star Wars” movies to hit theaters around Christmas every other year starting in 2022, but it remains to be seen what they will be about, or who will direct them.
“Rise of Skywalker” still caps off a banner year for Disney, marking its record seventh 2019 release to surpass $1 billion worldwide.
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