![]() ![]() To join the club, a film must earn $100 million less on its second weekend than it does opening weekend. Heading into the second weekend, a scary thought popped into this Star Wars fan’s head: could Rise of Skywalker join the $100 Million Losers Club?īefore Weekend 2, there were only ten members in this club. The anticipation surrounding the first Star Wars movie in 10 years simply wasn’t comparable to Rise of Skywalker’s debut. If you need proof, look no further than the $70 million gap between Rise of Skywalker and The Force Awakens. Now Star Wars have become ubiquitous, commonplace, a yearly event (and that doesn’t include TV projects like The Mandalorian). I’m speaking to the fact that Star Wars used to be a special event, an adventure you had to wait years to experience. There are plenty of reasons Rise of Skywalker dipped so far down from the first two Star Wars sequels on opening weekend, but the simplest theory is this: the franchise is no longer special.Īnd I’m not talking about quality-I thought Rise of Skywalker was an awesome movie. The only movie that truly suffered a comparatively embarrassing fourth-weekend showing was Captain America: Civil War, which pulled in $179.1 million on opening weekend.Rise of Skywalker also opened in nearly 1,300 more theaters than The Phantom Menace, which would eventually earn over $800 million after inflation ( Rise of Skywalker won’t come anywhere near that figure). After all, Endgame’s $357.1 million opening weekend is $100 million ahead of the second-best opening weekend ever, and more than double what Rise of Skywalker made on the first weekend. While Rise of Skywalker sits atop this unfortunate list alongside Avengers: Endgame, their situations aren’t all that comparable. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 82.9% drop.Captain America: Civil War - 91.4% drop.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - 91.5% drop.Only 12 movies have accomplished such a massive opening weekend-but only two have seen a 91.5% drop. Now for the worst part: no movie that has ever made at least $175 million on opening weekend has seen this much of a decline. It’s also the worst fourth-weekend showing for any Star Wars movie ever. That 91.5% fall is the worst fourth-weekend showing for any Disney movie that made $1 billion in 2019. ![]() It doesn’t stop at the $100 Million Losers Club though. ![]()
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