The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker box office for Friday bombs big time as it comes exceptionally under its predecessors, The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is only estimated to have a $90 million Friday opening, which includes $40 million from Thursday previews.
For comparison, The Last Jedi had a Friday opening box office of $104.68 million ($45 million from Thursday previews); The Force Awakens came in with a $119.1 million Friday opening ($57 million Thursday previews).
The Friday number for Skywalker marks a decrease of 14.02% from The Last Jedi‘s Friday box office opening and a 24.43% decrease from The Force Awakens.
Skywalker is also not doing as well for its opening weekend box office as it is now estimated to bring in around $193 million, a 12.27% drop from TLJ, and a 22.15% drop from TFA.
Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker box office fails to deliver
As I said yesterday, if Skywalker was consistent with its 11% drop for Thursday previews compared to The Last Jedi across the entire weekend, it would have brought in around $195.8 million for the weekend, but we see that Skywalker is not holding up at the box office.
Update: Saturday’s numbers are worse than thought.
We can also assume that its second weekend will probably suffer a massive drop, similar to The Last Jedi which plunged 67.5%.
Things go even sourer for Skywalker as it has the second-worst CinemaScore of any of the Star Wars movies with a “B+,” Clone Wars came in with a “B-.” The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi both received an “A.”
Rotten Tomatoes also isn’t all that good as critics have given the movie a Rotten 57% score with 346 reviews accounted for; the Audience Score is vastly different, coming in at 86% positive with 19,976 fan reviews counted.
You can read my review here where I didn’t think too highly of the flick.
Check out the box office numbers below.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Thursday Previews: $57 Million
First Friday Gross: $119.1 Million
First Weekend Gross: $247.9 Million
Worldwide Gross: $2,068,223,624
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thursday Previews: $45 Million
First Friday Gross: $104.68 Million
First Weekend Gross: $220 Million
Worldwide Gross: $1,332,539,889
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Thursday Previews: $40 Million
First Friday Gross: $90 Million
First Weekend Gross: $193 Million (Estimated)
Current Worldwide Gross: $149,100,000
