The Rise of Skywalker is currently looking at a $90 million Friday, including $40 million from Thursday previews – the 5th best Thursday ever – and is tracking for between $190 – $195 million dollar opening weekend which would make it the 3rd biggest ever after The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens.
Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is seeing an estimated $90M Friday per industry sources, which includes last night’s $40M. This currently puts the J.J. Abrams directed film between $190M-$195M for the weekend, which can’t be dinged especially at this time of year: It’s the third best opening ever for December. That number is ahead of tracking’s low $170M-$175M figure, and just under the $200M that the industry was expecting.
Good news, tempered somewhat by disappointing numbers coming out of China as the film has failed to ignite, opening in 4th place.
China box office: ‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ crashing and burning, beaten by local Chinese blockbusters https://t.co/A2NEagAbzE #RiseOfTheSkywalker pic.twitter.com/5F0c25N6hP
— THR International (@THRGlobal) 20 December 2019
China may be a forlorn hope but the rest of the world appears to be embracing the film as Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer of reviewers votes has the film at 57% from 339 reviews, while the Audience Score has the film at 86% from 11,815 reviews.
Here’s the Tomatometer figures for the Star Wars films.
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back – 95%
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope – 93%
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens – 93%
- Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi – 91%
- Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – 86%
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – 83%
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi – 81%
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – 80%
- Solo: A Star Wars Story – 70%
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – 66%
- Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace – 54%
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – 18%
