The Last Jedi is rolling through box office barriers. It’s passed $300 million domestic and $600 million international in gross and it hasn’t even opened in China yet. The film, however, has sharply divided Star Wars fans as to some of the critical events. I’ll weigh in with more details on what I thought after the holidays, but here with a VERY SPOILER INTENSIVE REVIEW is none other than Auralnauts’ Kylo Ren. For Kylo’s thoughts on The Last Jedi going into the film or his review of Rogue One click on the link and enjoy.
They don’t particularly like SW in China. For some reason the franchise was banned there for years, and now no one has any attachment. China is not going to help TLJ. It dropped 77 percent this past Friday in North America, which is not good. I don’t think people are going for it. I think it has to do more with negative publicity than people’s actual opinion, but whatever the case, it’s not good.
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Rogue One didn’t do there; TFA did okay, but it isn’t the fertile ground that’s going to be a huge boost. I think anything less than $100 million is a signal that the film is being rebuked hard by the fanbase, and I wonder what Disney’s answer to that is going to be, because they’ve been stellar stewards up to this point, and if their direction is affecting their pocketbook, that WILL get their attention. It’ll still pass Beauty & the Beast barring a disaster, but it may not get to Rogue One, which will have to seriously have Lucasfilm thinking. Especially, if-as we’ve said-Han Solo is almost guaranteed to be the lowest grossing film in the franchise.
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