Star Wars News Stories Exhibition News R2-D2 Popcorn Bucket Returns to AMC for STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE Boxoffice Staff • Apr 25th AMC Theatres is bringing back a new and improved version of the R2-D2 popcorn bucket that started the industry craze back in 2019. As the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace returns to the big screen... Exhibition News Leading Cinema Chains to Host Star Wars Marathon on May 4 Boxoffice Staff • Mar 22nd To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, this year on Star Wars Day (Saturday, May 4th) Lucasfilm is releasing the entire “Skywalker Saga” back to cinemas, giving fans a chance to see all... Exhibition News Relive Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in IMAX with Exclusive Andor Footage Boxoffice Staff • Aug 16th Lucasfilm announced today that 150 IMAX theaters across the US and Canada will bring Rogue One: A Star Wars Story back to cinemas along with exclusive footage from Andor, Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ series. The IMAX release of Rogue One: A... Exhibition Features The Disney Movies Hitting Theaters in 2021 and Beyond Boxoffice Staff • Oct 19th (Updated October 18, 2021, to reflect release date changes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the untitled Indiana Jones 5, The Marvels, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.) Despite Disney’s... Exhibition News Disney Shifts Focus to Streaming, Expresses Flexibility on Windows, in Direct to Consumer Restructuring Boxoffice Staff • Dec 10th Raya and the Last Dragon, Black Widow Maintain Theatrical Commitments with Existing Release Dates in 2021 By Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle The Walt Disney Company unveiled its newly implemented Direct to Consumer (DTC) strategy at its 2020 Investor Day,... Exhibition News Disney Removes Mulan and Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch from the Schedule, Sets New Dates for Star Wars and Avatar Sequels Daniel Loria • Jul 23rd Disney Removes Mulan and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch from the Schedule, Sets New Dates for Star Wars and Avatar Sequels Box Office Archives Celebrating the Star Wars Franchise’s Box Office Impact as The Empire Strikes Back Turns 40 • May 21st In celebration of one of the most iconic films in cinema history, we're taking a look back at what became the template of all modern Hollywood blockbuster franchises when George Lucas' space-fantasy epic took the world by storm in 1977,... News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker To Reach $1B Globally This Week Boxoffice Staff • Jan 13th The World Better Prepare for When I’m a Billionaire Through Sunday, Disney’s sequel The Rise of Skywalker earned $478.2M domestic and $511.4M overseas, for a $989.6M global total. Although it fell slightly short of the billion-dollar mark, it looks to cross... News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Rise of Skywalker Threepeats as 2020 Beats 2019’s First Frame Boxoffice Staff • Jan 6th Who knows how the remaining 520 or so weekends will go at the box office, but the decade got off to a decent start. Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posted a threepeat atop the box office with $34.5M.... News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Little Women, Spies in Disguise, Uncut Gems Meet or Beat Projections Boxoffice Staff • Dec 30th Rise Falls Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped -59.1% in its sophomore frame — still winning the box office by a lot, but falling short of essentially all weekend projections. Weekend projections had it earning around $82M to $96M. Instead, it... News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Earns $177.3M Boxoffice Staff • Dec 23rd A Great Result For Any Other Film When your movie opens to $177.3M, it’s usually hard to call that a disappointment. But Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker came in at the bottom range of pre-release projections, noticeably below its... Numbers Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Earns $198M Overseas / $373.5M Global Weekend Boxoffice Staff • Dec 22nd Disney’s sequel Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker launched with an estimated $198.0M overseas and $373.5M global opening weekend, but that was noticeably down from the prior two installments. It represents the 17th-biggest global weekend of all time, which would... Load more stories
Exhibition News R2-D2 Popcorn Bucket Returns to AMC for STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE Boxoffice Staff • Apr 25th AMC Theatres is bringing back a new and improved version of the R2-D2 popcorn bucket that started the industry craze back in 2019. As the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace returns to the big screen...
Exhibition News Leading Cinema Chains to Host Star Wars Marathon on May 4 Boxoffice Staff • Mar 22nd To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, this year on Star Wars Day (Saturday, May 4th) Lucasfilm is releasing the entire “Skywalker Saga” back to cinemas, giving fans a chance to see all...
Exhibition News Relive Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in IMAX with Exclusive Andor Footage Boxoffice Staff • Aug 16th Lucasfilm announced today that 150 IMAX theaters across the US and Canada will bring Rogue One: A Star Wars Story back to cinemas along with exclusive footage from Andor, Lucasfilm’s upcoming Disney+ series. The IMAX release of Rogue One: A...
Exhibition Features The Disney Movies Hitting Theaters in 2021 and Beyond Boxoffice Staff • Oct 19th (Updated October 18, 2021, to reflect release date changes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the untitled Indiana Jones 5, The Marvels, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.) Despite Disney’s...
Exhibition News Disney Shifts Focus to Streaming, Expresses Flexibility on Windows, in Direct to Consumer Restructuring Boxoffice Staff • Dec 10th Raya and the Last Dragon, Black Widow Maintain Theatrical Commitments with Existing Release Dates in 2021 By Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle The Walt Disney Company unveiled its newly implemented Direct to Consumer (DTC) strategy at its 2020 Investor Day,...
Exhibition News Disney Removes Mulan and Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch from the Schedule, Sets New Dates for Star Wars and Avatar Sequels Daniel Loria • Jul 23rd Disney Removes Mulan and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch from the Schedule, Sets New Dates for Star Wars and Avatar Sequels
Box Office Archives Celebrating the Star Wars Franchise’s Box Office Impact as The Empire Strikes Back Turns 40 • May 21st In celebration of one of the most iconic films in cinema history, we're taking a look back at what became the template of all modern Hollywood blockbuster franchises when George Lucas' space-fantasy epic took the world by storm in 1977,...
News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker To Reach $1B Globally This Week Boxoffice Staff • Jan 13th The World Better Prepare for When I’m a Billionaire Through Sunday, Disney’s sequel The Rise of Skywalker earned $478.2M domestic and $511.4M overseas, for a $989.6M global total. Although it fell slightly short of the billion-dollar mark, it looks to cross...
News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Rise of Skywalker Threepeats as 2020 Beats 2019’s First Frame Boxoffice Staff • Jan 6th Who knows how the remaining 520 or so weekends will go at the box office, but the decade got off to a decent start. Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker posted a threepeat atop the box office with $34.5M....
News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Little Women, Spies in Disguise, Uncut Gems Meet or Beat Projections Boxoffice Staff • Dec 30th Rise Falls Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped -59.1% in its sophomore frame — still winning the box office by a lot, but falling short of essentially all weekend projections. Weekend projections had it earning around $82M to $96M. Instead, it...
News & Analysis Weekend Box Office Key Insights: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Earns $177.3M Boxoffice Staff • Dec 23rd A Great Result For Any Other Film When your movie opens to $177.3M, it’s usually hard to call that a disappointment. But Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker came in at the bottom range of pre-release projections, noticeably below its...
Numbers Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Earns $198M Overseas / $373.5M Global Weekend Boxoffice Staff • Dec 22nd Disney’s sequel Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker launched with an estimated $198.0M overseas and $373.5M global opening weekend, but that was noticeably down from the prior two installments. It represents the 17th-biggest global weekend of all time, which would...
