re: Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi Discussion Thread ***SPOILERS***

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is an outright box office smash hit with a 2017 North American-leading $594.9 million and a grand spanking total of $1.3 billion worldwide (and counting). By any measure, it’s going to finish as one of the 10 highest grossing films of all time. Disney and Lucasfilm need not worry about that pesky second-week domestic drop at the box office a few weeks back.

But the studio should be concerned when it comes to the lack of interest in the Force in China.

The Last Jedi debuted to a disappointing $28.7 million in China last week and sank like James Cameron’s Titanic to just $2.4 million in week two, per Box Office Mojo. That’s a 92 percent fall, which is steeper than the Emperor’s tumble at the end of Return of the Jedi.

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The Last Jedi is expected to finish its Chinese run—which started on 25,000 screens—with less than $50 million. Some of the biggest worldwide flops of the year like Valerian ($62 million) and Geostorm ($65.6 million) have easily outgrossed that paltry effort.

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