re: Star Wars: TROS - Non spoiler reviews and box office watch - Passes 500 mil, domestically

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This China issue shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Star Wars in China was basically an unknown before TFA. It did ok. TLJ didn't. I figured the numbers would decline drastically with another release.

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They keep revising the China numbers down. I think the latest forecast I saw on boxoffice.com was $12.2 million in that particular market. A lot of the "gurus" on that website continue to track TROS further and further down. It might not break $180 million this weekend in the United States after its piss poor performance on Saturday.

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575-650mil

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That doesn't appear likely.

Box Office websites

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@metaplexmovies

Disney should have given the filmmakers more time to make #TheRiseOfSkywalker a fitting, resonant end fo the Saga. SKYWALKER had 8 months less than THE LAST JEDI to be written and 6 fewer months in post-production. No matter what you think of the movie, this wasn't enough time.

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I don't really know what they could have done with more time. I see no one complaining about the visuals or the technical aspects of the film. The story was always going to be messy because of how things went down in TLJ. Carrie Fisher's untimely death also didn't help matters.

I liked it, but it's obvious the movie was rushed. Some more time would've been beneficial, IMO.

Nice.

Deadline is really sucking at predictions. Mid day yesterday, they had it at 193 mil.

I don't think anyone saw the steep Saturday drop coming. My guess is this thing finishes around $175-177 million for the weekend.

Also...another article claiming inside knowledge that the Disney higher ups want Kathleen Kennedy gone:

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Sources close to WGTC – the same ones who said [SPOILERS] would die in The Rise of Skywalker and that [SPOILERS] would be revealed as a traitor, both of which were true – have told us that Disney wants Kathleen Kennedy gone from Lucasfilm and while it’s not set in stone just yet that she’s on her way out the door, from what we’ve been told, there’s a “95% chance” she won’t be with the company for much longer.

As for who would replace her, that remains unclear, but from what we’ve heard, it could be another woman so that the studio isn’t accused of mistreating women in power. But again, we weren’t given any names in regards to who may be stepping in once Kennedy is gone. Seeing as this intel comes to us from the same sources who also told us Rey is Palpatine’s [SPOILERS] though, which also turned out to be true, we have no reason to doubt it.

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Bob Iger reportedly wanted her gone in 2018 after the disappointing box office returns of The Last Jedi and Solo, but no one wanted to take her place. That might change now that the sequel trilogy is over and done with.

I'm not a die hard, but I consider myself a fan.