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  • Rise of Skywalker opening weekend box office falls short of Force Awakens and Last Jedi

    12/22/2019 8:46:49 AM PST · by EdnaMode · 73 replies
    Polygon ^ | December 22, 2019 | Owen S. Good
    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s opening weekend will land south of both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, according to domestic box office estimates Disney sent out this morning. The Rise of Skywalker’s first weekend pulled in $175.5 million in North America, $90 million of that from the Thursday night early-bird showings and then Friday’s full premiere. Though it’s an estimated total, $175 million is still short of the top 10 among domestic opening weekends all time, behind 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. It’s also not in the same tax bracket as Skywalker’s trilogy predecessors — The Force...
  • A spoiler-filled review of ‘The Rise of Skywalker’: Star Wars might be ruined forever

    12/20/2019 5:21:18 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 62 replies
    BGR ^ | December 20, 2019 | Chris Smith
    [snip] This brings me to the absolute worst thing about The Rise of Skywalker, which can easily ruin the original movies as well. Disney chose to go with Palpatine as the villain, without even making the tiniest effort to explain the logic of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m willing to entertain the idea that a powerful dark master of the Force can’t be killed as quickly as you’d think. Well, unless you’re Rey, in which case it’s apparently quite easy. But Palpatine was able to survive in the shadows for years? He wields such immense power that he can...
  • Star Wars star Daisy Ridley: 'Every sane person' has an 'issue with Trump'

    12/09/2019 4:42:45 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 120 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 9, 2019 | Carlin Becker
    Star of the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Daisy Ridley asserted that "everyone has an issue with Trump — every sane person anyway." Speaking with The Guardian in an interview published over the weekend, the English actress took aim at both President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. When asked if she finds it difficult to speak out about politics given that the Star Wars franchise is owned by family-friendly Disney, Ridley said, "No. I don’t feel I have to edit what I say — the things that make me angry are the things that make...