The rise of Skywalker opens this weekend with the box office dropping down on Force Awakens and Last Jedi

Star Wars: The Awakening of SkywalkerThe weekend opening will come on both sides The Army Awakens and The Last Jedi, according to the home box office estimates Disney posted this morning.

The wake of the SkywalkerThe first weekend grossed $ 175,5 million in North America, $ 90 million of that from Thursday night and Friday night. While it's a perfect average, $ 175 million is still short of the top 10 in the middle the opening of a family weekend at all times, after 2016 Captain America: Civil War.

And it's not in the same tax bracket as Skywalker

Trilogy's predecessors – The Army Awakens and The Last Jedi both took in more than $ 200 million in their weekend finals, ready for third and fourth in that (home) category of all time. At the moment, the top 10 weekend openings are largely uneven competition, with Disney films ranked 13 out of the top 14, and six of those in the last two years.

But $ 175,5 million still does The wake of the Skywalker The third highest-grossing Star Wars movie after its first weekend in the United States, well ahead Revenge of the Sith, receiving $ 8 billion from its 2005 creation.

International, The wake of the Skywalker added $ 1988 million to its cost (with $ 373.5 million worldwide), aided by $ 26.8 million and $ 12.1 million from same-day regions in the United Kingdom and China, respectively. By comparison, The Army Awakens

nearly $ 500 million ($ 494 million to be accurate) its first weekend in the world, while The Last Jedi took $ 437.5 million. Notably, China waited almost a month after the opening day of the two movies before launching in the country.

Disney started this weekend by lowering the expectations of industry observers, contributing an estimated $ 160 million The wake of the SkywalkerThe domestic box office or other people are estimated at $ 200 million or more.

A drop in the box office by comparison may show any statistics on audience tendencies, ranging from fatigue to a 42-year-old frame; last year the show was hosted The Beast: A Star Story

(At the $ 148 million opening weekend around the world, $ 84.4 million in the U.S. is a serious, if not a sixth, response to director J.J. Abrams' view of the agency;

Rotten tomatoes are currently giving The wake of the Skywalker 54% average among critics (which means a percentage of positive reviews), low enough to get a splat icon. Moviegoers, however, give it 86% (meaning ticket buyers gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, or more). Metacritic compilation of 59 reviews countries The wake of the Skywalker out of 54; Metacritic readers rate it 50, evenly dividing over a thousand user reviews between good and bad.

“There is a reasonable sense of sound throughout The wake of the Skywalker that the creators are trying to reconsider and pay for every satisfying and memorable battle in the history of the Skywalker Saga all at once, ”says our spoiler review. However, "the film sounds cramped, fast, above all, like an old-fashioned failure."