Star Wars: Episode 9 grossed over a billion dollars in cinemas worldwide. Nevertheless, the film's final balance sheet for Disney should be relatively disappointing: Of all the War of the Stars films in the new trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker was the least profitable.
This is from a Deadline report comparing the box office results of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. As a result, the final box office results of the new Star Wars trilogy at the box office are as follows:
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Revenue worldwide |
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$ 936.6 million |
$ 2.06 billion |
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$ 620.1 million |
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$ 515.2 million |
Of course, these numbers have to in relation to the production and marketing costs of the respective films can be seen. As usual, Disney does not provide any specific information on these, the following numbers are based primarily on estimates:
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$ 776.6 million |
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$ 578.3 million |
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Episode 9: Too Expensive & Not Profitable?
According to the deadline, Episode 9 – The Rise of Skywalker has one ultimate profit of $ 300 million made less money than Episode 7 and Episode 8. This conclusion coincides with previously made estimates and forecasts of the financial success of Skywalker's Rise.
Episode 9 is therefore even less lucrative than the first spin-off Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (profit: $ 316.9 billion) but still more profitable than Solo: A Star Wars Story (loss of approximately $ 77 million).
However, one should not ignore that Merchandise products represent an immense source of income for Disney and the Home theater release is also not insignificant. However, Disney keeps the numbers tightly closed and makes no official statements.
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The future of Star Wars: TV instead of cinema
Even the flop of the Han Solo film with leading actor Alden Ehrenreich led to a rethink at Disney: In the future, fewer Star Wars films are to come at larger intervals, the next theatrical release will only take place in 2022. The then Disney CEO Bob Iger gave even to that the fans were “over-saturated”.
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Disney is currently developing these Star Wars series
Instead, Disney is currently focusing primarily on TV series in the War of the Stars universe, which are elaborately produced for the in-house streaming service. The following Disney + projects are currently in production:
Disney is currently developing these Star Wars films
Of course, movies in the War of the Stars universe are not completely written off. Disney has already announced the launch dates for its next Star Wars films: They Should 2022, 2024 and 2026 come to the cinemas. As things stand, Disney is working on the following Star Wars films, some of which have more or less official information:
- Episode 8 director's trilogy Rian Johnson
- Feature film by the main person responsible for the Marvel Cinematic Universe Kevin Feige
- Possible Disney Plus film from J.D. Dillard (Luke Cage, Agents of Shield)
Disney is currently developing these Star Wars novels and comics
The war of the stars universe is also not only expanded in the form of films or TV series. Disney only added at the beginning of the year "The High Republic" a completely new era, which is to be revised in the course of novels and comics. We have already met the first Jedi heroes of the High Republic.
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