Star Wars Film Earns $102 Million Over Memorial Day Weekend

U.S. and Canada for the three-day period. The four-day Memorial Day total is expected to reach $102 million domestically and $165 million worldwide. The film exceeded pre-release projections yet finished on the lower end of Disney-era Star Wars openings.

Its reported production budget of $165 million is lower than the roughly $300 million spent on "Solo: A Star Wars Story," which earned $103 million over the same holiday frame in 2018.

Audience surveys gave the film an A- CinemaScore overall. Boys under 13 and parents each assigned a perfect five out of five on PostTrak. Critics assigned a 63 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Pedro Pascal as the bounty hunter alongside a character voiced by Jeremy Allen White. It continues the story from the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian.

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The overall domestic four-day box office reached about $211 million, down 36 percent from last year’s record Memorial Day weekend. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who produced the new Star Wars film, announced earlier this year that she would step down after 13 years.

Comscore marketplace trends head Paul Dergarabedian said audience reaction and exit scores suggest the film may sustain attendance through word-of-mouth in coming weeks.