So has anyone been keeping track of the sale numbers of The Rise of Palpatine digital/disks? And its final box office?
I'm not sure. I don't think there's enough data on the digital/disk sales to surmise how well they've been doing just yet. What I can tell you about them is that Disney is doing some kind or moronic marketing thing where there are multiple versions of the film available in some stores with exclusive content, like the version at Target which has an "exclusive" listing of all the ships in the big arrival scene at the end as if anyone gives a fuck (FYI its mostly ships from the Disney movies, Aladdin's Rebels, Filoni Wars, Chuck Wendig's godawful novels and new ones no one's ever heard of). Or a version with a free poster or specific commentary. Reviews for the digital copies are all the same "this movie may have been divisive but the documentary is a masterpiece!"... Wow... a documentary about a rushed piece of shit revolving around JJ and Kennedy huffing their own farts. What joy.
The final box office for the film though I know, and it was $1,074,144,248, with 515 mil coming from the domestic gross and 558 mil coming from the international gross. For comparison, TFA made 2 billion (900mil domestically and 1 billion overseas) while TLJ made 1.3 billion (620mil domestic and 712mil overseas). So the movie only made 20 million dollars more than Rogue One, which quite frankly is incredibly embarrassing for what was falsely advertised (at the time) as the last Star Wars film (in the Skywalker saga *wink wink*). This trilogy had the potential to make Avengers-level of cash, yet it just proved to be a dud. Merch sales should've been enough to save this sinking ship, but in the end they hardly sold anything actually related to this shitfest, instead only selling OT reprints. With results like that, its not surprising that High Republic is a novel/comic-only project. Also the film made less than Joker.
Because of the recent financial losses surrounding Disney, there will be cutbacks at the park, with some claims that the GE hotel will also receive some major cutbacks like the park did, which is ironic since they cut most of the content for the park out and forced it into the hotel behind an expensive paywall/hotel fee.
Also regular reminder that the Force is female.
The Mandalorian is stated to still be going on as intended, however the Kenobi and not-Kyle Katarn show along with the "animated project" (which rumors claimed was Aphra-related) have been put on indefinite hold, with some claims of cancellation due to the financial losses caused by Corona. Supposedly they're instead replacing those projects with something "safer" that will ensure more profitability, like an Ahsoka or Rebels sequel show supposedly. However even the potential for that is under fire due to the recent "trans rights" shit and flame wars among the Disney Wars fandom over Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka.
After the news came down about Rosario Dawson being cast as Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2, the twitter mob came out against her, bringing...
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Its all a mess to be honest.
In regards to the park, you can get a quick rundown here if you don't mind Geeky's voice.
