It was a Merry Christmas Day for Last Jedi with $27.5 million

December 26, 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Star Wars: The Last Jedi had a big Christmas Day, earning $27.5 million for a total of $395.6 million. It is already in third place on the 2017 domestic chart. The film’s four-day weekend haul was $96.0 million, which is about 10% lower than predicted, but having Christmas Eve land on a Sunday was a complication and made predicting the movie’s box office numbers harder than usual. We can’t really compare this result to either The Force Awakens or Rogue One, because of the misalignment in holidays. In fact, it won’t be until we get Wednesday’s numbers that we will be able to judge The Last Jedi in comparison to the previous two Star Wars movies.

Internationally, The Last Jedi wasn’t nearly as strong, but this is because theaters are closed on Christmas Day in many major markets. It still earned $14.8 million on Monday for totals of $396.0 million internationally and $791.6 million worldwide. The film’s biggest single market of the day was Germany, where it made $2.5 million for a total of $42.6 million. Its biggest market overall is the U.K. where it has $67.9 million; however, theaters were almost entirely closed in that market on Christmas Day. The film is already the 11th-biggest hit on the 2017 international chart, and is in 10th place on the annual worldwide chart. It will have no trouble getting to $1 billion worldwide. The only question is whether or not it will get there before it opens in China on the 5th of January.

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