| Soundwave said: TLJ will hit a billion WW on Saturday it looks like, that would make it the fastest to a billion after TFA, Furious 7, and Jurassic World. All things considered I think Disney will be fine with it. The second Star Wars movie in a trilogy is always 30%+ down from the opening episode (ESB and AOTC both grossed far less than thieir predecessors) and TLJ also has the fact that it's the third Star Wars movie in three years, so each one is not as much of an event any more (hell we're getting another Star Wars movie in like 6 months). Empire and Clones at least had a full three year break into between movies with no new Star Wars movies in between. |
The OG SW was in theaters for more than a year. As was pretty much every big movie, since VHS wasn't in the mainstream, yet. You wanted to watch a movie again, you had to go to the theater. It wasn't until 1982 that it was released on VHS.
The movie industry was in the process of changing to what we have today when ESB came out, which meant less time in theaters before it was put on TV and home video. It still made ~$1.3B WW, ticket price inflation adjusted. And that's without the huge foreign market we have today.
What's this movie's excuse, besides like AOTC, it isn't that good of a movie that happened to follow up a not so good movie?
