In two movies? Damn, that's got to be one hell of an explanation.

So it didn't do as well as TLJ, but what about in a vacuum? Did it still do well for movies in general? I don't follow movies so don't know the standard. It'd also be nice if we could see merchandising sales. I said earlier that Disney ultimately wins but maybe I'm mistaken, god I sure hope I am otherwise they have no reason to do better in the future.

Massive drop from The Force Awakens +$900 million gross in 2015. Way to go Disney! 5 Star Wars movies in 5 calendar years. No danger of overexposure there. I hope George Lucas in laughing as he counts his money.

Well, if this was a new IP, or even a so-so known one, and the budget was $200M ($300M-$400M when including marketing), this would be a good result.  Of course, considering this was a SW movie, and the budget was more like $300M (probably $450M-$500M including marketing), this is a bad result. 

As for merch, that revenue was down in 2017 and even more so in 2018.  Considering we had the massively popular Black Panther and Infinity War in 2018, SW must have been pretty low to offset the revenue from that.  Then, I believe in late 2018 or early 2019, Disney rolled their consumer products division into their parks experiences division to hide the losses.  Though, I think the last time I looked, that was down slightly, too.  Could be wrong on that.  Either way, there's a reason Disney wanted to retcon TLJ.

This has nothing to do with how many films they put out.  It has to do with the quality of the films.  Marvel has been putting out 2-3 films a year, and that hasn't hurt them.  Hell, they even delayed this film from May to Dec so there would be even more space between this film and the last one, since they were going with fatigue as the excuse for the films not performing well.  It didn't help.

Yeah, but I highly doubt that someone who actually liked TLJ and left the theater eager to watch its sequel would all of a sudden lose interest just because "it is not fun to talk about SW anymore." In fact, I'm willing to bet that the "TLJ lovers" rushed to watch its sequel first weekend just to show "the haters."

ROS made $15.1M on its 4th weekend. This is 31.7% lower than the $22.1M that Rogue One made in the corresponding weekend. Currently, ROS sits at $478.2M at the DBO, 0.2% higher than RO's $477.4M for the same point in time. If this continues, ROS will make end up with a DBO total of $533.3M vs RO's $532.2M.

Currently, the FBO makes up 51.7% of the WW BO. If this continues ROS will end up with a FBO total of $566.7M, 6.3% higher than RO's $532.9M. A WW BO total of $1.1B, 3.8% higher than RO's $1.06B.

I think it's safe to say that, barring any desperate rereleases of the film, it will end up lower than RO's DBO.  My guess is $510M-$520M.  I think it is also safe to say that the FBO will definitely wind up higher than RO's FBO, considering it's only $21M away from matching it, now.  My guess is $580M-$590M.  $1.1B WW seems to be the final stop.

It's just a few million away from reaching $1 billion in box office. It kinda sucks TROS won't do as well as TLJ, but considering the backlash over TLJ, it's not really surprising.

I just saw a rumor video that speaks about the release of an extended cut next month or so, more or less similar to what they did with Endgame. Don’t know what to think about that.

Saw a similar vid. If it happens, it's just desperation at this point. Endgame did the same thing to get it over Avatar. Considering Endgame was a much more popular movie, and its rerelease didn't help it too much, I doubt this will do much for ROS. The interest just isn't there.

Might help it go from a $1.1B movie to a $1.11B movie.

If the extended cut is similar to Endgame, then there's probably just going to be some behind-the-scenes and deleted scenes after the credits and that's it.