Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker may not have had the most ambitious of starts when it comes to the box office, but it’s passed a very important milestone. According to Variety, J.J. Abrams’ latest movie has just passed $400 million domestically. In fact, its New Year’s Day box office haul sits at $16.9 million, bringing its domestic total to $407.5 million, so it cleared that milestone fairly easily.

It did beat The Last Jedi’s own $14.3 million New Year’s Day haul, but it’s worth mentioning that that film had a five-day head-start, meaning that it had five more days for the box office to drop. If we were to go for a day-by-day comparison, The Last Jedi made $21.8 million, still far outpacing The Rise of Skywalker.

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Its global total sits at $815.4 million, and the outlet states that the film will be passing $1 billion without any issue, but it likely won’t be able to match The Last Jedi’s $1.3 billion haul. No doubt, this is a perfect storm between the polarization of The Last Jedi, the lukewarm reviews of The Rise of Skywalker, and general franchise fatigue.

Still, though, don’t let anyone out there tell you this movie’s a failure. At the end of the day, it’ll be making money that other studios would maim for. 

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SOURCE: Variety