The Force truly was with Disney at the box office in 2019.
Now that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has passed the $1 billion mark worldwide, it's official: Disney released a total of seven movies in 2019 that grossed more than $1 billion at the box office.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
Disney's seven billion-dollar movies were Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Aladdin, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Frozen 2, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Only two other movies from rival studios reached $1 billion last year: Joker and Spider-Man: Far From Home, the latter of which Disney was still involved in since Marvel Studios produced it.
Despite its mixed reviews, The Rise of Skywalker was always expected to gross at least $1 billion at the box office, but it took longer to do so than the critically-acclaimed previous two episodes. The film reached $1 billion after 28 days, Variety notes, whereas Star Wars: The Force Awakens got there in 12 days and Star Wars: The Last Jedi got there in 19 days. In the end, Deadline expects The Rise of Skywalker to finish around $1.1 billion, a decline from The Last Jedi's total of $1.3 billion and the lowest worldwide gross of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
-
What to know before turning to AI for financial advicethe explainer It can help you crunch the numbers — but it might also pocket your data
-
Book reviews: 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief' and 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run'Feature The search for a headache cure and revisiting Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album on its 50th anniversary
-
Keith McNally' 6 favorite books that have ambitious charactersFeature The London-born restaurateur recommends works by Leo Tolstoy, John le Carré, and more
-
Florida erases rainbow crosswalk at Pulse nightclubSpeed Read The colorful crosswalk was outside the former LGBTQ nightclub where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting
-
Trump says Smithsonian too focused on slavery's illsSpeed Read The president would prefer the museum to highlight 'success,' 'brightness' and 'the future'
-
Trump to host Kennedy Honors for Kiss, StalloneSpeed Read Actor Sylvester Stallone and the glam-rock band Kiss were among those named as this year's inductees
-
White House seeks to bend Smithsonian to Trump's viewSpeed Read The Smithsonian Institution's 21 museums are under review to ensure their content aligns with the president's interpretation of American history
-
Charlamagne Tha God irks Trump with Epstein talkSpeed Read The radio host said the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could help 'traditional conservatives' take back the Republican Party
-
CBS cancels Colbert's 'Late Show'Speed Read 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' is ending next year
-
Shakespeare not an absent spouse, study proposesspeed read A letter fragment suggests that the Shakespeares lived together all along, says scholar Matthew Steggle
-
Andor series two: a 'perfect' Star Wars showThe Week Recommends Second instalment of Tony Gilroy's 'compelling' spin-off is a triumph
