The Star Wars movie The Rise of Skywalker raised $ 374 million (about $ 338 million) worldwide in the first weekend. That is what distributor Walt Disney Co. says on Sunday.
Walt Disney Co. also announced that the last part of the long-running Star Wars film series in Canada and the United States together accounted for a weekend revenue of around 159 million euros.
The total revenue of 338 million euros puts The Rise of Skywalker in 12th place on the list of record revenues for films in opening weekends worldwide.
The last part of the new Star Wars trilogy did not match its predecessors. The Force Awakens raised 467 million euros in the opening weekend and The Last Jedi managed to raise 406 million.
With The R ise of Skywalker , director JJ Abrams concludes the story that filmmaker George Lucas started in 1977 with Star Wars: A New Hope . The film series now consists of nine parts and two spin-of films, an animation film and two films about the ‘Ewoks’, a kind of bears that appear in the sixth film of the series.