Finally, the first trailer for next summer’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu is here.
In a largely dialogue-free trailer, with a Ludwig Göransson score, we see images of Mandalorian and Grogu looking like they’re doing some sort of deal with Sigourney Weaver, the latter trying to steal her food using the Force; Baby Yoda riding along with the Babu Frik posse (the little alien introduced in the last Star Wars movie, Rise of Skywalker); one of the Hutts in an arena; and AT-ATs along a ridge (which funny enough looks like the same snowy cliff where young Han Solo from Solo: A Star Wars Story hijacked that train).
The movie technically kicks off the summer 2026 box office on Memorial Day weekend since there isn’t a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to do so. Can it beat Lilo & Stitch‘s opening ($146M domestic) to notch the best start ever over the Memorial Day weekend holiday?
The last Star Wars movie to play Memorial Day weekend was 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, and though it’s the lowest-grossing Star Wars live-action movie ($213.7 million U.S.-Canada, $392.9M worldwide), the pic opened to $103M over four days stateside, making it the 11th-highest debut for the holiday.
Jon Favreau, creator of The Mandalorian Disney+ series, directed the big-screen feature. Disney has reversed engineered a few TV properties before for the big screen and succeeded: High School Musical 3: Senior Year in 2008, which opened to $42M and legged out to $90 domestic and close to $253M worldwide; Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert that same year, which debuted to $31M (arguably still highest opening over a Super Bowl weekend) and ended its run at over $65M stateside, $70M global; and 2010’s Hanna Montana: The Movie, which bowed to $32.3M and made $79.5M U.S. and $155.5M global. Surely, a Star Wars TV property can do better than all three.
In addition, in the spirit of a 1950s monster movie, we have the first one-sheet for the movie:
