\n\tLucasfilm\/Disney\u2019s first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, arrived on tracking in what looks to be an $80M+ 4-day start over Memorial Day weekend. <\/p>\n
\n\tWhile that\u2019s not the $100M+ openings we\u2019re accustomed to for a Star Wars movie, duly note that it\u2019s still early in the campaign, and though skewing currently with men over 25, Disney\u2019s plan is to attract more families heading into the pic\u2019s opening on May 22. On May 4 aka Star Wars \u201cMay the Fourth\u201d day, Imax auditoriums will show off the first 19 minutes of the Jon Favreau directed, Dave Filoni and Favreau co-written and produced movie. <\/p>\n
\n\tDisney has turned popular TV properties into box office hits before, i.e. Disney Channel\u2019s High School Musical 3: Senior Year which bowed to a domestic opening of $42M in 2008 and legged out to $90.6M stateside. This is the first time we\u2019re seeing a Disney+ property going full-on theatrical; Mandalorian and Grogu one of the OTT service\u2019s most-popular series having crossed 1 billion hour streamed. Some of the comps being kicked around for Mandalorian and Grogu are 2009\u2019s Star Trek ($75.2M) and Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw ($60M).<\/p>\n
\n\tCurrently, first choice with all audiences on Mandalorian and Grogu is similar to Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning which opened to $79M over last year\u2019s Friday-Monday Memorial Day stretch. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe lowest opening for a Star Wars live-action movie belongs to 2018\u2019s Solo: A Star Wars Story which opened to $103M over the 4-day Memorial Day holiday, and finaled at $213.7M domestic and $392.9M WW, ultimately scrapping Lucasfilm\u2019s then-plan for standalone movies about legacy characters. Solo was plagued in advance of its opening with headlines about production problems; filmmakers Phil Lord and Christoper Miller were fired and replaced by Ron Howard. <\/p>\n
\n\tLast year, Disney posted the best Memorial Day weekend opening ever with Lilo & Stitch which bowed to $182M. Together Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible \u2013 Final Reckoning fueled the biggest Memorial Day weekend ever with over $330M. <\/p>\n
\n\tThis year, there isn\u2019t a big tentpole counterprogramming Mandalorian and Grogu ala Final Reckoning to Lilo & Stich last year. Opening against the Favreau movie is Paramount\u2019s Andre Ovredal\u2019s Passenger and NEON\u2019s Boots Riley zany comedy I Love Boosters. <\/p>\n
\n\tMandalorian and Grogu stars Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White and Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n
\n\tTickets went on sale for Mandalorian and Grogu on April 17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm\/Disney\u2019s first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, arrived on tracking in what looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,70419,69650,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-559114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-star-wars-the-mandalorian-grogu","tag-the-mandalorian-grogu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}