{"id":596309,"date":"2026-05-21T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:36:12","slug":"mandalorian-movie-targets-160m-global-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596309\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mandalorian&#8221; Movie Targets $160M Global Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mandalorian-movie-targets-160m-global-debut.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lucasfilm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mandalorian-movie-targets-160m-global-debut.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"mandalorian-movie-targets-160m-global-debut\"\/><\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d film \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d is reportedly headed for a global debut of $160 million in its opening weekend \u2013 essentially matching its $165 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>Current projections are around half\/half for domestic\/international, with $80 million from each.  On the latter front, all markets but Korea get the film this week.<\/p>\n<p>That start is ahead of \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story,\u201d a film that garnered $155 million worldwide in its debut over the 2018 Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly not the worst post-COVID Memorial Day weekend \u2013 that was 2024 when \u201cFuriosa\u201d debuted to $32.3 million domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic pre-sales for the film are reportedly at $25 million, in line with \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d and \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d which both opened in the $80+ million range.  The film will also have an exclusive three-week play in IMAX.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s only real competition in terms of newcomers is Boots Riley\u2019s satirical comedy \u201cI Love Boosters\u201d  and Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal\u2019s horror \u201cPassenger\u201d \u2013 both of which are expected to get in the high single-digit millions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/box-office-star-wars-mandalorian-and-grogu-preview-1236915788\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/adolescence-director-remakes-the-getaway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAdolescence\u201d Director Remakes \u201cThe Getaway\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/warners-clockwork-in-talks-for-rattlecreek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warners Clockwork In Talks For \u201cRattlecreek\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Lucasfilm\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d film \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu\u201d is reportedly headed for a global debut of $160&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596309","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=596309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}