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Related: UK film release dates<\/a><\/p>\n That’s the biggest drop off for any Star Wars film between its first and second weekend, with the previous record being The Last Jedi’s 67.5% amid a huge controversy (also via Box Office Mojo<\/a>).<\/p>\n The Last Jedi did double The Mandalorian and Grogu’s numbers in its opening, and went on to make over $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office. Its reported $343 million – $414 million budget is a lot higher than this new film’s reported $165 million budget, however.<\/p>\n In terms of its reception, this is the second worst-reviewed Star Wars film in the Disney era, beating out only The Rise of Skywalker, going by Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, the film has set a positive record of being the Disney Star Wars film with the highest audience score on the site<\/a>, with its current score of 88% positive being ever-so-slightly higher than Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.<\/p>\n Disney<\/p>\n Related: Best Star Wars LEGO sets to buy right now<\/a> <\/p>\n In Digital Spy’s review of the film<\/a>, we said that The Mandalorian and Grogu “might not be the worst Star Wars movie, but it could well be the most inconsequential Star Wars movie \u2013 and that somehow feels worse.”<\/p>\n It seems like the general public also feels like the film is inconsequential, given the drop-off.<\/p>\n For those people just waiting for it to arrive on Disney+, we’ve looked at the studio’s previous release patterns to see when that might be<\/a>.<\/p>\n Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is out in cinemas now.<\/p>\n Visit our Streaming Guide<\/a> now to see at a glance where you can view ALL your favourite shows and movies.<\/p>\n The new edition of Living Legends, a collector’s edition exploring the royal family, is here! Buy The Royals in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu marks the franchise’s return to the big screen in six and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,182867,379,209425,381,96,190731,1156,2839,209424,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-star-wars","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-87dee063-0382-4dbf-9c28-b976e9a00295","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-mandalorian-and-grogu-sets-unwanted-star-wars-record","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615409","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=615409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pedro](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pedro-pascal-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-6994781ccbe4c.jpg\" "\\"Pedro")
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