'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' is now a $1 billion movie
It's always a matter of when and not if with Star Wars movies logging a billion-dollar box office, and the "when" for The Rise of Skywalker is right now.
Tuesday box office totals brought the global ticket sales for the latest Star Wars up to $1.001 billion, Disney confirms. Starting with the movie's Dec. 20 release, it took 28 days for Skywalker to hit this milestone.
That's a longer climb to $1 billion than either of the two previous movies in this new Star Wars trilogy. The Force Awakens, released Dec. 16, 2015, hit $1 billion in 12 days. The Last Jedi, released Dec. 13, 2017, got to $1 billion in 19 days.
Box office has split pretty evenly between domestic ticket sales and foreign ticket sales. In the U.S., The Rise of Skywalker's box office currently sits at $481.3 million. The other $519.7 million comes from other countries, with the United Kingdom ($72 million), Germany ($61.7 million), and Japan ($56.4 million) leading the pack there.
You might be tempted to look at the slower climb to $1 billion as a negative for the Star Wars franchise, but don't lose sight of the basic fact here: The Rise of Skywalker is now a billion-dollar movie. By any conceivable measure, that's a massive success.
It also caps off what was a huge year for Disney, with the new Star Wars giving the studio its seventh billion-dollar release of 2019. You can probably figure out the others, but they are: Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King, Frozen II, Captain Marvel, Toy Story 4, and Aladdin. While it's not technically counted as a Disney movie, the Sony co-production Spider-Man: Far From Home, the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2019, also belongs in the same group.
Disney's doing just fine.
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Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
