![]() ![]() The story goes like this: in the War of 1812, the Mackie brothers were fishing off the Island of Skye when they were impressed into the British navy. And I just ran out of ass.Ī Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Right NearbyĪlright, we've got privateers, which are just legal pirates, but still: I've got outlaw-rebellion-Browncoat-blood running in deep within my veins. To give you a running start, though, we'll begin with a bit of family history. Read More: The Audience Strikes Back: 'Last Jedi's 77% : The following contains multiple spoilers for the Star Wars franchise, the Whedonverse, Tolkein, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries - oh, and King Arthur, Beowulf, Hercules, Gilgamesh and the Bible.Īlso note: This is long. Unless you're impressed that Superman can open pickle jars without breaking a sweat, you shouldn’t let anyone fool you into thinking the new Star Wars movie is doing great business. As of Friday it had huffed and puffed its way to $321 million, and by the end of this weekend it will land somewhere in the $365 million to $370 million range. If it had matched the average multiple of the 2 nd film in each previous trilogy- The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones-it would have multiplied that $220 million start by 2.72x and would now be luxuriating in $598 million in domestic box office riches.Īnd if all it had done was to match the average 2.12x multiple of the last three movies- Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Revenge of the Sith-it would be looking at a cumulative gross of $468 million.īut The Last Jedi isn’t coming close to approaching those kinds of returns. If the Rian Johnson-directed picture had parlayed that $220 million into the typical 2.36x multiple that the median previous Star Wars picture enjoyed by the end of its second weekend, The Last Jedi would now be sitting on a cumulative domestic haul of $520 million. ![]()
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